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Google among 24 companies that urge round-the-clock clean energy for US federal facilities

Google among 24 companies that urge round-the-clock clean energy for US federal facilities

-- 2021-03-31 12:21:31

Two dozen companies and environmental groups, including Google, urged President Joe Biden to be a “catalyst for investment” by mandating that federal facilities be powered with locally gen...

First lady Jill Biden gets biographical comic book

First lady Jill Biden gets biographical comic book

-- 2021-03-31 12:00:43

US first lady Jill Biden is getting her own biographical comic book, joining women like Vice President Kamala Harris, nun Mother Theresa and country star Dolly Parton in TidalWave Comics’ &ldquo...

Democracy is slipping away, Haitians fear

Democracy is slipping away, Haitians fear

-- 2021-03-31 11:51:14

Haiti emerged from the brutal and dynastic Duvalier dictatorship to democracy 35 years ago. Now, many Haitians fear a return to autocracy as President Jovenel Moise has been steadily amassing power....

Myanmar's ethnic armies unite against coup, war returns to borderlands

Myanmar's ethnic armies unite against coup, war returns to borderlands

-- 2021-03-31 11:33:59

Tracing his fingers over a “Love and Peace” tattoo inked on his forearm in a misty valley on the Thai-Myanmar border, 49-year-old former soldier Isaac said he was contemplating a return to...

Migrant caravan of hundreds from Honduras departs for US

Migrant caravan of hundreds from Honduras departs for US

-- 2021-03-31 11:01:28

Honduran police on Tuesday turned back a US-bound caravan of hundreds of migrants for lacking proper identification papers and proof of negative coronavirus tests, helping the US government contain pr...

Afghan president Ghani promises to step aside if election is held

Afghan president Ghani promises to step aside if election is held

-- 2021-03-31 08:46:08

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani outlined his plans for peace at a regional summit in Tajikistan on Tuesday, saying that he would step aside if an election was held. The ninth Heart of Asia summit, aime...

Universal Studios Hollywood to reopen to limited number of visitors on April 16

Universal Studios Hollywood to reopen to limited number of visitors on April 16

-- 2021-03-31 08:34:16

Comcast’s Corp’s Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in California will reopen to a limited number of visitors on April 16, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Most rides will...

US, 13 countries say WHO Covid-19 origin study 'delayed'

US, 13 countries say WHO Covid-19 origin study 'delayed'

Reuters 2021-03-31 08:23:23

The United States and 13 other countries expressed concerns on Tuesday that the World Health Organization (WHO) report on the origins of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was delayed and lack...

Myanmar insurgents warn of growing conflict as neighbours press junta

Myanmar insurgents warn of growing conflict as neighbours press junta

REUTERS 2021-03-30 21:53:55

One of Myanmar's main ethnic minority rebel groups warned of a growing threat of major conflict on Tuesday and called for international intervention against a military crackdown on opponents of last m...

UAE bans iftar gatherings, allows Taraweeh prayers in mosques

UAE bans iftar gatherings, allows Taraweeh prayers in mosques

-- 2021-03-30 20:47:54

With the holy month of Ramadan less than one month away, the authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have specified multiple safety measures with an aim to avoid any gatherings amid the spread o...

Writers from four continents up for Booker Prize

Writers from four continents up for Booker Prize

AP 2021-03-30 20:24:54

Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, both long-favoured contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees for the International Booker Prize for fiction. Can Xu...

Mamata’s party files complaint against Modi over Bangladesh visit during polls

Mamata’s party files complaint against Modi over Bangladesh visit during polls

-- 2021-03-30 19:47:59

India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) has registered a formal complaint with the election commission of the country against Indian Prime Minister Narend...

Biggest share of Indian-made vaccines for poor country programme stays in India

Biggest share of Indian-made vaccines for poor country programme stays in India

REUTERS 2021-03-30 19:21:12

India itself has received more than a third of the nearly 28 million Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered so far by the global programme for poor countries, according to data from...

India extends shelf-life of AstraZeneca vaccine, document shows

India extends shelf-life of AstraZeneca vaccine, document shows

-- 2021-03-30 17:28:02

India’s drug regulator has allowed the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be used for up to nine months from its manufacture date, as opposed to the prescribed six months, according to a document r...

Ship backlog reaffirms importance of Suez Canal, Egypt’s president says

Ship backlog reaffirms importance of Suez Canal, Egypt’s president says

-- 2021-03-30 17:15:39

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday that the grounding of a huge container ship in the Suez Canal had reaffirmed the importance of the waterway. “We didn’t hope for so...

Japan, Indonesia pledge tighter military cooperation

Japan, Indonesia pledge tighter military cooperation

-- 2021-03-30 16:22:43

Japan and Indonesia’s ministers of defence and foreign affairs pledged on Tuesday to tighten their military ties to face an assertive China as the two countries hold talks in Tokyo, reports Reut...

Vietnamese citizen face 10 years in jail for Facebook posts

Vietnamese citizen face 10 years in jail for Facebook posts

-- 2021-03-30 16:14:44

A court in Vietnam on Tuesday sentenced a Facebook user to 10 years in prison after finding him guilty of spreading "anti-state propaganda" on social media, police said. Vu Tien Chi, 55, was convicte...

Asian countries scramble for vaccine supplies after India export curbs

Asian countries scramble for vaccine supplies after India export curbs

-- 2021-03-30 15:50:12

Several Asian countries scrambled to find alternative sources for Covid-19 inoculations on Tuesday after export restrictions by manufacturer India left a World Health Organization-backed global vaccin...

Palestinians get Chinese-donated vaccines

Palestinians get Chinese-donated vaccines

-- 2021-03-30 14:37:51

Palestinians on Monday received 100,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine donated by China to help broaden an initial campaign to vaccinate medical staff, the elderly and the chronically ill. Pales...

Canada to halt AstraZeneca vaccine use for people under 55

Canada to halt AstraZeneca vaccine use for people under 55

Reuters 2021-03-30 14:03:23

Canadian health officials said on Monday (local time) they would stop offering AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to people under age 55 and require a new analysis of the shot’s benefits and r...

Iran rejects ending 20 per cent enrichment before US lifts sanctions

Iran rejects ending 20 per cent enrichment before US lifts sanctions

REUTERS 2021-03-30 12:08:20

Iran will not stop its 20 per cent uranium enrichment before the United States lifts all sanctions, Iranian state TV quoted an unnamed official as saying on Tuesday, after a US media report said Washi...

China's parliament approves Hong Kong electoral system reform plan

China's parliament approves Hong Kong electoral system reform plan

REUTERS 2021-03-30 11:42:32

The top decisionmaking body of the Chinese parliament unanimously approved a plan on Tuesday to reform Hong Kong's electoral system, the South China Morning Post reported citing the city's sole repres...

'Covid-19 probably passed from bats'

'Covid-19 probably passed from bats'

Reuters 2021-03-30 10:45:59

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of Covid-19 says that the virus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal, and that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely” as...

Ship backlogs from Suez chaos could take months to clear

Ship backlogs from Suez chaos could take months to clear

Reuters 2021-03-30 10:31:23

The stranding of a container ship in the Suez Canal has created disruptions in the global shipping industry that could take weeks and possibly months to clear, top container shipping lines said. Arou...

Global warming could cut more than 60 countries' credit ratings by 2030

Global warming could cut more than 60 countries' credit ratings by 2030

Reuters 2021-03-30 09:41:01

A new algorithm-based study by a group of UK universities has predicted that 63 countries – roughly half the number rated by the likes of S&P Global, Moody’s and Fitch - could see thei...

Czech billionaire Kellner killed in chopper crash

Czech billionaire Kellner killed in chopper crash

-- 2021-03-30 09:34:39

Petr Kellner, the Czech Republic’s richest man and founder of investment group PPF, was killed in a helicopter crash on a skiing trip in Alaska. Kellner, 56, was among the five, including the p...

Myanmar death toll jumps past 500 as protesters launch 'garbage strike'

Myanmar death toll jumps past 500 as protesters launch 'garbage strike'

-- 2021-03-30 09:19:27

Myanmar protesters held overnight candle-lit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a Feb. 1 coup, and as activists on Tuesday launched a new civil di...

China warns firms against engaging in politics over Xinjiang

China warns firms against engaging in politics over Xinjiang

-- 2021-03-30 09:03:22

Chinese officials on Monday said Sweden’s H&M and other foreign brands should not make rash moves or step into politics after the companies raised concerns about forced labour in Xinjiang, s...

US suspends all trade engagement with Myanmar

US suspends all trade engagement with Myanmar

-- 2021-03-29 22:03:15

The United States is suspending all engagement with Myanmar under a 2013 trade and investment agreement until the return of a democratically elected government, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai s...

Barack Obama's step-grandmother dies in Kenya

Barack Obama's step-grandmother dies in Kenya

-- 2021-03-29 18:52:27

Former US president Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, has died at a hospital in Kenya at the age of 99. Affectionately called Granny Sarah by the former president, Mrs Obama defended her...