Category: Africa and the rest of the world

US Health Secretary Alex Azar walks out of a plane as he arrives at the Sungshan Airport in Taipei on August 9, 2020. (Photo by Pei Chen / POOL / AFP) China warned Washington not to “play with fire” on Wednesday as a US delegation wrapped up a historic trip to the self-ruled island of […]

An attorney for George Floyd vowed at a memorial service on Thursday to find justice for the African-American man whose harrowing videotaped death while being arrested last week sparked nationwide protests. Benjamin Crump, who is representing Floyd’s family, said it was “not the coronavirus pandemic that killed George Floyd.” “It was that other pandemic,” he […]

After days of anger and unrest, a memorial service for George Floyd held yesterday in Minneapolis, United States. The sombre event followed more than a week of upheaval around the United States. Family members, friends, political and religious leaders and ordinary people moved by the death in police custody of Floyd gathered for the service, […]

The Trump administration has banned Chinese passenger airlines from flying scheduled service to the United States (U.S.) The move which aims at ramping up pressure on China, which hasn’t allowed U.S. carriers to resume flights in the country, threatens to further isolate the world’s two largest aviation markets from one another. The order published on […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was severing ties with the World Health Organization, signalling the end of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the UN agency as the deadly coronavirus pandemic rages on. As Europe speeded along the path to reopening after months of crippling lockdowns, Trump’s move is likely […]

Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, said on Sunday that the U.S. should “give up on its wishful thinking of changing China” and avoid bringing the two countries to a “new Cold War.” “China has no intention to change, still replace, the United States,” he said, according to the Washington Post. “It is time for […]

This handout image provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 19, 2020, shows World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reacting at the closing session of the World Health Assembly virtual meeting from the WHO headquarters in Geneva, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. The World Health Organization concluded its […]