On Monday, January 24 at 19:30 GMT:There are an estimated 250,000 domestic workers in Lebanon, and about 99 percent of them are immigrants on work permits. The majority are women from Ethiopia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, who earn $150 to $400 per month. […]
Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has announced his resignation, citing the inability of his office to influence policy during times of national crisis. Sarkissian, president since 2018, was at the centre of a domestic political crisis last year that erupted in the wake of a war […]
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has rebuffed calls to immediately impose economic sanctions on Russia, saying that doing so would undercut the West’s ability to deter potential Russian aggression against Ukraine. Russia’s massing of troops near its border with Ukraine has sparked Western […]
Burkina Faso’s government has dismissed reports of a coup following mutinies at several army barracks. Frustration in the West African country has grown in recent months over deteriorating security. Burkina Faso has suffered outbreaks of unrest and armed violence since 2014, when longtime President Blaise Compaore […]
Police have fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters near the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels after a protest involving some 50,000 people opposing COVID-19 restrictions turned violent. Although Belgium announced a slight easing of coronavirus restrictions on Friday, despite record infections, the […]
Taiwan has reported the largest incursion since October by China’s air force into its air defence zone, with the island’s defence ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 39 aircraft in the latest uptick in tensions. Taiwan has complained for more than a year […]
Bitcoin, the mother of all cryptocurrencies, has lost almost half of its value in just a few hours. It reached an all-time high of more than $65,000 last year. But on Friday it dropped below $35,000 for the first time in months. And it is […]
Dozens of demonstrators from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic group have protested in Istanbul, calling for a boycott of next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s treatment of the minority. The protesters gathered outside the city’s Turkish Olympic Committee building on Sunday, waving the blue-and-white […]
Thailand’s prime minister will visit Saudi Arabia next week in what will be the first high-level meeting between the two countries since a diplomatic row over a jewellery theft nearly 30 years ago. Saudi Arabia downgraded its diplomatic relations with Bangkok following the theft in […]
Armed men have arrested prominent Sudanese women’s rights campaigner Amira Osman in a night-time raid on her home in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, her sister said. Osman’s arrest comes amid, what activists say, a campaign of arrests of civil society and pro-democracy figures since a military […]
