BSS :The United States announced on Friday that it was easing export restrictions to improve Iranians’ access to the internet,...
BSS :More than 20 Chinese nationals are missing at sea after a boat capsized near the coast of Cambodia, an...
BSS :Gusts of 100 miles an hour and driving rain buffeted Bermuda early Friday, leaving thousands without power and fearing...
BSS :Hong Kong announced on Fridaythat it will end mandatory hotel quarantine, scrapping some of the world’s toughest travel restrictions that have battered the economy and kept the finance hub internationally isolated.The long-awaited move will bring relief to residents and businesses who have been clamouring for the Asian business hub to rejoin the rest of the world in resuming unhindered travel and living alongside the coronavirus.For the past two and a half years, Hong Kong has adhered to a version...
BSS :Historical novelist Hilary Mantel, the first British female writer to win the Booker Prize twice, died aged 70, her publishers 4th Estate Books announced on Friday.“We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald,” a statement said.“This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.”...
BSS :Police have arrested 48 people for allegedly starting forest fires in France during the summer, a spokeswoman told AFP Friday, after a season marked by large, devastating blazes.Up to 10,000 French firefighters a day were mobilised this summer to fight fires which have ravaged more than 65,000 hectares, according to the European Forest Fire Information System — a record since the start of satellite data in 2006.Of the 48 arrested, 12 people have already been sentenced to two years...
BSS :Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Thursday said the death of a young woman that sparked protests in the Islamic republic needed to be investigated, but accused Western powers of hypocrisy for raising concerns.At a news conference in New York where he attended the UN General Assembly, the clerical leader repeated a coroner’s conclusion that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was not beaten, a finding rejected by protesters. “But I don’t want to rush to a conclusion“If there is a party at...
BSS :Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke over phone to express their satisfaction over a prisoner-of-war swap between Moscow and Kyiv facilitated by Riyadh, the Kremlin said Friday. During a phone call late Thursday the two leaders expressed “satisfaction in connection with the transfer to Saudi Arabia of foreign citizen prisoners of war… that took place with the personal mediation of the crown prince”, it said.As part of the exchange, Ukraine received 215 of its...
BSS :A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years, ahead...
BSS :Ukraine on Wednesday announced the exchange of a record-high 215 imprisoned soldiers with Russia, including fighters who led the...
BSS :British Prime Minister Liz Truss vowed Wednesday before the United Nations to keep up military aid to war-ravaged Ukraine...
BSS/AFP :A Chinese worker who tended to his injured colleagues following a deadly earthquake and then got lost in the mountains has been rescued 17 days later.The 6.6-magnitude quake struck southwestern Sichuan province earlier this month, killing at least 93 people and forcing thousands to be resettled into temporary camps.Gan Yu, an employee at Sichuan’s Wandong hydropower plant, was found alive but injured on Wednesday by a local villager, state-owned China National Radio (CNR) said, calling the rescue a “miracle...