Announcement comes amid mounting frustration with international financial centre's isolation as world lives with COVID.Story Published at: August 08, 2022 at 05:04AM
Hong Kong cuts hotel quarantine to 3 days as city’s image dives
Gustavo Petro: Ex-rebel fighter sworn in as Colombia’s president
Gustavo Petro takes office promising to achieve peace with armed groups and fight inequality and climate change.Story Published at: August 08, 2022 at 04:31AM
Senate Democrats pass budget package, a major victory for Biden
Estimated $740bn economic package aims to slow climate change, control medicine costs, and tax corporations.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 11:48PM
‘Right direction’: Iran nuclear officials optimistic on deal
Negotiators from Iran, US, EU resumed indirect talks over Tehran's nuclear deal after a months-long standstill.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 10:19PM
‘No place in America’: Biden denounces killing of four Muslims
Police investigating the murder of Muslim men in New Mexico state as a possible hate crime.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 09:16PM
‘Russian nuclear terror’: Ukraine atomic plant attacked again
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy calls out Russia as fears of a disaster grow after Europe's biggest nuclear facility hit.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 06:36PM
Ukraine’s Unstoppable Medics | Close Up
A battalion of volunteer medics provides first aid assistance on the front lines of Ukraine.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 01:36PM
Timeline: Israel’s attacks on Gaza since 2005
It marks the latest assault by Israel on Gaza since the 11-day war in May 2021 killed hundreds and wounded thousands.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 12:47PM
Four cargo ships sail from Ukraine: Turkish, Ukrainian officials
The UN and Turkey brokered a deal to unblock Ukraine's ports last month after UN warnings of famine.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 10:52AM
Israel’s assault on Gaza: What we know so far
At least 29 people killed so far in attacks on Gaza, in the worst flare-up since the last major attack in May 2021.Story Published at: August 07, 2022 at 10:23AM