Dhaka wants good relations with both Beijing and Washington but striking a balance between the two superpowers is a challenge, Bangladesh’s foreign minister said Tuesday after meeting new Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
North Koreans are no longer allowed to bring their cellphones into propaganda lectures, which are a regular, mandatory part of life there, sources in the country say.
The meeting on Peace Consolidation in West Africa is presided over by Kimihiro Ishikane, Japan’s Permanent Representative to the UN and the Security Council’s president for the month of January
Brazilian national security forces have intervened to restore order after an estimated 4,000 supporters of the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, who reject results of the elections in October, took over and vandalised the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the President’s Palace in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.
South African tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu says acts of racism are a blight on the South African tourism sector.
Retired from U.S. Army’s Green Beret special forces unit, Ryan Hendrickson is now retired. However, he is currently in Ukraine, working to remove mines and protect civilians.
A top Bangladeshi opposition leader vowed “no retreat” in efforts to defeat the ruling Awami League upon being freed on bail Monday following a month in jail.
As outbreaks of COVID-19 cases across China overwhelm hospitals, the official daily death count has remained in the single digits. Chinese officials have repeatedly claimed that China is adopting one of “two main global standards for determining COVID deaths.”
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (right) meets with Leon Kacou Adom, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of African Integration and Diaspora of Côte d’Ivoire
Amnesty International calls for the relevant authorities to conduct prompt, impartial and effective investigations so that the acts of this Sunday, 8 January, are appropriately investigated and sanctioned.