Harry, Meghan expecting 2nd child

Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their second child, a spokesperson for the couple said on Sunday.
15 February 2021

Peru FM resigns over vaccination scandal

Peru’s foreign minister resigned Sunday, the second top official to step down amid a growing scandal over politicians receiving Covid-19 vaccinations well before the general public.
15 February 2021

W Africa faces new Ebola epidemic

West Africa faced its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016, with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an “epidemic” after seven cases were confirmed.
15 February 2021

France ‘helped Rwanda genocide suspects escape’

Authorities in Paris helped suspects in the 1994 Rwanda genocide to escape while under French military protection, according to a diplomatic cable, rekindling Kigali’s allegations France secretly supported Hutu forces behind the killings.
15 February 2021

US supports Kurdish militants

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday accused the United States of siding with “terrorists” after blaming outlawed Kurdish militants of executing 13 Turks in northern Iraq.
15 February 2021

UK auditing India’s Serum Institute’s vaccine manufacturing process for possible shipment: sources

Britain’s drug regulator is auditing manufacturing processes at Serum Institute of India (SII) which could pave the way for AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be shipped from there to the UK and other countries, according to two sources close to the matter.
15 February 2021

India’s arrest of activist tied to Greta Thunberg’s movement sparks outrage

Indian politicians and activists condemned the arrest of a 22-year-old climate campaigner accused of sedition for helping edit an online document that Sweden’s Greta Thunberg had promoted in support of farmers protesting in the country.
15 February 2021

China cracks down on spurious, illegal, pricey Covid-19 vaccines

China is cracking down on vaccine-related crimes, making dozens of arrests over the production and distribution of fake coronavirus vaccines, price gouging and illegal inoculations, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
15 February 2021

Armoured vehicles deployed to major Myanmar cities after mass protests

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire to disperse protesters at a power plant and armoured vehicles rolled into major cities as the new army rulers faced a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations that saw hundreds of thousands on the streets.
14 February 2021

Biden aide resigns over comments to reporter

The White House said Saturday it has accepted the resignation of a staffer who allegedly threatened to “destroy” a reporter who was asking about his
14 February 2021

First bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel

Rescuers yesterday pulled the first bodies from a blocked tunnel at a power complex in a northern Indian valley devastated by a flash flood a week
14 February 2021

Putin accuses West of using Navalny to ‘contain’ Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused the West of using jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny to try to “contain” Russia. “Our opponents
14 February 2021

A poisonous kingmaker

It is still Donald Trump’s Republican Party - at least for now.
14 February 2021

Won’t implement CAA if voted back to power

Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor RSS of dividing Assam, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday said his party, if voted back to power in the state, will never implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
14 February 2021

Junta faces mass strike

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar for a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations yesterday, as the new army rulers grappled to contain a strike by government workers that could cripple their ability to run the country.
14 February 2021

Tesla to set up electric car manufacturing unit in southern India

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc will set up an electric-car manufacturing unit in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, according to a government document seen by Reuters.
14 February 2021

Guinea declares new Ebola outbreak

Guinea has declared a new Ebola outbreak, as tests came back positive for the virus after at least three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016.
14 February 2021

Hundreds of thousands protest in Myanmar as army faces crippling mass strike

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Myanmar for a ninth day of anti-coup protests, as the new army rulers grappled to contain a strike by government workers that could cripple their ability to run the country.
14 February 2021

Russians set for candle-lit Valentine's Day protests after Navalny jailing

Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny plan to hold candle-lit gatherings in residential courtyards across Russia on Sunday despite warnings that they could be arrested.
14 February 2021

US Senate acquits Trump as Republicans save him in impeachment again

The US Senate acquitted Donald Trump on Saturday in his second impeachment trial in a year, with fellow Republicans blocking conviction over the former president’s role in the deadly assault by his supporters on the US Capitol.
14 February 2021