World
Pandemic pummelling foreign investment: UN
The agency said that worldwide, FDI was 49% lower during the first half of 2020 than during the same period in 2019.
-
At least seven killed in blast at Pakistan religious school
More than 60 people had been taking a lesson when the explosion tore through the madrassa in Peshawar, about 170 kilometres (around 100 miles) west of Islamabad, said Waqar Azim, a senior police official.
-
Qatar faces scrutiny after women 'forcibly examined'
Officers marched women off a Sydney-bound Qatar Airways flight earlier this month and forced them to undergo intimate examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned in an airport bathroom.
-
Australia's virus epicentre records second day with no cases
Australia had largely curbed the spread of COVID-19 when the virus leaked into the community from Melbourne hotels used to quarantine travellers from overseas.
-
Trump boosted by Supreme Court confirmation days from US election
The Republican-controlled Senate elevated Amy Coney Barrett to the lifelong position in a 52-48 vote, capping a rapid and deeply contentious process that makes her the sixth conservative, and third Trump appointee, on the nine-member court.
-
'We cannot give up,' WHO chief Ghebreyesus says of pandemic fight
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ comment came a day after US President Donald Trump's chief of staff told CNN that the administration's focus had moved to mitigation, not stamping out the virus.
-
Muslims 'not persecuted' in France, says country's Muslim council
French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to take the fight to Islamist radicals after the 16 October beheading of a history teacher who had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to pupils in a class discussion on free speech.
-
Trump says he’s 'not' giving up on COVID-19 fight
On Sunday, Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows told CNN that the administration's focus had moved to mitigation, not stamping out the virus.
-
Pakistan summons French envoy over Macron's Islamist remarks
The move came as small, scattered protests were held in cities across Pakistan and a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan accused Macron of 'attacking Islam'.
-
Lufthansa says 30,000 jobs at risk over pandemic
The executive board of Europe's largest airline said in a letter to employees that it was now 'harder than ever' to predict how the aviation industry will develop, given there is little clarity over how long travel warnings would be applied or how quickly any recovery could come.
-
Melbourne lockdown lifted after zero new virus cases recorded
Stay-at-home orders for Melbourne's five million residents will be lifted from midnight Tuesday into Wednesday while restaurants, beauty salons and retail stores will be permitted to throw open their doors.
-
Protesters target churches over Poland's near-total abortion ban
Protesters, brandishing placards bearing expletives and others saying "I wish I could abort my government", clashed with police and supporters of the ban outside a landmark church in central Warsaw.
-
Australia's second-wave epicentre records zero new virus cases
Pressure is mounting on state authorities to allow the city more freedoms, with a litany of rules still in place despite the falling number of cases.
-
Biden accuses Trump of giving up in COVID fight
Biden once again hammered the Trump administration over the virus, which has set records for new cases in recent days, with nearly 90,000 on Saturday and more than 63,000 Sunday.
-
Chile's president calls on nation to work together for 'new Constitution'
"This plebiscite is not the end, it is the beginning of a path that we must all walk together to agree on a new constitution for Chile," President Pinera said in a speech acknowledging the result.
-
Man charged for 'liking' photo of murdered French teacher
He was already on the radar of the authorities for having endorsed a massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that first published the Mohammed cartoons.
-
Trump team hit by Covid again, lashes out at 'failure' Biden
Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, and other aides, tested positive over the weekend, swelling the list of the staff to have caught the virus.
-
Spain declares nationwide state of emergency over virus
The new state of emergency will last until the beginning of May, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in a televised speech.
-
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee dies at 78
Under Lee's leadership, Samsung rose to become the world's largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the firm's overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea's GDP.
