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Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 Afghan civilians: Report

Australian special forces allegedly killed 39 Afghan civilians: Report

-- 2020-11-19 11:32:33

Australia said on Thursday that 19 current and former soldiers will be referred for potential criminal prosecution for allegedly killing 39 Afghan locals, the majority of whom had been captured and un...

Iraq, Saudi Arabia reopen border crossing for trade after 30 years

Iraq, Saudi Arabia reopen border crossing for trade after 30 years

-- 2020-11-18 19:55:07

Iraq and Saudi Arabia opened the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time in three decades, the Iraqi border ports commission said in a statement on Wednesday. Arar has been closed since 199...

Congo announces end to its 11th deadly Ebola outbreak

Congo announces end to its 11th deadly Ebola outbreak

AP 2020-11-18 17:49:06

Congo has declared an end to its 11th Ebola outbreak, this one in western Equateur province, nearly six months after cases were reported and amid the rise of COVID-19 in the Central African nation. Th...

India to rely on locally-tested COVID-19 vaccines

India to rely on locally-tested COVID-19 vaccines

-- 2020-11-18 17:42:37

India hopes five locally-tested vaccines will help it to control COVID-19, as those developed by Pfizer and Moderna may not be available to it in big quantities soon. The five candidates include Russ...

UN releases $100M to seven countries at risk of famine

UN releases $100M to seven countries at risk of famine

AP 2020-11-18 17:10:26

The United Nations humanitarian office is releasing $100 million in emergency funding to seven countries at risk of famine in Africa and the Middle East amid conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic, while...

US senate blocks confirmation of Trump's Fed nominee

US senate blocks confirmation of Trump's Fed nominee

REUTERS 2020-11-18 16:20:44

The path to the Federal Reserve for US President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee Judy Shelton narrowed Tuesday after the Senate blocked a key procedural vote and a Republican senator who wa...

Rockets land in Baghdad's Green Zone, one child killed

Rockets land in Baghdad's Green Zone, one child killed

-- 2020-11-18 12:16:06

Four Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone and security officials said the attack targeted the US embassy, Iraqi police and security sources said on Tuesday. Sirens...

Trump fires US cybersecurity agency head who rejected voter fraud claims

Trump fires US cybersecurity agency head who rejected voter fraud claims

-- 2020-11-18 10:40:54

President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs in a message on Twitter, accusing him without evidence of making a “highly inaccurate” statement affirming th...

Battle for Ethiopia state capital looms

Battle for Ethiopia state capital looms

Reuters 2020-11-17 22:55:53

Ethiopia's prime minister warned on Tuesday that a deadline for rebel northern forces to lay down arms had expired, paving the way for an advance on the Tigray region's capital in a two-week conflict...

Facebook, Twitter CEOs facing questions on US election measures

Facebook, Twitter CEOs facing questions on US election measures

AP 2020-11-17 21:58:56

A Senate panel is calling on the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter to defend their handling of disinformation in the contest between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden. But the senators are deep...

Biden feels need to set global trade rules to counter China’s influence

Biden feels need to set global trade rules to counter China’s influence

REUTERS 2020-11-17 15:46:42

US President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday the United States needed to negotiate with allies to set global trading rules to counter China’s growing influence but declined to say whether he woul...

Malaysia grants work permits to undocumented migrants

Malaysia grants work permits to undocumented migrants

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2020-11-17 14:30:26

Malaysia has launched a plan that gives undocumented migrants stuck in the country a chance to work in certain industries, but labour rights groups said the initiative did not do enough to protect vic...

Global Covid-19 cases near 55 million

Global Covid-19 cases near 55 million

-- 2020-11-17 13:07:24

The coronavirus (Covid-19) caseload stood at 54,992,571 on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Besides, the death toll from the virus climbed to 1,326,768. The United St...

India records lowest coronavirus cases since mid-July

India records lowest coronavirus cases since mid-July

-- 2020-11-17 11:38:59

Daily coronavirus infections in India fell to their lowest since mid-July, with 29,163 new cases reported for the last 24 hours, taking the total to 8.87 million, the health ministry said on Tuesday....

UAE golden visa allows 10-year residency to doctors, engineers

UAE golden visa allows 10-year residency to doctors, engineers

-- 2020-11-16 21:40:49

The United Arab Emirates has announced to extend its ‘golden’ visa system - which grants 10-year residency in the Gulf state - to certain professionals, specialised degree-holders and othe...

Moderna says its vaccine is 94.5pc effective based on interim data

Moderna says its vaccine is 94.5pc effective based on interim data

Reuters 2020-11-16 18:45:28

Moderna Inc said on Monday its experimental vaccine was 94.5 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial, becoming the second US company in a week...

Tigray town seized by Ethiopia as war embroils Eritrea

Tigray town seized by Ethiopia as war embroils Eritrea

Reuters 2020-11-16 18:20:28

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly two weeks of fighting in a conflict already spilling into...

India denies Pakistan's allegations over funding of militant groups

India denies Pakistan's allegations over funding of militant groups

-- 2020-11-16 18:09:00

India on Sunday denied allegations by its arch-rival Pakistan that New Delhi had helped fund militant groups on Pakistani soil, with a foreign ministry spokesman dismissing them as "fabricated" and "f...

North Korea tightens anti-virus measures amid global pandemic

North Korea tightens anti-virus measures amid global pandemic

-- 2020-11-16 17:50:33

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of the politburo of the ruling Wor...

EU, UK have up to 10 days to make Brexit breakthrough: Ireland

EU, UK have up to 10 days to make Brexit breakthrough: Ireland

-- 2020-11-16 16:27:00

Britain and the European Union have a week to 10 days to find a way to unlock trade talks, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Monday, after both sides called on the other to move their posit...

British PM Johnson self-isolating after Covid-19 contact

British PM Johnson self-isolating after Covid-19 contact

-- 2020-11-16 12:23:22

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after meeting an MP who later tested positive for Covid-19. Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care in a London hospital earlier this year w...

Global coronavirus cases top 54 million

Global coronavirus cases top 54 million

-- 2020-11-16 11:08:49

Over 54 million coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have been confirmed around the world while the global death toll surged to 1,316,502 on Monday. According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University...

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale" screened at Brunei

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale" screened at Brunei

FE Online Report 2020-11-15 20:47:36

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale", a documentary on the life of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was screened at the residence of the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in the capital of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawa...

Pakistan to provide 'irrefutable evidence' India sponsors militant groups

Pakistan to provide 'irrefutable evidence' India sponsors militant groups

Reuters 2020-11-15 19:15:34

Pakistan will present evidence to the United Nations and other international bodies that India, its neighbour and arch rival, is involved with militant organisations on its soil, Pakistan's foreign mi...

Over 20,000 refugees flee Ethiopia to Sudan: UN

Over 20,000 refugees flee Ethiopia to Sudan: UN

Reuters 2020-11-15 19:02:54

The number of people who have fled into Sudan from the conflict in northern Ethiopia has risen to at least 20,000, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday. More than 12,500 crossed at Hamdayat and nearl...

Vaccine innovator hopes normal life by next winter

Vaccine innovator hopes normal life by next winter

BBC 2020-11-15 18:41:36

The impact of a new Covid vaccine will kick in significantly over summer and life should be back to normal by next winter, one of its creators has said. Prof Ugur Sahin, co-founder of BioNTech, said...

Australia hopes for better ties with China under Asia-Pacific trade deal

Australia hopes for better ties with China under Asia-Pacific trade deal

-- 2020-11-15 15:34:42

Australia hopes that the country’s strained relations with China will improve under an ambitious trade deal between 15 Asia-Pacific economies, Reuters reports. The country's Trade Minister Simo...

Armenians burn homes before handing over village to Azerbaijan

Armenians burn homes before handing over village to Azerbaijan

REUTERS 2020-11-15 14:07:15

Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister’s dining room table in the sm...

Rockets fired from Ethiopia's Tigray hit Eritrea

Rockets fired from Ethiopia's Tigray hit Eritrea

Reuters 2020-11-15 12:12:20

At least three rockets were fired at Eritrea’s capital from Ethiopia on Saturday night, five regional diplomats said, a major escalation of a conflict pitting Ethiopian government troops against...

Fire kills 10 Covid-19 patients at Romanian hospital

Fire kills 10 Covid-19 patients at Romanian hospital

-- 2020-11-15 12:00:59

At least ten Covid-19 patients, undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Piatra Neamt County Hospital in northeastern Romania, were killed in a fire that broke out at the hospital...