An unofficial tribunal of lawyers and campaigners said on Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping bore primary responsibility for what it said was genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uighurs and Kazakhs in Xinjiang. "The Tribunal is satisfied that President Xi Jinping... and other very senior officials in the PRC and CCP bear primary responsibility for acts that have occurred in Xinjiang," it said.from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3DGtLwA
Biden didn't mention either China or Russia by name. But he has repeatedly made a case that the US and like-minded allies need to show the world that democracies are a far better vehicle for societies than autocracies.
The parents of a 17-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at Oxford High School during a mass shooting that left four students dead filed a pair of lawsuits seeking $100 million each against a Michigan school district, saying Thursday that the violence could have been prevented.
A day after declining to participate in President Joe Biden’s democracy summit, Pakistan PM Imran Khan said on Thursday that his country desired not to become part of any political bloc but instead wanted to play a role in bridging gaps between the US and China. “The situation is going towards a new Cold War and blocs are forming.
“We can prevent Omicron becoming a global crisis,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing on Wednesday. “This virus is changing, but our collective resolve must not.”
The Omicron variant has been reported in 57 nations and the number of patients needing hospitalisation is likely to rise as it spreads, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. Referring to the risk of reinfection, the WHO said: "Preliminary analysis suggests that the mutations present in the Omicron variant may reduce neutralising activity of antibodies resulting in reduced protection from natural immunity."
Bangladesh foreign minister A K Abdul Momen called for speedy resolution of the Teesta water sharing issue. He also asked India to build a road between ‘Mujibnagar’ in India to Dhaka.
US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin should use their upcoming talks on Tuesday to deescalate tensions and turn to diplomatic solutions as opposed to Washington continuing with its aggressive rhetoric, Eurasia Center Vice President Earl Rasmussen told Sputnik.
It's still early days, but increasingly, data is starting to trickle in, suggesting that Omicron is likely to outcompete Delta in many, if not all, places," said Dr Jacob Lemieux, who monitors variants for a research collaboration led by Harvard Medical School.