Four years ago, a minor player in the Venezuelan leadership was arrested in Colombia and extradited to the United States to face drug charges. He proved to be an important catch. The man, Yazenky Lamas, worked as a bodyguard for the person widely considered the […]
Protests erupted in cities across the US over the deadly arrest of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who was pinned to the ground by the knee of a white officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters rallied in Minneapolis for a third night on Thursday into […]
The WHO and 37 countries have launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, an alliance aimed at making coronavirus vaccines, tests, treatments and other technologies available to all countries. Russia has announced that 232 more people have died from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours in […]
The White House thumbed its nose at Twitter on Friday by reposting a President Donald Trump tweet that the social media giant had just taken the unprecedented step of hiding, because it violated the platform’s rules. The tit-for-tat marked a new escalation in the row […]
According to a study from the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom, one-fifth of hospital doctors are off work sick or in quarantine due to COVID-19. Even more concerning are the hundreds of healthcare professionals that have died from COVID-19, with the toll […]
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and four other former members have promised to challenge their removal from the Bersatu party. Mahathir, 94, along with his son and three other senior members, were expelled from the Bersatu party on Thursday in the latest twist in […]
In the latest sign of tensions between the United States and Beijing over trade, the coronavirus pandemic, human rights and the status of Hong Kong, the Trump administration may soon expel thousands of Chinese graduate students enrolled at universities in the US and impose other […]
An Australian hired to carry out a sexual fantasy has been cleared of intimidation after accidentally entering the wrong house. The unsuspecting resident initially mistook the intruders for a friend who had come over to make coffee. After realising he was not the willing participant, […]
Monkeys in India stole samples of coronavirus blood form a healhworker. The samples were recovered and the three people whose sampls were stolen had to go for another coronavirus test. India has become an emerging hotspot for coronavirus in recent days. Monkeys mobbed an Indian […]
Taiwan’s top court decriminalised adultery, ruling the law against it breached constitutional protections of sexual autonomy and equality. Adultery in Taiwan had been punishable by up to a year in prison. Opponents slammed the decision by the court to decriminalise adultery as “absurd” and “exaggerated”. […]
