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China announced Wednesday a nationwide loosening of Covid restrictions following protests against the hardline strategy that grew into calls for greater political freedoms.   Anger over China’s zero-Covid policy, which involved mass lockdowns, constant testing and quarantines even for people who are not infected, stoked unrest not seen since the …

Indonesia’s parliament has approved a new law that prohibits anyone in the country from having extramarital sex. According to the new law, which takes effect in three years, sex outside marriage will carry a jail term of up to a year. The new law also restricts political freedoms, a development …

An eight-month pregnant Mexican woman was found dead after suspected gunmen attacked and cut her open to steal her fetus, according to Daily Mail on Tuesday. The authorities said the woman was attacked by two assailants on Monday, but her unborn baby was retrieved alive. The report said the victim, …

Three people died and four others were wounded after a bomb exploded on a roadside in Thailand’s troubled deep south, police said Tuesday.   The seven state railway employees were on their way to fix a section of track in Songkhla Province, near the Malaysian border, which had been damaged …

Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that would outlaw sex outside marriage in a move critics said was a huge setback to rights in the world’s most populous Muslim country. After the new criminal code was endorsed by all nine parties in a sweeping overhaul of the legal code, deputy …

An EasyJet flight heading to the United Kingdom from Poland has been diverted to the Czech Republic after a report of a ‘possible bomb’ on board.   Flight EZY6276 from Krakow to Bristol was an hour into its two-and-a-half-hour flight when it landed at Prague’s Vaclav Havel Airport at 10:50pm …

An 83-year-old widow, Shirley Patrick has been rushed to a hospital due to multiple degrees of injuries sustained after being attacked by a dog in her home on Saturday. Mrs Patrick was attacked by a dog in her residence in Caerphilly, South Wales, just half a mile from the place …

Canadian-based media organisation, The Drum Online Media Incorporation, has unveiled activities to herald the maiden edition of The Drum Festival (Ayan-Agalu Festival) slated for Friday, July 28, 2023, at Fuzion Banquet Hall, Britannia Rd. E, Mississauga Ontario. Canada. In a statement by its convener, Mr Segun Akanni said the festival …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said it will remove obstacles to regional integration by investing time and resources on reducing tariff and non-tariff barriers in West Africa. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, said this while speaking at the opening of the 89th Ordinary Session …

Liberian President George Weah’s long absence from the country has raised eyebrows and prompted criticism, leading one opposition figure to ask if the West African nation is running on “autopilot.” Weah went abroad at the end of October for a string of political gatherings in numerous countries– and to watch …