The United States on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh, and added Chinese artificial intelligence company SenseTime Group to an investment blacklist. Canada and the United Kingdom joined the United States in imposing sanctions related to human rights abuse in Myanmar, […]
Qatar’s latest FIFA World Cup™️ tournament venue, the Al Thumama Stadium, was unveiled on Friday (October 23, 2021) night prior to the Amir Cup Final between Al Rayyan and Al Sadd. The stunning venue – which was designed by Qatari architect Ibrahim M. Jaidah – was inaugurated in the presence of FIFA President, Mr Gianni […]
British MP David Amess was on Friday stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in southeast England, Sky News and the BBC reported. Local police did not name Amess but confirmed that officers “were called to reports of a stabbing” shortly after 12:05 pm (1105 GMT). “A man was arrested shortly after […]
Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems,” the award-giving body said on Tuesday. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were cited for their work in “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global […]
Japanese Princess Mako will marry her fiance, a former college classmate, on October 26, authorities said on Friday, after years of intense scrutiny and criticism that cast her engagement in an unflattering light. She will reportedly forgo a traditional lump-sum payment of up to 150 million yen ($1.3m) typically given to a member of the […]
Seventeen Indo-Canadians, including NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, won Canada’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday with Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returning to power in the snap polls. Canadians gave 49-year-old Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in Monday’s parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats […]
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for countries to work together to ensure that another pandemic at the magnitude of the Covid-19 crisis should not occur again in the near future. “The pandemic’s impact differs from country to country,” said Ghebreyesus, at the inaugural ceremony of the 74th Session of the […]
The Sri Lanka Parliament on Monday passed the ‘state of emergency’ with claims to seize hidden food stocks amid soaring prices of food and essential items. The ruling Gotabaya Rajapaksa government passed the state of emergency with majority votes, with the opposition parties complaining that the law is a danger to democracy, rights and freedom […]
Lionel Messi bid an emotional goodbye to his former club Barcelona. During his farewell speech, when Messi broke down into tears, his wife Antonella had given the football star a tissue to wipe his tears off. According to media reports, the used tissue has been priced at $1 million (Rs 7.5 crore) for an auction […]