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Pakistan blocks TikTok over indecency complaint

Pakistan blocks TikTok over indecency complaint

-- 2021-03-12 09:37:42

Pakistan has on Thursday blocked the popular social media app TikTok after a court order over a complaint that it ran indecent content, a spokesman for the country’s telecoms regulator said. &l...

UN counts cost of 'man-made' famines

UN counts cost of 'man-made' famines

-- 2021-03-12 09:29:51

Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago UN food chief David...

Myanmar death toll hits 70, says UN rights expert seeking sanctions

Myanmar death toll hits 70, says UN rights expert seeking sanctions

-- 2021-03-12 09:05:51

The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar said on Thursday the military junta had “murdered” at least 70 people since its Feb. 1 coup, committing killings, torture, and perse...

US border facilities see surge in migrant children

US border facilities see surge in migrant children

-- 2021-03-12 08:48:51

More than 3,600 migrant children were being held in US border facilities as of Thursday morning, a US official told Reuters, more than four times the number in late February, a sign of a growing human...

EU regulator approves J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine

EU regulator approves J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine

AP 2021-03-11 19:57:27

The European Medicines Agency has authorised Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine, giving the European Union’s 27 nations a fourth licensed vaccine to try to curb the pande...

China moves to overhaul Hong Kong politics

China moves to overhaul Hong Kong politics

-- 2021-03-11 18:38:22

China’s parliament approved on Thursday a draft decision to change Hong Kong’s electoral system, further reducing democratic representation in the city’s institutions and introducing...

'We're not racist', Prince William says after Meghan and Harry interview

'We're not racist', Prince William says after Meghan and Harry interview

-- 2021-03-11 18:12:50

Prince William said on Thursday that Britain’s royal family was not racist after reveleations by his brother’s wife Meghan that a member of the family had asked how dark their son Archie&r...

Myanmar junta accuses Suu Kyi of accepting bribes as eight killed in anti-coup protests   

Myanmar junta accuses Suu Kyi of accepting bribes as eight killed in anti-coup protests  

REUTERS 2021-03-11 17:29:43

Myanmar's military government accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi of taking illegal payments as eight people were killed on Thursday when security forces opened fire on protests against the coup,...

Myanmar military using 'battlefield weapons' against protesters, says Amnesty

Myanmar military using 'battlefield weapons' against protesters, says Amnesty

-- 2021-03-11 15:59:26

Amnesty International accused Myanmar's military government on Thursday of increasingly using battlefield weapons against peaceful protesters and conducting systematic, deliberate killings, reports AP...

Seven die as security forces fire at anti-junta protests in Myanmar

Seven die as security forces fire at anti-junta protests in Myanmar

REUTERS 2021-03-11 13:47:33

Seven people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-junta protests in Myanmar on Thursday, witnesses and local media said, as rights group Amnesty International accused the military of a...

Japan mourns victims of earthquake and Fukushima disaster

Japan mourns victims of earthquake and Fukushima disaster

REUTERS 2021-03-11 13:18:11

With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear protests, Japan on Thursday mourned about 20,000 victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 10 years ago, destroying towns and t...

27 dead after school bus plunges into ravine in Indonesia

27 dead after school bus plunges into ravine in Indonesia

Reuters 2021-03-11 12:44:45

A bus carrying school children and some parents returning from an excursion plunged into a ravine on the Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday night, killing 27 people, the country’s transporta...

Youth still paying high price for decade of war in Syrian

Youth still paying high price for decade of war in Syrian

Reuters 2021-03-11 12:19:56

Young Syrians have suffered heavy personal losses in a decade of war and still have to face rebuilding their shattered homeland, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday....

Jared Kushner plans book on Trump White House

Jared Kushner plans book on Trump White House

-- 2021-03-11 12:01:47

Jared Kushner, who was a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, plans to write a book about his White House experiences, including his role in negotiating normalisation deals between Israel an...

Argentines to march seeking answers over Maradona's death

Argentines to march seeking answers over Maradona's death

-- 2021-03-11 11:54:45

Argentines took to the streets on Wednesday to demand what they say is justice for Diego Maradona after the soccer icon’s death in November sparked investigations into how he died and whether th...

Myanmar’s military junta removes Rakhine rebels from terrorist list

Myanmar’s military junta removes Rakhine rebels from terrorist list

-- 2021-03-11 11:31:20

Myanmar’s military junta has removed Arakan Army (AA) insurgents from its list of terrorist groups because the faction has stopped attacks and in order to help establish peace across the country...

Biden has no good choices to manage influx of migrant children

Biden has no good choices to manage influx of migrant children

-- 2021-03-11 10:44:24

US President Joe Biden’s administration is racing to deal with an increasing number of migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border, but it has limited options and “none are great,&...

Israeli PM Netanyahu to visit UAE Thursday

Israeli PM Netanyahu to visit UAE Thursday

-- 2021-03-10 21:06:24

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United Arab Emirates on Thursday in an opportunity to showcase new Gulf ties before a closely contested election in Israel. Netanyahu would ho...

Big Indian state scales down vaccinations due to shortage of doses

Big Indian state scales down vaccinations due to shortage of doses

-- 2021-03-10 18:00:10

Rajasthan, a big northwestern Indian state, said on Tuesday it had started limiting COVID-19 vaccinations to its major hospitals due to a shortage of doses, despite an assurance from the federal gover...

Saudi rights activist hopes for sentence change as she heads to appeals hearing

Saudi rights activist hopes for sentence change as she heads to appeals hearing

REUTERS 2021-03-10 17:27:23

Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was released last month after three years in prison, said on Wednesday she hoped a Saudi court would amend her sentence ahead of the appeals hear...

Malaysian court overturns ban on use of 'Allah' by non-Muslim publications

Malaysian court overturns ban on use of 'Allah' by non-Muslim publications

-- 2021-03-10 17:25:18

A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned a decades-old government policy barring non-Muslim publications from using the word ‘Allah’ to refer to God, in a landmark ruling on an issue that...

COVID-19 inoculation will not break Ramadan fasting, Dubai grand mufti says

COVID-19 inoculation will not break Ramadan fasting, Dubai grand mufti says

-- 2021-03-10 16:56:48

Dubai’s Grand Mufti Shaikh Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz Al Haddad has said taking the COVID-19 vaccine will not break a Muslim’s fasting during Ramadan. “The vaccine does not break any fast...

Lobbyist to be paid $2.0m by Myanmar junta to defend coup

Lobbyist to be paid $2.0m by Myanmar junta to defend coup

-- 2021-03-10 16:18:36

An Israeli-Canadian lobbyist hired by Myanmar's junta will be paid $2 million to "assist in explaining the real situation" of the army's coup to the United States and other countries, documents filed...

European Parliament to seek carbon border levy by 2023

European Parliament to seek carbon border levy by 2023

-- 2021-03-10 13:54:42

The European Parliament on Tuesday dropped its call to phase out the free allowances industrial sectors receive through the European Union carbon market if those sectors become covered by the bloc&rsq...

Irked Thai premier sprays reporters with hand sanitiser

Irked Thai premier sprays reporters with hand sanitiser

-- 2021-03-10 13:27:30

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha left reporters stunned and amused on Tuesday when he interrupted his own news conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge tough questions. Pra...

Queen Elizabeth 'saddened' by Harry, Meghan's experiences

Queen Elizabeth 'saddened' by Harry, Meghan's experiences

-- 2021-03-10 12:06:28

Queen Elizabeth said on Tuesday the British royals were saddened by the challenging experiences of her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan and promised to privately address revelations about a r...

China summons British ambassador over 'inappropriate' article

China summons British ambassador over 'inappropriate' article

-- 2021-03-10 11:30:53

China summoned Britain’s ambassador in Beijing on Tuesday to lodge “stern representations” over an “inappropriate” article she wrote defending recent international media...

Brazil's Lula resurrects for 2022 bout against Bolsonaro

Brazil's Lula resurrects for 2022 bout against Bolsonaro

-- 2021-03-10 10:39:25

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva first ran for president in 1989. Three decades later, the gravelly-voiced former union leader looks set for one more run at Brazil’s top job after a Supreme Cou...

China, Russia stop UN Security Council move to condemn Myanmar coup

China, Russia stop UN Security Council move to condemn Myanmar coup

-- 2021-03-10 10:30:22

The UN Security Council failed to agree on Tuesday on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider “further measures...

India summons British envoy over ‘unwarranted’ criticism of farm protests

India summons British envoy over ‘unwarranted’ criticism of farm protests

REUTERS 2021-03-09 21:57:35

India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom's high commissioner over what it called "unwarranted and tendentious discussion" of Indian agricultural reforms in the Briti...