China’s internet regulator has ordered the operators of a major ride-hailing app, Didi Chuxing, to delist from the New York Stock Exchange, in an ongoing government crackdown on the country’s technology sector, international media reports said on Friday
Portugal’s Golden Visa program allows foreign investors to gain Portuguese citizenship and, as a result, have wider access to the European Union. It has traditionally appealed to mainland Chinese, but more people from Hong Kong and other parts of the world are also joining
Their goal was to find a treatment for cancer, but they are most known for developing the first coronavirus vaccine. Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, the founders of the German company BioNTech, are now refocusing their efforts on cancer
Prince Edward Island is Canada’s smallest province, made famous through the Anne of Green Gables novels. It has attracted immigrants from all around the world in recent years
Women seem to be at particular risk in intimate relationships. They may be self-reliant and confident in the public sphere or in the workplace, and have no problem collaborating or competing with men
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, approximately 80 people have been killed this year in a detention camp in northeastern Syria where Islamic State members’ wives and children are being held. IS wives, according to camp officials, control the al-Hol camp with violence, attempting to keep the group functioning years after its defeat
Despite global efforts to control deforestation and reduce air pollution, the Brazilian government claims that at least one-fourth of the country’s 214 million people have returned to cooking with firewood. This is occurring not only in Brazil’s vast forests and rural areas, but also in the country’s largest cities
In Zimbabwe, a former boxing champion is teaching the next generation, with the intention of keeping underprivileged youth away from drugs and crime
Chinese authorities have destroyed a dome in a park that a Uyghur living in Turkey had built in his former hometown in Xinjiang to give locals an open-air place to quietly contemplate the Qur’an
The Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya is chaired by Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramirez, Mexico’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the President of the Security Council for November