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BBC 2020-12-26 18:18:19
France has confirmed the first case in the country of the more contagious coronavirus variant recently identified in the UK. The French health ministry said the person was a French citizen in the cen...
Reuters 2020-12-26 17:13:12
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in Central African Republic, the U.N. mission there said on Saturday, as the government and its allies tried to fend off a rebel offensive ahead of Sunday...
-- 2020-12-26 16:45:52
China has lowered the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old for "abominable" crimes such as murder or causing injury that leads to death or severe disabilities by extremely cruel means. The...
-- 2020-12-26 16:21:44
Russia on Saturday approved its main COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, for use by people over the age of 60, Russian news agencies cited the health ministry as saying. People over 60 have thus far been ex...
-- 2020-12-26 15:40:48
Pakistan is using Taliban as a “tool” for its dominance in Afghanistan under the pretext of strategic depth, said former Pakistan senator Afrasiab Khattak, adding that the terror group&rsq...
-- 2020-12-26 14:12:07
India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local electio...
-- 2020-12-26 11:57:53
Five days after dissolving the House of Representatives, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Friday named new ministers in seven ministries that were vacant and reshuffled his cabinet. Among the n...
-- 2020-12-26 11:49:06
At least 15 people have died in recent weeks on the South African side of the Beitbridge border with Zimbabwe in lengthy queues that have been slowed by coronavirus screening, television news channel...
Reuters 2020-12-26 11:47:28
The death toll from a Wednesday attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia has risen to 222 people, a volunteer from the country’s Red Cross told Reuters on Friday. “Yeste...
REUTERS 2020-12-26 09:20:51
Turkey would like better ties with Israel but Israeli policy towards the Palestinians remains “unacceptable”, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Turkey and Israel, once allies, have...
-- 2020-12-25 22:38:57
India has planned a two-day dry run in four of its states to check the micro-level preparedness for a nationwide Covid-19 inoculation drive. The states of Punjab in the north, Assam in the northeast,...
-- 2020-12-25 19:19:21
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday corrected statements he had made in parliament, apologising for what he said were mistakes regarding a political funding scandal that has also cast...
-- 2020-12-25 19:00:35
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at the intelligence level continued between the two sides, but criticised Israeli...
Aljazeera 2020-12-25 18:50:34
Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, its National Electoral Board has said on Friday, after postponing the vote from August this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The cha...
Reuters 2020-12-25 18:40:38
The long-time leader of Mali’s opposition, Soumaila Cisse, has died at the age of 71, his spokesman said on Friday, two months after his release from lengthy captivity by Islamist insurgents. C...
Reuters 2020-12-25 18:10:58
Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli faced a fresh political challenge on Friday as hundreds of opponents protested against his sudden move to dissolve parliament and call elections more than a...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-25 18:07:38
China on Friday said there was no link between the situation of the Indian sailors on two cargo ships carrying Australian coal stranded at Chinese ports and the current state of ties between the count...
-- 2020-12-25 17:27:29
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve the ambitious pledge of the country’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to go car...
-- 2020-12-25 17:10:29
Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made sombre by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor out...
Reuters 2020-12-25 16:47:08
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that protests by farmers against three laws brought by his government were politically motivated, as he touted the success of an agricultural scheme...
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A Mexican nurse became the first person in Latin America to receive a coronavirus jab when her country began its vaccination programme on Thursday. Mexico has received an initial shipment of 3,000 do...
-- 2020-12-25 12:04:45
A 7-year-old Ugandan boy has become a sensation in his country with his precocious display of aircraft knowledge and budding flying skills. Graham Shema has been interviewed on local television and h...
-- 2020-12-25 10:33:53
More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians ov...
REUTERS 2020-12-25 09:29:04
As 2020 was dawning, the oldest members of the world’s youngest generation - Generation Z - were preparing to emerge into one of the strongest global job markets in decades. That promising land...
AP 2020-12-24 21:40:34
Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of...
AP 2020-12-24 18:27:49
Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed. The discovery could a...
-- 2020-12-24 17:17:05
At least 20 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official told Reuter...
REUTERS 2020-12-24 16:41:41
They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on Aug 4. Men, women and children from Christian and Muslim sects cradle portraits of thei...
Reuters 2020-12-24 16:31:43
India recorded 24,712 new coronavirus infections, taking its total to 10.12 million, data from the health ministry showed on Thursday. COVID-19 infections are decreasing in India, with 23,788 new inf...
Reuters 2020-12-24 15:44:28
“Wherever you see Myanmar people, shoot them down,” read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar. The outbreak, first detected at a seafo...
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