BBC 2021-03-09 21:51:18
Crisis meetings involving senior royals have taken place following the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph said Buckingham Palace "will no...
Reuters 2021-03-09 21:42:54
Nearly one in three women worldwide is subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime, pervasive criminal behaviour that has increased during the pandemic, the World Health Organization...
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Five media companies in Myanmar have been stripped of their licences, state television MRTV announced on Monday. The five independent companies were named as Mizzima, Myanmar Now, 7-Day, DVB and Khit...
-- 2021-03-09 16:47:00
Russian authorities have sued five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests. Twitter, Google, Facebook each have three cases again...
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Former US first lady Michelle Obama will be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with eight other women including former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, soccer icon Mia Hamm and NASA m...
-- 2021-03-09 15:24:04
The death toll from a series of explosions in a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea has risen to 98, the health ministry said on Monday after volunteers searched the rubble for bodies. At least 61...
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Hundreds of young Myanmar protesters who had been trapped by security forces in a district of Yangon overnight have been able to get out, activists said on Tuesday, after calls from western powers and...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:34:55
Humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals – raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:30:11
Thais flocked to a cannabis exhibition as interest and demand in the plant surges after the government unlocked hemp use in food and cosmetics in the latest move to promote a new cash crop. The gover...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:15:28
Behind Tayyibe Demirel’s olive groves in southwest Turkey lies a vast, grey expanse, stripped bare by a coal mine eating into the rolling hillside. On the horizon, heavy smoke billows from three...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:08:57
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Monday that President Joe Biden’s administration was monitoring efforts tied to Russia’s intelligence services aimed at undermining the Moderna In...
Reuters 2021-03-08 21:09:53
The US Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a chance to review the scope of a legal defense called qualified immunity that increasingly has been used to shield police accused of excessive force, turnin...
AP 2021-03-08 20:37:19
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said Monday, with both having only mild symptoms of the illness. In a statement, Assad&rsqu...
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Child soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges ruled on Monday, in their high...
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Australia has suspended its defence cooperation with Myanmar and is redirecting humanitarian aid in the country because of last month’s military takeover of the government and the ongoing detent...
REUTERS 2021-03-08 16:06:56
Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused Britain’s royal family of raising concerns about how dark their son’s skin might be and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in a tell-all televis...
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China should aim to begin construction of a controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river within the year, a senior Tibetan Communist Party official said in comments published on Monday....
-- 2021-03-08 15:02:13
MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and the former wife of Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, has remarried. The marriage to Dan Jewett, a Seattle science teacher, was mentioned in a post...
REUTERS 2021-03-08 12:44:31
A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets. The measure...
-- 2021-03-08 11:02:27
When lawyers asked Donald Trump more than a decade ago to identify who estimated values on some of his signature properties, he shrugged and pointed to his longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg. &ld...
-- 2021-03-08 10:50:48
Iran has released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from house arrest at the end of her five-year prison sentence, but she has been summoned to court again on another charge, her la...
-- 2021-03-08 10:19:59
French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician. Dassaul...
-- 2021-03-08 10:12:34
A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said the exp...
-- 2021-03-07 19:57:30
A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland was headed toward a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday viewed as a test of attitudes toward Muslims. Projections for broadcas...
-- 2021-03-07 19:49:51
An official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody in Myanmar overnight after being detained in a crackdown on anti-junta protesters, associates said, and a...
-- 2021-03-07 19:27:42
Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots,...
AP 2021-03-07 18:41:58
An exhausted Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Saturday as President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies notched a victory they called crucial for hoisting the country o...
REUTERS 2021-03-07 18:33:15
Iran has freed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Iranian website Emtedad on Sunday, after her five-year prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the...
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Indian actor Mithun Chakraborty ended all speculation as he reached Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a mega rally on Sunday afternoon. The actor joined th...
-- 2021-03-07 16:49:18
The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said on Sunday that it destroyed 10 armed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, including at least five fired towards Saudi Arabia, state televi...
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