US lawmakers on Tuesday sent an anti-hate bill to President Joe Biden’s desk that aims to prevent violence against Asian Americans, following an alarming rise in attacks including murders during the coronavirus pandemic.

Russia’s lower house of parliament yesterday voted to leave the Open Skies security agreement, another step in dissolving the Cold War-era pact that the US left last year.

EU member states yesterday agreed to reopen the bloc’s borders to travellers who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, European sources said.

In December 2020, with coronavirus infections spreading rapidly across factories and workers’ dormitories in Malaysia, officials raided latex glove maker Brightway Holdings near Kuala Lumpur. They said they found workers living in shipping containers, under conditions so squalid that human resources minister M. Saravanan later likened them to “modern slavery.”

US broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) filed a legal case at the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday to challenge the "foreign agent" label imposed on it by Russian authorities.

Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use Covid masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars.

All future fossil fuel projects must be scrapped if the world is to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and to stand any chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, the International Energy Agency said yesterday.

France-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched its “Journalism Trust Initiative” yesterday, a platform aimed at battling disinformation by identifying and promoting “trustworthy” news sources.

More than 800 people have been killed by Myanmar’s security forces since a wave of protests broke out across the country after the military seized power in a coup in February, an activist group said.

The vast majority of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is illegal, and President Jair Bolsonaro’s promise to eliminate it looks doubtful given a lack of transparency on authorized land use, researchers said Monday.

At least 27 people were dead and almost 100 missing yesterday after a monster cyclone slammed India, compounding the country’s woes as it recorded a new record number of coronavirus deaths in 24 hours.

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has vehemently condemned the Saturday attack on the building housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera Network in Gaza by the Israeli defence forces.

Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals.

Inside a Gaza hospital, Mohammad al-Hadidi cradled his baby boy Omar -- his only surviving child after Israeli air strikes killed his wife and four other sons in the night.

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said US President Joe Biden had “bloody hands” because of his support of Israel in the raging conflict in the Gaza Strip.

More than 50 people were missing on Tuesday (May 18) when their boat sank after leaving Libya heading to Europe, Tunisia's Defence Ministry said, with 33 others rescued.

More than 52,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli air strikes that have destroyed or badly damaged nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip, the UN aid agency said on Tuesday.

The third UN Security Council emergency meeting in a week has again ended with no concrete outcome since the United States blocked a joint statement calling for immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, reports Al Jazeera.

About 100 migrants, some using inflatable rings, swam to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco early yesterday, Spanish authorities said.

Myanmar’s election last year reflected the will of the people and the army was unjustified in using alleged flaws as a reason to seize power, an international monitoring group said yesterday in its final report.