HONOLULU: The United States hopes to work with China to get it to respect the international rules-based order even as Beijing, which has repeatedly fallen short of its promises, pursues aggressive military modernisation, the US defence chief said. Speaking in Hawaii yesterday, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said China had […]
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NEW YORK: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread school closures, at least one-third of students affected around the world lack access to virtual education, according to a United Nations study released on Wednesday (Aug 26). In all, an estimated 463 million children lack the equipment or electronic access to pursue […]
CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without parole today for the massacre of 51 Muslim worshippers, with a judge calling him “wicked” and “inhuman.” Judge Cameron Mander said that behind Tarrant’s “warped” ideology was a “base hatred” that led him to attack defenceless […]
A group of protesters walked toward a fence that was put in place Tuesday around the courthouse and started shaking it. Police behind it moved toward protesters as some threw water bottles and fireworks over the fence. Armoured vehicles then rolled in and tear gas was fired into the crowd. […]
KENOSHA: Police firing tear gas clashed with protesters in a second night of unrest and arson in Kenosha, Wisconsin, triggered by the wounding of a Black man who was shot in the back by officers as his three young sons looked on. Protesters defied a dusk-to-dawn curfew last night as […]
Wang Xining, deputy head of mission for the Chinese Embassy in Australia, is seen at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia August 26, 2020. SYDNEY: A top Chinese diplomat in Australia warned against a “shadow” over the two nations’ ties today, saying that Beijing was disappointed by a […]
MANILA: Two female suicide attackers who carried out a double bombing in the southern Philippines were the widows of militants who had worked for the Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group, the army chief said today. Fourteen people were killed and 75 wounded, including members of the government-backed security forces and […]
MUMBAI: India recorded more than 60,000 cases of Covid-19 for the eighth day in a row today, as total cases crossed 3.2 million, data from the federal health ministry showed. The world’s second-most populous country is third behind the United States and Brazil in terms of total caseload, and has […]
China’s Defence Ministry said the U-2 flew without permission over a no-fly zone in the northern military region where live fire drills were taking place, “seriously interfering in normal exercise activities”. China has lodged “stern representations” with the United States, accusing it of sending a US U-2 reconnaissance plane into […]
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong court again denied bail today to the first person charged with inciting separatism and terrorism under a new national security law in the Chinese-ruled city. Tong Ying-kit, 23, had carried a sign reading “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” and drove his motorbike into […]