Human rights campaigners have hailed a “historic” decision by Sierra Leone’s Parliament to unanimously vote to abolish the death penalty, more than 20 years after the West African country carried out its last execution....
The 15-day lockdown order bans the gathering of more than two people in public in the city of eight million. Vietnam has imposed a 15-day lockdown in the capital, Hanoi, in an attempt to...
The High Council for National Reconciliation’s chief discusses if trust has been built after months of negotiations. Source link
Heavy rains in western Maharashtra state triggered landslides and flooding, killing dozens of people and causing widespread destruction. Rescuers in India have combed through mud and debris in a frantic search for survivors after...
In some parts of the Philippine capital region, an urban sprawl of more than 13 million people, floodwaters cut off roads to light vehicles. Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents of the capital, Manila,...
The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics took place on Friday in a nearly empty stadium after a year-long pandemic postponement and a build-up marred by scandal and controversy. The curtailed celebration began with a video...
FBI files motions in federal courts to dismiss charges in five cases of Chinese researchers arrested on visa fraud charges last year. A US Department of Justice programme aimed at protecting American technology from...
UNESCO is considering 17 cultural and natural sites to add to its Heritage list. Source link
A protest has erupted at a prison in Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon against what activists said was a worsening COVID-19 outbreak at the jail, which is used to hold opponents of February’s military...
The blacklistings come in retaliation for the US recently sanctioning Chinese officials in Hong Kong. China said on Friday that it has imposed counter-sanctions on United States individuals including former US Secretary of Commerce...
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