Thousands of students attend rallies across the country to demand more action on climate change. Source link
Month: May 2021
The troubled office-sharing startup’s business was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Source link
Israel and Hamas will enter a “mutual and simultaneous” Gaza truce at 2 a.m, a Hamas official said today. Gaza: Israel and Hamas will cease fire across the Gaza Strip border as of 2 a.m. on Friday (2300 GMT Thursday), an official with the Palestinian Islamist faction said, bringing a […]
President Biden signs a bipartisan law to “stop the hatred and the bias” against Asian Americans. Source link
Norway’s Eurovision entry has come to this years competition with more than music on the agenda. Source link
It’s the most vaccinated country in the world, but infections have risen in the island nation. Source link
The Asian giant – which already has a significant presence in many of India’s neighbours, including Sri Lanka – has been at the forefront of relief efforts here, donating vaccines, personal protective equipment (PPE), face masks and testing kits in efforts that are being called “face mask” diplomacy. Source link
The worst violence in years between Israel and the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip has seen dozens killed. It follows a month of spiralling tensions before open conflict broke out. Here is what happened in the lead-up to the fighting. 13 April Image caption Israeli police officers detain a […]
Dimple Arora was a 34 year-old-dentist with everything to live for when she died of Covid-19. Her husband Ravish told the BBC’s Orla Guerin that his wife’s death should be a warning to the UK. More than 250,000 people have died of Covid-19 in India so far, according to official […]
Last year a black man called George was killed by a police officer, not in Minneapolis but in Dublin in Ireland. George Nkencho was shot outside his family’s home. His family say he was in the midst of a mental health crisis. He had assaulted someone and police say he […]