Killing of Jamal Khashoggi Activists, journalists and politicians are among those believed to have been targeted by spyware developed by a private Israel-based firm, according to a new investigation. They are on a list of 50,000 phone numbers of people believed to be targeted by clients of the company, NSO Group, since 2016, that was […]
Trudeau says Canada should also be in a position to welcome fully vaccinated travelers from all countries by early September. Rob Gillies TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday Canada could start allowing fully vaccinated Americans into Canada as of mid-August for non-essential travel and should be in a position to […]
One of India’s greatest athletes, Milkha Singh, has died from Covid-related complications, aged 91. Popularly known as “the Flying Sikh”, Singh won four Asian gold medals and finished fourth in the 400m final at the 1960 Rome Olympics. In 2013, his story was turned into the Bollywood film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – Run Milkha Run. […]
G7 summits G7 leaders seeking to rival China have adopted a plan to support lower- and middle-income countries in building better infrastructure. President Joe Biden said he wanted the US-backed Build Back Better World (B3W) plan to be a higher-quality alternative to a similar Chinese programme. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has helped finance […]
By Reality Check team BBC News Reality Check The US and UK have pledged to donate at least 600 million doses of vaccine, as many poorer countries struggle to get their populations vaccinated against coronavirus. President Joe Biden, in the UK for a G7 summit, said the US donation would be “the largest single…donation of […]
More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say. The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, saw devices with the ANOM app secretly distributed among criminals, allowing police to monitor their chats about drug smuggling, money laundering and even murder plots. […]
The G7 group of advanced economies has reached a “historic” deal to make multinational companies pay more tax. Finance ministers meeting in London agreed to battle tax avoidance by making companies pay more in the countries where they do business. They also agreed in principle to a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% to […]
Coronavirus pandemic The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said. The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a “toxic cocktail”. The WHO should have declared a global emergency earlier than it did, its report said, adding that without urgent […]
By Aparna Alluri BBC News, Delhi Coronavirus pandemic “Modi leads India out of a lockdown and into a Covid apocalypse,” declared a recent headline in the UK Sunday Times. The Australian newspaper re-published the story with a scathing summary: “Arrogance, hyper-nationalism and bureaucratic incompetence have combined to create a crisis of epic proportions, critics say, […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Kumbh Mela When millions of devout Hindus gathered last month in the Himalayan town of Haridwar to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival even as India battled a devastating second wave of coronavirus, many feared that it would turn out to be a “super-spreader event”. Those fears, it now […]
