月: 2022年12月
Steve Brine said the restriction on people arriving from China to England was only required because Beijing was not ‘upfront’ about its dataThe requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could hav…
From Ukraine developments and China’s Covid surge to renewable energy and hope for the AmazonA near-inevitable global recession sparked by a lengthening war in Europe’s frozen east; an energy crisis coupled with soaring inflation; Covid-19 finally runn…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says WHO officials stressed to Beijing the importance of sharing data ahead of easing of travel restrictions on 8 JanuaryThe World Health Organisation again urged China’s health officials to regularly share specific, real-tim…
Launches come five days after country reportedly flew drones into South Korea’s airspaceNorth Korea fired three ballistic missiles towards the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the South Korean military said.The launches were the latest in …
Department of Health confirms that from 5 January anyone travelling to England will be asked to take a pre-departure Covid-19 test Rishi Sunak has performed a major U-turn by imposing Covid checks on travellers from China from 5 January, after criticis…
US aircraft forced to take evasive maneuvers during latest incident over contested shipping, fishing and gas field-rich regionA Chinese military plane came within 10ft (three meters) of a US air force aircraft over the contested South China Sea last we…
Many city workers heading home for holiday in late January are likely to take disease with themChina is preparing for another wave of Covid to hit its more vulnerable countryside in early 2023, as the current wave of infections overwhelms hospitals and…
Spain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media calls move ‘discriminatory’European countries are preparing to scale up the monitoring of potential new coronavirus variants from China, as Spain becomes the secon…
Analysts say Chinese leader has leverage as Russian counterpart ‘has no one else to turn to’ amid Ukraine warRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesVladimir Putin invited his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Friday to make a state visit to Russia next s…
Dawlat Khan had received a life sentence for the rape of a young deaf woman but a council of elders intervened to offer a compromise A court in Pakistan has caused outrage after it freed a convicted rapist when he agreed to marry his victim.Dawlat Khan…
The Russian president has said he expects his Chinese counterpart to make a state visit to Russia next spring, in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing amid Russia’s flailing military campaign in Ukraine.In introductory remarks from a …
The Indian director was as surprised as anyone that his astonishingly larger than life, logic-defying action film has found a huge global audience. So is Hollywood on the horizon?Looking at the box-office numbers when RRR first opened in the US in Marc…
A brightly lit Kali Puja marquee was made to look like an identity card for the goddess – complete with a heavenly address This photo of a pandal or marquee was taken on my phone from the car window as we passed through Dover Terrace in south Kolkata,…
Soldiers’ boots are made from imported Indian leather as country’s trade with Russia soars by 400%Indian companies have been accused of enabling Russia’s war effort after exporting leather to Russian companies that make boots for its military in the mo…
Nobel laureate found guilty of corruption as rights groups say array of charges fabricated to keep her detained In the last of a long list of closed trials that have spanned over a year, a military-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leade…