Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Shayna Jack says she is innocent of doping, despite testing positive for a banned substance Australian swimming is being accused of hypocrisy after an Olympic hopeful said she returned an abnormal drug test just days after teammate Mack Horton’s high-profile protest against a Chinese rival suspected of a doping […]
Image copyright Anubhav Yadav Image caption Two women relatives of the girl died in the crash on Sunday afternoon A teenager who accused a ruling party lawmaker of rape in 2017 has been seriously injured in a road accident in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. The 19-year-old was travelling with her lawyer and two relatives […]
Media captionThe BBC’s Nick Beake described the “chaos” on the streets over the weekend China has condemned the recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong as “horrendous incidents” that have caused “serious damage to the rule of law”. A spokeswoman for China’s top policy office on Hong Kong insisted that the territory’s “top priority” was to […]
Image copyright Anubhav Yadav Image caption Two women relatives of the girl died in the crash on Sunday afternoon A teenager who accused a ruling party lawmaker of rape in 2017 has been seriously injured in a road accident in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. The 19-year-old was travelling with her lawyer and two relatives […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong have previously demanded Huang Qi’s release A Chinese court has sentenced a civil rights activist widely referred to as the country’s “first cyber-dissident” to 12 years in jail. Huang Qi is the founder of 64 Tianwang, a news website blocked in mainland China that […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption No group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack At least 20 people have been killed in an attack targeting the Kabul office of vice-presidential election candidate Amrullah Saleh. Fifty other people were injured in the attack on the Green Trend office in the capital on Sunday. The violence […]
Image copyright AFP Image caption India is now estimated to be home to 70% of the world’s tigers India is now home to nearly 3,000 tigers, a third more than it had four years ago, according to the latest tiger census. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who presented the findings on Monday, said the tiger population […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption There were violent clashes between police and protesters over the weekend China has condemned the recent anti-government protests in Hong Kong as “horrendous incidents” that have caused “serious damage to the rule of law”. “We hope that… people will stand firm in defence of the rule of law,” a spokesman […]
Image copyright Anubhav Yadav Image caption Two women relatives of the girl died in the crash on Sunday afternoon A teenager who accused a ruling party lawmaker of rape in 2017 has been seriously injured in a road accident in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state. The 19-year-old was travelling with her lawyer and two relatives […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption No group has yet to claim responsibility for the attack At least 20 people have been killed in an attack targeting the Kabul office of vice-presidential election candidate Amrullah Saleh. Fifty other people were injured in the attack on the Green Trend office in the capital on Sunday. The violence […]
