In addition to the China deals, Foreign Minister Marise Payne also scrapped agreements with Iran and Syria. They were a memorandum of understanding sealed between Victoria’s education department and Iran, signed in 2004, and a 1999 scientific cooperation agreement signed with Syria. Source link
Month: April 2021
Republican and Democrat senators criticise Apple and Google for alleged anti-competitive behaviour. Source link
Forty world leaders will be urged to increase their carbon-cutting actions at US virtual summit. Source link
But earlier this month, following the failed African Union-brokered talks between, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in Kinshasa, Mr Abbas told journalists that it would threaten national security if Ethiopia filled the dam without solving the outstanding issues. Source link
“Two Distant Strangers is about a young black man, Carter, who initially we wrote as a nerdy cartoonist,” Free says. “He’s spent the night with a girl he met. But he’s left his dog at home and in attempting to leave the apartment to get to the dog, he has […]
Thousands of people around Russia have joined unauthorised rallies to protest against the detention of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Demonstrators are calling for Navalny, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, to receive proper medical care. He was jailed in February and is demanding medical attention for acute […]
Tackling climate change is a big task and can feel impossible to do alone. But there are clear ways of cutting your contribution to carbon emissions, also known as your carbon footprint. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris explains how changing three aspects of how you live can make a difference. […]
India is being ravaged by a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is accelerating beyond anywhere else in the world. In the past 24 hours alone, more than 2,000 people have died and nearly 300,000 new cases have been reported in the country. Video by Yogita Limaye, Fred Scott […]
The explosion in Quetta, which killed at least four people, may have targeted China’s ambassador. Source link
Arrests are made as protesters demand the release of the opposition leader, who is on hunger strike. Source link