(AFP) – Ten people were detained in Hong Kong on Thursday under the city’s national security statute, accused of giving financial assistance to abroad dissident organisations advocating for sanctions against the Chinese financial center. Following massive and often violent pro-democracy protests the year before, Beijing enacted a broad national securityRead More →
WASHINGTON (AP) — According to White House national security spokesperson John Kirby, the US is observing events in Pakistan “with concern.” Kirby made his statements after being asked about the situation in Pakistan, where former Prime Minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan was recently imprisoned and militant assaults have increased.Read More →
(AFP) – Summertime tourist has reached capacity in Belgium’s cobblestone-and-canal city of Bruges. “It’s really reached a red line now,” says Arnout Goegebuer, 55, as he sits inside a cafe, staring out a window across a crowded outside terrace. “We don’t need more tourists anymore; we have enough – maybeRead More →
According to the mayor, New York, once the entryway to the United States through Ellis Island and a city established by immigrants, is full – but migrants wanting a better life continue to arrive by the hundreds. This week, dozens of asylum seekers, mostly from West Africa, have been sleepingRead More →
Fears that Greece’s ecosystem is at increased risk have been validated, scientists believe, by two weeks of oppressive heat and flames. The National Observatory of Athens has estimated that 50,000 hectares (123,500 acres) of forest and vegetation had been burnt. According to Charalampos Kontoes, a research director at the observatory,Read More →
On Thursday, a car bomb near the Sayeda Zeinab shrine city south of Damascus, Syria, detonated, killing six people and injuring many more, according to Syrian state media. One day before the solemn holiday of Ashura, explosives hidden in a cab exploded, according to state media and the interior ministry.Read More →
According to an unclassified U.S. intelligence report made public on Thursday, China is likely supplying Moscow with military and dual-use equipment for use in Ukraine and helping Moscow avoid Western sanctions. The U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released the assessment by the Office of the DirectorRead More →
In order to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi address concerns over ethnic riots in a northeastern state in-depth, the Indian parliament on Wednesday authorised a no-confidence vote against the administration. The 301-member majority held by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lower house of parliament’s 542-seats ensures that theRead More →
One person was killed and numerous others were hurt when a fire broke out on a ship with approximately 3,000 vehicles on board Wednesday off the coast of the Netherlands, according to the coastguard. The 199-meter Panama-registered Fremantle Highway was travelling from Germany to Egypt when the fire broke outRead More →
MALMO: Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist, was fined on Monday for ignoring police during a rally last month, although she claimed she did so out of necessity due to the global crisis. The 20-year-old arrived in court in the southern Swedish city of Malmo after 11 a.m. (0900 GMT)Read More →
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