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Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia sign deal to end war

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia sign deal to end war

-- 2020-11-10 16:29:42

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed a deal to end the military conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region after more than a month of bloodshed. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan first ann...

Suu Kyi's party claims victory in Myanmar as its vote tally shows lead

Suu Kyi's party claims victory in Myanmar as its vote tally shows lead

Reuters 2020-11-09 20:04:09

Myanmar's ruling party said on Monday it had won enough seats in parliament to form the next government, after reporting a lead based on its unofficial count of votes from the country’s second g...

India records 490 Covid deaths, 45,903 new cases in 24 hrs

India records 490 Covid deaths, 45,903 new cases in 24 hrs

-- 2020-11-09 16:50:12

India has registered 45,903 new cases in the past 24 hours on Monday, bringing the total tally to 8,553,657, said the latest data released by the federal health ministry. With 490 deaths since Sunday...

Iran calls on neighbours to cooperate following Trump's defeat

Iran calls on neighbours to cooperate following Trump's defeat

-- 2020-11-09 16:32:19

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on his country's neighbours to cooperate in achieving common interests, following US President Donald Trump's defeat in the presidential election....

Myanmar awaits election results, Suu Kyi may get new term

Myanmar awaits election results, Suu Kyi may get new term

-- 2020-11-09 16:19:55

Myanmar authorities are due to release early election results on Monday after what appeared to be an enthusiastic turnout despite fears of the novel coronavirus for a vote that is expected to give lea...

Palestinian president congratulates Biden, indicates end to boycott of US

Palestinian president congratulates Biden, indicates end to boycott of US

Reuters 2020-11-08 21:57:05

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden in a statement that indicated he will drop his three-year political boycott of the White House. Abbas had ende...

China to advance construction of rail line in Tibet

China to advance construction of rail line in Tibet

-- 2020-11-08 20:46:45

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday instructed officials to expedite the construction of the new $47.8 billion railway project connecting the country’s southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in...

Four Indian soldiers, three militants killed in Kashmir gunbattle

Four Indian soldiers, three militants killed in Kashmir gunbattle

-- 2020-11-08 19:17:43

Four Indian army soldiers and three militants were killed in Kashmir on Sunday, an Indian Defence Ministry spokesperson said, in the bloodiest gunbattle in the disputed region since April this year, r...

Prayers of gratitude at Kamala Harris' ancestral village in India

Prayers of gratitude at Kamala Harris' ancestral village in India

Reuters 2020-11-08 17:10:21

Indians burst firecrackers on Sunday and offered prayers of gratitude over the election of Kamala Harris as the next US vice president, declaring it a proud moment for Indian-Americans. Harris, born...

Loved or hated, Trump makes marks in Mideast conflict

Loved or hated, Trump makes marks in Mideast conflict

Reuters 2020-11-08 17:05:51

“God Bless You Donald and Melania” read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the US election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, anti-Trump graffiti adorned walls. Perhaps...

Iran's Rouhani says next US admin should make up for Trump's mistakes

Iran's Rouhani says next US admin should make up for Trump's mistakes

REUTERS 2020-11-08 16:02:58

The next US administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trump’s mistakes, Iranian state media quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Sunday after Democrat...

Suu Kyi expected to win second term as Myanmar goes to polls

Suu Kyi expected to win second term as Myanmar goes to polls

-- 2020-11-08 13:00:07

Myanmar voted on Sunday in an election seen as a referendum on a fledgling democratic government whose reputation collapsed overseas amid allegations of genocide but which remains popular at home. Le...

UAE relaxes Islamic laws for personal freedoms

UAE relaxes Islamic laws for personal freedoms

-- 2020-11-07 18:13:33

The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalising...

Polluted air spells trouble for virus patients in India

Polluted air spells trouble for virus patients in India

AP 2020-11-07 17:27:57

A thick quilt of smog lingered over the Indian capital and its suburbs on Friday, fed by smoke from raging agricultural fires that health experts worry could worsen the city’s fight against the...

Bangladesh opens first school for transgender students

Bangladesh opens first school for transgender students

-- 2020-11-06 18:41:07

A religious charity has opened the first school in Bangladesh for hijras, a transgender community whose members face widespread discrimination in the mostly conservative Muslim society and often live...

Global coronavirus cases near 48 million

Global coronavirus cases near 48 million

-- 2020-11-05 13:49:57

The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases is approaching 48 million on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. According to the data, the death toll from the virus c...

Suu Kyi’s govt making unacceptable mistakes over polls: Myanmar army chief

Suu Kyi’s govt making unacceptable mistakes over polls: Myanmar army chief

-- 2020-11-04 21:50:59

Myanmar’s army chief said on Tuesday the civilian government, led by  Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is making ‘unacceptable mistakes’ in the run-up to a pivotal general elect...

India’s Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami arrested

India’s Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami arrested

-- 2020-11-04 12:05:19

Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami arrested by Raigad police from his residence in Maharashtra in an abetment to suicide case. Architect Anvay Naik had committed suicide on May 5, 2018, in Alibaug at R...

Sri Lankan navy, villagers rescue more than 100 stranded whales

Sri Lankan navy, villagers rescue more than 100 stranded whales

-- 2020-11-03 17:45:23

Sri Lanka's navy said on Tuesday more than 100 whales were rescued after becoming stranded on a beach on the island's southwest coast a day earlier. Villagers defied a novel coronavirus curfew to joi...

Gunmen storm Kabul University in second deadly attack on students

Gunmen storm Kabul University in second deadly attack on students

Reuters 2020-11-02 20:50:07

Gunmen stormed Kabul University, killing students in their classrooms and firing on others as they fled on Monday, in the second attack on an educational institution in the city in just over a week, o...

Gunmen exchange fire with Afghan forces at Kabul University

Gunmen exchange fire with Afghan forces at Kabul University

REUTERS 2020-11-02 15:38:48

Gunmen traded fire with Afghan security forces on the Kabul University campus following a blast in the area, and at least six people were wounded, Afghan government officials said. The Taliban denied...

Indian troops kill top Kashmiri rebel commander

Indian troops kill top Kashmiri rebel commander

REUTERS 2020-11-02 13:36:08

Indian security forces killed the chief of the largest rebel group in Kashmir in a gun battle on Sunday, as the disputed region is riven by violence more than a year after New Delhi withdrew its semi-...

Sri Lanka capital, surrounding areas go into lockdown after virus surge

Sri Lanka capital, surrounding areas go into lockdown after virus surge

-- 2020-11-02 13:04:21

Sri Lankan authorities have that a weekend curfew in the Western Province including the capital Colombo would be extended till Nov. 9 as the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients continued to rise...

Pakistan's PM says he will grant part of Kashmir provincial status, angering India

Pakistan's PM says he will grant part of Kashmir provincial status, angering India

-- 2020-11-02 11:40:10

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday his government will give provisional provincial status to part of Kashmir, drawing condemnation from India, which has long objected to any such chang...

Death toll from Typhoon Goni jumps to 16, Philippine says

Death toll from Typhoon Goni jumps to 16, Philippine says

-- 2020-11-02 10:37:48

The Philippines’ disaster agency said on Monday the death toll from Typhoon Goni, the world’s strongest typhoon this year, had climbed to 16. Goni’s powerful winds and heavy rains c...

Seven lawmakers arrested in Hong Kong

Seven lawmakers arrested in Hong Kong

-- 2020-11-01 17:55:19

Seven pro-democratic lawmakers were arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday on charges related to obstructing a legislative council meeting in May, they said on Facebook, a move that comes after Beijing passe...

Mother, children rescued from Turkey quake rubble after 18 hours

Mother, children rescued from Turkey quake rubble after 18 hours

REUTERS 2020-11-01 10:52:51

A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety on Saturday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir that was flattened in a powerful eart...

Thai students protest as King Vajiralongkorn to lead graduation ceremony

Thai students protest as King Vajiralongkorn to lead graduation ceremony

REUTERS 2020-10-31 14:12:54

Some students at Thailand’s Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees am...

Saudi to revoke foreign worker sponsorship system next year

Saudi to revoke foreign worker sponsorship system next year

REUTERS 2020-10-31 11:52:43

Saudi Arabia plans to cancel a foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala, and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees, the financial newspaper Maaal said on Tue...

Malaysia mulling temporary work permits for undocumented migrants

Malaysia mulling temporary work permits for undocumented migrants

-- 2020-10-30 21:26:29

Malaysian government is considering issuing temporary work permits to illegal foreign workers in the country to overcome the shortage of workers in the oil palm and rubber industries. Muhyiddin Yassi...