Sanctions against four Chinese officials have been imposed by the European Union over charges of the officials being involved in human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group in China.   This is the first occasion that Chinese officials have been sanctioned by the EU...

Following confidence building statements and measures announced by medicine regulators of the European Union and the United Kingdom about the benefits outweighing the risks of the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, a number of EU countries including Germany and France have announced their plans to...

According to an advocacy group of Myanmar, at least 22 pro-democracy protesters in the Hlaingthaya suburb of Yangon were killed by the ruling army of the country on Sunday while 16 more were shot dead by the military in other places according to the claims of the Assistance Association for...

The emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has been temporarily suspended by Denmark, the country said on Thursday.   This temporary suspension of the vaccine in the inoculation drive in the country was taken as a precaution “after...

Brazil has been severely hit by a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as its hospitals and ICUs reaching full capacity and are on the verge of a collapse even as record number of daily deaths form the pandemic are being reported.   Despite the country-wide spreading o the new coronavirus...

Tehran rejected the EU’s proposal to hold an informal meeting with the United States on a return to compliance with the terms of the nuclear deal. On Monday night, March 1, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Washington's lifting of sanctions was a prerequisite for starting...

Bloomberg called the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB) and current Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who gained a reputation as the saviour of the European economy for organising emergency relief programmes during debt crises, the new 'heavyweight' of the European Union. The agency...

Total global defence and arms spending in 2020 is more than $1.83 trillion, an increase of 3.9 per cent on the previous year. This data is contained in the report "Military Balance 2021", presented on 25 February by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). The...

Online platforms have shown consent in adopting “an industry-wide code of practice” which would reduce the “spread of misinformation online”. Canberra is inching towards turning a “bill into law” and it remains firm as not to “alter legislation” whereby making Google and Facebook pay “news outlets...