BOGOTA (Reuters) – Some 1,600 former FARC guerrillas will have been murdered by the end of 2024 if current levels of targeted killings continue, Colombia’s transitional justice tribunal said on Wednesday. The government signed a peace deal with the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016, ending the group’s part in almost six
ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland might allow events with up to 3,000 spectators from July, the government said on Wednesday, although such events would be restricted to attendees who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, can prove they’ve recovered from the illness or test negative. The government said this was not a re-opening plan, but rather a roadmap
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is working on using the existing National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus app to show that people have received their COVID-19 vaccine for international travel, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Wednesday “It will be the NHS app that is used for people when they book appointments with the NHS … to
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former minister in the government of Barbados was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for laundering bribes he received from a Barbadian insurance company through a U.S. bank, the U.S. Justice Department said. Donville Inniss, 55, who had served as minister of industry in the Caribbean nation and as
BELFAST (Reuters) -A majority of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) lawmakers have signed a letter seeking a confidence vote in party leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster, local media reported on Tuesday. A clear majority of DUP representatives at the regional Belfast assembly and at least half of its members of parliament in London
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has vaccinated 12.1 million people against COVID-19, of whom 7.7 million have had both doses, deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Tuesday. The figure is up from around 8 million, cited by Golikova earlier this month. Golikova also told state television there was a risk of a seasonal rise in
KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has arrived at Bukit Aman to have his statement taken. He was seen entering the main gate of the national police headquarters in a black car at around 9.50am on Tuesday (April 27) morning Over a dozen reporters were also seen on standby across the road from
RAMBOUILLET, France (Reuters) – Hundreds of people including Muslim imams paid tribute on Monday to a female French police official stabbed to death last week by a French resident of Tunisian origin who shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”. The police administrative worker, a mother of two, was stabbed in the throat on Friday
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Dominic Raab on Monday criticised a one-year jail sentence given in Iran to British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. “This is a totally inhumane and wholly unjustified decision,” Raab said in a statement. “We continue to call on Iran to release Nazanin immediately so she can return to her family
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The government of Western Australia state said it will lift a three-day COVID-19 lockdown in Perth and neighbouring Peel region as planned from midnight on Monday after no new cases were found in the past two days. Perth and the Peel region were placed into a hard lockdown from Saturday after an
CARACAS (Reuters) – At least two Venezuelans died when a vessel they were taking from eastern Delta Amacuro state to neighboring Trinidad and Tobago sank, the state’s governor said, adding that seven people had been rescued in the incident. It marked the latest fatal shipwreck of Venezuelans attempting to reach the dual-island Caribbean nation, home
KABUL (Reuters) – The commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Scott Miller, on Sunday said an orderly withdrawal of foreign forces and the handing over of military bases and equipment to the Afghan forces had begun. Miller said he was acting on orders based on U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to end
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A crowd of 78,113 packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for an Australian rules match between Collingwood and Essendon on Sunday, the highest attendance at a sports stadium anywhere in the world since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorities in Australia’s southern state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): SMK Convent Bukit Nanas (SMK CBN), having obtained a further 60-year extension of its land lease, should be recognised as a national heritage site. National Parents-Teacher Associations Consultative Council (PIBGN) president Associate Professor Datuk Dr Mohamad Ali Hasan said it was important for the historic school to be gazetted a national heritage
(Reuters) – India’s Bharat Biotech said on Saturday that it will supply Covaxin directly to state governments at 600 rupees per dose, while it will supply the vaccine directly to private hospitals at 1,200 rupees per dose. In a tweet, the company said it will develop, manufacture and supply Covaxin to India’s central government at
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian president Joko Widodo called for the creation of an ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar to engage with all parties in the crisis-torn country during a gathering of Southeast Asian leaders in Jakarta on Saturday. The president, who is commonly known as Jokowi, said the leaders had reached a consensus on Myanmar
PETALING JAYA: Nigerian Simon Momoh was released from the Semenyih Immigration Centre on Friday (April 23) night, reuniting with his family after 39 days. His lawyer Vemal Arasan said that Momoh was released at 9pm. “He was extremely happy to be released but was exhausted. He was so excited to see his daughter, ” he
(Reuters) – Britain’s special envoy for the Gulf Edward Lister is leaving his role and departing the government after facing increasing scrutiny from the press over his work in the private sector, the Telegraph reported on Friday. Lister was appointed as the special envoy for the Gulf in February and was also appointed as chief
(Reuters) – Pregnant women infected with COVID-19 and their newborn children face higher risks of complications than was previously known, a study by British scientists showed on Friday. An infection of the new coronavirus in such newborns is associated with a three-fold risk of severe medical complications, according to a study conducted by scientists at
KOTA KINABALU: The first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) has been detected in an interior district in Sabah since the January outbreak that affected mainly the northern and eastern parts of the state. The State Veterinary Services Department (DVS) has reported at least one case of ASF in the interior Nabawan, bringing the number
BOGOTA (Reuters) – At least 31 indigenous people were wounded in southeast Colombia on Thursday after an illegal armed group opened fire on them while they destroyed crops of coca, the chief ingredient in cocaine, an organization representing the community said. The attack took place in the rural municipality of Caldono, in Colombia’s Cauca province.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday for talks in which opponents fear he could trade off chunks of national sovereignty in return for Russian support. Lukashenko said at the weekend an alleged coup plot against him had been thwarted and stoked speculation about the significance
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister on Thursday defended a military takeover in Chad despite objections from the opposition there, saying it was necessary for security amid “exceptional circumstances”. The son of Chad’s slain leader Idriss Deby took over as president and armed forces commander on Wednesday and dissolved the government and parliament as rebel
KLANG: DAP veteran Datuk Teng Chang Khim has taken a jibe at his party colleague Liew Chin Tong over his statements in regards to Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in a book Liew recently penned. Liew, the former deputy defence minister, had said in his biography of DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang that the
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – China’s ambassador was staying at a hotel in southwest Pakistan that was bombed on Wednesday, but was not present when it was hit, Pakistan Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said. The car bombing killed four people and wounded another 11. “This was a big blast and the Chinese ambassador was also
PETALING JAYA: Schools with as few as one confirmed Covid-19 case will now be ordered to close for at least two days, says Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon. The Deputy Education Minister said the affected students, following school closure, will switch to online learning until physical classes resume, reported Sin Chew Daily. This decision, which
(Reuters) – Myanmar anti-coup activists launched protests on Wednesday calling for the release of prisoners detained by the junta, as the military government declared a National Unity Government formed by its opponents was illegal. The Southeast Asian country has been in crisis since the military seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government on
BELFAST (Reuters) – A Northern Ireland referendum on leaving the United Kingdom would fail today, a poll indicated on Tuesday, but most of those questioned said they believed the region would leave within the next 25 years. A 1998 peace deal largely ended three decades of violence between Catholic Irish nationalists seeking to merge with
(Reuters) – In 30 years as Chad’s president, Idriss Deby emerged as one of Africa’s wiliest political survivors, holding on to power through rebellions that reached as far as his palace gates and establishing himself as a key military ally of Western powers. But it was in an apparent moment of triumph, just hours after
NIBONG TEBAL: SMK Methodist here will be closed from Tuesday (April 20) until Friday (April 23) due to Covid-19 cases being reported there. The school will re-open again on Monday (April 26). School principal Dr Sivasanggar Subramaniam said the directive was from the Education Ministry. He urged parents to give their full cooperation to the
