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Belarus president names two ex-ministers as possible successors

Belarus president names two ex-ministers as possible successors

-- 2021-03-20 11:08:25

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday named a former interior minister and a former health minister as possible successors but added that only elections could determine who came after hi...

International pressure on Myanmar generals grows

International pressure on Myanmar generals grows

Reuters 2021-03-20 11:03:34

Opponents of Myanmar’s coup protested again on Saturday as international pressure on the military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy supporters increased, with Asian neighbours joinin...

US charges Proud Boys with conspiracy in Capitol assault

US charges Proud Boys with conspiracy in Capitol assault

Reuters 2021-03-20 10:44:59

A federal grand jury charged four leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to block Congress from certifying US President Joe Biden’s election on the day of a deadly assault on the Ca...

Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic with traditional fabrics

Nigerian designers fashion a new aesthetic with traditional fabrics

-- 2021-03-20 10:23:36

Weaving contemporary designs into a traditional West African fabric, Nigerian Tsemaye Binitie is creating fashion he hopes can also bridge the gap between luxury and the everyday. His material of cho...

Paris set for lockdown as France fears third wave of coronavirus

Paris set for lockdown as France fears third wave of coronavirus

BBC 2021-03-19 21:36:55

The French capital is set to go into a month-long Covid lockdown as the country fears a third wave. Some 21 million people in 16 areas of France will be placed under the measures from midnight on Fri...

BBC journalist taken away by unidentified men in Myanmar

BBC journalist taken away by unidentified men in Myanmar

-- 2021-03-19 21:07:00

Some unidentified men have detained a journalist of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Aung Thura, while performing duties outside a court in the capital in Myanmar amid protests against military...

Putin wants live online talks with Biden

Putin wants live online talks with Biden

-- 2021-03-19 17:12:15

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he and US President Joe Biden should hold live online talks in coming days after Biden said he thought the Russian leader was a killer and diplom...

N Korea cuts ties with Malaysia in extradition row

N Korea cuts ties with Malaysia in extradition row

-- 2021-03-19 16:40:05

North Korea has said it was cutting diplomatic ties with Malaysia to protest a court ruling that allowed a North Korean to be extradited to the United States to face money laundering charges. North K...

Singapore makes biggest cannabis seizure in 14 years

Singapore makes biggest cannabis seizure in 14 years

-- 2021-03-19 16:16:09

Singapore's anti-narcotics agency has made its biggest seizure of cannabis in 14 years after conducting a series of raids this week in the city-state, which has some of the world's toughest drugs laws...

Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania's first woman president

Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes Tanzania's first woman president

-- 2021-03-19 15:28:28

Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, made history on Friday when she was sworn in as Tanzania’s first female president at State House, the government offices in Dar es Salaam, the country's largest city, re...

Myanmar security forces kill eight protesters

Myanmar security forces kill eight protesters

-- 2021-03-19 15:22:21

Myanmar security forces shot dead eight opponents of a Feb. 1 coup on Friday, a funeral services provider said, as Indonesia sought an end to the violence and urged that democracy be restored, in an u...

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Tibet

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Tibet

Reuters 2021-03-19 14:12:10

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit a remote part of Tibet on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The China Earthquake Administration said the quake had a depth of 10 km (6.2 mi...

Ousted Myanmar lawmakers eye ICC probe

Ousted Myanmar lawmakers eye ICC probe

Reuters 2021-03-19 11:02:03

Ousted Myanmar lawmakers are exploring whether the International Criminal Court (ICC) can investigate any crimes against humanity committed since the February 1 coup, as an activist group said three m...

13 cops killed in drug gang ambush in Mexico

13 cops killed in drug gang ambush in Mexico

-- 2021-03-19 10:26:43

Gunmen have killed at least 13 Mexican police in an ambush a short distance outside the capital, local authorities said, in one of the worst mass slayings of security forces to rock the country in rec...

EU nations to resume use of AstraZeneca after regulators back shot

EU nations to resume use of AstraZeneca after regulators back shot

Reuters 2021-03-19 08:59:31

Germany, France and other European nations announced plans to resume using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday after EU and British regulators moved to shore up confidence in the shot, sa...

Top American, Chinese diplomats clash in first talks of Biden presidency

Top American, Chinese diplomats clash in first talks of Biden presidency

Reuters 2021-03-19 08:52:28

The United States and China levelled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with deeply strained relations of th...

North Korea says it will sever ties with Malaysia

North Korea says it will sever ties with Malaysia

Reuters 2021-03-19 08:20:01

North Korea said it would sever diplomatic relations with Malaysia after a court there ruled that a North Korean man could be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges, state me...

Putin wishes Biden good health after US president calls him killer

Putin wishes Biden good health after US president calls him killer

Reuters 2021-03-18 20:14:14

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that people tend view others as they actually see themselves after US President Joe Biden said he thought Putin was a killer, and quipped that he wish...

Moderna to deliver first UK COVID-19 vaccines in April

Moderna to deliver first UK COVID-19 vaccines in April

Reuters   2021-03-18 17:03:06

Moderna expects to deliver its first COVID-19 vaccines to Britain in April and is on track to meet its supply obligations, a spokesman for the company said after ministers warned the vaccine rollout w...

India's richest state sees major spike in coronavirus cases

India's richest state sees major spike in coronavirus cases

-- 2021-03-18 14:24:24

New coronavirus infections in India rose by the most in more than three months as a second wave of the epidemic gathered momentum, with Maharashtra, the country’s richest state, accounting for t...

Britain says lumps in global vaccine supply chain an issue

Britain says lumps in global vaccine supply chain an issue

Reuters 2021-03-18 14:16:46

Britain said on Thursday that there were lumps and bumps in the global vaccine supply chain that was causing some issues and scolded the European Union for threatening to slap a ban on vaccine exports...

Myanmar faces growing isolation

Myanmar faces growing isolation

Reuters 2021-03-18 11:04:54

Myanmar faced growing isolation on Thursday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built its case against ousted elected leader...

Roadside bomb hits Afghan government bus in Kabul, leaving three dead

Roadside bomb hits Afghan government bus in Kabul, leaving three dead

-- 2021-03-18 10:50:36

Three people were killed and 11 wounded when a roadside bomb hit a bus carrying Afghan government employees in Kabul on Thursday, officials said. Kabul’s police spokesman confirmed the casualty...

Tanzania's president John Magufuli dies amid Covid rumours

Tanzania's president John Magufuli dies amid Covid rumours

-- 2021-03-18 10:23:39

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country's vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said...

Canadian home prices gains accelerate in February

Canadian home prices gains accelerate in February

Reuters   2021-03-17 19:59:21

Canadian home prices accelerated in February, rising 0.5 per cent from January with all 11 major markets rising on the year for the first time since 2018, data showed on Wednesday. The Teranet-Nation...

Burqa ban just a 'proposal', says Sri Lanka

Burqa ban just a 'proposal', says Sri Lanka

Reuters   2021-03-17 17:12:19

Sri Lanka said on Tuesday a call to ban the wearing of the burqa was "merely a proposal", following criticism from regional allies ahead of a crucial United Nations vote on human rights in the island...

Uber under pressure on UK minimum wage in test of gig economy

Uber under pressure on UK minimum wage in test of gig economy

Reuters   2021-03-17 16:53:22

Uber drivers in Britain should receive the minimum wage for the whole time they are logged on to the app, two former drivers said on Wednesday after winning a court battle which could reshape the gig...

UN to make first visit to Bhasan Char since Rohingya refugees moved

UN to make first visit to Bhasan Char since Rohingya refugees moved

Reuters 2021-03-17 13:31:33

A United Nations delegation will on Wednesday start a three-day visit to a remote Bay of Bengal island where Bangladesh has moved more than 13,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees since December despite criti...

Trump assures supporters that Covid vaccination is safe

Trump assures supporters that Covid vaccination is safe

AP 2021-03-17 12:46:57

Former US President Donald Trump again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and...

India's daily coronavirus cases rise by highest in three months

India's daily coronavirus cases rise by highest in three months

Reuters 2021-03-17 11:15:49

India’s daily coronavirus infections jumped by 28,903 on Wednesday, data from the health ministry showed, for the highest increase since December 13 and taking the nationwide tally to 11.44 mill...