An emerging #MeToo movement and public horror over “honor killings” helped spur the government’s bill, but it still must be adopted by the conservative parliament.

The officials and activists were detained under the national security law for their efforts to choose candidates to run in the city’s legislative elections.

Mr. Kim convened the first Workers’ Party Congress in five years to revamp his policies as North Korea’s economic woes deepened amid international sanctions and the pandemic.

The White House took a surprise parting shot at China on Tuesday by banning the popular Chinese payment service and other applications.

A Syrian-born Jew, he took part in early undercover operations, including bombings, and later taught “generations” of Israeli agents.

Mr. Stewart turned a rundown beach hotel in Montego Bay, in his native Jamaica, into the flagship of a chain of luxury resorts.

Speaking at a news conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said that 1.3 million people had already been vaccinated, and that he hoped that the most vulnerable could be protected by the vaccine within about six weeks.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany announced on Tuesday that the country would extend the nationwide lockdown until the end of January amid the surge of coronavirus cases and the fear that the more contagious variant of the virus could spread.

Indonesia’s clerics want more details about China’s vaccine.