Mon 19 October 2020: More than 50 United States politicians are calling on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release activists, journalists, lawyers and prisoners of conscience. In a letter released on Monday, 55 congressional Democrats (and one independent) urged el-Sisi to release those “unjustly detained for exercising their fundamental human rights”. The letter is spearheaded by […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: At least half of the country’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirus by next February, helping slow the spread of the disease, a member of a central government committee tasked with providing projections said on Monday. India has so far reported 7.55 million cases […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: The company has assured the authorities that it will take steps to control “indecent and immoral” on the app Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok has been restored in Pakistan after it assured the authorities it would “block all accounts repeatedly involved in spreading obscenity and immorality”. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: The first regular commercial aeroplane from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) landed in Israel after flying from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The normalisation of relations between the Emirates and Israel is progressing rapidly after the historic Abraham Accords, sponsored by the United States government of Donald Trump, […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: At least 13 officials and soldiers were killed by a landslide in Thua Thien Hue province, while on their way to the Rao Trang-3 hydropower plant. Vietnam’s Office of the Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said 52,933 houses were submerged, while 24,734 were seriously damaged. Heavy rains, floods […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Azerbaijan’s army has liberated 13 more villages in the Jabrayil region from Armenian. The announcement was made on Monday on Twitter by President Ilham Aliyev, who added that the Armenian army publicly violated the temporary humanitarian ceasefire on October 18 and fired heavy artillery on Azerbaijani citizen settlements and positions. UN […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew as Switzerland made wearing face masks compulsory in indoor public spaces, the latest desperate measures by European governments to fight a powerful second wave. More than 250,000 people have died of the virus in Europe but the deepening crisis there stands in contrast to Australia, […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: Thousands of anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Bangkok on Sunday, defying a ban on protests for the fourth day with chants of “down with dictatorship” and “reform the monarchy.” Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the former junta leader turned prime minister that the protesters want to oust, is concerned about […]
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Mon 19 October 2020: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, issued on Sunday a royal order on the reformation of the Senior Scholars Council headed by Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh. The council includes 20 members. The royal order also appointed Sheikh Ghaiheb bin Mohammed […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Voting in Bolivia’s long-awaited presidential election has begun amid the COVID-19 pandemic and a tense social and political climate. The polls, in which more than seven million people are expected to cast their votes, opened at 8 a.m. Sunday. For the first time in 20 years, the name of Evo Morales […]
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