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Tigrayan forces take control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

Tigrayan forces take control of UN World Heritage Site in Ethiopia

-- 2021-08-06 16:34:19

Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were fleeing, two eyewitnesses t...

Six, including pilot, die in Alaska plane crash

Six, including pilot, die in Alaska plane crash

-- 2021-08-06 15:15:41

Six people were killed on Thursday when a sightseeing plane crashed in a mountainous area of southeast Alaska, officials said, leaving no survivors. The craft, a De Havilland Beaver, had been ferryin...

Rocket fire from Lebanon sets off sirens in Israel and Golan Heights

Rocket fire from Lebanon sets off sirens in Israel and Golan Heights

REUTERS 2021-08-06 15:09:10

Rockets were fired towards Israel from southern Lebanon on Friday, a Lebanese security source said, triggering sirens in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. There were no immediat...

Hardliner Raisi sworn in as Iran president amid tensions with West

Hardliner Raisi sworn in as Iran president amid tensions with West

REUTERS 2021-08-06 11:03:19

Hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took the oath of office before parliament on Thursday, with the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers facing growing crises at home and abroad. The mid-ranking S...

Taliban target provincial Afghan cities in response to US strikes

Taliban target provincial Afghan cities in response to US strikes

REUTERS 2021-08-06 10:58:00

Afghan security forces keep watch at a checkpoint in the Guzara district of Herat province, Afghanistan July 9, 2021 — Reuters Taliban militants have switched strategy from targeting rural area...

Biden pledges Pacific pandemic support

Biden pledges Pacific pandemic support

REUTERS 2021-08-06 10:35:58

President Joe Biden told a forum of Pacific island leaders in a recorded message on Friday that their countries would benefit from US donated Covid-19 vaccines distributed without political strings....

China aims to provide 2.0b COVID-19 vaccine doses to world in 2021: CCTV

China aims to provide 2.0b COVID-19 vaccine doses to world in 2021: CCTV

-- 2021-08-05 20:31:08

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday said China will strive to provide two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to other countries in 2021, state broadcaster CCTV reported.In his written message to...

UK becomes Dialogue Partner of ASEAN

UK becomes Dialogue Partner of ASEAN

-- 2021-08-05 19:14:20

The UK has agreed a new partnership with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The partnership, which is the first ASEAN has agreed in 25 years, will lead to closer cooperation between...

At least 40 bodies found in Myanmar jungle after army crackdown

At least 40 bodies found in Myanmar jungle after army crackdown

REUTERS 2021-08-05 18:32:29

A Myanmar militia force fighting the army in a central part of the country and residents have found at least 40 bodies in jungle areas in recent weeks, including some showing signs of torture, a milit...

Uneasy calm in Indian Kashmir on second anniversary of loss of autonomy

Uneasy calm in Indian Kashmir on second anniversary of loss of autonomy

-- 2021-08-05 15:48:18

Troops patrolled the streets on Thursday in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, where many shops were shut to mark the second year since the Himalayan region was stripped of its autonomy. In 2...

Expats wait anxiously as Singapore weighs COVID-19 reopening

Expats wait anxiously as Singapore weighs COVID-19 reopening

-- 2021-08-05 15:46:07

For months, Briton Jamie Pierre has been trying to get approval to travel to Singapore for his new job there. But after repeated checks online plus multiple emails and messages, he is frustrated, conf...

Russia has administered Covid vaccines to 37 million people, report says

Russia has administered Covid vaccines to 37 million people, report says

-- 2021-08-05 15:21:20

Russia has administered COVID-19 vaccines to 37 million people, Interfax news agency quoted deputy health minister Oleg Gridnev as saying on Thursday. Gridnev did not say whether the figure referred...

Indian govt asks states to impose restrictions ahead of festivals

Indian govt asks states to impose restrictions ahead of festivals

-- 2021-08-05 13:40:44

The Indian government has asked state authorities to impose restrictions ahead of festivals across the country, warning that overcrowding could lead to "super spreader" events and a new surge in infec...

110 migrants rescued off Libyan coast

110 migrants rescued off Libyan coast

-- 2021-08-05 11:54:27

The Libyan Navy has said a coast guard patrol rescued 110 illegal migrants off the country's western coast. The rescued migrants, who are of different nationalities, include a woman who gave birth on...

Sydney reports worst day of pandemic as lockdown nears six weeks

Sydney reports worst day of pandemic as lockdown nears six weeks

Reuters 2021-08-05 11:38:07

Sydney reported its worst day of the Covid-19 pandemic on Thursday with five deaths and a record rise in locally acquired infections as a weeks-long hard lockdown is struggling to contain the highly c...

US developing plan to require foreign visitors to be vaccinated

US developing plan to require foreign visitors to be vaccinated

REUTERS 2021-08-05 10:50:17

The Biden administration is developing a plan to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of eventually lifting travel restrictions that...

Mexico sues biggest US gun manufacturers for ‘fuelling bloodshed’

Mexico sues biggest US gun manufacturers for ‘fuelling bloodshed’

-- 2021-08-05 10:16:19

The Mexican government has sued some of the biggest US gun manufacturers, accusing them of fuelling bloodshed through reckless business practices. The lawsuit alleges that the companies knew they...

Kidnappers in Nigeria demand ransom to release 80 schoolchildren

Kidnappers in Nigeria demand ransom to release 80 schoolchildren

REUTERS 2021-08-04 17:14:58

Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last month, according to a pastor involved in the negotiat...

Pakistan to rent out PM’s official house to manage 'financial crunch': Report

Pakistan to rent out PM’s official house to manage 'financial crunch': Report

-- 2021-08-04 16:11:05

Reeling from a financial crunch, Pakistan has now put its prime minister Imran Khan's official residence in Islamabad on the market for rent, according to a report by news agency ANI citing the local...

Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb attack in Kabul

Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb attack in Kabul

-- 2021-08-04 16:07:03

The Taliban claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a car bomb attack on the residence of Afghanistan's acting defence minister, while a blast near the office of the main security agency in Kabul just...

Cuomo under pressure to quit as probe finds he sexually harassed 11 women

Cuomo under pressure to quit as probe finds he sexually harassed 11 women

Reuters 2021-08-04 11:07:17

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo groped, kissed or made suggestive comments to 11 women in violation of the law, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday, prompting local prosecutors to launch a cri...

US envoy says Taliban seek 'lion's share of power' in new government

US envoy says Taliban seek 'lion's share of power' in new government

-- 2021-08-04 10:58:05

The Taliban and the Kabul government are far apart in US-backed talks on bringing peace to Afghanistan, with the insurgents demanding "the lion's share of power" in any new government, the special US...

Thousands of migrant children stuck in US border custody

Thousands of migrant children stuck in US border custody

-- 2021-08-04 10:43:05

The number of migrant children in Border Patrol facilities has been steadily rising, an analysis of US government data shows, as record numbers crossed the US-Mexico border in July, renewing a politic...

Australia reports one of its youngest Covid deaths as Sydney outbreak grows

Australia reports one of its youngest Covid deaths as Sydney outbreak grows

-- 2021-08-04 10:24:23

Australia's New South Wales reported one of the country's youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month high despite the lockdown of 5 million people in stat...

Pentagon on lockdown after shooting near Metro station

Pentagon on lockdown after shooting near Metro station

AP 2021-08-03 21:56:04

Gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the Pentagon, resulting in multiple injuries. The facility, the headquarters of the US military, was placed on lockdown. The Arlington County...

Indian govt 'ready to probe Bengal post-poll violence'

Indian govt 'ready to probe Bengal post-poll violence'

UNB 2021-08-03 19:45:15

Barely 20 days after India's top human rights body recommended a central probe into post-poll violence in the eastern state of West Bengal, the federal government on Tuesday expressed its willingness...

UAE lifts ban on transit flights

UAE lifts ban on transit flights

REUTERS 2021-08-03 18:31:23

The United Arab Emirates will lift a ban on transit passenger traffic from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries from Aug 5, the National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority (NCEMA) said...

Pakistan reaches 1.0m shots a day after warning unvaccinated face penalties

Pakistan reaches 1.0m shots a day after warning unvaccinated face penalties

REUTERS 2021-08-03 17:58:51

Pakistan hit a target on Tuesday to vaccinate one million people a day against COVID-19, making strides in its inoculation campaign just weeks away from a deadline for workers in public-facing roles t...

24 Russian diplomats asked to leave US by Sept 3

24 Russian diplomats asked to leave US by Sept 3

REUTERS 2021-08-03 16:18:28

Russia's ambassador to the United States said Washington had asked 24 Russian diplomats to leave the country by Sept 3 after their visas expire, heightening tensions between the two countries. In an...

Iran’s Raisi says he will take steps to lift US sanctions

Iran’s Raisi says he will take steps to lift US sanctions

REUTERS 2021-08-03 15:08:58

Iran will take steps to lift "tyrannical" sanctions imposed by the United States, hardline Shi'ite cleric Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday after winning the endorsement of the country's supreme leader to...