International

Special Desk In a first such act, a German court has convicted a former Syrian regime officer for crimes against humanity. This is first-ever trial of people linked to the government in Damascus. Former intelligence officer Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was sentenced to four-and-a-half-years in prison by the court in Koblenz …

Special Desk Ghana is the first country to receive coronavirus vaccines through the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme. Covax scheme was set up by WHO, Gavi vaccines alliance and Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to try to prevent poorer countries from being pushed to the back of the queue, when vaccine distribution …

Fredrik S. Heffermehl The Norwegian Nobel Committee will soon address the pile of nominations received for 2021. The number is constantly increasing, this year it will probably be around 350. Not easy to find the best. But much easier if the awarders would comply with Alfred Nobel´s visionary idea of …

Special Desk After a secret video leak, United Nations human rights office has asked the United Arab Emirates for proof that Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler, was alive. In secretly recorded videos shared by Princess Latifa, she has accused her father of holding her hostage in Dubai since …

Special Desk The US pop star, Demi Lovato 28, has spoken up about her 2018 drug overdose for the first time. She revealed how she came very close to death and returned. Demi was taken to hospital after she was found unconscious at her home in Los Angeles. She had …

Jubilee News Desk The social media platform Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content. This is in response to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms. Several government health and emergency pages were also blocked which was later …

Jubilee News Desk Rashmi Samant the first Indian female president of Oxford University students’ union was forced to quit the post amid backlash after ‘racist’ and ‘insensitive’ social media posts from her past were unearthed just days after her election. Samant who was criticised over several social media posts and …

Jubilee News Desk Golden Globes 2021 this year will be held in a virtual ceremony on February 28 — almost two months later than usual. The event will be live virtually from The Beverly Hilton, where the Globes are usually held, and the NBC Headquarters in New York, respectively. Golden …

Special Desk Britney Spears’ father was denied greater control over her finances by a court. Jamie Spears has controlled daughter Britney Spears’ financial affairs since 2008. But the singer recently indicated she wants him removed. The judge upheld a previous ruling that made a financial company a co-conservator for the …

Special Desk Russia is ready to sever ties with the EU against new, economically painful sanctions from bloc. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said, “We don’t want to isolate ourselves from world affairs, but we have to be prepared for that.” The EU has raised the prospect of further …