Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force the island to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday, in a strong riposte to Beijing.
Russians are flocking to Serbia to receive Western-approved COVID-19 shots. Although Russia has its own vaccine known as Sputnik V, the shot has not been approved by international health authorities.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his close associates are accused of trying to secure his rise to the leadership of his party and the country with the help of manipulated polls and friendly reports in the media, financed with public money.
Four farmers died Sunday when a car owned by Junior Home Minister Ajay Mishra ran over a group of protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, a town in Uttar Pradesh state, officials and farm leaders said.
Facebook has recently taken a harsher tone toward whistleblower Frances Haugen, suggesting that the social network giant could be considering legal action after Haugen went public with internal research that she copied before leaving her job earlier this year.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Saturday that a "peaceful" reunification of Taiwan with China's mainland was in Beijing's interests, despite ratcheted-up military threats against the self-governing island.
The airport in Indonesia's resort island of Bali held a simulation exercise on Saturday to make sure procedures were in place to welcome back international tourists who have been mostly shut out due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lebanon has no centrally generated electricity after the country's two biggest power stations shut down due to a fuel shortage, a government official said on Saturday.
Buildings near the volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma were engulfed by rivers of lava early on Saturday, with the drama of the red-hot eruption intensified by the spectacle of flashes of lightning.
