-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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,...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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,&...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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