The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on May 5, that COVID-19 no longer represented a global health emergency. “Yesterday, the Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “I’veContinue Reading
MOSCOW: A move by Japan to provide Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine will have “grave consequences” for Russia-Japan ties, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday (Dec 27). Relations between Moscow and Tokyo, already difficult, have deteriorated sharply since Russia sent tens of thousands of troops intoContinue Reading
Yu Ying parents generally did not harbour specific career aspirations for their young children. They instead seized on the cognitive benefits of learning a challenging language early in life. Some would have been happy with any difficult language, while others described learning Mandarin as affording an extra dimension of value.Continue Reading
TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry rejected on Monday (Dec 25) as “worthless” Washington’s claims that a drone attack targeting a tanker off the coast of India was “fired from Iran”. Saturday’s targeting of a Japanese-owned chemical tanker came amid a flurry of drone and missile attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebelsContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: Denmark’s Maersk is preparing to resume shipping operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the company said on Sunday (Dec 24), citing the deployment of a US-led military operation designed to ensure the safety of commerce in the area. The shipping giant paused sending vessels throughContinue Reading
DAHEIJA: As evening brought freezing temperatures to northwestern China’s Gansu province, shellshocked residents huddled around small fires in the street, reeling after the country’s deadliest earthquake in years deprived them of shelter. The quake, which struck in the dead of Monday night (Dec 18), has killed at least 127 peopleContinue Reading
A spokesperson for the North’s defence ministry on Sunday slammed the allies’ plans to expand a key annual joint military drill next year to include a nuclear operation drill and warned of “a preemptive and deadly counteraction”. “This is an open declaration on nuclear confrontation to make the use ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The United States on Saturday (Dec 16) reiterated its warning to North Korea that any nuclear attack on the US would result “in the end of the Kim regime.” A joint statement by the US-South Korean Nuclear Consultative Group also reaffirmed that any nuclear attack by Pyongyang on South Korea “will be met withContinue Reading
“CONFRONTATION” Due to their disparate social systems, Xi asserted that China and Europe should not see one another as rivals or “engage in clash.” According to Xi, China is ready to collaborate on science and technology, including artificial intelligence, as well as produce the 27-nation EU a significant economic andContinue Reading
The union expresses its hope that the sessions will give people a chance to talk about shared interests. President Xi instructed his European guests to” simultaneously respond to global problems” in his open notes. More sensitive issues will be covered in the talks on Thursday, such as animal rights andContinue Reading