A Malaysian Court, on Monday, jailed a teenager for the death of 23 people in a fire that he started at a religious boarding school in 2017, national news agency, Bernama reported. According to the report, it is one of the worst such tragedies in two decades. The defendant was 16 at the time of […]

Thousands of members of a Protestant church linked to a coronavirus cluster in Seoul have been asked to quarantine, South Korean authorities said Monday, as they accused the group’s firebrand conservative leader who has reportedly tested positive of obstruction. The country’s “trace, test and treat” approach has been held up as a global model in […]

Footage of a German policeman pressing his knee on the head of a young man lying on the ground during an arrest has prompted an official investigation, local police announced on Sunday after the video sparked condemnation on social media. A video of the arrest, which took place in central Dusseldorf, was rapidly shared online […]

Zimbabwe’s government has accused the head of a Catholic bishops congress of stoking division and seeking to create a “genocide” after the group spoke out against alleged rights abuses and economic woes. On Friday, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC) issued an unusually strong letter deploring the thwarting of anti-government protests on July 31. The […]

Japan’s economy shrank a record 7.8 per cent in the April-June quarter, the worst contraction in the nation’s modern history, data showed Monday, as the coronavirus deepens the country’s economic woes. The contraction from the previous quarter was slightly worse than expectations but is still significantly less severe than declines seen in many other industrial […]