Chinese city seeing half a million Covid cases a day – local health chief
The figures reported by Qingdao’s municipal health chief were in stark contrast to official statistics from the central government Half a million people a day...
Month : December 2022
Thai police raid former Tesco clothing supplier at centre of sweatshop claims
VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workers Thai police have raided a clothing factory...
Killing of artist brothers shatters Mexico City’s veneer of safety
Grisly discovery rocks capital, an oasis of tentative calm in a country that saw more than 35,000 murders last year The two brothers’ bodies were...
Peru lawmakers propose bill to strip Indigenous people of protections
Proposal to dismantle existing reserves for ‘uncontacted’ Indigenous groups quietly pushed amid ongoing political chaos Amid the political chaos following the ousting of Peru’s President...
Revealed: Libya aborted plan to hand Gaddafi spy chief to US at last minute
Extradition of Abdullah al-Senussi over Lockerbie bombing would have closely followed that of Mohammed Abouagela Masud The extradition to the US of Muammar Gaddafi’s most...
Haiti receives its first batch of cholera vaccines to tackle deadly outbreak
Campaign to stem the spread of the disease takes place against a backdrop of political chaos, gang violence and fuel shortages Haiti has received its...
Brazil’s public services face ‘very real threat of collapse’, says Lula
President-elect says transition team have found ‘simplest things not being done’ as result of Bolsonaro mismanagement Public services in Brazil face a “very real threat...
Ethics row rages after South Sudan leader wets himself on live TV
Critics say President Salva Kiir is unfit to lead long-suffering nation while others decry mocking of ‘an elder’ Footage of the South Sudanese president Salva...
Sam Bankman-Fried headed to US after extradition from Bahamas
FTX founder faces eight criminal charges, including for fraud, conspiracy and money-laundering Sam Bankman-Fried, the jailed founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been...
Mexico media say president’s attacks on journalists are ‘invitation to violence’
Open letter calls on Andrés Manuel López Obrador to rein in rhetoric or risk ‘even bloodier era’ of deadly violence against press Mexico could be...
