Misinformation fuels Papua New Guinea’s Covid crisis
PORT MORESBY - Misinformation threatens to scuttle Papua New Guinea's already faltering efforts to bring a severe Covid-19 outbreak under control, with a survey...
Firebomb attack on Suu Kyi’s party headquarters in Yangon
YANGON: A hurled Molotov cocktail caused a fire early Friday at the party headquarters of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's...
Flying solo: Biden to hold his first press conference
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden is set to hold the first press conference of his presidency Thursday, just over 60 days since taking office, in...
Giant ship blocking Suez Canal like a ‘beached whale’
SINGAPORE: Efforts to dislodge the 400-metre-long container ship that has blocked the Suez Canal resumed at high tide on Thursday, with five tugs working...
Bangladesh at 50: Booming economy, shrinking rights
GAZIPUR (BANGLADESH) - Bangladesh turns 50 this week as an economic success story but also an increasingly repressive de facto one-party state where a...
Ethiopian rights body says over 100 killed in Tigray massacre
NAIROBI: The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday that Eritrean soldiers massacred over 100 civilians in the war-torn region of Tigray in November, in...
China ban sours Taiwan’s ‘freedom pineapple’ harvest
PINGTUNG, Taiwan: A Chinese ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan has sparked a flood of patriotic buying of the fruit and forced restaurants to...
News media seeing ‘post-Trump slump’ as passions cool
NEW YORK - Tensions have cooled between the news media and the White House after four tumultuous years -- potentially bad news for outlets...
Male suspect, 21, charged with murder in Colorado attack: police
BOULDER (UNITED STATES) - Colorado police on Tuesday said a 21-year-old man has been charged with 10 counts of murder, a day after a...
‘Disgraceful’ parliament sex acts rock Australia’s government
SYDNEY: Leaked videos of staff from Australia's conservative government performing sex acts in parliament, including one man masturbating over a female MP's desk, left...
