West Papuan leaders have declared a provisional “government-in-waiting” of the contested Indonesian province, as the United Nations said it was “disturbed by escalating violence” there, including the killing of a child allegedly by security forces. The province marks independence day on 1 December, the anniversary of West Papua’s declaration of independence from Dutch colonial rule...
The Qatari government has moved to cancel a subsidy for the Australian lamb industry, even as Australia’s agriculture and meat sector continues to reel from Chinese import bans. Australia’s $300m-a-year lamb trade with Qatar has been underpinned by a subsidy program in place since 2015. It was due to finish in 2023, but the Qatari...
A former head of US election security who said Donald Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was not subject to voter fraud should be “taken out at dawn and shot”, a Trump campaign lawyer said. Condemnation of Joe DiGenova’s remark about Chris Krebs was swift, including calls for his disbarment and the charge that he was...
The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority QFCRA has commenced legal proceedings in New York to compel First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) to pay a court ordered judgment debt of QAR 200,000,000 (USD 55 million) that was first imposed on the bank back in August 2019. The legal action comes after the Emirati bank failed to...
Just 39 minutes into its journey on March 8, 2014, from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the plane lost contact with Malaysia Airlines and crashed at an unknown location killing all 239 people on board. What happened to the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? At 12.42am MYT on March 8 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala...
The daughter and son-in-law of President Donald Trump are due to leave the White House at the end of the Trump administration in January next year. They have both served as senior advisers to the president, with Ivanka in particular heading a number of campaign rallies in the run-up to the election. Before their political...
In the past, the state pension age was 60 for women and 65 for men. However, the age has been rising recently, and changes are still ongoing. State pension age parity between men and women was reached back in November 2018, when the state pension age for women reached 65. However, these changes – which came into...
Paris – The Francophone Association for Human Rights (AFDH) today wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the President of the European Council Charles Michel and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, asking them to withdraw their attendance from Saudi Arabia’s G20 Summit in...
Israel’s military has said it launched air strikes against the Syrian army and Iran’s Quds Force in Syria on Wednesday after explosive devices were planted in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In a statement, the Israeli military said its planes hit storage facilities, military compounds and Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries. The Syrian state news agency reported that three...
Australia and Japan will “pay a corresponding price” if their new defence pact threatens China’s security, Chinese state media has warned, as Scott Morrison insisted the deal should not cause any concerns to Beijing. The state-run Global Times newspaper declared the new agreement “accelerates the confrontational atmosphere in the Asia-Pacific region” and was aimed against China. Australian ministers...