President Trump has Covid-19: How global media responded
As news emerged that US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania had tested positive for coronavirus, the story shot to the top of every news agenda worldwide.
It's just 32 days until Americans cast their votes in the race for the White House - and this is a seismic development.
In much international media, however, the news was accompanied by criticism of what was said to be the US president's "botched" response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his "open scepticism" over the use of face masks and social distancing.
German media seemed somewhat unsurprised. "Trump usually does not wear a mask in public", wrote the centre-right Die Welt, while the centrist Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pointed out that the pandemic did not deter him from making numerous major election campaign appearances.
Saudi expats launch opposition party on anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's death
National Assembly party aims at creation of representative government in Saudi Arabia
A group of intellectual Saudi Arabian expatriates have launched an opposition party on the second anniversary of the murder of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
The aim of the National Assembly party is to gather the support of people inside and outside Saudi Arabia for the formation of a representative government, which would be the first elected democratic institution inside the country since its birth 90 years ago.
Madawi al-Rasheed, a scholar and party co-founder, said the party’s leaders were “already being bombarded by threats, including threats of beheading, since we violated the taboo of uttering the words democracy and political party”.
Belarus announces sanctions against EU
In retaliation to sanctions imposed by the European Union, Belarus has put together a list of people now banned from entering the country.
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry said Friday it had compiled a list of people barred from entering Belarus as part of retaliatory sanctions against the European Union.
The ministry said it was introducing "counter sanctions" as a "reciprocal" measure after the EU adopted restrictions against members of the Belarus regime following President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed reelection.
France, Russia and US call for immediate truce in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenian officials said Friday the country was ready to discuss a ceasefire in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh following calls for an immediate truce from the presidents of France, Russia and the US. Turkey, however, says the three big powers should have no role in negotiating peace.
France, Russia and the United States are co-chairs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Minsk Group, set up in 1992 to mediate in the decades-old conflict over the mountainous enclave in the South Caucasus.
They appealed for peace as the death toll rose in the heaviest clashes since the 1990s around Nagorno-Karabakh – part of Azerbaijan, but run by its mostly ethnic Armenian inhabitants.
Coronavirus vaccination to be made free in Japan
Members of the public in Japan will be given a dose of vaccine against the coronavirus for free, according to a health ministry policy approved Friday by its advisory panel, in a bid to curb serious and fatal cases of infection.
The policy addresses the first dose for everyone amid uncertainty at this stage over how many times a vaccine would need to be administered.
Whether the policy will cover foreign residents in Japan has yet to be officially determined, a ministry official said, while offering his personal opinion that it would be natural to include them for the sake of public health.
India Dalit rape victim family ‘locked up as police burned body’
The family members of a Dalit (formerly known as “untouchable”) girl in India who died after she was gang raped have accused the authorities of forcefully cremating her body in the middle of the night without their consent.
The 19-year-old from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district, 200km (124 miles) from the Indian capital New Delhi, was raped in a field near her house on September 14 by four suspects belonging to upper castes in the Hindu religion’s hierarchy.
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