COVID deaths about 10 times higher in countries where half or more of the population is overweight, new study finds. The death rate from COVID-19 is...
Jakarta, Indonesia – The Indonesian government has approved a controversial new scheme that will allow cashed-up private companies in the developing Southeast Asian nation to pay...
The US sanctions come after the Biden administration lifted the ‘Foreign Terrorist’ designation for the group. The Houthi movement fighting in Yemen has said that United...
Anglo-Australian mining giant triggered an outcry last year when it blew up the 46,000-year-old rock shelters at Juukan Gorge. The chairman of the Anglo-Australian mining company...
Sanctions on top Houthi military leaders come shortly after the US removed the rebel movement from the ‘terror’ list. The United States has imposed sanctions on...
When we circulated an open letter calling on Australian Professor Alison Bashford to reconsider accepting Israel’s Dan David Prize, we expected there would be overwhelming support...
Revenue more than tripled to $882.5m in the fiscal fourth quarter, the company said, surpassing analysts’ estimates. Zoom Video Communications Inc. projected annual revenue that would...
UK health officials are searching for an individual in England who was among six people to have contracted the so-called Brazil variant of the coronavirus, more...
Indian PM urges every eligible person to get vaccine in an effort to rid the country of the new coronavirus. India’s prime minister has tweeted a...
Opinion polls ahead of Sunday’s vote show strong support for President Nayib Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas party. Voters are casting their ballots in El Salvador on Sunday,...
Over the past few weeks, David Miller, a professor of political sociology at Bristol University in the United Kingdom, has been the subject of a vicious...
PA health ministry says intensive care units for COVID-19 patients have reached 95 percent occupancy in the West Bank. Schools in the occupied West Bank will...
US intelligence agencies have concluded in a new report that slain Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by a Saudi hit squad operating under...
The new unit consisting of 7,000 personnel will be deployed to border with Venezuela and to drug trafficking hotspots. Colombia on Friday launched a new military...
America’s longest war is approaching a crossroads. President Joe Biden’s choices in Afghanistan boil down to this: withdraw all troops by May, as promised by his...
Facebook, Twitter and others will be obliged to remove content within 36 hours of receiving a legal order, according to the new rules. India has announced...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has accused top military officers of attempting a coup after the army demanded his resignation, prompting a rally of thousands of supporters....
A year after India’s capital saw its worst communal riots in decades, many of the Muslim victims say they have come repeatedly up against refusal by...
California company accused of ‘dereliction of duty’, claimants fear it will not be able to pay $13.5bn settlement. A trust representing more than 80,000 victims of...
Tehran, Iran – Unofficial talks between Iran and world powers that signed an ailing 2015 nuclear deal appear to be the only way forward as neither...
Grand jury votes not to indict police officers involved in arrest and suffocation death of 41-year-old man in Rochester, New York. The police officers involved in...
FBI says it warned law enforcement of threat of the Capitol riot, planned in part on publicly available social media. Former US House Sergeant at Arms...
Wally Adeyemo says he will fight unfair economic practices in China along with tackling inequality in the US. Adewale “Wally” Adeyemo, United States President Joe Biden’s...
Security forces arrested six traffickers who kept a house-turned-prison in Kufra and referred them to prosecutors. Libyan authorities say they have raided a secret prison in...
The UN’s top human rights body has opened its first and highest-level meeting of 2021, amid growing concerns on issues including the military coup in Myanmar,...
More than 17.5 million people, a third of UK adults, have had at least one vaccine shot since inoculations began in December. The British government has...
Why are hundreds of thousands of farmers in India protesting against new laws the government says will help them? Source link
Up to four million Australians are expected to receive a COVID-19 vaccine voluntarily by March. Australia has kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination programme a day ahead...
“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Fox News host...
Tribes say locked in a race against time to save language, customs and history. Source link
The women are accused of altering the birth years on their vaccination applications and were turned away. Two women who dressed as senior citizens in an...
The violence comes after weeks of tensions over delayed elections in the Horn of Africa nation. Gunfire and blasts have erupted in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu,...
US secretary of state announces sanctions on 43 Belarusian nationals hours after two journalists are sentenced. The United States on Thursday imposed travel restrictions on 43...
Jerusalem woke up to the rare experience of seeing its holy sites covered in snow on Thursday, with the Dome of the Rock and the Western...
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK After losing his job as a line cook at a New York City restaurant, Pablo Batista threw himself into the stock market, and said...
When I was booking a vaccine appointment online for my father – an essential worker and a senior with preexisting medical conditions – I did not...
US President would put more money into local policing to hire more diverse officers and train them better for the job. United States President Joe Biden...
Federal aid payments accounted for more than a third of US farmers’ $121.1bn in net income last year. U.S. farmers won’t see another year as profitable as...
Pakistani foreign minister criticises Indian military expansion, as his country holds naval drills with 45 countries in the Arabian Sea. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s foreign minister...
Blackout follows 10th day of protests marked by prominent military presence and use of force in Mandalay. Myanmar was plunged into a second internet blackout on...
The second-largest city in Honduras, San Pedro Sula, is the economic engine and the departure gate for thousands of Honduran migrants in recent years. There, many...
With more stimulus expected, government forecasts growth of between 4-6 percent in 2021, but recovery seen as ‘uneven’. Singapore reaffirmed its forecast for a rebound in...
Small and sporadic demonstrations took place in Bahrain on Sunday amid a hefty police presence, marking 10 years since the Gulf nation’s Arab Spring-inspired uprising. On...
In 2018, the late chef, traveller and television personality, Anthony Bourdain, made a programme about Hong Kong in which he interviewed members of a local post-punk...
Democratic Party legislators and other public figures in the United States have reacted with indignation to the results of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial,...
President Biden has announced an end to US support for a Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen. US President Joe Biden has no plans to call the...
The UN’s top rights body has demanded that Myanmar’s military restore civilian rule and release the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, echoing the calls of...
Fifteen men kidnapped by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea are undergoing health checks, Turkish media reports. Fifteen Turkish crew members of a cargo ship who...
We investigate explosive revelations about killings and cover-ups by Australian special forces in Afghanistan. Source link
Pavard scored the only goal in Bayern’s win that led them to their sixth title in less than nine months. Bayern Munich beat Tigres UANL 1-0...