India floods leave at least 125 dead
Around 90,000 people have been affected by the floods, the Maharashtra government said in a statement, Reuters reported. The hill station of Mahabaleshwar, south of Mumbai, recorded its highest ever …
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Anti-corruption prosecutor praised by US flees Guatemala
Anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval has fled Guatemala, arriving in neighboring El Salvador just hours after he was removed from his post Source link
Read MoreChina closing county near Myanmar for mass virus testing
The Chinese government says everyone in a county in the southwest near Myanmar will be tested for the coronavirus following a spike in infections Source link
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Haiti buries its slain president
The ceremonies are centered in the northern city of Cap-Haïtien, close to where Moïse was born. Source link
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Japan’s Olympics kick off amid a cascade of disasters
For now, the Olympics are Japan’s burden. And beyond the risks already posed by the pandemic, analysts point to the long-standing threat of disaster facing the archipelago nation. “The chance …
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South Korea hoped to celebrate summer with traditional chicken feasts. Then came a coronavirus surge.
Seoul’s chicken restaurants expected to help mark this summer with a return to the long lines of past Boknals, days that are sprinkled throughout July and August. But Park Mi-ra …
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Kentaro Kobayashi, Tokyo Olympics Opening ceremonies boss, fired over Holocaust joke
It has been a string of disclosures, dismissals and apologies: from the former president of the organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, complaining that he felt women talk too much at meetings …
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Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack
Commemorations have begun to mark 10 years since Norway’s worst ever peacetime slaughter Source link
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Struggling global covid-19 response dims hopes for climate change action
Although wealthier nations have been hit hard this summer, it is often poorer nations that suffer the most. In southern Madagascar, a climate-change-linked drought threatens to push half a million …
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How Mexico’s traditional political espionage went high-tech
Scores of phone numbers for Mexican political figures have surfaced on a list of more than 50,000 numbers that are concentrated in countries known for domestic surveillance that are also …
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