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2021-03-18 16:29:03 Putin Says ‘It Takes One to Know One’ After U.S. President’s Killer Remark

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that it takes one to know one after the U.S. president said he thought Putin was a killer, adding that he wished Biden good health. Putin was speaking on television after Biden, in an ABC News interview that prompted Russia to recall its Washington ambassador for consultations on Wednesday, said “I do” when asked if he believed the Russian president was a killer.


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2021-03-18 16:29:01 Tokyo Olympics Official Quits After ‘Olympig’ Comment

In yet another setback for the postponed Tokyo Olympics — and another involving comments about women — games’ creative director Hiroshi Sasaki resigned on Thursday after making demeaning comments about a well-known female celebrity in Japan. Sasaki’s resignation is the latest blow. Last year he suggested to planning staff members in online “brainstorming exchanges” that well-known entertainer Naomi Watanabe could perform in the ceremony as an “Olympig.”


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2021-03-17 16:24:09 Japan Court Rules Not Allowing Same-Sex Marriage ‘Unconstitutional’

A Japanese court ruled on Wednesday that not allowing same-sex couples to get married is “unconstitutional,” setting a precedent in the only G7 nation not to fully recognize same-sex partnership. The ruling by a district court, the first in Japan on the legality of same-sex marriages, is a major symbolic victory in a country where the constitution still defines marriage as being based on “the mutual consent of both sexes”.


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2021-03-17 16:24:07 US: Putin Approved Operations to Help Trump Against Biden

Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race but ultimately no evidence that any foreign actor changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process. The report is the latest official affirmation of the integrity of the election.


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2021-03-17 16:24:06 Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings Leave Eight Dead

A series of shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area have left eight people dead, the majority of them women of Asian descent, leading to fears the killer had a racial motive. The killings occurred amid a rising number of attacks on Asian Americans across the US since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Six of those killed were Asian while two were white.


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2021-03-17 16:24:04 Covid-19 Disruptions Killed 228,000 Children in South Asia

The disruption in healthcare services caused by Covid-19 may have led to an estimated 239,000 maternal and child deaths in South Asia, according to a new UN report. It’s focused on Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, home to some 1.8 billion people. The report found that women, children and adolescents were the worst-hit. South Asia has reported nearly 13 million Covid cases and more than 186,000 deaths so far.


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2021-03-17 16:24:02 EU Puts Brake on COVID Vaccine Exports

The European Union may get more restrictive in exporting COVID-19 vaccines to safeguard essential jabs for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic, the head of the bloc’s executive said on Wednesday. Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement risks escalating tensions with the United Kingdom and the United Stated over their restrictive approach deliveries of vaccines to the 27-nation bloc.


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2021-03-16 16:05:24 Isis-Linked Militants Beheading Children in Mozambique

Children as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique as part of an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and forced many more from their homes. Save the Children said it had spoken to displaced families who described “horrifying scenes” of murder. Mozambique’s northern-most province of Cabo Delgado has since 2017 been home to a festering insurgency, linked to Islamic State (Isis), that has escalated dramatically in the past year.


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2021-03-16 16:05:22 North Korea Warns US to Scrap Military Exercises with South

Kim Jong Un’s sister has warned the US to scrap future military exercises with South Korea if “it wants a good night’s sleep for the next four years”. It comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Asia to talk to allies Japan and South Korea about North Korea and other regional issues.


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2021-03-16 16:05:20 UK’s Prince Philip Leaves Hospital After Four-Week Stay

Britain’s Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, left a London hospital on Tuesday after a four-week stay for treatment for an infection and to have a heart procedure. The queen, 94, has remained at Windsor Castle where the couple have been staying during the coronavirus pandemic, and has continued to carry out her official duties by video.


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