The prominent Hong Kong activist Lee Cheuk-yan has declared “history will absolve” those on trial, after he pleaded guilty with the media mogul Jimmy Lai to taking part in an unauthorised assembly. The two were facing charges alongside former Democratic party chairman Yeung Sum
Almost 2,000 people killed in more than 150 massacres by soldiers, paramilitaries and insurgents in Tigray have been identified by researchers studying the conflict. The oldest victims were in their 90s and the youngest were infants. The identifications are based on reports
Chinese celebrities and politicians are racing to distance themselves from western brands as Beijing steps up a campaign to penalise those making accusations of abuses in Xinjiang, including fashion companies that boycott the region’s cotton. Burberry was one high-profile target, as the award-winning
Republic of Congo pressed ahead Sunday with an election in which President Denis Sassou N’Guesso is widely expected to extend his 36 years in power, while the leading opposition candidate remained hospitalized with COVID-19. The watchdog group NetBlocks reported an internet blackout
Myanmar’s security forces killed at least 38 pro-democracy protesters on Sunday, defying calls by the international community to avoid the use of lethal action against unarmed people. According to the southeast Asia-based advocacy group, Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), 22 anti-coup
It was a move designed to show that Japan’s ruling party was committed to gender equality after the sexism row that forced one of its former prime ministers, Yoshiro Mori, to resign as head of Tokyo’s Olympic organising committee. The time had come to give
A strong 7.1-magnitude earthquake has taken place off the eastern coast of Japan, but no tsunami warning has been issued, Japanese authorities have said. The quake on Saturday produced powerful shaking along parts of Japan’s eastern coast, and was felt strongly in Tokyo,
New Zealand will suspend all high-level dialogue with Myanmar, ensure that its aid programmes do not include projects that benefit the junta, and impose a travel ban on Naypyidaw’s military leaders, as part of its diplomatic response to last week’s coup in the southeast Asian nation.
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s ousted president have been charged by the military with minor offences relating to some walkie-talkies allegedly imported without the proper licence and for shaking hands during the pandemic, according to a police document. Ms Suu Kyi was arrested on
India blocked mobile internet services in several areas surrounding New Delhi on Saturday as protesting farmers began a one-day hunger strike after a week of clashes with authorities that left one dead and hundreds injured. Angry at new agricultural laws that they say benefit large private buyers
Thousands of people in Hong Kong have been ordered to stay in their homes in the city’s first coronavirus lockdown, as authorities battle an outbreak in one of its poorest and most densely packed districts. The order bans about 10,000 people living inside multiple
India’s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safety of the vaccine and the spread of misinformation has fuelled widespread hesitancy. On Saturday, India launched the world’s largest vaccination programme as it
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, won a sixth term in office on Saturday, extending his 35-year-rule in one of the country’s most turbulent election campaigns while his main rival Bobi Wine alleged widespread fraud and rejected the result. Museveni won 59% of the vote,
A British barrister has agreed to act for the Hong Kong government next month in its efforts to convict Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists accused of taking part in an illegal assembly in 2019. David Perry’s decision has been challenged by the chair of
Ten babies were killed in a maternity unit in the Indian state of Maharashtra early on Saturday when fire tore through a major hospital. Staff rescued seven of the newborn infants at the Bhandara district hospital but were beaten back before they
Chinese authorities refused the 10-member investigation team entry into the country at the last minute. China has said the team’s visas were not yet approved, as two of the scientists had already made their way to the country. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Chief
India has granted emergency approval to both the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and the domestically developed Covaxin, signalling the start of one of the largest Covid-19 immunisation drives in the world. At a press conference on Sunday, the drugs controller general of India said
Argentina has become the largest Latin American country to legalise abortion after its senate approved the historic law change by 38 votes in favour to 29 against, with one abstention. Elated pro-choice campaigners who had been keeping vigil outside Buenos Aires’s neoclassical congressional
China will overtake the US as the world’s biggest economy before the end of the decade after outperforming its rival during the global Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report. The Centre for Economics and Business Research said that it nowexpected the value of China’s economy when
At least 26 people died when their boat sank on Lake Albert, which marks the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan officials have said. The boat was carrying passengers between two Ugandan locations in the lake’s north-east on Wednesday when
A World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to arrive in Wuhan next month to investigate how the novel coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, and whether it emerged earlier or in a different place than originally thought. Fabian Leendertz, a biologist
Japanese prosecutors have charged a man with murder over the 2019 arson attack on Kyoto Animation in which 36 people died, the country’s national public broadcaster has reported, the country’s deadliest violent crime in decades. Shinji Aoba, 42, was detained in the aftermath
A Sudanese singer whose television appearance on The Voice brought him threats from security officers is facing deportation from the Netherlands, where he has lived for two years. Mohamed al-Tayeb, 30, who appeared on the Arabic version of the show in 2015, has
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked for more evidence before it will be willing to open an investigation into claims of genocide against Uighur people by China, but has said it will keep the file open for such further evidence to be
Lawmakers in Argentina’s lower house have passed a bill that would legalise abortion in most cases, responding to long-sought demands from women’s rights activists. The bill, which needs approval from the country’s Senate in a debate expected before the end of the
Residents of a coastal township on Australia‘s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached. Since it was sparked by an illegal campfire seven weeks ago, the blaze has blackened half the island off Australia’s north eastern coast, which is part of
Officially North Korea has yet to admit to recording a single case of Covid-19. The country shut its border with China and planted land mines to deter any crossing attempts. However, a number of cities and provinces have been forced into lockdown sparking
Social media users in China and South Korea are embroiled in another row, this time over the provenance of kimchi, the fermented cabbage dish that most people recognise as an essential part of the Korean diet. Not, though, in China, where state media have sparked an online backlash after
The multinational consumer goods company Unilever is to experiment with a four-day workweek for all its office employees in New Zealand, slashing their hours by about 20 per cent while keeping pay the same. Starting next week, the trial is expected to last until December
The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority QFCRA has commenced legal proceedings in New York to compel First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) to pay a court ordered judgment debt of QAR 200,000,000 (USD 55 million) that was first imposed on the bank back
Outside one of Bangkok’s busy shopping arcades, crowds of young protesters bounce balloons – coloured grey with patches of molten orange – above their heads. “We will act as a meteorite and hit the outdated ways of the older generations in this
Shocking pictures show flames shooting out of windows after the building was stormed by the mob furious at President Alejandro Giammattei. The central American country has been devastated by coronavirus and back-to-back hurricanes and the president’s health and education cuts enraged the public.
Hong Kong’s department of justice has asked that a national security judge take over the trial of an activist, even though he has not been charged with national security offences, in a move that underlines the erosion of the city’s independent legal
The new warplane is hoped to replace Japan’s fleet of F-2s when they retire from service in 2035. It is hoped a prototype of the new aircraft will be manufactured by 2024. In May China announced it would be increasing its defence expenditure
The Global Times – a state-run newspaper that is often the mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – has published an editorial claiming the West “won’t succeed” with the pressure it is applying on China over its human rights abuses, while
A string of explosions have rocked cities across Ethiopia and its neighbouring state of Eritrea amid concerns the nation may slide into a civil war that spills across an international border. Rockets were fired at airports in Bahir Dar and Gonda late on Friday
Hong Kong plunged further into crisis on Wednesday as a new law imposed by Beijing allowing the disqualification of “unpatriotic” opposition members prompted the entire pro-democracy caucus to announce their resignation. Four sitting legislators were disqualified with immediate effect, with the move heralded
Hong Kong police have received more than 2,500 tip-offs since the launch of a hotline for people to report suspected breaches of the city’s sweeping national security law. The multi-platform hotline, which opened on Thursday, allows Hong Kongers to report information directly to national
Ethiopia’s air force has carried out strikes in the restive Tigray region, the country’s prime minister has said, in another escalation of a crisis that observers fear could plunge the country into a bitter and bloody civil conflict. The prime minister, Abiy
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