South African eateries on Wednesday organised the biggest protest in the history of the country’s restaurant industry to highlight their severe losses due to strict Covid-19 measures. Almost 400,000 restaurant jobs may be lost due to government’s austere lockdown regulations, according to the Restaurant Association of South Africa (RASA), which is leading the campaign. Under […]

Britain remains committed to agreeing on the outlines of a balanced trade agreement with the European Union but significant differences between the two sides remain, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. Talks on a so-called future relationship, which are now in their fifth round, have all but stalled, raising fears among […]

Philippine authorities on Wednesday warned that more people would be arrested for failing to wear masks in public and could face up to 30 days in prison. The warning is coming as the government steps up enforcement of anti-coronavirus restrictions. The Interior Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya, warned that government would start arresting more people now. “Lets […]

Israeli police arrested two prominent Palestinian cultural leaders on Wednesday at their home in east Jerusalem on a suspicion of “funding terrorism”, police and a defence lawyer said. Rania Elias, who heads the Yabous Cultural Centre and her husband Suhail Khoury, Director General of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, were detained at their […]

A huge fleet of Chinese fishing boats has been operating illegally in North Korean waters catching hundreds of millions of dollars worth of squid, a study showed Wednesday. The competition from hundreds of larger, better-equipped Chinese vessels was forcing North Korean fishermen to poach in Russian waters, according to a group of international researchers involved […]