The UN secretary-general’s special adviser on genocide prevention, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, on Monday warned of the risk of commission of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia amid an escalation of the military conflict in the north. Nderitu [Read More]
As the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the Australian state of Queensland fast approaches a milestone, health authorities are easing some restrictions while also seeking ways to persuade even more residents to get fully vaccinated. Queensland [Read More]
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio on Sunday declared three days of national mourning from Monday to Wednesday for the 108 lives lost in a fuel tanker explosion here. During his visit to hospitals treating [Read More]
Australia’s coronavirus death toll for 2021 has surpassed that of 2020 as the country continues to battle the third wave of infections. Australia on Monday morning reported more than 1,300 new locally-acquired COVID-19 cases and [Read More]
A paramilitary trooper belonging to India’s Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Monday fired upon his colleagues inside a camp in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, killing four and wounding three others, officials said.
Singapore’s economy continues to recover steadily from a sharp contraction in 2020 on the back of effective containment measures, accelerated vaccination rollout, and extended policy support for affected businesses and households, said a report published [Read More]
Air pollution has begun to rise by the day in Delhi, India as winter sets in. According to the air quality forecast agency “System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), Delhi’s air [Read More]
A new survey by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Sydney revealed the ongoing trauma caused on firefighters by the devastating Black Summer bushfires in Australia. More than 18.6 million hectares of land, mostly [Read More]
An Australian lecturer, fully embracing the digital age of learning, has taken to using video-sharing app TikTok in an effort to engage his students. University of Queensland (UQ) senior lecturer in strategy Stuart Middleton told [Read More]
Under normal circumstances, Kamal, an Afghan migrant in Iran, would have become a pop singer or a civil engineer as he had wished, were it not for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Violence [Read More]
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