ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s president yesterday approved a new anti-rape law which will speed up convictions and launch the country’s first national sex offenders registry. The law, which goes into effect immediately but must be ratified by parliament within three months, was prompted by the gang rape of a mother in front […]
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has drawn criticism for joining end of year social gatherings after imploring residents to avoid such parties as the country sees record numbers of coronavirus cases. Despite his own public warnings against large group meals, Suga went ahead with a series of get-togethers this […]
HONG KONG: Petrol bombs were hurled at a Hong Kong police recreation club in the early hours of today, a rare attack on a police facility since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law. Police said they received a report of three men dressed in black hurling Molotov cocktails into […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam today again urged residents of the densely populated city to stay at home and avoid unnecessary family gatherings as the global financial hub scrambles to contain a rise in coronavirus cases. Lam was speaking at her weekly press conference a day after the […]
WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden yesterday tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his all-woman communications team, naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary and campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield as communications director. Senior advisor to the Biden-Harris campaign Symone Sanders will be Vice […]
WASHINGTON: The US state of Pennsylvania’s supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump yesterday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results. A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won […]
The Ministry of Commerce imposed import taxes of up to 212.1%, effective Saturday, which Australia’s trade minister said make Australian wine unsellable in China, his country’s biggest export market. China on Friday added wine to the growing list of Australian goods barred from its markets in a trade war against […]
The law was passed in 1996 as a part of the Communications Decency Act, which encouraged the emergence of a new form of communication in the internet era. US President Donald Trump reiterated his demand to repeal Section 230, a piece of internet legislation, after a hashtag, targeting the outgoing […]
BEIJING: China is considering drawing up a blacklist of “diehard” supporters of Taiwan’s independence, the government said today, which may see Beijing try to take legal steps against democratically-elected President Tsai Ing-wen. Taiwan condemned the plan after the pro-Beijing Hong Kong-based newspaper Ta Kung Pao first reported on it this […]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is seen on a screen as she delivers her annual policy address at the Legislative Council in Hong Kong November 25, 2020. HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today the government’s urgent priority was to restore the Chinese-ruled city’s constitutional […]