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The aftermath of a deadly building collapse in Iran

Iran building collapse death toll jumps to 26

TEHRAN — The number of people killed when an unfinished building collapsed in south-west Iran has risen to 26, state media say.Dozens more were injured when the 10-story Metropol office block in Abadan crashed to the ground on Monday.Pictures showed that concrete floors and steel beams had fallen on to the street below, crushing several cars.A search and rescue operation is continuing, and the cause of the collapse is being investigated.At least 10 people are reported to have been arrested, including the building contractor, the mayor and two former mayors.Hundreds of angry people, many banging drums and hitting cymbals, took to the streets in Abadan on Thursday night and Friday morning, in protest.Some shouted "death to incompetent officials" and hailed the "martyrs of...

May 28, 2022

Iran building collapse death toll jumps to 26

Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions after being closed to tourists for two years.

Japan opens up to foreign tourists after two years

TOKYO — After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions.It marks the most significant moment so far in the country's slow relaxation of its COVID-19 entry restrictions.But some restrictions will remain, including a requirement to visit the country as part of a tour group.Japan implemented some of the world's toughest virus control regimes, and banned foreign visitors from the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.Travel restrictions had already been relaxed for foreign residents and business travelers, and the government recently raised the limit on daily foreign arrivals to 20,000 from June 1.Since mid-March international students have also been permitted entry.From June 10, tour groups will be allowed to enter the...

May 28, 2022

Japan opens up to foreign tourists after two years

India being world’s second largest telecommunications market is planning to roll out 5G mobile services within 2022-23.

India, world’s second largest telecom market, plans mega 5G auctions

NEW DELHI — India being world’s second largest telecommunications market is planning to roll out 5G mobile services within 2022-23 by telecom providers and the groundwork for spectrum auctions in 2022 has already started.According to Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a report by The Hindu newspaper, the 5G spectrum auctions in India are on track as planned, despite telecom operators and their lobbying groups raising concerns about high prices.“The spectrum pricing recommended by TRAI is too high. Industry recommended a 90% lower price, and to see only about a 35-40% reduction recommended in prices, therefore is deeply disappointing,” industry group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) had said reacting to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) 5G...

May 28, 2022

India, world’s second largest telecom market, plans mega 5G auctions

Aryan Khan was arrested in a drugs case and spent nearly three weeks in jail in 2021

Drug charges dropped against Shah Rukh Khan's son

MUMBAI — India's anti-drug agency has dropped charges against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son in a drugs case.Aryan Khan, 24, was arrested in October 2021 for allegedly doing recreational drugs at a party.The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had charged him under laws "related to possession, consumption and sale of illegal substances."On Friday, the NCB cleared him in the case, saying "no drugs had been found on Aryan Khan".A charge sheet filed in court by the agency on Friday named 14 accused in the case but left out six others, including Aryan Khan, "due to lack of evidence."Officials from NCB had on 2 October 2021 raided a cruise ship, saying they had been tipped off that there were drugs on board.Aryan Khan had been searched and interrogated...

May 27, 2022

Drug charges dropped against Shah Rukh Khan's son

The family seen in detention in 2018.

Australia frees asylum seekers after public outcry

CANBERRA — A family whose detention has focused anger over Australia's asylum-seeker policies have won a four-year battle to return to their Queensland town.Australia's new government granted visas to the Murugappan family, allowing them to temporarily live and work in Biloela.The Tamil family has been in immigration detention since 2018 after their claim for asylum was rejected.The case sparked an outcry and locals in Biloela campaigned for their return.Legal challenges to the decision to deny them protection remain before Australia's courts.Under controversial policies, Australia can hold asylum seekers like the Murugappans in indefinite detention while it assesses their refugee claims or takes steps to deport them.But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese — who won an election...

May 27, 2022

Australia frees asylum seekers after public outcry

Richard Bennett, speaks at a special event on human rights at the United Nations in 2016. (file)

Afghan authorities urged to address serious human rights challenges

KABUL — Afghanistan is at a crossroads and the de facto authorities, the Taliban, must pursue a path toward stability and freedom for all citizens, especially women, the UN independent expert on human rights there said in the capital, Kabul, on Thursday.Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett was speaking to journalists at the end of an 11-day visit to the country.Bennett said Afghanistan is facing a plethora of human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the country’s people. However, the Taliban have failed to acknowledge or address the magnitude and gravity of abuses, many of which were committed in their name.“The Taliban stands at a crossroads. Either the society will become more stable and a place where every Afghan enjoys freedom and human rights, or it will become...

May 27, 2022

Afghan authorities urged to address serious human rights challenges

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet

No need for preachers, Chinese leader tells UN human rights chief

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his country's human rights record on Wednesday, telling a visiting UN official there is "no need for 'preachers' to boss around other countries."Xi's remarks, made in a video call with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, are likely to add to the controversy surrounding a trip that critics say risks becoming a propaganda tool for Beijing.Bachelet, who arrived in China on Monday for a six-day tour, is expected to visit the far-western region of Xinjiang, where the Chinese government faces accusations of mass internment, forced assimilation, forced labor and forced sterilization against Uyghur and other mostly Muslim minorities.Beijing has repeatedly denied the allegations.But the...

May 26, 2022

No need for preachers, Chinese leader tells UN human rights chief

Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, attends a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on her visit to Guangzhou, China.

UN rights chief Bachelet holds ‘valuable’ meeting with China’s President Xi

GENEVA — On day three of her official mission to China, top UN rights official Michelle Bachelet described having a “valuable opportunity” to highlight rights issues and concerns with President Xi Jinping and other senior officials, the first such visit by a UN rights chief since 2005.In a tweet on Wednesday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bachelet, indicated that she had been able to “discuss directly” important issues via videolink with the country’s premier, without providing further information about her talking points.“I have been committed to undertaking this visit, the first visit by a UN Human Rights High Commissioner to China in 17 years, because for me, it is a priority to engage with the Government of China directly...on human rights issues, domestic,...

May 26, 2022

UN rights chief Bachelet holds ‘valuable’ meeting with China’s President Xi

Coastal protection measures are being undertaken in India due to rising sea levels.

Disaster prevention, risk reduction, critical to sustainable future: UN deputy chief

BALI — The world will experience 1.5 medium to large-scale disasters every day through the end of the decade, unless countries ramp up action on prevention and risk reduction, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said in Bali, Indonesia, on Wednesday.Mohammed was speaking at the opening of the Seventh Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction - the first international forum on the issue since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic - bringing together governments, the UN and key stakeholders.During the three-day meeting, participants will take stock of the implementation of a 2015 agreement known as the Sendai Framework, which aims to protect development gains from the risk of disaster.The UN deputy chief told participants that the world is looking to the forum for leadership, wisdom,...

May 26, 2022

Disaster prevention, risk reduction, critical to sustainable future: UN deputy chief

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi with Rohingya refugees at the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre at Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district.

UNHCR chief urges support for Bangladesh to save Rohingya lives

COX’S BAZAR — Wrapping up a five-day mission to Bangladesh, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees appealed on Wednesday for sustained and predictable support for Rohingya refugees and their host communities.“The world must remember the crisis that Rohingya refugees and their hosts have been facing for the last five years,” Filippo Grandi said after visiting refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char island, in the Bay of Bengal.Bangladesh hosts some one million Rohingya refugees, most of whom fled from Myanmar in 2017.Grandi lauded the Bangladesh Government’s leadership in making important strides in refugee response, including the provision of COVID-19 vaccinations for more than 88 per cent of the population, aged 18 and over.“Bangladesh, which has led in assisting nearly...

May 26, 2022

UNHCR chief urges support for Bangladesh to save Rohingya lives

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