Access to villages in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat is restricted on Monday to control COVID-19. (Photo: Waedao Harai) More Covid-19 samples from patients in the southern provinces of Songkhla and Phatthalung are being collected to check for the highly contagious South African variant which […]
Day: May 25, 2021
New rule makes GrabCar legal
The Grab logo is displayed on a taxi near Democracy Monument in Bangkok. Bloomberg The government has approved a draft ministerial regulation that allows the use of personal cars for ride-hailing taxi service via apps, a boon for GrabCar drivers who have provided the service […]
Mexican state police director ambushed, shot dead
Gunmen ambushed and killed the director of state police in the cartel-plagued Mexican northern state of Sinaloa, local authorities said. State Public Safety Secretary Cristobal Castaneda said Joel Ernesto Soto was found dead in his bullet-riddled car on a highway on Monday morning, near the […]
‘Country has no future’: Iraqi protester killed at Baghdad rally
One demonstrator has been shot dead and dozens injured during violence at a rally in Baghdad where thousands gathered to demand accountability for the murder of prominent Iraqi activists and protesters. What kicked off on Tuesday morning as a hopeful wave of demonstrations in Tahrir […]
Armenia says soldier killed in border shoot-out with Azeri forces
Armenia has said one of its soldiers was killed in a border shoot-out with Azerbaijani forces, with tensions still high after last September’s war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenia’s Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that the shoot-out took place on its eastern border […]
George Floyd’s family urges Congress to pass police reform bill
The family of George Floyd met on the anniversary of his death with top legislators in the United States Congress and President Joe Biden to push for passage of police reform legislation stalled by policy disputes. Handcuffed and lying face down in the street, Floyd […]
UEFA opens disciplinary case against remaining Super League clubs
Europe’s football governing body UEFA has opened disciplinary cases against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus that could lead to bans from the Champions League. The three clubs now being prosecuted by UEFA are the remaining holdouts among 12 founders of the Super League project who […]
Will the Vienna talks salvage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal?
From: Inside Story A fifth round of dialogue to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is under way in Vienna. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/5/25/will-the-vienna-talks-salvage-the-2015-iran-nuclear-deal
George Floyd Square one year later: Grieving and hope
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US — On the kind of low humidity, sunny spring day that Minnesotans live for, George Floyd Square is swarming with local residents as well as visitors from across the nation. They are here not only to mourn Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis […]
Dutch court to rule on Shell’s climate change responsibility
A Dutch court verdict against Royal Dutch Shell Plc will determine whether it has a legal responsibility for climate change, in a case that will be watched by Big Oil executives globally. A panel of judges in a lower court in The Hague will rule […]