WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump will travel next week to the Midwestern city where African American Jacob Blake was shot multiple times in the back by a white policeman, sparking a nationwide wave of protest. Trump will meet police in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Tuesday and “survey damage from recent riots” […]
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The prosecutor-general’s office said it had sent a request to Germany for “documents on medical data and investigations by German specialists” into Navalny’s state of health. Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny was airlifted out of Russia to Germany on Saturday Moscow: Russian prosecutors on Thursday asked German medics to provide medical […]
BERLIN: Germany will impose tougher rules on mask wearing and keep fans out of stadiums until at the least the end of the year to combat a worrying rise in coronavirus infections, under a draft seen by AFP today. Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to meet with the leaders of […]
Hong Kong media, citing unidentified sources, said 12 people from the former British colony were arrested while sailing to Taiwan where they planned to apply for political asylum. Chinese authorities have arrested at least 10 people after intercepting a boat off the coast of the southern province of Guangdong, the […]
WASHINGTON: Russia today blamed the United States for a tense confrontation in Syria in which Russian military vehicles and helicopters surrounded US armoured vehicles, leaving US troops injured. The White House National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement that a Russian vehicle struck a US mine-resistant all-terrain vehicle, “causing […]
TAIPEI: The risk of accidental conflict is rising because of tension in the South China Sea and around Taiwan and communication must be maintained to reduce the risk of miscalculation, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said today. Democratic Taiwan, claimed by Beijing as “scared” Chinese territory, has complained of Chinese military […]
SINGAPORE: The harshest criminal punishment ever applied in New Zealand, life behind bars for the Christchurch mosque killer, gave justice and a relief but left a long and painful road to healing for survivors and relatives of those killed in the attack. Brenton Tarrant, 29, will die in jail under […]
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 […]
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 […]