Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos has been found guilty of 27 criminal counts over deadly 2019 car crash in Colorado that killed four people
December, 2021
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22 December
Libyan election called off amid disputes
Libya's parliament says the planned presidential election will not go ahead but has not named a new date, leaving the internationally backed peace process in chaos
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22 December
Omicron ‘storm’ forces new restrictions WORLDWIDE just days before Christmas
Singapore has suspended quarantine-free travel and Australia has renewed its vaccination push as surging cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant just days before Christmas forced authorities to impose new curbs and expedite booster shots.
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22 December
Sentencing demands expected in Dutch murder trial over flight MH17
Dutch prosecutors are on Wednesday expected to call for long sentences against three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with shooting down a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people. The suspects,
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22 December
Fauci says Fox News’ Jesse Watters should be fired on the spot after ‘ambush’ remarks
"The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public-health practices…" Fauci said.
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22 December
Exhausted frontline workers say ‘it’s like the movie “Groundhog Day”‘ as they face yet another COVID-19 surge
"I needed a break," one nurse said. "I think just from the everyday toll that work was putting on my mental wellbeing as well as my physical being."
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22 December
Philippines declares state of calamity after typhoon kills hundreds
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a state of calamity to ramp up relief operations for over two million people affected by the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year, officials say.
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22 December
Brett Tollman reveals his TTC Top 3 Wanderlist of 2022
The Travel Corporation's Global Chief Executive, Brett Tollman, has revealed his Top 3 Wanderlist travel experiences for 2022.
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22 December
Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says it helped evacuate Iran's sick envoy
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it had helped get Iran's sick ambassador out of the country before he died, rejecting an Iranian accusation that the envoy's evacuation had been delayed. Iran said on Tuesday …
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22 December
Singapore to freeze new ticket sales for quarantine-free arrivals
Singapore will freeze the sale of tickets for arriving flights and buses under its quarantine-free travel programme for four weeks from Thursday, the government said, citing the risk from the fast-spreading Omicron COVID-19 variant.