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Myanmar protesters defiant despite more killings, pressure on junta grows

Myanmar protesters defiant despite more killings, pressure on junta grows

REUTERS 2021-03-22 09:35:00

Demonstrators in Myanmar maintained their dogged opposition to military rule on Sunday despite a rising death toll, with two more people killed as the junta appeared equally determined to resist growi...

India's massive religious gathering causes worries amid surge in Covid-19 cases

India's massive religious gathering causes worries amid surge in Covid-19 cases

REUTERS 2021-03-22 09:20:50

India’s health ministry warned on Sunday that a huge gathering of devotees for a Hindu festival could send coronavirus cases surging, as the country recorded the most new infections in nearly fo...

Indian factory making 6,000 syringes a minute

Indian factory making 6,000 syringes a minute

BBC 2021-03-21 21:38:24

Rajiv Nath, who heads India's largest syringe factory, says he is turning down as many as 40 requests for syringes from across the world. Mr Nath's Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices (HMD) is i...

UAE approves new system to attract remote workers

UAE approves new system to attract remote workers

-- 2021-03-21 18:03:11

The federal cabinet of the United Arab Emirates approved a new system allowing professionals to reside in the Gulf state while working remotely for employers abroad, a scheme that the emirate of Dubai...

China steps up COVID-19 vaccination

China steps up COVID-19 vaccination

Reuters   2021-03-21 17:31:36

China has accelerated its vaccinations against COVID-19, administering 10 million doses in around a week, and is considering varied visa policies based on vaccination and virus conditions in different...

Serum Institute to delay further vaccine shipments to Brazil, Morocco, Saudi

Serum Institute to delay further vaccine shipments to Brazil, Morocco, Saudi

Reuters   2021-03-21 17:04:56

The Serum Institute of India (SII) has told Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco that further supplies of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will be delayed due to surging demand at home and as it works thr...

China, US agree to enhance cooperation on climate change

China, US agree to enhance cooperation on climate change

-- 2021-03-21 16:24:24

China and the United States will set up a joint working group on climate change in a potentially positive takeaway from what was an unusually rancorous high-level meeting. The top Chinese and US dipl...

Thousands of Israelis hold anti-Netanyahu protests against ahead of election

Thousands of Israelis hold anti-Netanyahu protests against ahead of election

-- 2021-03-21 11:24:28

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside the residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Saturday, calling for an end to his leadership just three days before the country’s...

Mediterranean countries of Europe call for more solidarity in new EU migration pact

Mediterranean countries of Europe call for more solidarity in new EU migration pact

-- 2021-03-21 11:13:13

Mediterranean countries on the frontline of Europe’s migration crisis called for more solidarity from EU governments on Saturday and said a proposed overhaul of migration rules did not go far en...

Thai army denies supplying rice to Myanmar forces

Thai army denies supplying rice to Myanmar forces

-- 2021-03-21 11:07:25

Thailand’s army has denied supplying rice to units of Myanmar’s armed forces and said on Saturday any food being sent over the border was part of normal trade. Myanmar’s military is...

Scientists warn most Britons may not make summer holidays abroad

Scientists warn most Britons may not make summer holidays abroad

-- 2021-03-21 11:02:28

Holidays abroad are “extremely unlikely” for most Britons this summer due to the risk of importing new variants of COVID-19, a scientist who advises the government said on Saturday, leavin...

Heavy rain, flash flooding batter Australia's east coast

Heavy rain, flash flooding batter Australia's east coast

-- 2021-03-21 10:47:57

Australia’s east coast was smashed by heavy rains on Saturday, sparking dangerous flash flooding that forced the evacuation of multiple regions as the fast-moving waters unmoored houses, engulfe...

US to place some migrant families in hotels

US to place some migrant families in hotels

-- 2021-03-21 08:54:45

Some migrant families arriving in the United States will be housed in hotels under a new programme managed by nonprofit organisations, according to two people familiar with the plans, a move away from...

Police in Bangkok clash with protesters

Police in Bangkok clash with protesters

REUTERS 2021-03-20 21:53:21

Thai police used water cannon and charged toward protesters who had gathered near the King’s Palace in Bangkok on Saturday to call for the release of protest leaders and demand reform of the mon...

US urges India not to purchase Russian equipment

US urges India not to purchase Russian equipment

-- 2021-03-20 21:37:33

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed India's planned purchase of Russia's S400 air defence system at a meeting with his Indian counterpart on Saturday, reiterating US allies should steer clear...

Probe begins into Boris Johnson’s flat renovation using party fund

Probe begins into Boris Johnson’s flat renovation using party fund

-- 2021-03-20 20:26:54

The Electoral Commission of the United Kingdom has started a probe into allegations of using funding of Conservative Party for renovation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official flat. The...

Partial lockdown in France, Poland as infections surge

Partial lockdown in France, Poland as infections surge

BBC 2021-03-20 19:37:25

France and Poland have reintroduced partial lockdowns as both countries battle a sharp rise in Covid infections in recent weeks. Some 21 million people in 16 areas of France, including the capital Pa...

EU threatens AstraZeneca with export ban

EU threatens AstraZeneca with export ban

AP 2021-03-20 18:59:26

The European Union’s (EU) executive arm is increasing its pressure on pharmaceutical companies to speed up their vaccine delivery to the continent as virus numbers are rising again in many membe...

Saudi men barred to marry women from Bangladesh, three other countries

Saudi men barred to marry women from Bangladesh, three other countries

-- 2021-03-20 18:59:14

Saudi Arabia has prohibited its men from marrying women from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chad and Myanmar. According to unofficial figures, there are about 500,000 women from these four countries currently...

European Union plans digital green certificate for COVID-free, vaccinated people

European Union plans digital green certificate for COVID-free, vaccinated people

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-03-20 18:33:35

The European Union plans to launch a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate safe free movement of the COVID-19 negative and vaccinated people inside its member countries. The European Commission mad...

'Myanmar people want UN sanctions, peacekeepers'

'Myanmar people want UN sanctions, peacekeepers'

AP 2021-03-20 17:28:45

The people of Myanmar have huge expectations from the United Nations and the international community following the February 1 coup, with many calling for sanctions and some urging the UN to send peace...

Italy's elderly again pay a price as vaccinations lag

Italy's elderly again pay a price as vaccinations lag

AP 2021-03-20 17:08:37

One year ago, Bergamo’s state-of-the-art Pope John XXIII Hospital verged on collapse as doctors struggled to treat 600 patients, with 100 of them in intensive care. Army trucks ferried the dead...

Earthquake hits northern Japan, one metre tsunami expected

Earthquake hits northern Japan, one metre tsunami expected

-- 2021-03-20 17:04:32

An earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Saturday, hitting areas devastated by the 2011 disaster and generating a tsunami of 1 metre, public broadcaster NHK said. The quake hit the coast of Miyagi...

Finland ranked happiest country in the world

Finland ranked happiest country in the world

BBC 2021-03-20 16:27:13

Finland has been named the happiest place in the world for a fourth year running, in an annual UN-sponsored report. The World Happiness Report saw Denmark in second place, then Switzerland, Iceland a...

Erdogan pulls Turkey out of European treaty on violence against women

Erdogan pulls Turkey out of European treaty on violence against women

-- 2021-03-20 16:15:11

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan pulled his country out of an international accord designed to protect women, the country’s official gazette said on Saturday, despite calls from campaigners who...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan tests positive for COVID-19

Pakistan PM Imran Khan tests positive for COVID-19

-- 2021-03-20 16:03:04

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, two days after the premier got his vaccination. Khan is “self isolatin...

Thunberg joins climate protest in Stockholm

Thunberg joins climate protest in Stockholm

-- 2021-03-20 11:42:19

Climate activist Greta Thunberg took part in a protest under the banner of “No More Empty Promises” in central Stockholm on Friday, with protesters attending in shifts to avoid breaching c...

US House backs measure condemning Myanmar coup

US House backs measure condemning Myanmar coup

-- 2021-03-20 11:22:25

The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation condemning the military coup in Myanmar, as lawmakers decried increasingly harsh tactics used to suppress demonstrations since t...

Afghan government, Taliban agree to accelerate peace talks

Afghan government, Taliban agree to accelerate peace talks

-- 2021-03-20 11:19:14

The Afghan government and the Taliban agreed on Friday to try to accelerate peace talks, at a meeting in Moscow that followed an international conference there on the peace process, a senior Afghan of...

Over 1,000 Myanmar refugees seeking shelter in India's Mizoram state

Over 1,000 Myanmar refugees seeking shelter in India's Mizoram state

-- 2021-03-20 11:14:02

More than 1,000 people fleeing violence in Myanmar have crossed into neighbouring India’s Mizoram state since late February, an Indian lawmaker told Reuters on Friday. With that number likely t...