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Top US utilities collaborate to build electric vehicle charging stations

Top US utilities collaborate to build electric vehicle charging stations

-- 2021-03-03 11:31:30

Six major utilities unveiled a plan on Tuesday to add electric vehicle fast chargers to connect major highway systems across United States, as they look to cater to the burgeoning electric vehicle mar...

France, allies to push on with protest at IAEA over Iran's activities

France, allies to push on with protest at IAEA over Iran's activities

-- 2021-03-03 10:24:30

France and its Western allies plan to lodge a protest with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to criticise Iran’s decision to curb cooperation with the agency, the French foreign ministe...

China dismisses alleged hacking of Indian vaccine makers

China dismisses alleged hacking of Indian vaccine makers

Reuters 2021-03-02 22:52:03

China on Tuesday rejected an allegation by a cyber intelligence firm that a state-backed hacking group targeted the IT systems of two Indian coronavirus vaccine makers. Cyfirma told Reuters that hack...

Taking COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for hajj, Saudi Arabia says

Taking COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for hajj, Saudi Arabia says

-- 2021-03-02 21:32:37

Saudi Arabia’s health minister has said receiving a coronavirus vaccine will be a prerequisite to participate in the five-day  Hajj pilgrimage of this year. However, Saudi Health Minister...

US imposes sanctions on Russia over attempt to kill Navalny

US imposes sanctions on Russia over attempt to kill Navalny

-- 2021-03-02 21:02:31

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities over Russia's attempt to kill opposition figure Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent, senior Biden administration offici...

Woman dies from brain haemorrhage in Japan three days after vaccine, but link uncertain

Woman dies from brain haemorrhage in Japan three days after vaccine, but link uncertain

REUTERS 2021-03-02 20:20:00

A Japanese a woman in her 60s died from a brain haemorrhage three days after receiving a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination, the health ministry said on Tuesday, adding that there may not be a link betwee...

ASEAN members demand Suu Kyi's release, restoration of democracy in Myanmar

ASEAN members demand Suu Kyi's release, restoration of democracy in Myanmar

-- 2021-03-02 19:17:38

Myanmar’s neighbours pressed its ruling military on Tuesday to release ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and cease what Singapore called the disastrous use of lethal force against opponents of thei...

Rights group files complaint against Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing

Rights group files complaint against Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing

AP 2021-03-02 18:47:23

An international media rights group has filed a complaint with German prosecutors against Saudi Arabia's crown prince and four other top officials accusing them of crimes against humanity over allegat...

UN terms fate of tens of thousands of Syrian detainees 'national trauma'

UN terms fate of tens of thousands of Syrian detainees 'national trauma'

Reuters 2021-03-02 18:39:57

Tens of thousands of people rounded up by Syrian authorities during a decade of conflict are missing, with many tortured, raped or killed, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN inves...

UK's Prince Philip still in hospital after two weeks

UK's Prince Philip still in hospital after two weeks

REUTERS 2021-03-02 17:39:24

Britain’s Prince Philip was receiving treatment and undergoing heart tests on Tuesday, two weeks after the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth was admitted to hospital in London as a precau...

Myanmar police fire stun grenades to disperse protesters

Myanmar police fire stun grenades to disperse protesters

-- 2021-03-02 12:01:57

Myanmar police fired stun grenades to disperse protesters in the city of Yangon on Tuesday, witnesses said, as foreign ministers of neighbouring countries were due to hold talks with the military in a...

Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself

Prince Harry worried history would repeat itself

-- 2021-03-02 10:40:09

Prince Harry, who shocked Britain last year when he and his wife Meghan stepped back from royal duties, told US interviewer Oprah Winfrey that he had worried about history repeating itself, according...

One year into pandemic, sky begins to clear over US economy

One year into pandemic, sky begins to clear over US economy

Reuters 2021-03-01 22:21:58

A year and an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has brought travel to a virtual halt, Jeff Hurst, the chief executive of vacation rental firm VRBO, sees a boom on the horizon. “Every house is g...

Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed prison sentence

Former French president Sarkozy convicted of corruption, handed prison sentence

Reuters 2021-03-01 21:42:13

A French court found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in prison, a stunning fall from grace for a ma...

West looks to tougher sanctions on Myanmar

West looks to tougher sanctions on Myanmar

Reuters 2021-03-01 18:23:50

A crackdown by security forces in Myanmar in which at least 18 anti-coup demonstrators were killed has brought renewed calls for tougher international sanctions on the ruling junta. Western outrage o...

Japan PM apologises after facing criticism over expensive dinners scandal

Japan PM apologises after facing criticism over expensive dinners scandal

-- 2021-03-01 17:18:53

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologised on Monday following the resignation of a key spokeswoman, who along with other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hos...

ASEAN foreign ministers to meet on Myanmar Tuesday

ASEAN foreign ministers to meet on Myanmar Tuesday

REUTERS 2021-03-01 17:07:09

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) foreign ministers will hold a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss Myanmar, Singapore’s foreign minister said, calling for the immediat...

Suu Kyi faces two more charges, protesters march again

Suu Kyi faces two more charges, protesters march again

-- 2021-03-01 16:12:47

Myanmar court has brought two more charges against Aung San Suu Kyi, ousted de facto leader of the country,  as she appeared at a court hearing via video conferencing on Monday, the first time he...

Modi receives first dose of home-grown Covid vaccine

Modi receives first dose of home-grown Covid vaccine

-- 2021-03-01 12:01:57

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inoculated with the first dose of a home-grown coronavirus vaccine on Monday, kicking off an expansion of the country’s immunisation campaign that began i...

Trump hints at 2024 run

Trump hints at 2024 run

REUTERS 2021-03-01 11:46:19

Former President Donald Trump hinted on Sunday at a possible presidential run in 2024, attacked President Joe Biden and repeated his fraudulent claims he won the 2020 election in his first major appea...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 114 million mark

Global coronavirus cases surpass 114 million mark

-- 2021-03-01 10:54:23

The confirmed cases of coronavirus exceeded 114 million across the globe as of Monday. The total case count reached 114,051, 765 and the death toll from the virus stood at 2,530,563, according to dat...

Myanmar protesters take to streets again after bloodiest post-coup unrest

Myanmar protesters take to streets again after bloodiest post-coup unrest

REUTERS 2021-03-01 10:46:03

Protesters marched in Myanmar on Monday in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier, as calls grew for a more united international response after the wor...

Russia launches satellite to monitor Arctic climate

Russia launches satellite to monitor Arctic climate

-- 2021-03-01 10:17:10

Russia has launched its space satellite Arktika-M on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic amid a push by the Kremlin to expand the country’s activities in the region....

Saudi columnists tell Biden administration not to bully Riyadh

Saudi columnists tell Biden administration not to bully Riyadh

-- 2021-03-01 10:16:46

Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty is a red line, Saudi columnists said on Sunday, ramping up rhetoric in defence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a US intelligence report implicated him in the...

Israel to vaccinate Palestinian labourers

Israel to vaccinate Palestinian labourers

REUTERS 2021-03-01 10:15:18

Israel approved plans on Sunday to offer Covid-19 vaccines to Palestinians with Israeli work permits, a step a rights group said did not go far enough to safeguard Palestinians in occupied territory....

Myanmar forces kill over 18 coup protesters: UN rights office

Myanmar forces kill over 18 coup protesters: UN rights office

Reuters 2021-02-28 22:52:25

Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the UN human rights office s...

NZ's Auckland starts lockdown for second time

NZ's Auckland starts lockdown for second time

Reuters 2021-02-28 20:18:24

Exactly a year after New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus case, the biggest city of Auckland woke on Sunday to a second lockdown this month, as authorities try to rein in a cluster of the more c...

At least 11 dead on bloodiest day of Myanmar protests against coup

At least 11 dead on bloodiest day of Myanmar protests against coup

Reuters 2021-02-28 19:33:08

Myanmar police fired on protesters on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 11 people were killed and several wounded, political and medical sourc...

Arab countries express support for Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi murder

Arab countries express support for Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi murder

-- 2021-02-28 19:13:04

Arab countries and organisations expressed their support for Saudi Arabia following a US intelligence report that found Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Ja...

Myanmar's UN envoy vows to fight against coup after junta fired him

Myanmar's UN envoy vows to fight against coup after junta fired him

-- 2021-02-28 18:48:44

Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York has vowed to fight after the junta fired him for urging countries to use 'any means necessary' to reverse a February 1 coup that ousted the...