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Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral’ content

Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral’ content

-- 2020-10-09 20:27:19

Pakistan on Friday blocked social media app TikTok for failing to filter out ‘immoral and indecent’ content, the country’s telecommunication authority said in a statement. “In...

Russia says Armenia, Azerbaijan will attend Moscow talks

Russia says Armenia, Azerbaijan will attend Moscow talks

-- 2020-10-09 18:03:50

Armenia and Azerbaijan have confirmed that their foreign ministers will come for talks to Moscow, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Friday. With Russian President Vladimir Putin calling for a h...

North Korea prepares for big military parade despite coronavirus concern

North Korea prepares for big military parade despite coronavirus concern

-- 2020-10-09 16:57:02

North Koreans wearing medical masks have gathered in the capital of Pyongyang, state media reported this week, ahead of what is expected to be a big military parade on Saturday, possibly featuring the...

China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme rejected by Trump

China joins WHO-backed vaccine programme rejected by Trump

Reuters 2020-10-09 14:33:07

China has joined a global scheme for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccine backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), it said on Friday, giving a major boost to an initiative shunned by US Presiden...

‘14m tonnes of harmful microplastics polluting seafloor’

‘14m tonnes of harmful microplastics polluting seafloor’

AL JAZEERA 2020-10-08 20:23:46

An estimated 14.0 million tonnes of harmful microplastics may be present in the bottom of the world’s deep oceans as a result of the pervasive use of plastic, according to a world-first study by...

China advises Indian media not to call Taiwan a country

China advises Indian media not to call Taiwan a country

-- 2020-10-08 18:20:47

Chinese has advised Indian media not to violate the ‘One China’ principle and not to address Taiwan as a country after publication of advertisements on Taiwan’s national day on Satur...

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 36 million

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 36 million

-- 2020-10-08 12:38:17

Global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have exceeded 36 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The global case count r...

India declines to test Russia's Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine in large study

India declines to test Russia's Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine in large study

REUTERS 2020-10-08 12:21:54

India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd REDY.NS to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V Covid-19 vaccine and has asked it to...

Australia immigration law to require ‘English test’ for partner visas

Australia immigration law to require ‘English test’ for partner visas

-- 2020-10-08 11:28:52

Australia will require partners of existing residents to pass an English language test before gaining a permanent visa, its government says.   The controversial immigration requirement, if appr...

HRW urges Myanmar to end ‘arbitrary detention’ of Rohingya in Rakhine State

HRW urges Myanmar to end ‘arbitrary detention’ of Rohingya in Rakhine State

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-10-08 11:02:53

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Myanmar to urgently end the arbitrary and indefinite detention of approximately 130,000 Rohingya Muslims in squalid and abusive camps in Rakhine State. Recent measu...

Kuwait's emir names Sheikh Meshal as crown prince

Kuwait's emir names Sheikh Meshal as crown prince

-- 2020-10-07 17:21:41

Kuwait’s new ruler on Wednesday named veteran security chief Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad as crown prince, retaining power firmly within the ruling family’s oldest ranks and signalling the OPEC...

India's daily Covid-19 infections slow down after scaling highs

India's daily Covid-19 infections slow down after scaling highs

-- 2020-10-07 16:31:09

India reported 72,049 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, dropping from the daily highs of last month in a sign infections were peaking for now, officials and experts said, reports Reuters. India...

China says US should drop ‘Cold War’ mentality

China says US should drop ‘Cold War’ mentality

-- 2020-10-07 11:48:16

China said on Wednesday that the United States should stop its unprovoked attacks and accusations against China, accusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of maliciously creating political confrontat...

India’s Covid cases soar to 6.76 million

India’s Covid cases soar to 6.76 million

-- 2020-10-07 11:30:41

India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 6.76 million on Wednesday, rising by 72,049 cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, while the death toll was up 986 at 104,555....

Kyrgyzstan PM quits after post-election protests

Kyrgyzstan PM quits after post-election protests

-- 2020-10-07 10:44:41

Kyrgyzstan's prime minister has resigned after widespread post-election protests which plunged the country into political chaos. Kubatbek Boronov has now been replaced by Sadyr Japarov, who protester...

Kuwait's cabinet hands in resignation, emir asks PM to prepare for election

Kuwait's cabinet hands in resignation, emir asks PM to prepare for election

-- 2020-10-06 19:33:32

Kuwait's new emir has asked the Gulf state's cabinet to carry on its duties and prepare for parliamentary elections due this year after the prime minister handed in his government's resignation, repor...

Singapore PM testified in court in defamation case against blogger

Singapore PM testified in court in defamation case against blogger

-- 2020-10-06 16:35:30

Singapore’s prime minister testified in court on Tuesday in his defamation case against a blogger who shared an online article linking him to Malaysia’s 1MBD money-laundering scandal. As...

China in talks with WHO over assessing its COVID-19 vaccines for global use

China in talks with WHO over assessing its COVID-19 vaccines for global use

-- 2020-10-06 16:18:28

China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday...

Singapore offering ‘baby bonus’ to boost births in pandemic

Singapore offering ‘baby bonus’ to boost births in pandemic

-- 2020-10-06 12:43:57

Singapore is offering a one-off payment to encourage people to have babies during the coronavirus pandemic. The worry is that citizens are putting off parenthood as they struggle with financial stres...

Azeris, Armenians blame each other for firing at civilian areas

Azeris, Armenians blame each other for firing at civilian areas

REUTERS 2020-10-06 10:38:49

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. NAT...

Saudi business leader calls for boycott of Turkish products

Saudi business leader calls for boycott of Turkish products

-- 2020-10-05 21:17:21

The head of Saudi Arabia’s Chambers of Commerce has called for a boycott of Turkish products amid merchants’ reports that animosity between Ankara and Riyadh is hindering the flow of goods...

Armenia, Azerbaijan accuse each other of striking civilian areas

Armenia, Azerbaijan accuse each other of striking civilian areas

-- 2020-10-05 16:42:30

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas on a ninth day of fighting, the deadliest in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. Hundreds of people were...

Bengal BJP leader gunned down near police station

Bengal BJP leader gunned down near police station

FE Online Desk 2020-10-05 11:53:59

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was shot dead on Sunday evening near an Indian local police station. The deceased, Manish Shukla, was gunned down near the station, about 20 km from north Kolkat...

India aims up to 500m coronavirus vaccine doses by July

India aims up to 500m coronavirus vaccine doses by July

-- 2020-10-04 17:17:07

India hopes to receive up to 500 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by July to inoculate about 250 million people, health minister Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday, as infections in the world’s se...

Umrah pilgrims return to a Mecca stilled by COVID-19 slump

Umrah pilgrims return to a Mecca stilled by COVID-19 slump

-- 2020-10-04 16:12:10

Mecca slowly stirred from a seven-month hibernation on Sunday as pilgrims trickled in after Saudi Arabian authorities partially lifted a coronavirus ban on performing umrah - a pilgrimage to Islam's t...

Azerbaijan claims capturing villages in Karabakh; Armenia vows historic struggle

Azerbaijan claims capturing villages in Karabakh; Armenia vows historic struggle

REUTERS 2020-10-04 11:14:08

Armenia said on Saturday it would use “all necessary means” to protect ethnic Armenians from attack by Azerbaijan, which said its forces had captured a string of villages in fighting over...

Malaysia registers 317 new coronavirus cases, highest daily rise

Malaysia registers 317 new coronavirus cases, highest daily rise

-- 2020-10-03 17:37:50

Malaysia reported a record daily increase in novel coronavirus cases for the second day in a row on Saturday, with 317 new infections, reports Reuters. Malaysia has reported a total of 12,088 cases....

North Korea's Kim wishes Trump a speedy recovery

North Korea's Kim wishes Trump a speedy recovery

Reuters 2020-10-03 14:55:37

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a message of sympathy to US President Donald Trump, wishing him well and hoping he quickly recovers from the coronavirus, North Korean state media said on Saturday...

India's coronavirus death toll tops 100,000

India's coronavirus death toll tops 100,000

Reuters 2020-10-03 10:55:32

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidem...

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 34m mark

Global Covid-19 cases surpass 34m mark

-- 2020-10-02 12:05:04

The confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) caseload across the world has crossed 34 million on Friday morning, according to the latest tally provided by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The JHU data sho...