US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet next week with his counterparts from India, Japan and Australia, on the heels of a flare-up in tensions with China, an official said Friday.. India has long had tensions with China, including a major border skirmish in 2020, and has a budding alliance with the United States.
France's answer to the Oscars, the Cesar Awards, will hold its ceremony on Friday, with a distinct lack of women nominees despite a post-MeToo overhaul aimed at improving its feminist credentials. . There are no women among the nominees for best director this year -- indeed there has not been a female winner of that award since 2000 (Tonie Marshall for "Venus Beauty Institute").
The World Health Organization said Friday it was concerned about bird flu after the father of a 11-year-old Cambodian girl who died from the disease also tested positive, raising fears of human-to-human transmission.. On Friday, the authorities said the girl's 49-year-old father had tested positive, adding that he was asymptomatic.
A jihadist attack on a village in central Mali has killed 13 civilians, local officials told AFP on Friday.. Jihadists "killed more than 13 civilians", torched buildings and took away three people, according to another local politician speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Cats in velvet, cats in skirts, cats in sunglasses, cats in football kits: hundreds of felines were dressed to the nines Friday for Bangladesh's largest-ever cat show.. "There is a tendency to cause harm to cats everywhere," he said.
Activists on Friday parked a bombed-out Russian tank in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, with thousands of protesters across Europe due to march against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.. Zelensky was also due to address demonstrators in Berlin later Friday via video-link.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi added his voice Friday to calls for reform of global lenders such as the World Bank, as G20 finance ministers and central bank heads met.. This is partly because they have been slow to reform themselves," Modi said by video link as the two-day gathering began.
The ochre, weather-worn walls and tree-lined canal give a sense of tranquillity to the University of Ouagadougou, the highest institute of learning in crisis-stricken Burkina Faso.. Wracked by an Islamist insurgency that has sparked two military coups, Burkina Faso has bust up with France, forcing out its ambassador and prompting it to end its 15-year-long military support.
A martial arts teacher accused of running an armed movement to overthrow Hong Kong and China's governments was jailed for five years on Friday under the city's national security law.. The city's prison officials said this week that as of the end of last year, 522 people remain in jail in connection to the 2019 protests or national security violations. hol/lb/ssy
Sixteen-year-old Nadia makes the one-hour journey to and from her employer's house on foot each day, stopping frequently along the congested streets of Lahore so her mother can rest her weary legs.. Nadia's family, meanwhile, eat only twice a day, have stopped buying milk, and consider meat an unobtainable luxury.
