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-- 2021-08-20 19:49:29
More than 50 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 kilometres (135 miles) off Spain’s Canary Islands. According to Al Jazeera, Spain’s Maritime Resc...
BBC 2021-08-20 18:48:43
China has turned the three-child policy into legislation to allow couples to have up to three children, to boost the birth rate. The regulation was one of several laws passed on Friday at a meeting o...
-- 2021-08-20 18:31:24
The Taliban has ransacked at least two of India's consulates and took away parked cars in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acting against the assurances given by its leaders to the world. They ransacked the...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 17:34:02
Malaysia's king appointed Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the prime minister on Friday, returning the job to a party tainted by graft accusations as the southeast Asian nation grapples with a COVID-19 surge an...
THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 2021-08-20 16:40:58
Tens of millions of green jobs could be created if governments diverted one year's worth of the subsidies that are harming ecosystems and wildlife into spending that protects and restores nature, envi...
-- 2021-08-20 16:19:09
Johnson & Johnson has sought approval from Indian drug regulators to conduct a study of its COVID-19 vaccine among 12- to 17-year-olds, the company said on Friday. Conducting vaccine clinical tri...
-- 2021-08-20 15:48:36
At least five people were killed and over 30 others injured after a bomb went off near a procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan's eastern Bahawalnagar district of Punjab province on Thursday, police s...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:54:23
Taliban fighters hunting a journalist with Deutsche Welle have shot dead one member of his family and severely injured another, the German public broadcaster said late on Thursday. The Islamist milit...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:40:06
China's National People's Congress on Friday officially passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy starting November 1, according to state-media outlet Xin...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:24:38
Beaten, homes raided, turned away from work for being a woman: the complaints made by some Afghan journalists in recent days are sowing doubt about assurances made by their new Taliban rulers that ind...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 12:44:13
More than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan's capital, a NATO official said on Friday, pledging to redouble evacuation efforts as criticism of the West...
-- 2021-08-20 10:08:25
The U.S. State Department has said it was sending more consular officers to Kabul and other locations, including Qatar and Kuwait, to help with the evacuation effort from Afghanistan after the Taliban...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 10:00:51
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid the Taliban's swift takeover of the country. Faceboo...
-- 2021-08-20 10:00:29
About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. "They'll continue to see a ste...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 09:32:12
The Taliban called on Afghanistan's imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to mor...
-- 2021-08-19 23:35:07
The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, recently released a non-return advisory for Afghanistan, calling for a bar on forced returns of Afghan nationals, including asylum seekers who have had their claims r...
BBC 2021-08-19 23:26:55
Police are investigating an "active bomb threat" near the Congress building in Washington DC. US Capitol Police said they were negotiating with the driver of a suspicious vehicle near the Library of...
Reuters 2021-08-19 22:14:11
About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. "They'll continue to see a ste...
INDIA TIMES 2021-08-19 20:54:14
Taliban have allegedly burnt down an amusement park a day after they were seen enjoying rides following the capture of Kabul. The Taliban, some of them with weapons in hand, were seen enjoying a ride...
Reuters 2021-08-19 19:44:25
The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, has pledged to hold out against the Taliban from his stronghold in the Panjshir valley. In...
UNB 2021-08-19 19:34:01
In a big setback for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government, a higher court in Kolkata on Thursday ordered a federal probe into the post-poll violence in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal....
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-19 19:28:35
A UN document says the Taliban is intensifying its hunt for all people who worked and collaborated with Nato and US forces, reports The BBC. The confidential paper was reportedly produced by the Norw...
REUTERS 2021-08-19 17:06:51
China is warily eyeing the resumption of some Afghan resource projects but it will take years before the infrastructure is ready while security issues threaten to once again stall projects, according...
REUTERS 2021-08-19 12:18:39
Tremors shook buildings late on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean n...
FE Online Report 2021-08-19 10:56:43
The Taliban must immediately cease attacking journalists and searching their homes, and allow members of the press to operate freely and without fear of violence or reprisal, said the Committee to Pro...
REUTERS 2021-08-19 10:15:43
Armed Taliban members knocked on doors in cities across Afghanistan on Wednesday, witnesses said, telling fearful residents to return to their jobs a day after the militants announced they wanted to r...
REUTERS 2021-08-19 09:20:00
At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the Islamist group moved to consolidate power and Western countries ramped u...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 20:45:35
Afghanistan’s ousted President Ashraf Ghani is in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after he left his country as Taliban fighters seized control. "T...
REUTERS 2021-08-18 19:56:08
A Singapore court sentenced a British man to six weeks in prison on Wednesday, local media reported, after he repeatedly breached coronavirus protocols by refusing to wear a face mask in public. Benj...
-- 2021-08-18 19:31:23
Islamist groups around the world have hailed the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan, sparking global alarm that the country could once again become a safe haven for jihadists inspired by its success....
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