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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Belarus faces sanctions over ‘state piracy’, airlines to shun it

Belarus faces sanctions over ‘state piracy’, airlines to shun it

WORLD
GABRIELA BACZYNSKA and MATTHIAS WILLIAMS SEVERAL airlines have said they would avoid Belarusian airspace after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair jetliner and arrest a dissident journalist in an act denounced by Western powers as "state piracy". European Union leaders were set to ban Belarussian airlines from their bloc's airspace and call on EU-based carriers to avoid flying over the former Soviet republic, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters. The leaders of the 27 member states will also consider widening the list of Belarussian individuals they already sanction and call on the International Civil Aviation Organization…
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Italian cable car crash kills 14 people, child seriously hurt

Italian cable car crash kills 14 people, child seriously hurt

WORLD
GUILIA SEGRETI, FLAVIO LO SCALZO and ALEX FRASER AT least 14 people, including five Israelis, died and a child was seriously injured yesterday when a cable car linking Italy's Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, officials and rescuers said. The Stresa-Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the town on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 metres above sea level to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes. Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had been informed by Italian authorities that five of its nationals were among the dead and one Israeli…
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
What has changed a year after George Floyd’s death?

What has changed a year after George Floyd’s death?

WORLD
ANASTASIA MOLONEY IN the year since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, people worldwide took to the streets to protest against racism amid renewed calls for reforms in U.S. law enforcement. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd in April, a milestone in the fraught racial history of the United States and a rebuke of law enforcement's treatment of Black Americans. But what tangible change has happened to address racial inequality in the United States since Floyd's murder? The…
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Cold weather in China kills 21 in ultramarathon, sparks outrage

Cold weather in China kills 21 in ultramarathon, sparks outrage

WORLD
LUSHA ZHANG and RYAN WOO TWENTY-ONE people were killed when extremely cold weather struck during an ultramarathon in rugged Gansu province in northwestern China, sparking public outrage on Sunday over the lack of contingency planning. The 100-km (62-mile) race began on Saturday from a scenic area at a bend in the Yellow River known for its sheer cliffs and rock columns. The route would take runners through canyons and hills on an arid plateau at an elevation of over 1,000 metres (3,300 feet). The race kicked off at 9 a.m. (01.00 GMT) with runners clad in t-shirts and shorts under…
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May
24
2021
By The African Mirror
UN agency says it is ‘strongly concerned’ by Belarus jet incident

UN agency says it is ‘strongly concerned’ by Belarus jet incident

WORLD
TIM HEPHER THE United Nations' aviation agency was "strongly concerned" by the apparent forced landing of a Ryanair jetliner in Belarus, it has announced. The International Civil Aviation Organization said the incident may have contravened the Chicago Convention, a 1944 treaty that set rules for the burgeoning industry anticipated after World War Two and which underpins civil aviation today. Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land, drawing international criticism. The jet was flying through Belarus airspace en route from Athens to Lithuania…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Pain of Diana’s death pushed me to drink, drugs’

‘Pain of Diana’s death pushed me to drink, drugs’

WORLD
PRINCE Harry said he abused alcohol to numb the pain of his mother Diana's death in 1997 and accused the British royal family of neglecting him and his wife Meghan as she contemplated suicide. Harry, now 36, has spoken before about the trauma of losing Diana in a Paris car crash and then having to walk as a 12-year-old behind his mother's coffin in her funeral cortege under the glare of the world's media. "I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Gaza conflict forces reordering of Biden’s policy priorities

Gaza conflict forces reordering of Biden’s policy priorities

WORLD
MATT SPETALNICK, HUMEYRA PAMUK and PATRICIA ZENGERLE U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January determined to focus his time and energy on the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn at home and big challenges such as China, Russia and Iran abroad. But after a Gaza conflict that required intensive behind-the-scenes U.S. diplomacy, his aides are having to reorder their priorities as they seek to stabilize an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, craft a reconstruction aid plan for the Palestinians and prevent a recurrence of what became Biden's first foreign policy crisis. The focus, one U.S. official said, is on "what would come next,…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
India tests drones to take COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas

India tests drones to take COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas

WORLD
RINA CHANDRAN VILLAGERS in remote corners of rural India could start seeing curious flying objects in the skies as health experts test out drones to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to isolated communities amid a deadly surge in coronavirus cases. The southern state of Telangana, which is part of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Medicine from the Sky project along with government think-tank NITI Aayog and Apollo Hospitals, will run a trial and then launch COVID-19 vaccine deliveries with drones. Karnataka, another southern state, is also looking at drone deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines, while the Indian Council of Medical Research has been…
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May
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Myanmar junta leader says Suu Kyi will soon appear

Myanmar junta leader says Suu Kyi will soon appear

WORLD
MYANMAR’S junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was healthy at home and would appear in court in a few days, in his first interview since overthrowing her in a February 1 coup. The coup has plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos and one of several ethnic armed groups opposed to the ruling junta advanced to attack a military post in a northwestern jade mining town on Saturday, local media said. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her long struggle against previous military rulers, is among more than 4,000 people detained since…
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May
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Haunted by Diana’s death, Prince Harry talks of how he feared losing Meghan, too

Haunted by Diana’s death, Prince Harry talks of how he feared losing Meghan, too

WORLD
JILL SERJEANT FROM the sound of horses' hooves on the day of Princess Diana's funeral, to chases by paparazzi when he was a child in the back of a car, Prince Harry is still haunted by the trauma of losing his mother. Speaking in detail of how he failed to deal with her loss for more than a decade, Harry says in a new TV documentary series that the fear of also losing his wife Meghan was one of the main reasons the couple quit their royal duties and moved to California last year. "My mother was chased to her…
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