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Monday, 08 February 2021 - 23:06 The Netherlands have announced that they are suspending all adoptions from abroad with immediate effect, after an official inquiry found many abuses. The Netherlands is suspending international adoptions after a government commission found that some children had been stolen or purchased from their birth parents, Legal Protection Minister Sander Dekker announced on Monday. An investigative commission has found that some children from Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia,...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has surprised many by revealing plans to amend the law to allow more overseas-trained doctors to practise locally, an idea that has long been unpopular with local practitioners.

Two Seeming GOP U-Turns on Immigration Matters By David North on February 6, 2021 Usually Republican appointees favor employers of foreign farmworkers, rather than the workers. Usually, such appointees do not seek to use labor unions to advance GOP policies. While both of those generalizations remain sound ones, we saw exceptions to both this past week in Washington. In the first, a long-time GOP appointee, hearing arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, lashed out...

Foreign man, believed Russian, in ICU after slashing own neck with knife Foreign man, believed Russian, in ICU after slashing own neck with knife PHUKET: A foriegn man believed to be a Russian national is in intensive care after slashing his own neck with a fruit knife on the Karon beach road last night (Feb 7), report the Karon Police. Photo: Karon Police Officers on patrol saw the man in front of a 7-Eleven on the Karon beach road at about 10pm, Karon Police Chief Col Peerapong Chai-aroon tol...

Last week, famous pop singer Rihanna tweeted in support of farmers protesting in India against three new farm laws passed by the Modi government last September....

Chinas Foreign Ministry has responded to Singhs statement on LAC transgressions, calling it

Foreign investors dump $162mln of debt assets in 8 months Business February 7, 2021 KARACHI: Foreign investors offloaded around $162 million from government securities, as they preferred to keep exposure to Pakistan’s debt market lower amid soft interest rate and Covid-related uncertainty, analysts said on Saturday. Foreign investors continued to remain net sellers of the government papers, namely treasury bills and Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) from July 01, 2020 to February 02, 2021, s...

In a statement issued on Saturday, the Department of States spokesman Ned Price said:

The phone call between China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday, at the latter's invitation, has highlighted the scale of the challenge that lies ahead for the two sides to get their bilateral relationship back on track.

 07 Feb 2021 - 18:54 QNA Doha: The State of Qatar believes in multilateral action and the need for the international system to represent the values of humanity, justice and equality, said Assistant Foreign Minister and Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater, adding that this "cannot be achieved without having a fair international law that respects the right to humanity and a decent life for all peoples, and that if the international law fails to do so...