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People from all over Kazakhstan marched to the presidential palace in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan’s capital, to protest rising interest rates and crippling personal debt. Police blocked the march…Kazakhs protested in Almaty against so-called reeducation camps in China’s Xinjiang province, where relatives are said to be held. The 100th day of demonstrations began on May 18
Since the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020, the number of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US has increased dramatically. Isolated cases are recorded by international students in the United States
South Africa began a new phase of its vaccination programme this week, targeting people over the age of 60
There is a “massive disconnect rising” on the COVID-19 front, according to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The pandemic is far from over,” he said, “and it won’t be over everywhere until it’s over everywhere.”
On Sunday (16 May), United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council that the current hostilities in Gaza and Israel are “utterly appalling,” and that “fighting must end.” “It has to end right now.”
Thailand believed it had avoided the worst of the novel coronavirus’s public health epidemic by closing its borders, but this has only devastated the country’s economy
In South Africa, a private security firm that uses dogs to sniff out illicit substances and explosives at airports is now training them to detect COVID-19
Residents of the Almkhil town in the northern Balkh province of Afghanistan are returning to their houses destroyed in the fighting to collect their belongings as a temporary cease-fire largely holds between the Taliban and the Afghan government
Relatives of other suspected police brutality victims in the United States are calling for their trials to be reopened after the conviction in the George Floyd murder case
After months of battling the coronavirus pandemic, Europe is slowly getting back on track, with vaccines and economies improving, countries reopening their borders to international tourists, and countries emerging from lockdowns