A Chinese appeals court dismissed a landmark case over sexual-harassment allegations by a woman against a famous TV host, a ruling that dealt a major blow to China’s embattled #MeToo movement, the Wall Street Journal reported. The case began in 2018 when Zhou Xiaoxuan accused Zhu...
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A South African parliamentary inquiry is investigating a bizarre case of theft connected to President Cyril Ramaphosa to determine whether he should be impeached in what is becoming a growing scandal rocking the country, South Africa’s Daily Maverick reported. Parliament Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said an independent...
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Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara pardoned former president Laurent Gbagbo, who faced a 20-year jail term after refusing to recognize his opponent’s 2010 electoral victory and igniting a civil war, in an effort to promote reconciliation in the country, France24 reported Ouattara said Saturday the decision...
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Australia’s national carrier is asking its CEOs and other company leaders to help handle passengers' baggage in an effort to alleviate the pain from a severe labor shortage caused by the pandemic that has afflicted airlines worldwide and led to travel chaos around the globe,...
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Papua New Guinea’s parliament re-elected James Marape as prime minister Tuesday, following an election that was marred by violence and fraud allegations, the Associated Press reported. Marape’s nomination comes after the country’s legislature resumed even though vote counting continues in some parts of the country. All...
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A bomb blast killed a top leader of the Pakistani Taliban in southeastern Afghanistan this week, an incident that paused the peace talks between the extremist group and Pakistani officials aimed at ending years of violence between the two sides, the Washington Post reported. Pakistan’s Tehrik-e-Taliban...
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France has become captivated by the plight of a solo beluga whale stranded in the Seine near Paris and which is refusing to eat, the Associated Press reported. First appearing last week, the lost whale was seen “gently meandering” in a stretch of the river between...
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Chad’s military government signed a peace deal with more than 40 opposition groups Monday, an agreement that is expected to kickstart reconciliation talks in the restive African nation, Al Jazeera reported. The government and rebel groups signed the accord in the Qatari capital of Doha following...
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Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reached a ceasefire agreement this week, ending three days of conflict that began following the arrest of a senior Hamas leader, the BBC reported. As of Monday, the Egypt-brokered truce appeared to be holding. Israel announced it was lifting...
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India unexpectedly withdrew a proposed data protection bill this month, which had raised fears among tech giants and privacy rights advocates about government overreach, the New York Times wrote. The government said it is now working on new legislation, two years after unveiling the previous bill,...
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St. Kitts and Nevis’ opposition party won the island nation’s legislative elections over the weekend, in a poll that came three years earlier than planned, the Associated Press reported. Preliminary results showed the St. Kitts-Nevis Labor Party (SKNLP) secured six seats in the 15-seat parliament, ousting...
Read full story →TAIWAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dab1143a-8514-4f63-8098-bd36050d9680.png"] China will hold five additional live-fire drills in the Bohai and Yellow seas in another show of force to broadcast its fury over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last week, the Washington Post reported Sunday. China has been holding military exercises near...
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Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a landmark decision that would allow women to automatically pass their citizenship to children born overseas, a case that has sparked criticism over the government’s inability to ensure gender equality, Al Jazeera reported. The case centers on a constitutional...
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Puerto Rican authorities arrested former Governor Wanda Vázquez on corruption charges Thursday, the latest in a string of high-profile arrests of public sector figures in the US territory, Bloomberg reported. Vázquez is suspected of participating in a bribery scheme from December 2019 to June 2020 while...
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef showed the highest coral cover in 36 years, according to a new report that suggested there is hope for the recovery of the fragile UNESCO World Heritage site, CBS News reported. The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) released a report Thursday...
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Italian police arrested a local man in connection with the death of a Nigerian street vendor at a beach resort in Italy, whose brutal murder set off outrage this week as the country prepares for an election that anti-immigrant hardliners have been predicted to win,...
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Hundreds of thousands of Chinese homeowners are boycotting mortgage payments and demonstrating over unfinished properties, a very rare form of protest in a country that rarely tolerates dissent and relies on real estate as its economic growth engine, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The unprecedented demonstrations come amid...
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A former terrorist who once had a $5 million bounty on his head and trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan has been appointed Somalia’s new religion minister in an attempt to win over supporters of the extremist group al-Shabab and bring reconciliation and stability to...
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Hundreds of Indonesian tourism workers launched a strike this week over the government’s decision to raise ticket prices to visit the country’s famous Komodo dragons, saying the move would impact their livelihood, the Independent reported. The demonstrations, which began on Tuesday, came a day after officials...
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A US drone strike killed al Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan’s capital this week, an attack that raised skepticism among Afghans that one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists was actually living in Kabul at the time of his death, NBC News reported Tuesday. US officials...
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