Rights activists on Tuesday warned of greater curbs on media and online freedom in Russia as MPs backed a controversial bill that could lead bloggers and independent journalists to be labelled “foreign agents”. Legislators want to broaden existing legislation that forces foreign-funded media and NGOs […]
Sri Lanka‘s newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a polarising figure to many in the South Asian island nation. The first president to have served the Sri Lankan army, Rajapaksa, 70, comfortably garnered more than 52 percent of the popular vote in Saturday’s election, primarily […]
Days of protests in Iran over rising fuel prices and a subsequent government crackdown have killed more than 100 people across the country, according to rights group Amnesty International. In a statement on Tuesday, the UK-based organisation accused Iranian security forces of using “excessive and […]
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Tuesday he promised the alleged middleman in Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder a pardon if he identifies the mastermind of the journalist’s assassination. Muscat made the surprise offer after authorities last week arrested someone who claimed to know who […]
Lawyers for Sinn Fein’s former leader Gerry Adams appealed to Britain’s highest court on Tuesday to try to overturn two convictions from the darkest days of the violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Adams was held without trial under special “internment” measures designed to […]
Washington, DC – Two White House aides told the United States Congress’s impeachment inquiry they were concerned after listening to President Donald Trump‘s phone call on July 25 with the leader of Ukraine. Army Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, a White House national security official for Ukraine, […]
The Taliban handed two Western hostages over to US forces in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, three years after they were abducted, in a swap for three high-ranking insurgent prisoners that could boost peace talks. The exchange of American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks for […]
The UN on Tuesday harshly criticised President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon three US service members accused of war crimes as a “disturbing signal” to military forces worldwide. “These three cases involve serious violations of international humanitarian law, both proven and alleged, including the shooting […]
On April 22, a barge picked up the body of a woman stuffed into a suitcase floating in the Oise River in Neuville north of Paris. The woman was Marie-Alice, 53, a consultant who investigators believe was killed by her partner and her body then […]
AsiaNet 81734 SHANGHAI, Nov. 19, 2019 (Antara/Xinhua-AsiaNet)– Unmanned 5G harvesters are being deployed on dedicated harvesting routes on the Wanhe organic farm on the eastern part of Chongming District. Self-driving seeders, organic farm robots and unmanned pesticide-spraying aircraft are also working on other fields. At […]
