NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (BBC): The transfer of a judge critical of the violence in Delhi has raised concerns in India, as politicians come under fire for perceived inaction.Justice S Muralidhar, who was hearing a petition into the religious riots, had sharply condemned both the government and police on Wednesday.Orders...
Read morePATHUM THANI, Feb 27 (AP): Thailand's normally docile students have been holding rallies around the country to express their discontent with the established political order. The rare mass activism was triggered by a court ruling dissolving a popular opposition political party whose democracy-promoting policies had attracted substantial support among younger...
Read moreMEXICO CITY, Feb 27 (New York Times): No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street.A country without women, for one day.That's the vision of an alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that - fuelled by...
Read moreKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (AP): Malaysian interim leader Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday that Parliament will pick a new prime minister next week following the collapse of the ruling alliance, and that snap elections will be called if the vote ends in an impasse. Mahathir, who met the king earlier Thursday,...
Read moreTUNIS, Feb 27 (AFP): Tunisia's new government won a confidencevote in parliament on Thursday, after more than four months of politicalwrangling since elections.Former finance minister Elyes Fakhfakh was named prime minister-designate by Tunisia's president Kais Saied at the end of January and tasked with forming a government within a month.A...
Read moreLOS ANGELES, Feb 27 (AFP): Tech giants including Google are free to censor content as they wish, a US court ruled Wednesday, in a landmark freedom-of-speech case concerning private internet platforms.The decision by San Francisco's Ninth Circuit appeals court rejected a conservative news outlet's claims that YouTube had breached the...
Read moreWASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Xinhua): U.S. State Department announced Wednesday that it has designated Ahmad al-Hamidawi, the head of an Iraqi militia, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The department said in a statement that al-Hamidawi is the Secretary General of Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH), which Washington claimed is "an Iran-backed...
Read moreIraq suspends schools for 10 days over virusBAGHDAD, Feb 27: The Iraqi health minister announced on Wednesday the suspension of all schools and universities until March 7 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Jaafar Sadiq Allawi said in a statement that he has ordered the suspension of schools...
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