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Asia-Pacific trade deal: New battlefield for China and the US?

Posted on Dec 19, 2020Dec 19, 2020 by Ye Hong

The signing of the trade agreement Region Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was seen as a weakening of US influence. A new battlefield in the power struggle is on stage now. Ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...Read More

UK femicide: quarter of murdered women reported earlier violence

Posted on Dec 18, 2020Dec 18, 2020 by Andjela Milivojevic

“If I’m not in on Friday, I might be dead,” were the words of Judith Nibbs, mother of five, who was killed in April 2014 in east London by her husband. These chilling words were also the subheading of the latest Femicide...Read More

Changes to Blood donation rules allow more LGBTQ+ Men to donate

Posted on Dec 17, 2020Dec 17, 2020 by Anna-Maria Pego Pineiro

Campaigners have welcomed relaxation changes to the donor health check questionnaire made by NHS blood and transplant changing blood donation across the UK to allow more gay and bisexual men to be able to donate. The new criteria now focuses...Read More

Putin brushes off Bellingcat probe into opposition leader poisoning

Posted on Dec 17, 2020Feb 19, 2021 by Yaroslava Kiryukhina

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed findings of UK-based research group Bellingcat which suggested that a group of Russian chemical weapons specialists were shadowing opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the time of his recent poisoning. Speaking at his end-of-the-year news...Read More

Brexit: Boris Johnson prepares public for no EU Trade Deal

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 by Mahesh Nathani

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the public and businesses to prepare for Britain’s exit from the European Union’s single market without a trade deal. A fitting conclusion seems unlikely by Sunday according to European Commission president Ursula von...Read More

Writer John le Carré dies aged 89

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 by Dzerassa Gagulova

John le Carré, espionage writer and former spy, famous for his books Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold has died aged 89. Literary agency Curtis Brown, who represented Le Carré, said the author,...Read More

London moves to Tier 3 lockdown Credit: Wikimedia Commons

London to move to Tier 3 as infections increase

Posted on Dec 14, 2020Dec 14, 2020 by Lauren Hurrell

Greater London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will move to tougher Tier 3 restriction on Wednesday after a “sharp” increase in Covid cases, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. Hancock called for “swift and decisive action” to “control this...Read More

The 7 members of K-pop band, BTS, stand together in matching white suits with black shoes and black turtlenecks.

South Korea changes the law to delay BTS members’ enlistment into the military

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 by Matilda Davies

South Korea has introduced new legislation to allow members of K-pop band, BTS, to delay their enlistment into the military for two years. One of the band’s seven members, Kim Seok-jin, whose stage name is Jin, turned 28 last Friday....Read More

Thousands protest in solidarity with Indian farmers worldwide

Posted on Dec 8, 2020 by Nichole Tan

Protests took place in multiple countries over the weekend in support of the thousands of Indian farmers who have been in clashes with the Indian government at the border of the capital New Delhi. The farmers are protesting against three...Read More

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