HONG KONG, MAY 29 (Reuters): - Hong Kong told the United States to keep out of the debate over national security legislation being imposed by China, and warned that withdrawal of the financial hub'
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BANGKOK, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Cases of online child sex abuse in the Philippines have tripled under coronavirus, the government said, with campaigners warning that the country's lockdow
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Coronavirus is threatening to undo recent gains made toward gender equality as millions of women and girls are predicted to have unwanted pregnancies and fall in
Karachi, May 29 (IANS): The cockpit voice recorder of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane which crashed in Karachi on May 22 killing 97 people, has been found in the wreckage, the media reporte
San Francisco, May 29 (IANS): Far from expanding the scope of free speech online, US President Donald Trump's executive order on "preventing online censorship" may have the opposite effect, social
Hong Kong, May 29 (IANS): Nearly 100 children were arrested during this week's protests in Hong Kong against China's plan to press ahead with a national security law for the city, and also the controver
Sydney, May 29 (IANS): An Australian zookeeper has sustained critical injuries to her head and neck after being mauled by a lion at a zoo in New South Wales (NSW) state on Friday. Ambulance personn
Canberra, May 29 (IANS): An Australian court on Friday ruled in favour of historian Jenny Hocking and allowed her access to letters between Queen Elizabeth II and her representative in the country during the di
New York, May 29 (IANS): At least 40 people were arrested in New York City as people took to the streets to protest against the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis. Over 100 peopl
Washington, May 29 (IANS) The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 5.8 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 360,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As
San Francisco, May 29 (IANS) Amid the growing tension with US President Donald Trump over fact-checking his tweets, Twitter has now flagged a couple of tweets posted by China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson
New Delhi, May 29 (PTI): United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday that coronavirus was a 'very bad gift' from China to the rest of the world, as America surpassed the grim milestone of over
SOFIA, May 28 (Reuters): Bulgaria’s highest appeals court on Thursday dismissed a request by the former chief prosecutor to review the parole granted to an Australian convicted of murder in 2009, mea
KIGALI, May 28 (Reuters): A Rwandan court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a former politician found guilty of orchestrating the killing of tens of thousands of people during the 1994 genocide, a cour
MANILA, May 28 (Reuters): Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday approved a recommendation to ease the lockdown in the capital Manila from June 1, resuming much-needed activity in an economy on the b
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters): President Donald Trump sent a Twitter message on Thursday to mourn 100,000 people in the United States lost to the coronavirus pandemic, a day after the threshold was reached
WEDZA, Zimbabwe, May 28 (Reuters): In the rural Zimbabwe district of Wedza, a new electric-powered motorcycle is helping bring income to poor women and easing the burden of looking after families.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 28 (Reuters): Protesters clashed with riot police firing tear gas for a second night in Minneapolis on Wednesday in an outpouring of rage over the death of a black man seen in a widely cir
KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 (Reuters): Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's ruling party on Thursday terminated the membership of his predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, a move widely seen as an attempt to c
LONDON, May 28 (Reuters): Britain's government is deeply concerned about China's legislation on national security for Hong Kong, which risks undermining the principle of one nation, two systems, a
