South Korea will extend prevention and sanitation guidelines against the coronavirus until daily new infections drop to single digits, the health minister said on Friday, failing which he warned of a return to tough social distancing measures. The announcement came as such cases persist in the mid-double digits following a series of new clusters in مزید پڑھیں

President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized U.S. economic and travel sanctions against International Criminal Court employees involved in an investigation into whether American forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan. In announcing the president’s executive order, Trump administration officials said the Hague-based tribunal threatens to infringe on U.S. national sovereignty and accused Russia of manipulating it مزید پڑھیں

The brother of George Floyd, whose killing by police sparked worldwide protests against racism, made an emotional plea to the US Congress Wednesday to “stop the pain” and pass reforms that reduce police brutality. One day after burying his brother in Houston, Philonise Floyd appeared in person before a House hearing, where he described the مزید پڑھیں

A Norwegian court on Thursday sentenced a right-wing extremist to a minimum of 21 years in prison for a 2019 mosque attack near Oslo and murdering his step-sister in a racially-motivated act. He was found guilty of trying to “kill as many Muslims as possible”, though no one was seriously injured in the mosque attack. مزید پڑھیں

Thousands of American mourners have paid tribute to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of a white US police officer ignited nationwide protests against US police violence and mistreatment of African Americans. Mourners streamed into a church in Houston, Texas to honor African-American Floyd as US-wide protests over his death entered a third week. مزید پڑھیں

Germany will extend its travel warning for non-European countries until the end of August but lift border controls to all its neighbours by mid-June, ministers said on Wednesday. As the coronavirus crisis in many European countries eases somewhat, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Germany does not yet have systems with the rest of the world مزید پڑھیں

London mayor Sadiq Khan has ordered a review of the capital’s statues and street names after the toppling of the statue of an English slave trader by anti-racism protesters triggered a debate about the demons of Britain’s imperial past. A statue of Edward Colston, who made a fortune in the 17th century from trading West مزید پڑھیں

Mourners dressed in black, some of them wearing shirts with the words “I can’t breathe” on them, gathered on Tuesday at a Houston church for the funeral of George Floyd, whose death in police custody inspired anti-racism rallies around the world. Outside the Fountain of Praise Church, the streets were lined with American flags as مزید پڑھیں

Bahrain King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa has ordered an increase in the monthly allowance offered to 11,000 orphans and widows, Bahrain’s news agency reported. The monarch directed the Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF), sponsoring the beneficiaries, to oversee the reimbursement of the allowance increase. The royal gesture aims at easing the financial burdens of the مزید پڑھیں

Calls for deep police reforms gained momentum in the United States as leaders in the city where George Floyd died at the hands of an officer pushed to dismantle the entire department. Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests demanding a reckoning with institutional racism that have sometimes resulted in clashes with police, but many officers took مزید پڑھیں