Republicans block probe of US Capitol riot

Republicans in the US Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters, despite a
29 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Roadside bomb kills three Afghan university teachers

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on
29 May 2021, 18:00 PM

NUG to ‘demolish’ junta

A shadow government in Myanmar seeking to reverse the February 1 coup has joined forces with a rebel group to “demolish” junta rule, it said Saturday.
29 May 2021, 18:00 PM

US nuclear secrets exposed in Europe

US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flash cards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat Friday.
29 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Roadside bomb kills three university teachers in Afghanistan-police

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday.
29 May 2021, 15:39 PM

Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft set to launch to China's space station -state media

China will launch the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft to the country's space station at 8:55 PM Beijing time (1255 GMT) on Saturday, the China National Space Administration said, according to state media on Saturday.
29 May 2021, 13:56 PM

Ex-premier’s graft case a test of justice in oil-rich Kuwait

Where is Sheikh Jaber? Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He’d been ordered detained pending trial in an unprecedented move last month over the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from a military aid fund.
29 May 2021, 13:46 PM

‘Great disservice to your office’: India to UNGA president for Kashmir remark

India yesterday described UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir’s remarks that Pakistan should raise the Kashmir issue more forcefully and that all parties should refrain from steps that affect the status of Jammu and Kashmir as “unwarranted” and “regrettable”.
29 May 2021, 12:13 PM

China, U.S. can find common ground on tariff exclusions, Chinese think tank says

The Biden administration is unlikely to remove tariffs on Chinese goods in the short term, but China and the United States might find a middle ground by increasing tariff exclusions as a way to reduce tensions, a Chinese think-tank said.
29 May 2021, 11:09 AM

COP26 President-Designate to visit Bangladesh next week

UK MP and COP26 President-Designate Alok Sharma will visit Bangladesh as part of his tour to Asia next week to strengthen support for UK COP26 climate priorities ahead of the summit in Glasgow this November.
29 May 2021, 10:59 AM

Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.
29 May 2021, 10:15 AM

‘They were just children’: New York Times runs frontpage collage of Gaza’s youngest victims

The New York Times, on May 28, published a list of children killed in the latest Israel-Gaza flare-up of violence.
29 May 2021, 09:46 AM

Search for origin of Covid-19 'poisoned by politics', says WHO expert

The World Health Organization's (WHO) top emergency expert said on Friday the search for the origin of the coronavirus was being "poisoned by politics", days after US President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers.
29 May 2021, 06:27 AM

NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’

NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.”
29 May 2021, 04:46 AM

Putin offers Belarus leader support against West in Ryanair plane standoff

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko support in his standoff with the West over his handling of the grounding of a passenger jet and the arrest of a dissident blogger.
28 May 2021, 19:43 PM

‘Time to change course’

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday warned Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko “it is time to change course” as her executive held out the promise of a three-billion-euro support package if he leaves power.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Suspect held over latest attack on French police

A man stabbed and badly wounded a policewoman in the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre in western France yesterday before he was arrested in a shoot-out, the national gendarmerie force.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Covid kills 32 MPs in Congo

Thirty-two members of parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or about 5% of the total, have died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, the vice president of the National Assembly said.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Assad wins 4th term

Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations the polls were “neither free nor fair”.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Jimmy Lai among 8 jailed

Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences yesterday for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist China that were followed by a sweeping crackdown.
28 May 2021, 18:00 PM