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The Netherlands will not be the first member state whose ID cards omit gender. The German ID card does not include it.

‘Contents of your underwear do not concern the govt’: Gender off Dutch ID cards soon

In a letter to parliament, Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven said gender categories would be omitted from ID cards from 2024/2025.

04 Jul 2020 9:06 PM

Putin mocks US embassy in Russia for flying rainbow flag

His comments followed a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms that included an effective ban on gay marriage

04 Jul 2020 12:19 PM

French President Emmanuel Macron (4-L) and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (3-L) pose for a family photo after the first cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. (AFP)

French Prime Minister, government resign ahead of cabinet reshuffle

President Emmanuel Macron says the move will set out a 'new course' as the country grapples with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic

03 Jul 2020 4:30 PM

Merkel urges EU unity on China

'Only together the 27 EU member countries have enough weight to achieve ambitious deals with China,' the German Chancellor said

03 Jul 2020 2:36 PM

Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis gather for a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on June 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Climate battles are having their day in court

As lawsuits for climate go up, lawyers are getting creative — using new legal arguments to challenge companies and governments before court

03 Jul 2020 9:33 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin shows his passport to a member of a local electoral commission as he arrives to cast his ballot in a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms at a polling station in Moscow on July 1, 2020. (AFP)

Putin could stay in power till 2036 as per the new constitution reforms

In a seven day long voting, Russians overwhelmingly approved the package for constitutional changes put forward by president Vladimir Putin

02 Jul 2020 8:37 AM

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization. (AP Photo)

'No excuse' for countries that fail in contact tracing, says WHO chief Tedros

“Although many countries have made some progress, globally the pandemic is actually speeding up,” Tedros Adhanom said

30 Jun 2020 12:42 PM

Medics wearing PPE kits carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 at a district hospital, in Noida. (PTI)

Half a million lives lost to the pandemic

The world has reached a grim milestone on the virus front while some countries are still grappling with only the first wave

29 Jun 2020 8:34 AM

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs as they resume their "No Filter Tour" North American Tour at the Soldier Field in Chicago. (AFP)

Hey, You! Rolling Stones warn Trump of legal action over song use

Earlier this month, Trump was stopped from using a song of rock musician Tom Petty as well, saying Trump's is 'a campaign of hate'

28 Jun 2020 6:00 PM

Zina Goodall wears a face mask as she carries a rainbow flag while walking with friends in the Castro District amid the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco, Saturday, June 27, 2020. (AP)

Pride events go online this year to mark 50th anniversary

While some took to streets, much of the movement's energy was channelled into Global Pride, a 24-hour online event broadcast live online

28 Jun 2020 12:25 PM

A man ride sa bike past a coronavirus-related mural by urban artists Mick Martinez and "Were Torres" in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico. (AFP)

Global COVID-19 fundraising meeting raises $6.9 billion

Many leaders stress that an eventual vaccine should be available to anyone who needs it

28 Jun 2020 9:28 AM

France confirms it will read black boxes of Ukrainian jet shot by Iran

The Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down on January by an Iranian ground-to-air missile, killing 176 people

27 Jun 2020 8:45 AM

Armed policemen man a checkpoint along a road in Cebu City, central Philippines. (AFP)

Authoritarian regimes are using virus to silence its critics, ex-leaders warn

500 signatories, including more than 60 former leaders, wrote an open letter organised by Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

25 Jun 2020 3:16 PM

People cross the border between France and Spain at Behobie, southwestern France. (AP)

Americans not allowed into 30+ European countries

As Europe reopens its borders, American visitors will not be welcome owing to surging virus numbers in USA and Trump’s recent ban

25 Jun 2020 10:39 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center). (AP)

Russia refuses to meddle in Sino-Indian border dispute

Russia maintains close ties with both India and China and its views are therefore seen as extremely important

24 Jun 2020 10:31 AM

Floral tributes are seen at a police cordon at the Abbey Gateway near Forbury Gardens park in Reading, west of London, on June 21, 2020 following a fatal stabbing incident the previous day. (AFP)

Britain says stabbing 'atrocity' in town park was terrorism

An unnamed 25-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and held in police custody

22 Jun 2020 9:05 AM

An employee in full protective gear checks the temperature of passengers arriving to check in for their flight bound for Beijing at the Barajas airport in Madrid on June 20, 2020. (AFP)

Spain reopens border with France

Spain has been one of the worst affected countries, suffering more than 28,000 deaths and nearly 300,000 cases

21 Jun 2020 4:19 PM

Examiners wear face shields and masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, during end of year secondary school exams at high school Liceo Kennedy, in Rome. (AP)

Italy’s sewage water study suggests COVID-19 was there before China

Traces of coronavirus were found in wastewater collected in Italy during December 2019

19 Jun 2020 4:30 PM

Casts of the headstone and footstone of an enslaved African man, in the entrance to St Mary's church, in Bristol, England, Thursday June 18, 2020, where the memorial for an enslaved African man have been vandalised in St Mary's churchyard in an apparent "retaliation attack" following the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston during anti-racist protests held in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in the US.(AP)

Slave's grave vandalized in UK city in apparent retaliation

Authorities presume the attack is in revenge for anti-racism protesters toppling the statue of a prominent slave trader in Bristol

19 Jun 2020 11:36 AM

A protester stands outside the presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, June 18, 2020, during a rally against a law banning the teaching of gender studies. (AP)

Protesters call on Romania's president to reject gender studies ban

Romania’s parliament had approved the bill to ban gender studies bill on Tuesday

19 Jun 2020 10:43 AM

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