For over a month, protesters in Belarus have demanded an end to the quarter century rule of longtime authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. That follows what demonstrators say was a rigged presidential election and police crackdown aimed at keeping Lukashenko in power
Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, addresses the event on “Progress and Multisectoral Action towards Achieving Global Targets to End TB”on 23 September 2020
Baimadajie Angwang, 33, was arrested in Williston Park, New York, on Sept. 21 and charged with acting as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and with wire fraud and making false statements, the Department press release said
Journalists and members of media wait outside the UN Headquarters during the first day of the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fifth session on 22 September 2020
Covid restrictions are forcing people to live in their own personal or familial bubble. Even as governments start to slowly loosen COVID restrictions, some customers are nervous about being in crowded areas. One restaurant in Turkey’s Istanbul city are making people more comfortable by taking the bubble idea literally
Sudan’s government recently declared an economic emergency after the Sudanese pound lost 40 percent of its value in one month and the annual inflation rate jumped to 167 percent
The statement came after the police wrote to four media associations warning them that press accreditation issued by the HKJA and the Hong Kong Press Photographers’ Association would no longer be recognized by the police when deciding who is to be allowed to cover an event.
Masked members of Belarus’s security forces were seen in the capital, Minsk, on September 20 detaining people during another day of anti-regime protests. Belarusians have been taking to the streets every day since the August 9 presidential election
Organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, and the Jack Ma Foundation have contributed aid worth more than $2 billion to aid Kenya’s fight against COVID-19. But much of the money and donated medical supplies have gone missing, prompting President Uhuru Kenyatta to order an investigation into who might have taken it all
With Myanmar headed to the polls Nov. 8 to elect national and state legislatures, campaigning has been hampered by increasingly tight restrictions aimed at fighting a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic