China has detained a popular blogger for his comments regarding the casualties of soldiers in Galwan Valley clash last year, and the blogger has been sentenced to eight months in prison.
According to John Hopkins University data, Peru has has more than doubled its official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic, which makes the country with the highest death rate per capita.
Australia Prim Minister Scott Morrison has warned that “there are those far from here that would seek to divide us”, during a press conference with his New Zealand counterpart, Jacinda Ardern, as the two nations sought to get in lockstep over China, their biggest trading partner.
World breaking news today (June 1): China to allow couples to have third child in major policy shift. Meanwhile, Biden, Harris shock DC diners with an unannounced visit to popular restaurant, WHO gives new names to COVID-19 variants of concern, and gold price also make headlines today.
On Friday, The U.S government blocks imports of seafood from a Chinese company that authorities say forced crew members to work in slave-like conditions.
British Intelligence agents said they believe it is "feasible" that Covid-19 was started by a lab leak from a Chinese facility in Wuhan, after President Biden directed the US intelligence community to redouble its efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report
Early on Sunday, at least 2 people were kill and more than 20 others were injured in Miami after attackers opened fire on concertgoers outside a banquet hall, becoming the fourth mass shooting in May.
Britain’s new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has begun its first operational deployment in a voyage that will cross through the South China Sea. Commodore Steve Moorhouse, commander of the carrier group, said Britain’s presence is key in the region amid China’s rising power.
The European Medicines Agency on Friday recommended Covid vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech shots for children from 12 to 15 year olds, in order to increase the percentage of vaccination in children all over the world.
On Friday, Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong says Korea will deal with Tokyo's claim over South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo on the Tokyo Olympics website "as trong as possible", after the country's request to revise Japan map was turned down by the organisers.
After dispute with China over tariffs on Australian wine last year, Australia is about to call in the independent global trade umpire to resolve the tension.
The biggest high-techs are in intension with India over new social media rules that will invade privacy of the users and usher in mass surveillance, which can lead to an incredibly tense stand-off.