Afghanistan latest updates: The rapid fall of a nation 2021 Asia | Middle East | Afghanistan Afghanistan spent much of the 1980s fighting back the USSR invaders. The USA’s CIA funded and founded a group called the Taliban (The Students in Pushto). The 1990s were spent in post-Soviet civil war…
Germany launches military ‘space command’ to tackle Russia and China SPACE | MILITARY | EU | GERMANY FACT BOX: ‘The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space’ is a 1981 UN resolution that reaffirms the fundamental principles of the 1967 ‘Outer Space Treaty’ and bans the weaponisation of space. The USA…
China has reported the first ever human infection of H10N3 bird flu China | Health and Wellbeing | Medicine | Public Health The H7N9 strain of bird flu killed around 300 people during 2016-2017 outbreak. In the city of Zhenjiang, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, a 41 year old male…
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China’s Belt and Road initiative grinds to a stark slowdown due to Coronavirus COVID-19 COVID-19’s grinding slowing effect on China’s Belt and Road initiative The virus that has now killed more than 1’800 people has brought the world’s second largest economy to grinding slow down. When President Xi expanded the…
The world mourns the death of Sultan Qaboos إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al-Said 18/11/1940 – 10/01/2020 The Diwan of the Royal Court had announced that the condolence proceedings would end on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, on the passing away of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos…
China accuses UK of meddling in Chinese politics via social media, fake news and false information to covertly back and incite riots and civil unrest in Hong Kong The irony is real. The UK and US are consistent in accusing Russia of meddling in elections via social media and false…
“Berlin Rocks” Elon musk chooses Germany and China as the two new centres of his new mega-expansion Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has said Berlin will be the site of Tesla’s first major European factory as the ultra high-tech carmaker’s expansion plans power ahead to Europe and East-Asia. “Berlin…
More by Omar Bishara China backs down over the Hong Kong Protests China’s Premier Li Keqiang has said Beijing supports the Hong Kong government “to end the violence and chaos”. He is the most senior Chinese official to comment on the unrest which has rocked Hong Kong for months. His…
More by Omar Bishara Trump turns G7 in to a joke by throwing tantrums and faking phone calls The G7 is meant to be an opportunity for nations to debate serious global issues, from security, economy, environmental issues to natural disasters and peaceful cooperation. France had the idea right when…
