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There are reports that Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers have forcibly detained more than 500 young men and women from four camps for displaced people in the town of Shire in Tigray. Sources including three aid workers and a doctor, citing witnesses’ accounts, told newsmen that the soldiers loaded hundreds of people onto trucks. The witnesses […]
Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld DONALD TRUMP’S ban from Facebook and Instagram. But it criticised the permanent nature of the ban as beyond the scope of Facebook’s normal penalties. It has ordered Facebook to review the decision and “justify a proportionate response” that is applied to everyone, including ordinary users and must respond within six […]
India has accounted for nearly half of the COVID-19 cases reported worldwide last week. The World Health Organization said this as the country’s coronavirus deaths rose by a record three thousand seven hundred and eighty deaths were reported during the last 24 hours. The WHO said in its weekly epidemiological report that India accounted for […]
ON THE FOREIGN SCENE; The United Nations and European Union has called for calm and warned of the use of excessive force at protests against the administration of Colombian President IVAN DUQUE. This call came as protester deaths mounted and demonstrations continued overnight. The protests, originally called in opposition to a now-canceled tax reform, have […]
Government officials in Mexico are investigating the causes of an railway bridge that collapsed and killed at least 23 people when a Mexico City metro train plunged onto a busy road below. Firemen using heavy chains to stabilize the site reportedly pulled bodies and survivors from wreckage. Other reports indicated that the injured were taken […]
At least 23 people have been killed and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed in Mexico City while a train was travelling on it. Several train carriages plunged to the ground, crushing at least one car, which was on a busy road underneath. Rescue workers and firefighters are searching for survivors after the accident […]
The authorities in the Indian capital Delhi have called for help from the army as the city grapples with a brutal second wave of Covid-19 cases. The authorities said hospitals in the city are in crisis, with intensive care beds full and an acute shortage of medical oxygen. Delhi’s government wants the army to run […]
The tally of coronavirus infections in India has risen to almost 20 million cases. This was reportedly propelled by a 12th straight day of more than 300,000 new cases, even as scientists predicted the pandemic could peak in the next couple of days. It may interest you to know that the total infections since the […]
Indian Prime Minister NARENDRA MODI’S party has failed to win a key state in elections held amid high record of Covid-19 deaths and cases. The BJP targeted West Bengal heavily during campaigning but it was comfortably held by the incumbent, MAMATA BANERJEE, a fierce MODI critic. Prime Minister MODI has been accused of focusing on […]
Myanmar security forces has opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days killing eight people, three months after a coup plunged the country into crisis. The protests, after a spell of dwindling crowds and what appeared to be more restraint by the security forces, were coordinated with demonstrations in Myanmar […]
