China reports 101 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of new cases since mid-April, and 89 of them are from
Xinjiang.
(Reuters)
Fiji's opposition parties urge the government to reconsider its decision of closing Fiji's embassy in the
United States, the
European Union, and other countries, and blame
Chinese influence in the Pacific.
(RNZ)
The
Grand National Assembly of Turkey passes a new
social media regulation bill that requires foreign sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to help monitor content, and will punish companies that don't comply with fines and throttling bandwidth.
(Reuters)
A man accused of
blasphemy under a new controversial law is shot dead by a gunman in the courtroom while he was standing trial for allegedly insulting
Islam. The victim was part of the
Ahmadiyya faith, a minority Islamic sect that
Pakistan declared non-Muslim in 1974 for regarding
its founder as a
prophet. The suspect was a former member.
(DW)
China reports 101 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of new cases since mid-April, and 89 of them are from
Xinjiang.
(Reuters)
Fiji's opposition parties urge the government to reconsider its decision of closing Fiji's embassy in the
United States, the
European Union, and other countries, and blame
Chinese influence in the Pacific.
(RNZ)
The
Grand National Assembly of Turkey passes a new
social media regulation bill that requires foreign sites to appoint Turkish-based representatives to help monitor content, and will punish companies that don't comply with fines and throttling bandwidth.
(Reuters)
A man accused of
blasphemy under a new controversial law is shot dead by a gunman in the courtroom while he was standing trial for allegedly insulting
Islam. The victim was part of the
Ahmadiyya faith, a minority Islamic sect that
Pakistan declared non-Muslim in 1974 for regarding
its founder as a
prophet. The suspect was a former member.
(DW)