Category: World

(CNN)The Covid-19 pandemic has set gender equality back years, with women around the world taking on the “lion’s share” of extra domestic chores, the United Nations reported on Thursday.It comes one day after the international body warned that the pandemic is driving further violence against refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls.Thursday’s “Whose Time to…

Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Ethiopia has entered the “final phase” of a “law enforcement” military operation in the northern restive region of Tigray after a 72-hour deadline to surrender expired, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted in a statement on Thursday. “The last peaceful gate which had remained open for the TPLF clique to walk through have now…

(CNN)2020 has been far from festive, but as the year comes to an end, many of Europe’s governments are scrambling to avoid stringent lockdowns over the Christmas holidays. The push to save the celebration comes despite the fact that other religious festivals — including Christian ones — have been marked in a muted fashion in…

(CNN)The South Korean leader of an online sexual blackmail ring that targeted minors and young women was sentenced to 40 years in jail on Thursday, marking the end of an explosive criminal case that sparked outrage across the country.Cho Joo-bin, 25, hosted online rooms on encrypted messaging app Telegram, where users paid to see young…

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Singapore (CNN) — “Ok, now we’re about to walk past a corner selling sex drugs, see if you can spot the different pills.” It’s not what you’d expect to hear from a Singaporean tour guide, but then Cai Yinzhou is not your typical guide, and this is not a neighborhood in Singapore many visitors have…

(CNN)Winter is coming, for parts of Asia too. Across the region, many countries and cities that had previously kept the coronavirus largely under control are seeing a rise in infections.Last week, Japan’s daily caseload surged to its highest since the pandemic began, surpassing 2,000 for five days in a row.In South Korea, daily infections also…

The French National Assembly have voted on a “global security bill” that human rights advocates say will make it harder to hold police to account. The most controversial article forbids the publication of images “that allow the identification of a law enforcement officer, with the intent to cause them harm.” The law will not take…

(CNN)Nearly 100 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation said Wednesday.Some 97 whales and three dolphins died in the stranding, which conservation department staff were alerted to around midday local time on Sunday. A power outage and the remote location of New Zealand’s most eastern…

Hong Kong (CNN)Foreign religious groups and worshipers could be the latest targets of a growing crackdown on organized religion in China under President Xi Jinping. Draft rules published this week by the Ministry of Justice call for new restrictions on how foreign worshipers operate in order to prevent the spreading of “religious extremism,” or use…