LONDON: British royal Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, said today she had received a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and paid tribute to everyone involved in the rollout of the inoculation programme. Kate, 39, said she had received the shot at the Science Museum, a prominent tourist attraction not far from […]
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WASHINGTON: US Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick has died of injuries suffered during a riot led by supporters of President Donald Trump, the force said in a statement late yesterday. Wednesday’s breach of the building was a stunning assault on American democracy at a time when Congress was certifying the […]
OSLO: Rescue workers were still searching yesterday for survivors after a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, leaving 10 people missing, including two children. An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of around 1,000 people. Homes […]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said the number of people killed was likely to rise after what it called a “gruesome” attack on the passenger bus in the Benishangul-Gumuz region. Gunmen in western Ethiopia killed at least 34 people in an attack on a bus on Saturday night, the national […]
NICE: A knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside a church in Nice on the French Riviera yesterday. The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an Islamist extremist, after the […]
Australian police have arrested 44 men across the nation on suspicion of possessing and producing child abuse material. Sixteen children had been “removed from harm” in the process, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said. The arrests followed a year-long investigation into images and videos that were shared online. Arrests of […]
PERTH: One person died and two others were injured after a ceiling collapsed at a building under construction at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, on Tuesday (Oct 13). Two men in their 20s were taken to hospital after the incident at the university’s campus in Bentley, news outlet the West […]
DENVER: A man was fatally shot on Saturday (Oct 10) during duelling protests by left-wing and right-wing groups in downtown Denver, and police arrested a suspect they said was working as a private security guard. An NBC News affiliate, KUSA-TV, said on its website that the man arrested for the […]
HANOI: Vietnam has arrested a prominent blogger and dissident for “anti-state activities” hours after its government held annual talks on human rights with the United States, which said it was concerned about freedom of expression. Pham Doan Trang, a writer who has published widely on human rights and alleged police […]
HONG KONG: Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was arrested today for taking part in a protest at the height of the city’s pro-democracy unrest last year, but he vowed to continue resisting China’s crackdown on dissent. The arrest of the territory’s most high-profile dissident is the latest in a […]