3 arrested in India for axing endangered dolphin to death
NEW DELHI – Police arrested three people in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday for beating an endangered dolphin to death...
Singapore PM gets first dose of COVID vaccine
SINGAPORE – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received the first shot of a vaccine against COVID-19 on Friday, the 68-year-old said in a...
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine appears effective vs mutation in new COVID variants
NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the...
South Korean court tells Japan to compensate former sex slaves
SEOUL – A South Korean court on Friday ordered the Japanese government to pay compensation to 12 World War II sex slaves or their...
4 deaths, 52 arrests made after Trump supporters storm US Capitol
WASHINGTON – Four people died on the US Capitol grounds Wednesday and 52 people have been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee...
3 children killed in grenade explosion in Pakistan
PESHAWAR – Three children were killed and two others injured Wednesday when a grenade they found in a field exploded in northwest Pakistan, officials...
Twitter, Facebook muzzle Trump amid Capitol violence
WASHINGTON – In an unprecedented step, Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump from posting to their platforms Wednesday following the storming of the US Capitol...
No police officers charged in Jacob Blake shooting
WISCONSIN – No police officer will face charges over the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin – an incident which sparked protests in...
Australia moves coronavirus vaccine rollout to early March
SYDNEY – Australian health authorities are bringing forward the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by two weeks to early March, even as recent outbreaks in...
France to cull 600,000 poultry to stem bird flu
PARIS – France will cull around 600,000 poultry birds as it tries to contain an avian influenza virus that is spreading among duck flocks...