March2021

Anti-coup demonstrators pushed on with protests Sunday as Myanmar neared its seventh week under military rule, as a group of MPs in hiding urge them to move with “invincibility” to overcome the nation’s “darkest moment”. The...

Sheffield United confirmed on Saturday that manager Chris Wilder has left the club by mutual consent after five years in charge. Wilder led the Blades to two promotions to reach the Premier League and a ninth-placed...

Chad President Idriss Deby Itno kicked off his campaign for a sixth term on Saturday, calling for unity after rival protests were banned and broken up. The first rally since the start of the official election...

US climate envoy John Kerry warned on Tuesday that Brussels and Washington must revive their joint efforts to fight climate change before the damage becomes irreversible. In Brussels for his first face-to-face talks with EU officials...

The Philippines today became the first recipient of financing support under the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX) with approval of a $400 million loan that will help the country purchase safe...

Akbar Hossain Pathan, a veteran actor and Member of Parliament, has fallen seriously ill again. He was taken to the ICU on an emergency basis. The actor’s niece, actress-host Asma Pathan Rumpa, confirmed the matter on...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson corona vaccine for emergency use. This approval was given on Friday. The WHO’s approval paved the way for Johnson & Johnson’s...

Without the effective involvement of the youth, the adverse effects of climate change cannot be tackled sustainably. There is no alternative to the involvement of the youth in the formulation and implementation of climate crisis mitigation...

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population. Minister for public security...

YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said. A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the World Health Organization (WHO) or health authorities such...