ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 18, 2021 South Korea government policy coordination office on Thursday said the government was set to launch a formal discussion on whether to prohibit dog meat consumption or not. The decision follows President Moon Jae-in’s suggestion to review the controversial practice. The government will table theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 17, 2021 United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has reiterated his call for the immediate release of 10 UN staff members detained four days ago in Ethiopia. According to statement by the spoke person, the secretary-general is aware, the staff members are being held without chargeContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 17, 2021 Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday said the Afghan cabinet appointed by the Taliban would be invited to attend the third ministerial meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbouring states. The platform, which is set up to discuss the situation in Afghanistan after theContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 15, 2021 Researchers from Australia’s University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Public Health has called for a restriction on tobacco sales in Australia as the next step towards phasing out tobacco-related products completely. This is contained in a perspective article published in the Medical Journal ofContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 15, 2021 Chinese authorities on Monday set the latest example of strict Coronavirus (COVID-19) measures when it sent several thousand students into quarantine. More than 10,000 students were required to stay in their dormitory rooms or go to quarantine hotels in the north-eastern city of Dalian.Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 13, 2021 Russian President Vladimir Putin is banking on direct dialogue between Belarus and Germany to resolve the migrant crisis at Belarus’ borders with Poland, where thousands of people are trapped. “I understood from conversations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Chancellor Angela Merkel that theyContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 13, 2021 Almost two million cases of COVID-19 were reported in Europe last week, the most in a single week in that region since the pandemic started, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost 27,000 deaths were reported in the continent last week, more thanContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 11, 2021 FW de Klerk, an apartheid-era leader who helped to bring about the end of white-minority rule in South Africa, has died of cancer at the age of 85, his foundation said on Thursday. De Klerk helped orchestrate the release of Nelson Mandela, with whomContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 10, 2021 The EU General Court on Wednesday upheld on a 2.4-billion-euro (2.8-billion-dollar) European Commission competition fine from 2017 against Google for abusing its market dominance by promoting its own shopping service. Dismissing the U.S. tech giant’s appeal, the European Union’s second highest court backed the conclusionsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Nov. 9, 2021 A temporary but extendable ceasefire between Pakistan and Islamist militants fighting the country’s security forces for decades came into force on Tuesday for one month, raising hopes for a peace deal. The Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organisation for more thanContinue Reading
