International
Some girls return to high school in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province
Kabul Girls have returned to some secondary schools in a northern province of Afghanistan, Taliban…
Report finds 216,000 children were victims of French clergy sex abuse since 1950
Paris An independent inquiry into alleged sex abuse of minors by French Catholic priests, deacons…
Australia won’t welcome foreign tourists until at least 2022
Canberra, Australia Foreign tourists won’t be welcomed back to Australia until at least next year,…
Three scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy win Nobel Prize for physics 2021
US-Japanese scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on Tuesday…
Japan’s new PM Kishida unveils cabinet
Tokyo Japan’s new prime minister Fumio Kishida unveiled his government on Monday, mixing holdovers with…
NZ sees milestone of 2m Kiwis get Covid-19 vaccines
Wellington More than 2 million people have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, mark-ing…
Ethiopia’s Abiy sworn in for new term
Addis Ababa was sworn in for a new five-year term Monday, but the milestone risked…
Russia test fires hypersonic missile from submarine
Russia said on Monday it had launched a new hyper-sonic cruise missile from a submarine,…
Vanessa Nakate’s hope giving voice to climate vulnerable
Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old Ugandan activist who campaigns for climate justice for vulnerable communities is…
Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, says firm chooses ‘profit over safety’
Washington The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant…
