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Asia
Governments must act on China’s forced organ harvesting
The China Tribunal’s judgement, delivered by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, who was joined by China Tribunal Panel Member, Professor Martin Elliott, and Counsel to the China Tribunal, Hamid Sabi, exposed…
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Australasia
Most Australians expect politicians to lie, but we also think…
Most Australians are of the view that their political representatives are dishonest, unaccountable and corrupt, according to the results from the representative, externally recruited survey panel. Casey Briggs ABC Eighty-nine per…
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Discrimination
Racial Gaps Persist As COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 600,000
Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts. CARLA…
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Analysis
Does NATO Have an Arms-Control Brain?
As the alliance’s leaders gather this week, they must recognize that reviving the arms-control agenda is the key to members’ collective defense. Adam Thomson Project Syndicate LONDON – Under Donald…
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Asia
Another shipping crisis looms on Covid fears in southern China
Then came a massive blockage in the Suez Canal. Weizhen Tan @WEIZENT CNBC Now, businesses and consumers are bracing for yet another shipping crisis, as a virus outbreak in southern…
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Aggression
First on CNN: FBI warns lawmakers that QAnon ‘digital soldiers’…
The shift is fueled by a belief among some of the conspiracy’s more militant followers that they “can no longer ‘trust the plan” set forth by its mysterious standard-bearer, known…
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Economy
G7 leaders to agree to new climate and conservation targets…
G7 leaders on Sunday will back new conservation and emission targets to curb climate change, and finalise collective action on several other fronts, as they wrap up a three-day summit…
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Africa
More than 30,000 children at risk of death in Ethiopia’s…
Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia’s conflict-wracked Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations said Friday. SBS News “Without humanitarian access…
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Economy
G7 leaders look to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative…
The G7, whose leaders are meeting in south-west England, has been searching for a coherent response to the growing assertiveness of Mr Xi after China’s surging economic and military rise over…
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Diplomacy
After Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, uneasy calm prevails at new border
What is the situation on the ground? Do people feel safe? A DW report from the frontier. Ashot Gazazyan Deutsche Welle It’s 170 kilometers (106 miles) from the Armenian capital,…
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Arts & Culture
Know My Name exhibition returns for part two at the…
A large sculpture made out of foil balloons filled with helium was suspended across those lining up to see the sold-out exhibition, Botticelli to Van Gogh: Amy Martin The Canberra…
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Australasia
Squeezing one last drop from Big Oil: The great climate…
Next it was at their investor meetings, from activists taking over question time or lobbying for larger emissions cuts. Nick Toscano and Charlotte Grieve The Sydney Morning Herald These, too,…