Climate change, COVID and China’s “coercion” in the Indo-Pacific top the agenda as foreign ministers of the Quad grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States meet in Melbourne on Friday, with talks also covering an escalating crisis between the West and Russia over Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Australia […]

The former president had been suffering from complications due to old age for some time. He was hospitalised on Feb 21 after his condition deteriorated, his household aide Abdul Motalib told bdnews24.com. “He was living very carefully during the spike in coronavirus cases,” he said. “He never contracted it.” The former president had been suffering […]

Russia’s hopes of competing at the 2022 World Cup were effectively ended after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected a request from the Russian Football Union to freeze FIFA’s suspension while their appeal is heard. CAS said in a statement on Friday that the suspension of all Russian teams and clubs from FIFA’s […]

Malaysia kicked off a COVID-19 mass vaccination programme on Thursday for children aged between 5 and 11, in an effort to protect the youngest members of its population and increase its high immunisation rate. At a vaccination centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur, young children sat anxiously with parents as occasional yelps of pain were […]

The World Health Organization estimates that the number of COVID-19 infections in Africa could be seven times higher than official data suggests, while deaths from the virus could be two to three times higher, its regional head said on Thursday. “We’re very much aware that our surveillance systems problems that we had on the continent, […]