JAKARTA: Nationwide protests and labour strikes against a polarising new jobs law in Indonesia continued across the country for a third straight day today. The “omnibus” jobs creation bill, passed into law on Monday, has seen thousands of people in South-east Asia’s largest economy take to the streets in protest […]
Year: 2020
WASHINGTON: Mike Pence achieved on the debate stage what arguably President Donald Trump did not in a similar showdown last week: He offered a cogent and restrained case for why traditional Republicans and some swing voters should return the Trump-Pence ticket to the White House for four more years. For […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday declared that catching the coronavirus was a “blessing from God” that exposed him to experimental treatments he vowed would become free for all Americans, in his first video message since leaving hospital. Trump, eager to revitalise his ailing re-election campaign, repeatedly stressed how well […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump was not in the Oval Office yesterday, the day after he was discharged from hospital, a White House spokesman said — contradicting a top aide to the president. The behaviour of the president — who was hospitalised on Friday with Covid-19 — is under intense […]
JAKARTA: Indonesian police detained nearly 400 protesters today, some armed with molotov cocktails and sharp weapons, on a second day of heated demonstrations over a controversial new jobs law in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. Demonstrations took place in at least 12 places today, with police detaining 183 people outside parliament […]
Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic challenger Kamala Harris will square off today in their only debate, as President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and the ongoing pandemic continue to roil the US presidential contest. The televised clash comes at a precarious moment for the Trump-Pence re-election campaign, less than a […]
Emergencies personnel work in a damaged area of the city of Ganja following a reportedly Armenian rocket strike on October 4, 2020, during the ongoing fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. STEPANAKERT: Half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been displaced in […]
BEIJING: Mainland China reported 10 new Covid-19 cases yesterday, the same as a day earlier, the health authority said today. The National Health Commission said in a statement that all the new cases were imported infections involving travellers from overseas. It said there are currently 189 active cases of the […]
FILE PHOTO: A man runs along a waterway after lockdown restrictions were implemented in response to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 2020. MELBOURNE: Police in Australia’s coronavirus hotspot state of Victoria stepped up patrolling today as hundreds of people in the city […]
WELLINGTON: Early voting began in New Zealand yesterday with Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern seen securing a second term in office on the back of her success in handling the coronavirus pandemic and other crises. Voters can head to the polls with about 450 advance polling stations […]