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-- 2021-09-07 15:09:56
Six minor girls in central India were stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rains. The incident took place in a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of...
-- 2021-09-07 14:31:25
Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the Western donors who finance them are barred from dealing with the new Taliban government, a World Health Orga...
-- 2021-09-07 13:44:06
India aims to ramp up its medical oxygen production capacity to 15,000 tonnes per day before a potential third wave of coronavirus infections that is expected to hit the country as soon as mid-Septemb...
-- 2021-09-07 12:03:13
Myanmar’s shadow government, formed by opponents of military rule, called for a revolt against the junta on Tuesday, setting out a strategy that included action by armed militias and ethnic forc...
-- 2021-09-07 11:45:01
Myanmar's military junta has released controversial Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, known for his nationalist and anti-Muslim rhetoric. He had previously been charged for sedition against the ci...
-- 2021-09-07 10:44:48
Japan's former foreign minister Fumio Kishida, a strong contender to become next prime minister, has called for a package of more than 30 trillion yen ($273 billion) to cushion the blow from the coron...
-- 2021-09-07 10:05:06
Hundreds of medical facilities in Afghanistan are at risk of imminent closure because the Western donors who finance them are barred from dealing with the new Taliban government, a World Health Organi...
-- 2021-09-06 21:07:32
The Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on conflict prevention and the protection of the human rights of minorities, convened by the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes, will take pla...
-- 2021-09-06 14:54:20
Myanmar's military rulers have agreed to an ASEAN call for a ceasefire until the end of the year to ensure distribution of humanitarian aid, Japan's Kyodo news agency said, citing the envoy of the sou...
-- 2021-09-06 14:04:57
South Africa's jailed former president Jacob Zuma has been placed on medical parole because of his ill health, the government's correctional services department said on Sunday. Last month prison auth...
-- 2021-09-06 11:47:20
The Taliban have taken complete control of Panjshir province, the last area in Afghanistan being held by resistance forces, the Islamist militant group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said on Monday....
-- 2021-09-06 11:05:12
The man accused of hatching the devastating plot to fly hijacked passenger planes into US landmarks 20 years ago is locked up awaiting trial, reports the BBC. But could he have been stopped years...
-- 2021-09-06 10:20:57
As the United States ends its 'forever war' in Afghanistan, a museum in New York is teaching students about the event that set it in motion before they were born: 9/11. The 9/11 Tribute Museum in Low...
-- 2021-09-06 10:15:51
Australia's government should increase its efforts to phase out coal or else climate change will dramatically damage the country's economy, Selwin Hart, the United Nations special adviser on climate c...
-- 2021-09-06 10:06:58
Tanzania suspended on Sunday another newspaper accused of false stories even though President Samia Suluhu Hassan had pledged to uphold media freedoms quashed by her predecessor. Raia Mwema, a leadin...
-- 2021-09-06 08:58:15
A week after declaring America's "new chapter" of engagement with Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will aim to form a united front with allies this week on how to tackle the Taliban a...
-- 2021-09-06 08:37:06
Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that officials were likely to soon get the regulatory go-ahead to administer Covid-19 vaccine booster shots made by Pfizer, although M...
-- 2021-09-06 08:22:20
The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban forces in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul said on Sunday he welcomed proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end...
-- 2021-09-05 21:33:21
The Taliban said on Sunday their forces had fought their way into the provincial capital of the Panjshir valley, their latest claim of progress in fighting against opposition forces holding out in the...
-- 2021-09-05 20:43:38
Italy plans to move its Afghan embassy to Doha, in Qatar, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday, the latest indication of Western diplomats setting up permanently outside Afghanistan i...
-- 2021-09-05 18:28:30
Court documents identify Auckland attacker as a Tamil Muslim from Sri Lanka who was granted refugee status in 2013, reports Al Jazeera. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her gove...
-- 2021-09-05 16:16:29
The US Congress is likely to finance UN and other agencies providing humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan but there is virtually no chance it will directly fund a new Taliban-led government, cong...
-- 2021-09-05 14:21:30
An Algerian court on Saturday ordered former Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui to be placed in custody on a charge of illegally crossing a border, a judicial source said. The court in the...
-- 2021-09-05 13:34:36
Japanese former cabinet minister Sanae Takaichi has secured enough support in the ruling party to join the race to succeed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, public broadcaster NHK reported. The former i...
-- 2021-09-05 13:04:58
Hurricane Ida's toll rose to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana on Saturday, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast US states where President Biden is heading next week to assess damag...
-- 2021-09-05 12:43:14
A surfer died on Sunday after being bitten by a shark off a surfing beach on Australia's east coast, paramedics said. The incident took place off the Emerald Beach, some 550 km (342 miles) north of S...
-- 2021-09-05 12:29:22
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 220 million, with the world still grappling to contain the pandemic. The total caseload and fatalities now stand at 220, 223,874, and 4,560,727 respecti...
-- 2021-09-05 11:54:15
General view of an entrance gate to Hamid Karzai International Airport which has been close for the maintenance of aircrafts in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept 4, 2021 — WANA (West Asia News Agency) vi...
-- 2021-09-05 11:45:42
Brazil's federal health regulator Anvisa on Saturday suspended the use of over 12 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd that were produced in an unauthorised p...
-- 2021-09-05 11:31:48
Two children were injured and buildings were damaged when a ballistic missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern region on Saturday, the ministry of defence said. The missile was in...
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