LONDON: Britain is prepared to leave the European Union on the same terms as Australia has with the bloc if it cannot agree on a future trading deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Germany’s Angela Merkel in a telephone call on Tuesday (Jul 7). “On the future relationship, the prime […]
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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing what he called human rights abuses by the Chinese government in Tibetan areas, said the United States would restrict visas for some Chinese officials because Beijing obstructs travel to the region by US diplomats, journalists and tourists. Pompeo said in a statement […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s police have been granted vastly expanded powers to conduct warrantless raids and surveillance – as well as issue Internet takedown notices – under Beijing’s new national security law. The announcement comes as major tech companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter said they were suspending requests from […]
TAIPEI: The imposition of a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong has sent chills through Taiwan, deepening fears that Beijing will focus next on seizing the island. China and Taiwan split in 1949 after nationalist forces lost a civil war to Mao Zedong’s communists, fleeing to the island which […]
FILE PHOTO: Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook, Google, and Twitter suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong, they said on Monday (Jul 7), following China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for […]
UNITED NATIONS: China on Monday (Jul 6) joined a global arms trade treaty spurned by the United States, taking a swipe at US President Donald Trump’s administration by accusing it of bullying, unilateralism and undermining efforts to combat global challenges. China’s UN ambassador, Zhang Jun, said he had deposited China’s […]
A vast underclass of increasingly indebted, socially immobile Americans are revolting against a system that has failed it, says Nouriel Roubini. NEW YORK: The mass protests following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer are about systemic racism and police violence in the United States, but also […]
SEOUL: A South Korean court on Monday (Jul 6) refused an extradition request by United States law enforcement authorities for a man convicted of running a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold videos for digital cash around the world. The man, Son Jong-woo, the site’s operator, completed […]
LA PAZ: Bolivian Health Minister Eidy Roca has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the third member of the cabinet to be infected in four days, interim President Jeanine Anez said on Sunday (Jul 5). Anez expressed her support for Roca on Twitter as the country’s rapidly worsening outbreak rose to […]
PARIS: France’s new Prime Minister Jean Castex was on Monday (Jul 6) expected to unveil a reshuffled government tasked with helping the economy brave its worst crisis since World War II and injecting fresh momentum into the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Castex, a senior bureaucrat and provincial mayor almost completely […]