Prince who's int'l face of Saudi business may no longer call the shots alone

The prince who's the international face of Saudi business may no longer be able to call all the shots.
15 June 2022

More people avoiding news, trusting it less worldwide: Report

A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.
15 June 2022

Countries blame China

Dozens of countries yesterday voiced concern at alleged abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, and demanded that the UN rights chief publish a long-delayed report on the rights situation there.
14 June 2022

UK defends Rwanda deportation policy

The UK government yesterday defended its controversial policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, even as the entire senior leadership of the Church of England branded it shameful and immoral.
14 June 2022

Life expectancy cut by 2 yrs

Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported yesterday.
14 June 2022

EU buys 110,000 vaccine doses against monkeypox

The European Union said yesterday it has purchased almost 110,000 vaccine doses to help tackle the monkeypox outbreak and would share them out among the bloc’s members.
14 June 2022

Battle for severodonetsk: Russia steps up efforts to cut off Ukrainian troops

Russian forces yesterday stepped up efforts to cut off Ukrainian troops in the key industrial city of Severodonetsk in the east of the country despite Ukrainians insisting they were holding on.
14 June 2022

Urgent UN appeal to Myanmar junta to halt executions

The UN rights chief said yesterday Myanmar’s junta has likely committed crimes against humanity and urged authorities to stop planned executions, including of prominent democracy activists.
14 June 2022

Russia bans UK journalists over presentation of Ukraine war

Russia has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives and defence figures from entering the country, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
14 June 2022

Dabir Chacha: A living legend

On a British sunny afternoon when the entire nation was celebrating Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in a four day weekend from Thursday, June 2 till Sunday, June 5, I was off to North London to see another elderly who had become a celebrity in his own rights and rose to fame at the age of 100 when he decided to raise funds during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Since then, he has become an iconic figure in the Bengali community and is lovingly called Dabir Chacha.
14 June 2022

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny moved to undisclosed location from jail

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been abruptly transferred from the prison where he is serving an 11-1/2 year sentence to an undisclosed location, nearly two years since he was poisoned with what the West said was a nerve agent.
14 June 2022

EU to fine Google, Facebook, Twitter for failure in deepfake tackling

Alphabet Inc unit Google (GOOGL.O), Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc(TWTR.N) and other tech companies will have to take measures to counter deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms or risk hefty fines under an updated European Union code of practice, according to an EU document seen by Reuters.
14 June 2022

Wikipedia fights Russia on Ukraine war information removal

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people have a right to know the facts of the war.
14 June 2022

Illegal migrant crossings to EU up 82pc

Illegal migrant crossings into the European Union rose by 82 percent between January and May compared to the same period in 2021, the European border agency said yesterday.
13 June 2022

French army quits Mali base

French troops were yesterday handing back a military base in northeastern Mali ahead of a final withdrawal from the Sahel nation, France’s army said, after nine years fighting a jihadist insurgency.
13 June 2022

Russia seizes centre of Severodonetsk

Ukraine said yesterday its forces have been pushed back from the centre of the eastern city of Severodonetsk, where fighting with Russia has raged for weeks.
13 June 2022

Scientists map brain network linked to addiction

Researchers said yesterday they had mapped the network in the brain linked to addiction by studying long-time smokers who abruptly quit after suffering brain lesions.
13 June 2022

UN rights chief declines 2nd term

The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, indicated yesterday that she would not seek a second term, the surprise announcement coming in a wide-ranging speech to the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.
13 June 2022

Biden to travel to KSA, Israel next month

US President Joe Biden will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel next month and the White House is planning to announce the trip this week, a source familiar with the planning said on Sunday.
13 June 2022

World nuke arsenal set to grow

The number of nuclear weapons in the world is set to rise in the coming decade after 35 years of decline as global tensions flare amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, researchers said yesterday.
13 June 2022