A left-wing member of Canada’s parliament named Shafqat Ali virtually attended a recent session of Canada’s House of Commons while standing inside a bathroom stall, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed on Tuesday that machete-wielding men killed at least 15 residents of a displaced persons’ camp in eastern DRC on Monday night, including infants as young as six months old, Al Jazeera reported.
Toyota Motor Corp. will suspend the operation of 14 production lines across eight factories in Japan for nearly one week later this month as part of the Japanese automaker’s effort to cope with a microchip shortage caused by a month-plus Chinese coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai, China, Kyodo News reported Wednesday.
Japan’s government on Monday filed a diplomatic protest with Beijing over the violation of its maritime territory by China Coast Guard vessels near the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea earlier that same day, Kyodo News reported
U.S. military forces stationed at Al-Harir Air Base in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region “mistakenly” fired on at least 11 civilian homes and one civilian car on Monday night in the nearby town of Shaqlawa, the Kurdish news website Rudaw reported.
A 13-year-old boy was recently forced to live alone at his family’s apartment home in China’s Kunshan city for 66 consecutive days after his parents visited neighboring Shanghai for medical treatment in late February and became trapped in the city when it was locked down to contain its latest epidemic of the Chinese coronavirus, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday.
The month-plus Chinese coronavirus lockdown of Shanghai expanded to include nearby suburban communities on Monday, the state-run Global Times reported, revealing Chinese health officials “sealed off” residential compounds in the county of Tonglu and the city of Jiangyin after detecting fresh outbreaks of the disease in local populations.
China’s military on Friday staged its second-largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) this year, ordering 18 warplanes to fly through the special zone, the Taipei Times reported on Saturday.
India’s fertility rate decreased from 2019 to 2021 according to newly released data from India’s latest National Family Health Survey, Asian News International (ANI) reported on Saturday.
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. appeared to lead early vote tallies in the Philippine 2022 presidential election on Monday with 81.8 percent of eligible ballots counted, the Manila-based news website Rappler reported.
Shanghai’s government reimposed Chinese coronavirus lockdown orders on “hundreds” of the city’s districts Monday for at least the second time since April 5, citing a need to contain fresh localized outbreaks of the disease in the affected quarters, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
A police officer in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state was arrested on Wednesday for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl late last month at a police station while she was attempting to report a separate gang rape days earlier by four men, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Thursday.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency order on Friday night — his second such act since April 1 — after violent protests demanding Gotabaya’s ouster gained renewed momentum in Colombo earlier that same day, Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported.
Kenya’s fertility rate declined over the past decade, particularly in urban areas of the country, Kenya’s the Star newspaper reported on Friday citing newly released data from the Kenyan government.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday in which he appeared to warn members against questioning the Party’s draconian “zero tolerance” policy toward the Chinese coronavirus, which has seen Shanghai and Beijing endure punishing lockdowns in recent days, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Police in Turkmenistan’s capital city, Ashgabat, have allegedly raided public spaces and business offices in recent days to enforce a new unofficial ban on women wearing false eyelashes or nails, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.
Mozambique’s energy ministry recently said it will not comply with a United Nations (U.N.) campaign seeking to pressure countries worldwide to abandon their coal industries for supposedly “cleaner” energy options, the state-run Mozambique News Agency (AIM) reported on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka’s current economic crisis will likely endure for at least two more years, the nation’s finance minister, Ali Sabry, told the Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
A Canadian space law amendment allowing for the prosecution of crimes committed on the Moon passed Canada’s House of Commons at the end of April, Euronews reported on Thursday.
Methamphetamine has recently become the center of Afghanistan’s “fastest-growing” illicit drug industry, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported on Tuesday, citing an original report by the Washington Post.
The latest Ethiopian civil war has caused unexpected casualties since it started in November 2020, including the destruction or damage of several ancient Christian churches built into rock walls in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the Conversation, a non-profit media outlet, reported on Tuesday.
Candidates for the 2022 Philippine presidential election staged some of their final rallies this week ahead of the country’s next general election on May 9, which will see Filipinos not only elect a new president but also vote for thousands of national and regional government posts, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Police in India’s northwestern city of Jodhpur imposed curfews on ten districts and ordered a city-wide internet blockage on Tuesday in an effort to quell a riot between local Muslims and Hindus that erupted on Monday, the Hindustan Times reported.
Jan Agha Achakzai, the director of an institute overseeing driving schools in Herat, Afghanistan, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a report published on Tuesday the Taliban recently ordered his subordinates to stop issuing driving licenses to women.
Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of Beijing’s Chaoyang district publically named 45 local businesses on Monday that allegedly violated the city’s anti-Chinese coronavirus measures in recent days, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday.
Nigeria’s government recently purchased potash, a raw ingredient used to blend agricultural fertilizer, from Canada after its traditional supply of Russian potash was disrupted due to Western sanctions against Moscow in response to its latest war with Ukraine, Reuters reported Tuesday.
India’s Supreme Court has yet to receive data showing that individuals unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus pose a higher risk of transmission of the disease than people who are vaccinated against it, the top Indian court stated in a ruling on vaccine mandates issued on Monday, the Indian Express reported on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of people across Istanbul, Turkey, held demonstrations on Sunday in honor of the communist holiday “May Day,” with some of the gatherings devolving into riots and clashes with local police officers, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Africa’s first Chinese coronavirus vaccine plant, Aspen Pharmacare, is at risk of shutting down after failing to receive a single order for the plant’s Johnson & Johnson-made inoculation since opening in November 2021, Aspen Pharmacare senior director Stavros Nicolaou told Reuters in an interview published Monday.
Staff at a Shanghai nursing home transported one of the facility’s residents to a city-run morgue on Sunday while he was still alive in an incident partly captured on eyewitness video, China’s Caixin Global media group reported on Monday.
Beijing’s government on Sunday reopened a makeshift hospital — previously used to treat Chinese coronavirus patients in early 2020 — to quarantine at least 12 Chinese coronavirus patients as part of the city’s effort to contain its latest outbreak of the disease, the state-run Global Times reported.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday to meet Saudi leaders for bilateral talks, marking his first visit with the Kingdom’s rulers since 2017, the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Friday.
Liao Guoxun, the mayor of a major port city in northern China called Tianjin, died suddenly on Wednesday due to an undisclosed illness at the age of 59, China’s Caixin Global media outlet reported on Friday.
Liang Wannian, the head of a Chinese coronavirus “response expert panel” for China’s National Health Commission, “stood firm” on Friday regarding her panel’s belief that Shanghai should remain under a city-wide lockdown to contain a local outbreak of the disease, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.
Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday adopted a motion to designate some of Russia’s recent military actions against Ukraine as “genocide,” Canada’s Global News website reported.
Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online, Reuters reported.
China’s government indicated on Wednesday it plans to ease Shanghai’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown one day before suggesting it might impose a lockdown on Beijing, according to Chinese state media reports.
The incoming government of South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday it plans to compensate 5.51 million small business owners for losses suffered as a direct result of the previous administration’s punishing business hour curfews, imposed regularly for two years as part of Seoul’s anti-Chinese coronavirus regulations.
The parliament of the Central African Republic (CAR) passed a bill last week legalizing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as official forms of currency, CAR’s presidency announced Wednesday.
A U.S. citizen named Alexei Saab allegedly performed surveillance work at various U.S. landmarks for the foreign terrorist group Hezbollah from 2000 to 2005 and was “ready to attack Americans at popular locations if Iran was attacked by the US,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Adelsberg said in a federal court on Monday during the opening arguments of Saab’s terrorism trial, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Tuesday.
