London: A local council in Britain has rejected a planning application to relocate the Chinese embassy to a historic site in East London near the Tower of London, media reports said on Saturday.
Beijing: An app market researcher has found social media platforms like Twitter and Telegram, which are blocked in mainland China and only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs), have become popular in the country amid widespread protests and restrictions imposed due to COVID-19.
Ottawa: Canadian authorities have now summoned Beijing’s ambassador following reports of a network of illegal Chinese “police stations” in the country, media reports said on Saturday.
Manila: A Chinese-funded bridge project which is likely to connect Davao city with Samal islands in the southern Philippines has put the coral reef ecosystem under threat.
One passenger died when a 'rogue wave' hit their cruise ship near the southernmost tip of South America on an Antarctic cruise during a storm earlier this week, media reports said on Saturday.
Athens: A train with military equipment for US troops went off the rails near a port in the city of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, the Greek Communist Party's (KKE) news portal 902.gr reported.
Istanbul: Several Uyghur activists demonstrated near the Chinese Consulate in Istanbul against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently.
Nanjing: At least five people died and two others were hurt as a fire broke out at a construction site in Xuzhou city of China, media reports said on Saturday.
New York: UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday, issued an alert over the dramatic increase in the number of people attempting to cross the Andaman Sea, from Bangladesh and Myanmar.
New York: A top UN Human Rights Council-appointed probe into potential rights abuses linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, outlined on Friday the “devastating” impact of the war on the country’s children.
New York: Since last year’s military coup in Myanmar, military courts have sentenced more than 130 people to death behind closed doors, the UN human rights chief said on Friday, following the latest convictions announced this week.
Cairo/UNI: One person died and 20 others were injured in a grenade attack at a mosque in Hadhramaut Governorate in eastern Yemen, a local government source told Sputnik.
New York: The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on Friday aimed at helping stakeholders worldwide end the growing scourge of violence online against children.
Beijing: China's air traffic movement is shrinking once again as lockdowns and several other restrictions have been imposed by authorities in different corners of the country to limit the Covid-19 surge.
Jaffna, Sri Lanka: Jaffna University Vice Chancellor Sivakolundu Srisatkunarajah has refused to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between China’s State Agricultural University and University of Jaffna by stating that it has the hidden agenda of China to grab fertile lands under the pretext of development projects in the North and East.
Peshawar: A Pakistani court has convicted a Lower Dir resident on the charges of committing blasphemy and other religious offences on social media and awarded death sentence, media reports said on Friday.
Moscow: The European Union has reached an agreement on a $60 a barrel price cap for Russian oil after Poland dropped its objections.
Kabul: Afghanistan Islamic Political Party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has confirmed his headquarters in Kabul city was attacked during Friday's prayer which left at least two attackers dead, media reports said.
Kabul: Pakistan’s Head of Mission to Kabul Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani has escaped an assassination bid after the foreign office was attacked on Friday, media reports said.
Kabul: The Taliban administration of Afghanistan has defended banning FM radio broadcasts from two U.S.-funded news media, including the Voice of America (VOA), in Afghanistan, by alleging that they were offending local laws.
Quetta: A suicide attack on a police truck in Baleli area of Pakistan on Wednesday left four people dead and 24 others injured, media reports said on Friday.
New York: The legacy of the transatlantic slave trade “reverberates to this day”, just as modern-day enslavement is growing, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said.
New York: Thirteen independent UN human rights experts raised concerns on Thursday over the planned execution by authorities in Saudi Arabia of a 57-year-old Jordanian citizen convicted for carrying amphetamine pills across the border in 2014, reminding that drug offences “do not meet the threshold for most serious crimes”.
Bengaluru/IBNS: Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva on Dec. 1 announced his arrival on the Indian micro-blogging platform Koo.
Moscow/UNI: A MiG-31 fighter-interceptor on a training flight crashed in Russia's Primorsky region, the Eastern Military District said on Friday, adding that the crew ejected.
Washington/IBNS: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Thursday issued an order approving SpaceX's request to deploy an additional 7,500 Starlink satellites.
New York: A record $51.5 billion is needed to help 230 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in nearly 70 countries next year, the UN said on Thursday.
New York: Rising inflation has caused a striking decline in real monthly wages in many countries, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report published on Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for policies to prevent further poverty, inequality and social unrest.
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government spent Rs 43 million on visits abroad by ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his disgraced brother and former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in just one year.
South Waziristan: An attack on a girl's school in South Waziristan area of Pakistan on Thursday left at least one man killed, media reports said on Friday.
