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Germany to require women on large firms' boards

Jan 6, 2021

German listed companies must include women on their executive boards as part of a landmark bill agreed by the country's coalition government Wednesday after voluntary efforts failed to close a gender...
Why do the latest mass arrests in Hong Kong matter?

Jan 6, 2021

China has moved to crush Hong Kong's democracy movement in recent months but Wednesday's mass arrest of democracy figures for subversion under Beijing's new national security law was particularly mom...
WikiLeaks founder Assange denied bail in UK

Jan 6, 2021

A British judge on Wednesday denied bail to WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who has been jailed in Britain since 2019 as he fights extradition to the United States. District Judge Vanessa Baraits...
Dutch begin COVID-19 vaccinations; last EU nation to do so

Jan 6, 2021

Nearly two weeks after most other European Union nations, the Netherlands on Wednesday began its COVID-19 vaccination program, with nursing home staff and front-line workers in hospitals first in lin...
[Graphic News] Plane crash deaths rise in 2020 despite COVID pandemic

Jan 6, 2021

The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes rose in 2020 to 299 worldwide, even as the number of crashes fell by more than 50 percent, a Dutch consulting firm said. Aviation c...
Former head of China state asset firm sentenced to death

Jan 5, 2021

The former head of state-owned China Huarong Asset Management Co. Ltd. was sentenced to death Tuesday for bribe taking in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years. Lai Xia...
Trump, on tape, presses Ga. official to 'find' him votes

Jan 4, 2021

President Donald Trump pressured Georgia's Republican secretary of state to "find" enough votes to overturn Joe Biden's win in the state's presidential election, repeatedly citing disproven claims of...
Hope fades in Norway landslide that left 7 dead; 3 missing

Jan 4, 2021

Norwegian officials insisted Monday that there was "still hope" in finding survivors in air pockets five days after a landslide killed at least seven people as it carried away homes in a village nort...
Iran acknowledges it seized South Korean-flagged oil tanker

Jan 4, 2021

Iranian state television has acknowledged that Tehran seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The report on Monday alleged that the MT Hankuk Chemi had been stopped by Iran...
Greece names first openly gay minister

Jan 4, 2021

The center-right government in Greece named the country's first openly gay minister in a cabinet reshuffle Monday. Nicholas Yatromanolakis, 44, was named as the new deputy minister of culture after ...
UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange

Jan 4, 2021

A British judge on Monday rejected the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh US pris...
Trump extends visa ban, health coverage policy advances

Jan 1, 2021

President Donald Trump on Thursday extended pandemic-related bans on green cards and work visas to large groups of applicants through March 31, while a federal appeals court sided with him on a rule ...
Wuhan virus cases may be 10 times higher than reported: China health study

Dec 30, 2020

BEIJING -- The number of coronavirus cases in the Chinese city where the pathogen was first detected may have been 10 times higher than official figures suggest, according to a study by health author...
Masked and muted Olympics will still dominate crowded 2021 in sports

Dec 28, 2020

PARIS (AFP) -- The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics will be the centrepiece of a crammed sporting year in 2021 as sports administrators who had their calendars wiped away by the coronavirus pandemic try to...
'Believe in science:' EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

Dec 27, 2020

Doctors, nurses and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and moment of hope for a con...