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Thousands of people were homeless Thursday after a cyclone battered Covid-ravaged India, killing 4 people.

Hong Kong’s opposition-devoid legislature yesterday approved Beijing’s radical overhaul of the finance hub’s political system which reduces the number of directly elected seats and will freeze out most China critics.

The European Union will look at hitting Belarus’s big potash exports as well as its oil and financial sectors with new sanctions, as punishment for forcing down a Ryanair flight to arrest a journalist, foreign ministers from the bloc said.

Teenagers suing to block expansion of an Australian coal mine scored a “landmark” victory yesterday, with a judge agreeing the project would cause them climate-related harm.

Global air travel will bounce back strongly by 2023 as countries roll out Covid-19 vaccines and learn to manage the pandemic, noted the International Air Transport Association (Iata).

Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of a dissident journalist on Sunday, two diplomats familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Mali's ousted interim president and prime minister have been freed after they were detained by the military and later resigned, an aide to the vice president said on Thursday.

Delhi police arrested a local YouTuber who in one of his videos tied his pet dog to several helium gas balloons in a bid to make it “fly”.

Politicising the origins of Covid-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China’s US embassy said after President Joe Biden ordered a review of intelligence about where the virus emerged.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday it would take "stronger" action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform.

Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants killed at least 22 civilians with knives and machetes in an overnight raid on villages near the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said on Wednesday.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday said a journalist pulled off a plane that landed in Minsk had been plotting a bloody rebellion, and accused the West of waging a hybrid war against him.

The UN Human Rights Council will consider launching a broad, international investigation into abuses in the latest Gaza conflict and also into “systematic” abuses, according to a proposal as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo to strengthen efforts to shore up ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.

WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force yesterday that experts say would compel Facebook’s messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said.

The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts, and so-called “pushbacks” to Libya, the United Nations said yesterday.

The family of George Floyd appealed Tuesday for sweeping police reform on the anniversary of the African American man’s murder by a white officer, as they met President Joe Biden at the White House.

The Irish government has supported a parliamentary motion condemning the “de facto annexation” of Palestinian land by Israeli authorities, in what it said was the first use of the phrase by a European Union country in relation to Israel.

The Taliban warned Afghanistan’s neighbours yesterday against allowing the United States to operate military bases on their soil, the insurgents insisting they would thwart such a “historic mistake”.

Faced with the dilemma of who to recognise as Myanmar’s legitimate representative following February’s coup, World Health Organization members yesterday opted to exclude the country from their annual assembly.