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Dozens killed in besieged Mozambique gas town

Dozens killed in besieged Mozambique gas town

-- 2021-03-29 17:09:22

Dozens of people were killed in an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma this week, a spokesman for the country's defence and security forces said, including seven people when a convoy of ca...

Global coronavirus cases surge past 127 million

Global coronavirus cases surge past 127 million

-- 2021-03-29 13:21:38

Amid the worrying situation of Covid-19 infection in different parts of the world, the global cases surpassed 127 million on Monday. The total case count reached 127,116,964 while the death toll from...

Stranded Suez Canal ship refloated, raising hopes of reopening busiest waterway

Stranded Suez Canal ship refloated, raising hopes of reopening busiest waterway

Reuters 2021-03-29 11:58:41

The stranded container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week was almost fully re-floated on Monday and has restarted its engines, a shipping source with knowledge of the matter said, rais...

Myanmar troops fire at funeral as people gather to mourn death of protester

Myanmar troops fire at funeral as people gather to mourn death of protester

Reuters 2021-03-29 10:37:24

Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since l...

Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church opens to public

Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church opens to public

Reuters 2021-03-29 09:56:46

In scenes very different from last year, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre opened to the public on Palm Sunday, allowing Christians to attend mass at the start of Holy Week on the site wh...

Secretary Blinken says aspects of US-China ties are 'increasingly adversarial'

Secretary Blinken says aspects of US-China ties are 'increasingly adversarial'

Reuters 2021-03-29 09:23:04

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday he sees “increasingly adversarial” aspects to the United States’ relationship with China. “There are clearly increasingly a...

UN negotiating with China for unfettered access to Xinjiang

UN negotiating with China for unfettered access to Xinjiang

Reuters 2021-03-29 09:07:23

The United Nations is holding “serious negotiations” with China for unfettered access to the Xinjiang region to verify reports that Muslim Uighurs are being persecuted, UN Secretary Genera...

Iran proposes alternative shipping line to Suez Canal

Iran proposes alternative shipping line to Suez Canal

-- 2021-03-28 21:57:38

Iranian Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, proposed activating a shipping line that passes through Iran as an alternative to Egypt’s Suez Canal. The Suez Canal has been temporarily suspended s...

Saudi Arabia sees fields of green with tree-planting drive

Saudi Arabia sees fields of green with tree-planting drive

-- 2021-03-28 21:17:09

Saudi Arabia aims to plant 10 billion trees in the coming decades as part of an ambitious campaign unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday to reduce carbon emissions and combat pollut...

Indonesia to allow foreign tourists in Bali from July

Indonesia to allow foreign tourists in Bali from July

-- 2021-03-28 19:37:36

Indonesia has announced a plan to reopen Bali province to foreign tourists in July this year. The country will also prepare a travel corridor, or travel bubble, with other countries to boost tourism...

Generals partied amid global fury over Myanmar massacre

Generals partied amid global fury over Myanmar massacre

BBC 2021-03-28 19:10:16

The killing of more than 90 anti-coup protesters in Myanmar has drawn global outrage, with defence ministers of 12 nations condemning the military. The US accused the security forces of a "reign of t...

Chinese art mocks Western criticism of labour conditions in Xinjiang

Chinese art mocks Western criticism of labour conditions in Xinjiang

REUTERS 2021-03-28 17:26:06

A digital illustration by a prominent Chinese propaganda artist mocking Western governments, media and businesses critical of labour conditions in Xinjiang has gone viral on China’s social media...

Myanmar troops open fire at funeral

Myanmar troops open fire at funeral

-- 2021-03-28 17:16:42

Myanmar security forces opened fire on Sunday, witnesses said, at people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military cou...

Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup

Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup

REUTERS 2021-03-28 13:48:11

Across Myanmar, opponents of the ruling junta on Sunday mourned the killings of at least 114 people by security forces in the bloodiest day since the military coup on Feb 1, but vowed to keep protesti...

Philippines sends fighter aircraft over Chinese vessels in disputed South China Sea

Philippines sends fighter aircraft over Chinese vessels in disputed South China Sea

REUTERS 2021-03-28 13:23:16

The Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, its defence minister said, as he repeated his demand the fl...

Suspected suicide bombing at Indonesian church injures 14 people

Suspected suicide bombing at Indonesian church injures 14 people

-- 2021-03-28 13:00:45

Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country&...

Malaysia's key ruling coalition ally won’t work with PM Muhyiddin in polls

Malaysia's key ruling coalition ally won’t work with PM Muhyiddin in polls

REUTERS 2021-03-28 12:18:02

Malaysia’s biggest political party and key ruling coalition ally UMNO on Sunday said it will not cooperate with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s alliance in the next national election, de...

Facebook freezes page of Venezuela's Maduro over Covid-19 misinformation

Facebook freezes page of Venezuela's Maduro over Covid-19 misinformation

Reuters 2021-03-28 11:01:18

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about Covid-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure...

Suez Canal, one of world's busiest waterways, still blocked

Suez Canal, one of world's busiest waterways, still blocked

Reuters 2021-03-28 10:23:25

Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal have allowed its stern and rudder to move, but it remains unclear when the vessel will be refloated, the head of the canal authority...

Myanmar forces kill over 100 anti-coup protesters in 'horrifying' day of bloodshed

Myanmar forces kill over 100 anti-coup protesters in 'horrifying' day of bloodshed

REUTERS 2021-03-28 00:00:36

Myanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup,...

Iran, China sign 25-year cooperation deal

Iran, China sign 25-year cooperation deal

-- 2021-03-27 18:29:51

The Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Saturday signed a 25-year cooperation agreement between the two allies in a ceremony carried live on state television. “Our relations with Iran will...

Myanmar security forces kill 50 protesters on Saturday

Myanmar security forces kill 50 protesters on Saturday

-- 2021-03-27 16:31:05

Myanmar's security forces shot and killed at least 50 protesters on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, a brutal crackdown on dissent that came as the leader of the ruling junta said the milita...

West Bengal, Assam begin voting in key test for Modi

West Bengal, Assam begin voting in key test for Modi

REUTERS 2021-03-27 14:10:26

Voting began in Assam and West Bengal on Saturday in state elections that will show how support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding up following a coronavirus-stricken year, and months...

Myanmar armed forces kill 16 protesters on 'day of shame'

Myanmar armed forces kill 16 protesters on 'day of shame'

Reuters 2021-03-27 12:26:36

Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least 16 protesters on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, as the leader of the ruling junta said the military will protect the people and str...

US voting tech company sues Fox News for $1.6b over election-fraud claims

US voting tech company sues Fox News for $1.6b over election-fraud claims

-- 2021-03-27 11:47:59

Dominion Voting Systems Corp said it filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, accusing it of trying to boost its ratings by falsely claiming the company rigged the 2020 US p...

Myanmar security forces kill at least four protesters: Report

Myanmar security forces kill at least four protesters: Report

Reuters 2021-03-27 11:35:46

Security forces opened fire at a crowd protesting outside a police station in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon in the early hours of Saturday and at least four people were killed, Myanmar Now...

Pioneering Indian city ditches cars for clean air

Pioneering Indian city ditches cars for clean air

REUTERS 2021-03-27 11:35:11

Every Saturday, Shankar Yadav dusts off an old bike and pedals to work, reliving his carefree schooldays and hoping fellow Indians will join him in ditching cars to protect the planet. In one of Indi...

Farmer coaxes forest from the desert!

Farmer coaxes forest from the desert!

-- 2021-03-27 11:22:44

Yacouba Sawadogo murmurs advice to his sons as they press a sapling into the red earth using a centuries-old technique that he has adapted to conjure a forest from Burkina Faso’s rain-starved so...

WHO urges countries to donate Covid vaccines amid supply shortage

WHO urges countries to donate Covid vaccines amid supply shortage

Reuters 2021-03-27 10:52:37

The World Health Organization urged countries on Friday to donate Covid-19 vaccine doses to inoculate the most vulnerable in 20 poorer nations after India, a key supplier to the agency’s COVAX v...

France's cheese consumption increases during lockdown

France's cheese consumption increases during lockdown

-- 2021-03-27 10:50:18

French households feasted on cheese last year as they turned to home cooking and sought gastronomic comfort during coronavirus lockdowns that shuttered the restaurant trade. The amount of cheese purc...