Diasporas

Air pollution reached very high levels on Wednesday in the Chinese capital, Beijing due to a sandstorm, which covered other parts of the country with an orange haze and harmful to health. In parts of northern and northwest China, including the semi-desert region of Inner Mongolia, high winds and dust …

The Kremlin has asked all employees of the internal political bloc of the presidential administration, to swap their iPhones for smartphones of different brands, the daily Kommersant reported. At the beginning of March, a seminar was organized in the Moscow region to ensure that all people working in national and …

European Union is concerned about the deterioration of political and economic situation in Tunisia and fears a collapse of the country, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell declared on Monday. “The situation in Tunisia is very dangerous,” he warned after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The …

Scottish MPs have been “strongly advised” to remove the TikTok social network from all their devices, Sky News reported on Saturday. Scottish parliamentarians received an email on Friday ‘strongly‘ recommending that they remove the app from their devices, including their personal smartphones with which they are said to be used …

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $150 million in new humanitarian aid for Africa’s Sahel region during a visit on Thursday to Niger, a country Washington views as an important ally in the fight against Islamist insurgencies, Reuters reported. Blinken’s visit to Niger is the first by a U.S. …

Five young Iranian ladies have been arrested for dancing to Nigerian Afrobeat singer and rapper, Rema’s song ‘Calm Down’ . The video of the five girls went viral for dancing to Rema’s hit song without headscarves. The footage showed the women were dancing and slightly showing their stomachs. It spread …

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday it had issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for his responsibility for war crimes committed in Ukraine since the Russian invasion. “Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two individuals …

Two pilots from the Indian aviation company SpiceJet have been suspended after drinking coffee and eating sweets in the cockpit of an airliner, Times of India reported on Thursday. “Both pilots have been suspended pending an investigation,” an airline spokesperson said. The incident occurred on March 8 when the flight …

New Zealand will ban Chinese social network TikTok from devices issued to members of parliament, officials announced on Friday, following the country’s footsteps with other Western nations that have taken similar measures. According to Rafael Gonzalez-Montero, an official of the New Zealand Parliament, the risks are “not acceptable in the …

At least 2,000 suspected gangsters were transferred to El Salvador on Wednesday in the “largest prison in America” built for 40,000 inmates as part of the “war” on crime launched a year ago by President Nayib Bukele. “In a new operation, we transferred the second group of two thousand gangsters …