Kenyan hospitals are running out of medical oxygen used to treat critical coronavirus patients, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported on Wednesday. The Emergency Medicine Kenya Foundation recently conducted a survey of emergency care centers across Kenya revealing that “over 30 percent of the facilities do not have a regular supply of oxygen.” According […]
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Child rights agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for the Nigerian government to “urgently review the case” of a 13-year-old boy sentenced to ten years in prison for blasphemy last month in majority Muslim Kano State, which practices sharia, the Islamic law. The Kano State Sharia Court at Feli Hockey, Kano, […]
Thousands of residents of the northwest Chinese city of Lanzhou have been diagnosed with brucellosis, a highly infectious bacterial disease after they were exposed to polluted air from a state pharmaceutical company late last year. According to health authorities on Tuesday, 3,245 people have tested positive for Brucella bacteria antibodies out […]
Australia’s interior ministry on Sunday defended the government’s recent intelligence raids on Chinese agents “masquerading as journalists” in Australia after China condemned the searches. In June, Australian intelligence agencies raided the homes of four Chinese individuals accused of posing as journalists in Australia. Last Friday, Australia’s trade minister revealed that the agencies “acted […]
The Communist Party of China is struggling to convince citizens to receive influenza vaccinations to protect them in the upcoming flu season after years of corruption scandals involving faulty, watered-down, or otherwise useless vaccines, the South China Morning Post noted on Monday. About 30 million flu shots are distributed in China […]
China must “be prepared” for war amid escalating territorial conflicts with neighboring countries that have increased the risk of military conflict in recent months, the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times argued on Friday. In an editorial titled “China must be militarily and morally prepared for war,” Global Times editor-in-chief Hu […]
Police in southwestern China this summer sentenced a Christian teenager to three years in prison for practicing her faith, human rights magazine Bitter Winter revealed on Tuesday. In Yunnan province, which borders Vietnam, the People’s Court of Jianshui county sentenced 19-year-old Jiang Guangmei to three years in prison on June 29. “She […]
“The chief toxicologist at the Siberian hospital who was the first to treat Navalny, Alexander Sabaev, said he initially suspected poisoning and that he and his colleagues treated him accordingly,” Reuters reported on Sunday. “Navalny was put on a ventilator and into an induced coma and given the emergency drug […]
The defense ministers of India and China met for diplomatic talks on Friday in Moscow amid a recently escalated border dispute between the two countries in the Western Himalayas. Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe arrived in the Russian capital on Wednesday to attend a […]
Taiwan’s government on Thursday ordered a Taiwanese company to cease operations after it was found to have repackaged over three million non-medical grade masks imported from China, labeling them as domestically-manufactured masks. On Wednesday, pharmacies in the city of New Taipei reported that “after receiving their latest shipment of what should […]
The Pacific nation of Palau urged the U.S. this week to build military bases on its island territory amid growing Chinese influence in the western Pacific region. U.S. Pentagon chief Mark Esper visited Palau last week as part of a tour of the Pacific. It was the first-ever visit to the island […]
The economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic has impacted Chinese billionaires in the entertainment industry, who are publicly admitting to financial struggle and selling off prime real estate, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper reported on Thursday. Hong Kong native and global action star Jackie Chan and Beijing actress Gan Wei […]
A Tibetan commander in India’s Special Frontier Force (SFF) was killed with another ethnic Tibetan soldier wounded on Saturday in a border clash with China in the Western Himalayan Indian territory of Ladakh, Tibetan officials said. The governments of India and China accused each other’s militaries on Monday of making […]
Zimbabwe’s high court released investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on bail on Wednesday after he spent six weeks in jail for his support of an anti-government protest, New Zimbabwe reported. Chin’ono, 49, was released on $10,000 bail pending trial on charges of inciting public violence after he tweeted his support for an […]
The Russian navy conducted major military exercises near Alaska in the Bering Sea in recent days, the U.S. military said on Friday. The war games involved a nuclear submarine, dozens of ships and aircraft, and were the most significant military drills in the area since Soviet times, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Over 50 warships […]
The true number of coronavirus cases in Syria “far exceed[s] official figures” confirmed by the government, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said on Thursday. “Reports of healthcare facilities filling up, of rising numbers of death notices and burials, all seem to indicate that actual cases far exceed official figures,” U.N. […]
Egypt’s electoral commission said on Wednesday it would prosecute roughly 54 million people for not voting in a parliament election this month, Abu Dhabi’s the National reported on Thursday. Just 14 percent of Egypt’s 63 million eligible voters participated in the election for Egypt’s upper house of parliament on August 11 and […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to resign due to ill health, Japan’s national broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. “Sources close to the Japanese Prime Minister say he plans to step down to deal with a health problem,” NHK wrote. Abe, 65, will hold a press conference later on […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodğan said on Friday that Turkey has made its largest-ever discovery of natural gas in the Black Sea. Erodğan says 11.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas was recently discovered at a site in the Black Sea that Turkish vessels began exploring in July. “Turkey made the biggest […]
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has warned that the country’s already dire economic crisis faces additional challenges, amid reports Thursday that he has relinquished some of his power to his sister. “Planned attainment of the goals for improving the national economy have been seriously delayed and the people’s living standard has […]
Thousands of festival-goers crammed into a water park over the weekend in Wuhan — the central Chinese city where the Wuhan coronavirus first emerged last year — as local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials say they are once again easing coronavirus restrictions in the city. The Wuhan Maya Beach Water […]
India’s state-owned oil companies have barred Chinese tankers from shipping Indian crude and petroleum product, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Thursday. China-owned vessels are blocked from bidding on tenders to charter tankers importing crude oil to India. They are also barred from exporting petroleum products, such as diesel, out of […]
China’s longest-running gay pride festival in the eastern city of Shanghai has been canceled indefinitely, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday. ShanghaiPRIDE, which organizes the event each summer, said in a statement posted to its official WeChat social media account on Thursday that it was “canceling all […]
A Uyghur man who recorded and shared a video of himself in a Chinese detention facility has disappeared, along with his Uyghur aunt, the man’s uncle told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Thursday. Published by the BBC on Tuesday, the man’s video shows him handcuffed to a bed in a […]