The pandemic has helped rebuild a little of the confidence lost in the media, and pushed news companies even more towards digital, according to the annual Reuters Institute report published yesterday.

Scotland will not be given a new referendum on independence before 2024, a senior UK cabinet minister said in an interview published yesterday.

1901 - The first exhibition by the 19-year-old painter Pablo Picasso opened in Paris to critical acclaim.

We are not considering even the possibility of any contact with the US, let alone having it, which would get us nowhere. North Korea Foreign minister Ri Son Gwon

After six months of deliberation, a team of international lawyers has unveiled a new legal definition of “ecocide” that, if adopted, would put environmental destruction on a par with war crimes – paving the way for the prosecution of world leaders and corporate chiefs for the worst attacks on nature.

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN’s climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

The Russian military said one of its warships in the Black Sea fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer away from an area near Crimea that Moscow claims as its territorial waters, but Britain denied that account and insisted its ship wasn’t fired upon.

Shunned by rich countries and failing to meet the needs of the poorest, a programme co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) for fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is planning a shake-up, internal documents seen by Reuters show.

China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the region’s greatest security “risk creator” after a US warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China.

Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year under a contract approved by the State Department, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

American authorities seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation, the US Justice Department said Tuesday, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Ireland were among European Union countries condemning their peer Hungary on Tuesday for a new anti-LGBTQ law as the bloc zeroed in again on democratic failings in Budapest and its nationalist ally Warsaw.

Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat has overtaken Hong Kong as the world’s most expensive city for foreign workers, a survey showed on Tuesday.

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday said that Washington had “wrong” expectations for dialogue with Pyongyang and was facing “greater disappointment”, state media reported.

Four protesters and at least two officers were killed as Myanmar soldiers battled an anti-junta civilian militia with small arms and grenades in the country’s second city yesterday, military sources said.

Spain cabinet yesterday pardoned nine jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid in a bid to break the deadlock over the political crisis in this wealthy northeastern region.

More than 40 countries led by Canada yesterday voiced grave concerns at the UN Human Rights Council about China’s actions in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet -- triggering a fierce backlash from Beijing.

Sri Lanka’s government yesterday ordered an investigation into sexual harassment in the media after a string of #MeToo allegations from female newsroom staff.

More than 8,500 children were used as soldiers last year in various conflicts across the world and nearly 2,700 others were killed, the United Nations said on Monday.

1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.