Issued on: 14/04/2021 – 08:34Modified: 14/04/2021 – 08:32 Advertising Read more Tokyo (AFP) The Japanese owner of a megaship seized after blocking the Suez Canal has said it is negotiating with Egyptian authorities after they demanded $ 900 million in compensation for its release. The 200,000-tonne MV Ever Given got diagonally stuck in the narrow […]
Issued on: 14/04/2021 – 04:08Modified: 14/04/2021 – 04:06 Advertising Read more Wellington (AFP) New Zealand will force banks to reveal the impact their investments have on climate change under world-first legislation intended to make the financial sector’s environmental record transparent, officials said. Commerce Minister David Clark said the law would make climate reporting mandatory for […]
Advertisement Last week, the European Union announced that Uzbekistan had been accepted as the ninth beneficiary of the Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance, GSP+, intended to support “vulnerable developing countries” that have ratified a bevy of international conventions on human rights. The core benefit of GSP+ is the full removal of […]
Issued on: 13/04/2021 – 23:13 Paris Saint-Germain knocked holders Bayern Munich out of the Champions League on Tuesday despite Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scoring against his old club as a 1-0 defeat in the second leg at the Parc des Princes could not prevent the French giants from winning a tremendous quarter-final tie on away goals. […]
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Kenzhebek Abishev, who was jailed for being linked to a political movement founded by a fugitive tycoon, has launched a hunger strike after his early release on parole was cancelled at the last moment. Kazakhstan’s International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law said on April 12 that Abishev started the […]
Issued on: 13/04/2021 – 17:50Modified: 13/04/2021 – 17:49 Advertising Read more Paris (AFP) UN climate talks must go ahead in June even if negotiations are held virtually, Britain’s president of the COP26 summit said Tuesday, despite “valid concerns” over the lack of in-person dialogue. In an open letter to countries party to the UN Framework […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging Kyiv to repatriate dozens of Ukrainian women and children it says are being held in “horrific” conditions in Syrian camps. An estimated 40 Ukrainian women and children are “unlawfully” detained in two camps in northeastern Syria, the New York-based human rights watchdog said in a statement on April 13. […]
Europe passed the grim milestone of one million coronavirus deaths on Monday, as the World Health Organization warned that infections are rising exponentially despite widespread efforts aimed at stopping them. The death toll across Europe’s 52 countries, compiled by AFP from official sources, totaled at least 1,000,288 by 6:30 p.m. “We are in a critical […]
Issued on: 13/04/2021 – 13:37Modified: 13/04/2021 – 13:50 In a promotional video for a major golf tournament, the mayor of Rome wanted to present one of the city’s most famous landmarks – the Colosseum – but instead featured the Roman arena in the French city of Nîmes. The “monumental” error sparked both laughter and outrage in Rome, where citizens […]
TBILISI – A court in Tbilisi has ordered the continued detention of the leader of the main opposition party, Nika Melia, whose case has roiled Georgia’s political scene. Judge Nino Chakhnashvili handed down her decision on April 13 while hundreds of Melia’s supporters rallied outside the court building demanding release of the leader of the […]