A married woman in her 20s was allegedly gang-raped by a group — including three minor boys — in Delhi, India, on January 26, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday, noting the attack seems to have been an act of revenge by the family of a 14-year-old boy after the woman allegedly rejected his advances.
Massive amounts of medical waste produced by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic have accumulated worldwide and pose an increasing “threat” to global public health, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned in a report published on Tuesday.
Local Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Hangzhou city confirmed 24 new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus within the community on Monday, China’s official state-run press agency Xinhua reported.
Japan’s legislature passed a resolution on Tuesday “expressing concern” over China’s human rights violations in a document which failed to “directly mention China or use the term ‘human rights abuses,'” the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), reported.
Kenya Airways says it plans to stop transporting monkeys on behalf of a Mauritius-based primate farm after a recent such shipment suffered an escape of four cynomolgus macaques while in transit in Pennsylvania to a U.S.-based laboratory that uses the
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Kyiv on February 3 where he will hold bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, amid recent political tension between Ukraine and Russia, Reuters reported on Monday.
Tokyo’s population decreased in 2021 for the first time in 26 years due, in part, to increased remote work availability during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic that encouraged people to leave the crowded metropolis, Bloomberg reported Monday.
The 2022 Winter Olympics — set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 — will “relieve anxieties felt about the pandemic,” China’s state-run Global Times claimed in an op-ed published Sunday, referring to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in central China’s Wuhan city sometime in 2019.
Researchers in eastern China’s Suzhou city claim they have successfully developed an artificial intelligence system capable of monitoring the growth of animal embryos inside an artificial womb, the South China Morning Post reported Monday.
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R. Congo) sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday for their involvement in the killings of two U.N. staff members in March 2017, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting the trial’s prosecutors suggested local militiamen carried out the murders “to take revenge against the UN” for allegedly “failing to prevent attacks against them by the [D.R. Congo] army.”
Health officials in Beijing recorded the city’s highest number of new Chinese coronavirus cases on Sunday since June 2020, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, making the national capital the epicenter of China’s latest coronavirus outbreak just four days before Beijing is set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Rahul Gandhi — a member of India’s left-wing opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC) — asked “When will we get back India’s territory that has been occupied by China?” in a post on Twitter Thursday considered by some to be directed toward India’s ruling, right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Asian News International (ANI) reported on Friday.
Rwanda issued a federal mandate this week requiring all citizens and residents of the country to show proof of full Chinese coronavirus vaccination before they are allowed into any public spaces or events, Rwanda’s New Times newspaper reported Thursday.
Some Afghans starving amid Afghanistan’s dire economic fallout — a direct byproduct of the Taliban’s seizure of the country’s government last August — have been forced to sell their “children and kidneys” in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News reported Friday.
Health officials in Tianjin, China — which has been locked down since January 9 — confirmed on Thursday the detection of four new, locally transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases “caused by accidental exposure” to the virus inside a governemnt-run quarantine facility, the Global Times reported Friday.
North Korea will assume the presidency of the United Nations (U.N.)’s Conference on Disarmament from May 30 to June 24 as part of a rotational system that assigns the leadership role to each of the conference’s member states for one month in alphabetical order, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.
Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported on Thursday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) staffers based at the organization’s Western Pacific headquarters in Manila recently accused the region’s W.H.O. chief, Takeshi Kasai, of blaming a rise in coronavirus cases in some Asian countries on their populations’ “lack of capacity due to their inferior culture, race and socioeconomic level,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao said Thursday he plans to “file a Senate resolution” asking the Philippine federal government not to impose a Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate on its public, the Philippine news outlet ABS-CBN reported.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday “urged” El Salvador’s government to rescind the legal tender status it bestowed to Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency, in September 2021, indicating that its failure to do so could hinder El Salvador’s intention of securing a future loan from the financial institution.
Chinese Communist Party officials locked down much of the city of Sanhe, which borders Beijing, on Wednesday — just nine days before Beijing will host the 2022 Winter Olympics — after detecting a new Chinese coronavirus infection in a Sanhe resident who commutes to Beijing daily, the Global Times reported.
Rival ethnic tribes in Indonesia’s West Papua province clashed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, sparking a nightclub fire that burned 17 people “alive,” BenarNews reported, adding that an 18th victim died from stab wounds sustained in the fighting.
Russia will assume the presidency of the U.N. Security Council on February 1 for one month according to the body’s regular protocol, which rotates its leadership among the council’s members approximately every 30 days.
Children worldwide have suffered “a nearly insurmountable” loss of learning due to prolonged school closures during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday.
At least eight people died from injuries sustained during a stampede at a soccer stadium in Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Monday, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia’s government reopened all of the Kingdom’s elementary schools and kindergartens on Sunday after a nearly two-year-long suspension of in-person learning for children aged 5 to 11 due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
China’s Foreign Ministry on Monday denied a recent report by Bloomberg alleging Chinese dictator Xi Jinping asked Russian leader Vladimir Putin “not to invade Ukraine” during the 2022 Winter Olympics, saying the U.S.-based media company fabricated the claim “out of thin air” in an attempt “to smear and drive a wedge in China-Russia relations.”
New statistics released by India’s federal government suggest the Chinese coronavirus death toll for some states was nearly nine times greater than officially documented during a period spanning March 2020 to January 19, 2022, the Hindu reported on Sunday.
South Korea’s government on Friday paid $18 million toward Iran’s delinquent United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly dues using Iranian funds frozen in South Korea by U.S. sanctions meant to discourage Tehran’s nuclear proliferation, Yonhap News Agency reported on Sunday.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) sent a fleet of 39 aircraft into the southwest corner of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Sunday, Taiwan News reported, noting that the incursion marked the highest number of PLAAF planes to enter Taiwan’s ADIZ in a single day since October 2021.
Chinese Communist Party officials in China’s Henan province “either concealed or delayed” the documentation of 139 deaths from floods that devastated the east-central region in July 2021, Bloomberg reported Sunday.
A trial court in northern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city sentenced a 26-year-old Muslim woman to death on Wednesday for blasphemy against Islam after finding her guilty of “sharing images deemed to be insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and one of his wives.”
Lee Jae-myung, a left-wing candidate for South Korea’s upcoming presidential election, “voiced skepticism” on Thursday over suggestions Seoul should grant military service exemptions to members of “BTS,” a South Korean pop music boy band, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The South Korean tech company Samsung recently pulled an online advertisement showing a hijabi Muslim woman supporting her drag queen son after intense criticism from residents of Singapore, the ad’s target audience, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported on Friday.
The navies of Iran, China, and Russia launched a three-day joint maritime drill on Friday in the northern Indian Ocean designed to signal a “common future” between the three nations, Iranian Rear Admiral Mostafa Tajoldini told Iranian state television.
A photo recently surfaced online that allegedly captures three Nigerian state governors in the presence of a known associate of Bello Turji, a Nigerian “banditry kingpin,” Nigeria’s Premium Times reported Wednesday.
The Chinese Communist Party forcibly repatriated 1,114 Chinese nationals in 2021 through a state-run program called Skynet according to the findings of a report published by the human rights NGO Safeguard Defenders on Tuesday.
North Korea’s government suggested this week it may resume “all temporally-suspended activities,” seemingly referring to Pyongyang’s “nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests,” South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday.
India’s two most populous cities, New Delhi and Mumbai, have recorded a sharp decrease in their coronavirus caseload and hospitalizations in recent days, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday.
A number of Rwandans told the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) anonymously on Tuesday they were recently “forced to receive vaccination[s]” against the Chinese coronavirus by “local leaders and police.”