By Christian Lowe, Tuvan Gumrukcu PARIS/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad, which some Muslims consider blasphemous. In Bangladesh on Monday, protesters unfurled placards with a […]
By Sanjeev Miglani, Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will sign a military agreement with the United States for sharing of sensitive satellite data, the defence ministry said on Monday, as the two sides began a top-level security dialogue aimed at countering China’s growing power in the region. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and […]
Campaigners have hailed a “new chapter” after a key step by the United Nations towards banning nuclear arms. Honduras has become the 50th country to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons so it will now come into force in 90 days time. But what it will actually achieve remains in doubt because […]
Asia becomes second region to exceed 10 million coronavirus cases By Anurag Maan (Reuters) – Asia surpassed 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according to a Reuters tally, as cases continue to mount in India despite a slowdown and sharp declines elsewhere. Behind only Latin America, […]
Twitter users ridiculed Greg Jarrett’s apparent insinuation that the Democratic nominee was somehow to blame for his internet problems. By Lee Moran, HuffPost US Twitter users went to town on Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Friday after he appeared to suggest there was some nefarious link between his imminent filing of a column criticizing Democratic nominee Joe […]
By Grigor Atanesian & Benjamin Strick BBC News Nagorno-Karabakh conflict IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPAimage captionSeveral thousand people are thought to have died since the Karabakh war reignited in late September Videos of a potential war crime have emerged as fighting rages around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians. One video posted on a […]
Coronavirus pandemic French President Emmanuel Macron says his country will be fighting the virus until at least the middle of next year as cases there surged past a million. On Friday France recorded more than 40,000 new cases and 298 deaths. Other nations including Russia, Poland, Italy and Switzerland also saw new highs. The World […]
US election 2020 US President Donald Trump has seized on a TV debate remark by his White House rival Joe Biden about shutting down the oil industry, as the Democrat scrambled to clear up the confusion. Biden aides on Friday said he had been talking about ending fossil fuel subsidies, not the industry itself, when […]
Brexit Britain and Japan have formally signed a trade agreement, marking the UK’s first big post-Brexit deal. The deal, unveiled last month, means nearly all its exports to Japan will be tariff free while removing British tariffs on Japanese cars by 2026. UK International Trade Secretary Liz Truss called it a “ground-breaking, British-shaped deal”. But […]
Hong Kong anti-government protests China has told Britain to “immediately correct its mistakes” after the UK reaffirmed its plan to offer a route to British citizenship to almost three million people living there. The offer was made in July when Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the former British colony. Critics say it […]
