Coronavirus: First death outside China reported in Philippines
A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines, the first confirmed fatality outside China.
The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected.
He appeared to have been infected before arriving in the Philippines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
More than 300 people have died in the outbreak so far, the vast majority from Hubei. More than 14,000 people have been infected.
Tajikistan holds journalist on extremism charges
Move fuels fears former Soviet republic is clamping down on dissent before elections
Tajikistan has said it is holding an independent journalist and government critic on extremism charges, fuelling concerns that the government of the ex-Soviet republic is cracking down on dissent before two sets of elections.
The state prosecutor said Daler Sharipov had been detained for publishing “over 200 articles and commentaries containing extremist content” between 2013 and 2019 in a press release late on Saturday.
The document said he had also published 100 copies of a text affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement that was banned in Tajikistan in 2006.
Post-Brexit NegotiationsEurope Can’t Afford to Alienate the UK
An Essay by Romain LeickWith its tough and defiant approach to the United Kingdom, Europe is partly responsible for the country’s departure from the EU. But as it enters a post-Brexit era, it can’t afford to keep Britain at a distance.
Just over 47 years ago, when the United Kingdom finally joined the European Economic Community, following intense debates and a close vote in parliament, the era-defining event was celebrated with a gala concert in London. It included a “Fanfare for Europe,” composed especially for the occasion. An idealistic, conservative prime minister – Edward Heath – had led Britain into Europe. In an effort to convince the skeptics, he said: “We have the chance of new greatness. Now we must take it.”
Bollywood stars join protests against India's controversial new citizenship law
In India, protests against a new citizenship law have brought tens of thousands of people from different faiths and backgrounds together across the country. The law is seen by critics as part of a larger threat to the secular fabric of Indian society.
Protests of the law in Delhi began at the mainly Muslim Jamia Millia Islamia University, where after a bus was set on fire police pursued protesters, shooting teargas canisters into the campus library and beating students with batons.
The law approved by Parliament on December 11 allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities from Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who are in India illegally to become citizens.
Aboriginal art takes over an unlikely American town with a chequered past
By Matthew Knott
Judy Daniel felt like she was travelling through Arnhem Land, but she hadn't left the United States.
It was a Saturday afternoon when Daniel, a professional musician from Washington, DC, visited the University of Virginia's Fralin Museum of Art for a tour of its new exhibition.
Curator Henry Skerritt was guiding visitors through The Inside World, a collection of 112 Aboriginal memorial poles painted by 55 artists from the Northern Territory.
Children bearing the brunt of latest escalation in Syrian civil war
Updated 0823 GMT (1623 HKT) February 2, 2020
Children are suffering in the latest escalation in the nine-year Syrian civil war as civilians face a bleak choice — leave for a life of misery in overcrowded makeshift camps or die.
Those are the only options as the Syrian government and its Russian backers pummel the more than 3 million civilians stuck in the last opposition enclave in northwestern Syria.
"The crisis in northwest Syria is turning into a child protection crisis of unprecedented scale. Violence over the past week has forced 6,500 children to flee every day," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore on Saturday.
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