VIENNA: The illegal global trade in ivory has shrunk while the trafficking of pangolins has soared, a UN report on wildlife crime based on four years’ data said on Friday (Jul 10). National bans on selling ivory, particularly China’s in 2017, appear to have helped further erode ivory trafficking after […]
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police on Friday (Jul 10) called in a group of Australian journalists from Al Jazeera for questioning over a documentary about the arrest of migrants, as the broadcaster expressed shock at the investigation. The probe into the Qatar-based network’s programme has added to concerns about a widening […]
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Thursday firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s arguments for sweeping presidential immunity and ruled that a New York prosecutor can obtain his financial records but prevented – at least for now – Democratic-led House of Representatives committees from getting similar documents. The twin 7-2 rulings […]
NEW YORK: Pakistani student Taimoor Ahmed is one of hundreds of thousands of foreigners enrolled in American universities now fearing for their future after Donald Trump’s administration threatened to revoke their visas. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced this week that foreign students whose entire courses have moved […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand said on Wednesday (Jul 8) that a 32-year-old man who tested positive for COVID-19 will be charged after briefly absconding from an isolation facility in Auckland, the latest slip-up as the country tries to keep coronavirus cases at its border. The man, who was in quarantine after […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Many U.S. colleges were scrambling on Tuesday (Jul 7) to modify plans for the fall semester in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic a day after the Trump administration issued an order that could force tens of thousands of foreign students to leave the country if their schools […]
ROME: A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday (Jul 7) it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, after three risky surgeries. Joined skull to skull, sisters Ervina and Prefina were born with a condition the Bambino Gesu (Baby Jesus) Pediatric Hospital in Rome called […]
WELLINGTON: New Zealand police and security services were warned of a threat against another mosque for the same day that a gunman killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in 2019, an Islamic women’s group told an inquiry into the shooting on Tuesday (Jul 7). The Islamic Women’s Council of New […]
SYDNEY: Australia’s second-most populated state Victoria is considering a four-week lockdown after recording the biggest one-day surge in new COVID-19 cases, The Australian newspaper reported on Tuesday (Jul 7). The number of COVID-19 cases in the Victorian capital of Melbourne has surged in recent days, prompting authorities to enforce strict […]
NEW YORK: A white woman who called police and falsely accused an African-American man of threatening her life after he asked her to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park is being criminally charged over the incident, Manhattan’s district attorney said on Monday (Jul 6). Amy Cooper, 41, whose […]