Month: June 2020

Biden: ‘It seems our wartime president has surrendered, waved the white flag and abandoned the battlefield’.

Pledges at conference hosted by UN and EU were higher than expected but aid groups warn promised sum is not enough.

Beijing says legislation is necessary after last year’s protests; critics say sweeping law erodes Hong Kong’s freedom.

The mothers of Jamarion Robinson and Oscar Cain on fighting for justice amid the trauma of more police killings.

Police used tear gas to disperse protesters marching on a road leading to the airport in the capital, Khartoum.

The court ruled that states may not discriminate between religious and secular private schools when giving tax credits.

MPs say koalas will become extinct in New South Wales within 30 years unless urgent action is taken to protect them.

The EU agrees to open its borders to 15 countries from July 1, but the US, Russia, India and Brazil remain excluded.

The rallies come as the government prepares to wrap up weeks of talks with health workers on hospital overhauls.

Suspended flights and high freight charges have brought down exports, and locust attacks have severely damaged the fruit.

The women who lived and died for African liberation should no longer be confined to the margins of history.

The UNHCR voices alarm at an increasing number of attacks by armed groups on displaced civilians in the African nation.

Leaks continue to say the White House was aware of Russian intelligence officials offering bounties on US forces.

Japan expresses dismay as EU ‘deplores’ passage of new law, prompting China to denounce interference in its affairs.

Moves come as Anthony Fauci blames rising infections on flouting of guidelines on physical distancing and mask-wearing.

UK prime minister set to lay out his plan to rescue the fragile economy.

Documents and computers are seized from the department in charge of maintenance and restoration at St Peter’s Basilica.

Al Jazeera’s Wayne Hay describes the new-normal he experiences as he arrives in Thailand.

Countries are struggling with the economic impact of pandemic-related restrictions, which may not be over yet.

An armed group is accused of rights abuses in Mozambique, and accusations are emerging against the army too.

Gas leak at pharmaceutical plant in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, where similar accident last month killed 12.

The front lines of the fight against the virus outbreak in Brazil have shifted to poor, remote corners of the country.

At least 12 people have been killed in southwest China, while India’s northern state of Assam also faces devastation.

Vietnam’s domestic airlines asked to ground Pakistani pilots after report says 262 of them hold fraudulent licences.

Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, an ethnic Oromo, was killed in the city’s Gelan Condominiums area late on Monday, police said.

PM Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni and Interior Minister Gervais Ndirakobuca are under sanctions over alleged rights abuses.

Palestinian farmers been able to reclaim some of their land in Area C, but now they worry about their fate.

More than 56 percent of Nepal’s 5.4 million households affected as remittances drop due to global recession.

President Tsai Ing-wen says she is ‘very disappointed’ with law, as island unveils measures to help Hong Kong arrivals.

TikTok’s denial came a day after India banned the wildly popular app, citing national security and privacy concerns.

G4 type descended from H1N1 has ‘all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus’, Chinese scientists say.

EU subjected 11 officials to sanctions, citing their actions against the democratic functioning of Venezuela’s Congress.