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World reacts to Jordan security developments

World reacts to Jordan security developments

REUTERS 2021-04-04 12:29:53

Jordanian King Abdullah’s half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein was told to halt actions used to target the country’s “security and stability”, the military sa...

Myanmar anti-coup protesters take up Easter eggs; junta hunts celebrities

Myanmar anti-coup protesters take up Easter eggs; junta hunts celebrities

-- 2021-04-04 10:42:22

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar made the Easter egg a symbol of defiance on Sunday, posting pictures of eggs with slogans after a night of candle-lit vigils across the country to remember those...

Bulgarians vote in parliamentary election amid COVID fears, anger over graft

Bulgarians vote in parliamentary election amid COVID fears, anger over graft

-- 2021-04-04 09:24:45

Bulgarians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday that will decide whether long-serving Prime Minister Boyko Borissov wins a fresh four-year mandate despite persistent concerns about graft in the...

Jordan's Prince Hamzah says he’s been placed under house arrest

Jordan's Prince Hamzah says he’s been placed under house arrest

-- 2021-04-04 09:09:24

The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics. In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the...

Thousands of demonstrators join ‘kill the bill’ rallies across Britain

Thousands of demonstrators join ‘kill the bill’ rallies across Britain

-- 2021-04-04 08:54:30

Thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across Britain on Saturday against a proposed law that would give police extra powers to curb protests, with some scuffles breaking out following a march in L...

Taiwan releases train crash suspect on bond, prosecutors lodge appeal

Taiwan releases train crash suspect on bond, prosecutors lodge appeal

-- 2021-04-03 19:23:44

A Taiwan court on Saturday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people, as family members mourned the dea...

Chinese loan deals with developing countries unusually secretive, US research claims

Chinese loan deals with developing countries unusually secretive, US research claims

-- 2021-04-03 16:18:26

The terms of China's loan deals with developing countries are unusually secretive and require borrowers to prioritise repayment of Chinese state-owned banks ahead of other creditors, a study of a cach...

India’s biggest cities brace for COVID-19 curbs as infections hit six-month high

India’s biggest cities brace for COVID-19 curbs as infections hit six-month high

-- 2021-04-03 14:10:22

India’s biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns and other COVID-19 curbs on Saturday as infections hit a six-month high, as a month-long surge continued in the country third-worst hit by th...

Al Shabaab militants attack two military bases belonging to Somali National Army

Al Shabaab militants attack two military bases belonging to Somali National Army

-- 2021-04-03 12:19:32

Al Shabaab militants attacked two military bases belonging to the Somali National Army early on Saturday morning, witnesses and the militants said. Al Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is made up...

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez tests positive for coronavirus

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters 2021-04-03 11:02:19

Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has tested positive for the new coronavirus, is waiting for the result to be confirmed and is in good spirits despite having a light fever, the first-term Peronis...

Myanmar death toll edges up to 550

Myanmar death toll edges up to 550

REUTERS 2021-04-03 10:18:47

Attempts by Myanmar's military to end dissent are turning to the virtual world with internet blocks and arrest warrants for online critics as big rallies become rare in the face of relentless repressi...

Chinese authorities ask H&M to change the ‘problematic map’

Chinese authorities ask H&M to change the ‘problematic map’

-- 2021-04-03 09:02:22

Chinese authorities have asked H&M to change a map on its website in the latest clash between the clothing giant and officialdom there, media reported on Friday. The company, based in Sweden, has...

France witnesses biggest jump in COVID-19 intensive care patients in five months

France witnesses biggest jump in COVID-19 intensive care patients in five months

-- 2021-04-03 08:46:44

France reported on Friday that 5,254 people were in intensive care units with COVID-19, an increase of 145 people in one day and the highest daily increase in five months. The risk of emergency wards...

Vehicle attack on US Capitol leaves one police officer dead

Vehicle attack on US Capitol leaves one police officer dead

-- 2021-04-03 08:37:42

A motorist rammed a car into US Capitol police on Friday and brandished a knife, killing one officer and injuring another and forcing the Capitol complex to lock down in an attack that police said did...

Train crash kills 50 in Taiwan's deadliest rail tragedy in decades

Train crash kills 50 in Taiwan's deadliest rail tragedy in decades

REUTERS 2021-04-02 21:09:04

A Taiwan express train with almost 500 aboard derailed in a tunnel on Friday after hitting a truck that had slid down a bank onto the track, killing at least 50 passengers and injuring 146 in the isla...

Deal with Israel will be ‘extremely helpful’ for region, Saudi FM says

Deal with Israel will be ‘extremely helpful’ for region, Saudi FM says

-- 2021-04-02 19:42:56

A normalisation deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel would benefit the region, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said, adding that a potential deal “depends to a large extent on the progr...

Myanmar protesters vow to keep up action as internet blackout widens

Myanmar protesters vow to keep up action as internet blackout widens

REUTERS 2021-04-02 17:50:58

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar marched, observed strikes and sought alternative ways to communicate after most users were cut off from the internet on Friday, undaunted by the bloody suppressio...

US may not need AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Fauci says

US may not need AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Fauci says

-- 2021-04-02 16:06:45

The United States may not need AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, even if it wins US regulatory approval, Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor told Reuters on Thursday....

Global train accidents with highest fatalities over past decade

Global train accidents with highest fatalities over past decade

REUTERS 2021-04-02 13:56:23

At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades. F...

Taiwan train crash leaves 41 dead

Taiwan train crash leaves 41 dead

Reuters 2021-04-02 12:59:30

At least 41 people were killed and more than 60 injured after a Taiwanese train carrying almost 500 passengers derailed in a tunnel on Friday when it apparently hit a truck that slid off a road leadin...

UK regulator found total of 30 cases of blood clot events linked to AstraZeneca shot

UK regulator found total of 30 cases of blood clot events linked to AstraZeneca shot

Reuters 2021-04-02 10:00:11

British regulators on Thursday said they have identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events after the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, 25 more than the agency previously reported. The Medicin...

Myanmar protesters urge 'guerrilla strikes'

Myanmar protesters urge 'guerrilla strikes'

REUTERS 2021-04-02 09:41:18

Myanmar activists held candle-lit protests overnight and scrambled to find workarounds for a new internet shutdown on Friday, as opponents to the military’s bloody crackdown on dissent vowed no...

Pandemic slowdown led to record fall in EU carbon market emissions

Pandemic slowdown led to record fall in EU carbon market emissions

-- 2021-04-01 20:47:11

Emissions regulated by Europe's carbon market fell by 14.4 per cent in 2020, their biggest percentage decline yet, as pandemic restrictions stifled economic activity and grounded flights, official dat...

UNHCR urges Myanmar’s neighbours to protect people fleeing violence

UNHCR urges Myanmar’s neighbours to protect people fleeing violence

UNB 2021-04-01 17:20:41

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has urgently called on countries across the region to offer refuge and protection to all those fleeing for safety from Myanmar. "It is vital that anyone crossing the bor...

India opens up immunisation to more people as infections surge

India opens up immunisation to more people as infections surge

-- 2021-04-01 14:23:13

India opened up its coronavirus inoculation programme to people above 45 on Thursday as infections surge, which will delay vaccine exports from the world’s biggest maker of the drug. The countr...

Macron orders Covid-19 lockdown across all of France

Macron orders Covid-19 lockdown across all of France

REUTERS 2021-04-01 12:17:18

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered France into its third national lockdown and said schools would close for three weeks as he sought to push back a third wave of Covid-19 infections that t...

Indonesia recovers cockpit voice recorder from crashed Sriwijaya Air jet

Indonesia recovers cockpit voice recorder from crashed Sriwijaya Air jet

REUTERS 2021-04-01 11:18:46

Indonesia has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in January, and the air accident investigator said on Wednesday it could take up to a week to...

Covid-19 surge could be worse than the last for the Americas

Covid-19 surge could be worse than the last for the Americas

-- 2021-04-01 09:09:16

Countries in the Americas could see a worse surge in coronavirus cases than the previous surge last year, with Brazil, Uruguay and Cuba already suffering more, the Pan American Health Organization (PA...

Facebook to curb hate speech in India as four states go to polls

Facebook to curb hate speech in India as four states go to polls

-- 2021-03-31 16:54:19

Facebook Inc will take steps to combat hate speech and misinformation in India as the world's biggest democracy started its months-long multi-phase elections in four big states. "We recognise that th...

Trump must face 'Apprentice' contestant's defamation suit, NY court rules

Trump must face 'Apprentice' contestant's defamation suit, NY court rules

-- 2021-03-31 12:55:36

New York state’s highest court on Tuesday cleared the way for a former contestant on “The Apprentice” to sue Donald Trump for defamation, after the former US president called her a l...