New rallies urged in France as protests disrupt over 730 schools
French high school students on Friday lit fires and hurled projectiles at police who responded by firing tear gas, as activists urged new rallies in an escalating protest movement demanding better conditions in education.
US health workers exposed to coronavirus without protective gear ―Reports
United States health employees were sent to interact with repatriated Americans quarantined for exposure to the novel coronavirus without wearing protective gear or receiving training, a whistleblower complaint cited by US media said Thursday. The filing, which was seen by the Washington Post and New York Times, was submitted by a senior official in the […]
US professor charged with hiding link to China on NASA-funded project
US authorities on Thursday charged a professor at a university in Tennessee with fraud and false statements, saying he hid his link to a Chinese institution while taking funding from NASA. In the latest case related to US efforts to halt alleged unauthorized technology transfers to China, the Justice Department said Anming Hu hid his […]
Bullets and defiance: Inside Guinea’s opposition stronghold
Mamadou Diallo was meant to meet his best friend to watch the Champions League after evening prayers. Twenty minutes before their rendezvous, he received a phone call. His friend, also called Mamadou, had been shot dead. It was a November evening in 2018 in Wanindara, a northern suburb of Guinea’s capital Conakry and flashpoint for the […]
‘No one cares’: Locked-in Wuhan residents adapt to find food
The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan –- the city at the heart of China’s new coronavirus epidemic –- came suddenly and without warning. Unable to go out, the 29-year-old is now sealed inside her compound where she has to depend on online group-buying services to get food. “Living for at least another month […]
Fleeing the bombs, Syrians set up camp underground
In a field dotted with olive trees in embattled northwestern Syria, Shamseddeen Darra steps down into the gloomy underground shelter he and his family now call home. After fleeing a deadly offensive by government forces on their home region of Idlib, they found nowhere else to go. Beyond rolling hills in the village of Taltuna, […]
