Deadly blast at Pakistan hotel hosting China ambassador Ambulances arrive at the scene of a blast in Quetta after a bomb exploded at a top hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least four people and leaving a dozen others wounded.
Biden says all American adults eligible for vaccine as US passes 200m jabs US President Joe Biden announces that the US has hit 200 million vaccine shots in his first 92 days in office and that all Americans aged 16 and above will be eligible for a vaccine as of Monday.
Sprawling bike graveyard from China’s failed share-cycle scheme Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China’s cities. Low cost-shared bikes, which users can unlock using apps and park virtually anywhere, burst onto Chinese …
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Joe Biden says George Floyd trial verdict is ‘much too rare’ US President Joe Biden says the guilty verdict in the racially charged murder by a policeman of a Black man is “much too rare”. “I can’t breathe. Those were George Floyd’s last words. We can’t let those words die with him,” the US president …
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Indigenous groups protest bill that would allow mining on their land in Brazil Indigenous communities protest in the capital Brasilia a bill proposed by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s government that would allow commercial mining on their land. “We know that once mining is allowed, it brings not only mining, it brings illegal mining, prostitution, all …
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‘We might actually breathe a little bit better’: George Floyd’s brother after Chauvin verdict George Floyd’s brother, Rodney, expresses his relief after Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, was convicted of murdering the African-American after a racially charged trial seen as a pivotal test of police accountability in the United States.
Hong Kong divers fight overfishing with underwater ecology survey Hong Kong’s reef fish population is under pressure from waste and overfishing. Now researchers and volunteer divers are joining forces in project ‘114°E’ to draw up a ‘fish census’ and push the government to protect the sea.
Prosecutor, defense attorney make closing arguments in George Floyd murder trial Prosecutors and Derek Chauvin’s lawyer make their closing arguments before jurors begin mulling the fate of the white ex-Minneapolis policeman accused of killing African-American George Floyd.
