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Reuters 2021-07-09 10:41:48
US President Joe Biden on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull the country's military forces out of Afghanistan, saying the Afghan people must decide their own future, rather than sacrifici...
-- 2021-07-09 10:37:00
All nine people onboard were killed when a small airplane crashed at a Swedish airport on Thursday evening, Swedish police said. "It's a very severe accident," Swedish police said on their website. "...
REUTERS 2021-07-08 18:57:59
COVID-19 infections in England have quadrupled in a month since early June, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday, ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to fully re-open the economy in tw...
Reuters 2021-07-08 17:26:10
Sorbonne-educated Chryssoula Fayad spent nearly two decades teaching history and geography at Lebanon's elite French schools, ultimately heading departments. Now she is a substitute teacher in Paris,...
Reuters 2021-07-08 16:46:21
Afghan government forces on Thursday wrested back control of a western provincial capital stormed by the Taliban a day earlier and hundreds of fresh troops have been deployed to the region, the defenc...
-- 2021-07-08 13:40:11
Thailand's plan to re-open the country to foreign tourists in about 100 days has been thrown into doubt as it sees a new spike in Covid cases. Some 7,000 cases and 75 deaths were reported on Thur...
Reuters 2021-07-08 13:07:45
The Biden administration is considering offering an expedited visa path for vulnerable Afghans including women politicians, journalists, and activists who may become targets of the Taliban, US officia...
-- 2021-07-08 12:08:48
Russia has offered North Korea Covid vaccines once again, amid reports that a harsh lockdown is leading to extreme hunger. Pyongyang has refused vaccines and aid from a number of countries....
Reuters 2021-07-08 10:54:18
South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the post-ap...
-- 2021-07-08 10:34:23
Four people suspected of assassinating Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse have been killed in a shootout with the security forces, police say. Two others have been detained, while officers are...
-- 2021-07-08 10:27:20
More than four million people around the world have died of COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In total, three countries account for more than a third of all global deat...
Reuters 2021-07-08 09:37:27
Japan is set to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo through August 22 to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections, a key minister said on Thursday, as the organisers consider banning all specta...
-- 2021-07-07 22:06:42
Under fire for its poor handling of the Covid second wave and the economy, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government carried out a mega Cabinet rejig Wednesday, inducting as many as 43 new Mini...
-- 2021-07-07 20:25:53
Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mega cabinet expansion, 12 ministers and state ministers of the central government of the country have resigned from their posts. India’s ce...
REUTERS 2021-07-07 19:42:23
Taliban insurgents on Wednesday stormed the capital of Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province, officials said, briefly taking over police headquarters and sparking panic among local people. Offi...
-- 2021-07-07 18:53:52
The GAVI vaccine alliance hopes the Serum Institute of India (SII) will resume exports of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from this quarter, it told Reuters, earlier than the firm's forecast of the e...
Reuters 2021-07-07 17:29:01
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an "inhuman and barbaric act" and his wife was injured, Interim Prime Minister Claude Jose...
-- 2021-07-07 13:42:54
The leader of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday ordered a week-long extension of Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown, warning new cases are bound to rise as the country's biggest city grappl...
Reuters 2021-07-07 12:22:58
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was working to expedite the implementation of a five-point consensus reached by their leaders to deal with the crisis in Myanmar, Singapore's foreign...
Reuters 2021-07-07 09:45:11
Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, a move that could help it develop a nuclear weapon and that three European powers said threatene...
AP 2021-07-06 18:46:33
Israel’s parliament early on Tuesday failed to renew a law that bars Arab citizens from extending citizenship or residency rights to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in a tight vote...
REUTERS 2021-07-06 18:43:28
Rescuers in Japan waded through mud, rock and splintered wood in search of 24 people still missing on Tuesday after heavy rain triggered massive landslides in the seaside city of Atami three days ago,...
-- 2021-07-06 17:17:37
There are no survivors after a plane carrying 28 people crashed in the far east of Russia on Tuesday, Russian news agencies cited rescue officials as saying. The Antonov An-26 twin-engined turboprop...
-- 2021-07-06 16:14:26
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi let the world know on Tuesday that he had rung Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to wish him a happy 86th birthday, disregarding any potential disapproval fro...
Reuters 2021-07-06 12:04:14
A Russian AN-26 airplane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east, the country's emergencies ministry said on Tuesday. The plane, en route from regiona...
-- 2021-07-06 11:35:34
Israel will deliver about 700,000 expiring doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine to South Korea later this month, and South Korea will give Israel back the same number, already on order from...
Reuters 2021-07-06 09:02:20
Israel reported on Monday a decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness but said it remained highly effective in preventing s...
Reuters 2021-07-05 20:15:39
Tajikistan is looking into setting up camps for potential refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan amid escalating violence across the border, government sources told Reuters on Monday. Taliban insurge...
REUTERS 2021-07-05 19:35:59
More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, while dozens of others w...
REUTERS 2021-07-05 18:55:35
Malaysia will examine recruitment fees charged to workers and review its agreements with the home countries of migrant workers, the Human Resources Ministry said, after the Southeast Asian nation was...
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