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-- 2020-12-18 18:33:39
The United Nations human rights office called on Thailand on Friday to amend its lese majeste law which it said had been used against at least 35 activists - one as young as 16 - in recent weeks. It...
-- 2020-12-18 18:24:38
As the door of the vaccine transport cart opens at Singapore’s Changi airport, the sub-zero temperatures inside collide with the warm, tropical air, creating a carpet of steam like hot breath on...
-- 2020-12-18 17:06:27
Security forces on Thursday rescued nearly 350 schoolboys who had been kidnapped in northwestern Nigeria and taken into a vast forest, the governor of Katsina state said, bringing relief to many famil...
AP 2020-12-18 15:40:50
Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the US over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show. Ir...
-- 2020-12-18 14:53:59
India’s Supreme Court has declined calls to ban a weeks-long farmers’ protest and asked the government and unions to help form a committee of experts to mediate between them. “We ma...
Reuters 2020-12-18 14:03:30
Many Indians appear hesitant to get vaccinated for Covid-19 as infections have fallen sharply since a mid-September peak and some people are worried about possible side-effects, according to a survey...
REUTERS 2020-12-18 11:30:50
Reviving Iran’s nuclear deal under US President-elect Joe Biden would require striking a new agreement setting out how Iran’s breaches should be reversed, UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael G...
-- 2020-12-17 21:10:32
Mercedes Benz said on Thursday that it would wind down car production in Brazil, shutting down its small factory dedicated to producing luxury vehicles in the city of Iraccemapolis, costing some 370...
-- 2020-12-17 18:17:41
An international mission led by the World Health Organization (WHO) is expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Reuters 2020-12-17 17:08:23
US congressional negotiators were haggling on Wednesday over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 aid bill that is expected to include $600-$700 stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits, as a...
-- 2020-12-17 16:04:22
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, the French Presidency said on Thursday. “The President of the Republic has been diagnosed positive for COVID-19 today,”...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-17 15:12:01
The priest of a Gurdwara from India’s Haryana, Baba Ram Singh, who joined the farmers' protest, has died by suicide; he had shot himself, NDTV reports. The 65-year-old was at the Delhi-Sonipat...
REUTERS 2020-12-17 14:53:07
India will have to spend $1.4 billion to $1.8 billion in the first phase of a coronavirus vaccination programme, even after getting support under the COVAX global vaccine-sharing scheme, according to...
-- 2020-12-17 13:19:30
Global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surpassed 74 million while fatalities surged past 1.64 million until early Thursday. The worldwide number of the virus cases reached 74,158,470 and fatalities stoo...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-17 12:47:01
Families of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys worried they may be radicalised or held for years as security forces combed a vast forest on Wednesday for armed captors possibly from the jihad...
-- 2020-12-17 12:42:50
A massive increase in biodegradable plastic production in China is outpacing the country's ability to degrade the materials, according to a new report published by the charity Greenpeace. China - the...
-- 2020-12-16 19:14:54
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has drawn criticism for joining year-end get-togethers after begging the public to avoid parties as the country grapples with record numbers of coronavirus cases...
-- 2020-12-16 18:27:40
Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the first week of the roll-out of the shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of deployment o...
-- 2020-12-16 18:15:31
Patients were being treated in the back of ambulances in a Northern Ireland hospital car park on Tuesday, a health official said, a day after a warning that COVID-19 was putting healthcare under "unbe...
-- 2020-12-16 18:11:48
Indonesia will provide free coronavirus vaccines to its citizens when the world’s fourth most populous nation starts its inoculation programme, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday...
-- 2020-12-16 18:06:29
A Taliban delegation will arrive in Pakistan's capital on Wednesday for a three-day visit, according to official statements, as both sides in the Afghan peace process continue consultations during a b...
-- 2020-12-16 16:48:15
Asia-Pacific region has faced a record number of climate-related disasters in 2020, affecting tens of millions of vulnerable people already hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Red Cross said on Wed...
REUTERS 2020-12-16 10:34:25
A man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram said on Tuesday the Islamist group was behind the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys, as anxious parents begged the government...
-- 2020-12-16 09:16:44
President Donald Trump is leaving the White House but he is not going to fade away quietly. After failing in his legal efforts to overturn his Nov 3 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, who on Monday...
AP 2020-12-15 23:20:35
Hundreds more US hospitals geared up to vaccinate their workers Tuesday as federal regulators issued a positive review of a second COVID-19 vaccine that's likely to soon boost the nation's largest vac...
Reuters 2020-12-15 18:07:52
Italy is considering more stringent nationwide coronavirus restrictions during the Christmas holidays, the health minister said on Monday, after scenes of big gatherings in many cities over the weeken...
-- 2020-12-15 18:01:57
Ten years ago, a fruit seller set himself ablaze in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after an altercation with a policewoman about where he had put his cart. Word of Mohammed Bouazizi’s...
-- 2020-12-15 17:28:41
Burials in the Indonesian capital were 61 per cent higher in the first 10 months of 2020 than in the past five years, according to a new study that could suggest Indonesia’s real coronavirus dea...
-- 2020-12-15 16:29:26
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office, to try to strengthen trade and investment ties and work together on tackling climat...
REUTERS 2020-12-15 16:00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on his victory in the US presidential election, after Biden won the state-by-state Electoral College vote that officially determines...
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