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Female journalist shot dead in Pakistan

Female journalist shot dead in Pakistan

-- 2020-09-06 19:15:39

Shaheena Shaheen, a talk show host at Pakistan’s state-owned broadcaster Pakistan Television and editor of a local magazine, was shot dead at her home in Balochistan on Saturday evening. Police...

China plans infrastructure investment in Tibet as India tensions rise

China plans infrastructure investment in Tibet as India tensions rise

-- 2020-09-06 18:31:48

China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) push to accelerate infrastructure investment in Tibet, including new and previously announced projects, three sources familiar with the mat...

One man died, seven injured in stabbings in Birmingham

One man died, seven injured in stabbings in Birmingham

-- 2020-09-06 17:01:46

One man was killed and seven people were injured, two of them seriously, in a series of stabbings in the city of Birmingham, central England, early on Sunday, police said, reports Reuters.  &ldq...

Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan

Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan

-- 2020-09-06 14:29:24

More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm. Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and win...

Malaysian government urged to reconsider blanket entry ban

Malaysian government urged to reconsider blanket entry ban

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-05 22:08:55

International chambers of commerce have urged the Malaysian government to reconsider the blanket entry ban on citizens of countries with more than 150,000 Covid-19 cases. The European Union-Malaysia...

Trump ready to help China, India to resolve border dispute

Trump ready to help China, India to resolve border dispute

-- 2020-09-05 19:25:31

The United States is ready to help resolve the dispute between India and China over the mountain border running through the western Himalayas, President Donald Trump said on Friday. Trump, asked abou...

World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon's controversial dam

World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon's controversial dam

-- 2020-09-05 18:38:56

The World Bank on Friday said it had cancelled $244 million in undisbursed funds for the Bisri Dam project in Lebanon after repeatedly raising concerns about the project since January. In a statement...

Hundreds of Thai students rally for school reform

Hundreds of Thai students rally for school reform

-- 2020-09-05 17:51:02

Hundreds of high school students demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday to demand reform of an education system they say is outdated in the latest of more than a month of anti-authority protests, reports...

India, China agree to ease tension on border

India, China agree to ease tension on border

Reuters 2020-09-05 17:32:35

India and China said on Saturday they had agreed to work towards reducing tensions along their contested border, following a meeting of the defence ministers of the nuclear-armed Asian giants. Both s...

Brazil reports 51,194 coronavirus cases in 24 hrs, 907 deaths

Brazil reports 51,194 coronavirus cases in 24 hrs, 907 deaths

Reuters 2020-09-05 17:09:17

Brazil recorded 51,194 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as well as 907 deaths from the disease, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Brazil has registered near...

Sri Lanka navy holds blazing supertanker off east coast

Sri Lanka navy holds blazing supertanker off east coast

-- 2020-09-05 16:56:06

Sri Lanka’s navy said on Saturday it was holding an abandoned supertanker off its east coast as it continued to work to put out a blaze on the ship, reports Reuters. The fire broke out in the...

India becomes third country to surpass four million Covid-19 cases

India becomes third country to surpass four million Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-09-05 13:34:54

India’s total coronavirus cases surged beyond 4 million with a record rise on Saturday, making it the third country in the world to surpass that mark, following the United States and Brazil. In...

1.9m more people may die in 2020, forecasts Coronavirus model

1.9m more people may die in 2020, forecasts Coronavirus model

Al Jazeera 2020-09-05 12:26:56

A widely cited model from the University of Washington predicts worsening outbreaks as winter returns to many parts of the world, with daily deaths expected to reach as high as 30,000 deaths during De...

Beirut explosion: Hopes fade in search for survivor

Beirut explosion: Hopes fade in search for survivor

-- 2020-09-05 12:00:21

Hopes are fading in Beirut that anyone will be found beneath the rubble of a building destroyed in last month's explosion, following two days of search efforts. Rescue workers began looking through t...

Indian, Chinese defence ministers meet amid border tensions

Indian, Chinese defence ministers meet amid border tensions

-- 2020-09-05 11:26:39

Defence ministers of India and China have met in the Russian capital to try to solve rising tensions along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region, reports AP. India’s Defence Minist...

Bahrain opens its airspace for flights between Israel, UAE

Bahrain opens its airspace for flights between Israel, UAE

-- 2020-09-04 19:18:08

Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom has said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace. The decision, which the kingdo...

Chilean rescue team reports ‘signs of life’ under Beirut blast rubble

Chilean rescue team reports ‘signs of life’ under Beirut blast rubble

Al Jazera 2020-09-04 19:08:51

A Chilean rescue team said it detected signs of life underneath the rubble of a building that collapsed in the massive explosion that tore through Beirut one month ago. A member of the TOPOS CHILE re...

Russia presses Germany for more detail about Putin’s opponent

Russia presses Germany for more detail about Putin’s opponent

-- 2020-09-04 17:57:48

The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent than...

White House asks US agencies to detail all China-related funding

White House asks US agencies to detail all China-related funding

-- 2020-09-04 16:41:01

The White House has asked US government agencies for extensive details of any funding that seeks to counter China’s global influence and business practices, or supports Beijing, amid growing ten...

Bangladesh among priority countries for Korea's ODA: Envoy

Bangladesh among priority countries for Korea's ODA: Envoy

-- 2020-09-04 16:36:54

South Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-keun has said Bangladesh is among the priority partner countries for Korea’s official development assistance (ODA) cooperation. Korea was the ninth-largest ODA...

India coronavirus infections near 4.0m

India coronavirus infections near 4.0m

-- 2020-09-04 16:17:43

India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million, health ministry data showed on Friday, as it closes in on Brazil as the world's second-most affected nat...

UN Chief urges G20 countries to take concerted action to combat Covid-19

UN Chief urges G20 countries to take concerted action to combat Covid-19

-- 2020-09-04 14:37:56

Noting that the pandemic has forced "unprecedented lockdowns, travel suspensions and limited movement across borders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Group of 20 (G...

Brazil's Bolsonaro says Covid-19 vaccinations will not be mandatory

Brazil's Bolsonaro says Covid-19 vaccinations will not be mandatory

Reuters 2020-09-04 13:41:14

Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that Covid-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory w...

Indian village offers window into surging Covid-19 caseload

Indian village offers window into surging Covid-19 caseload

Reuters 2020-09-04 13:10:10

The quaint, sugarcane-growing village of Rajewadi in India’s west did not have a single confirmed coronavirus case until mid-August. Now one in every four people there is positive for the virus,...

1MDB scandal: Malaysia drops charges against Goldman Sachs

1MDB scandal: Malaysia drops charges against Goldman Sachs

Reuters 2020-09-04 11:28:40

Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the B...

'Covid-19 vaccine could come in late October'

'Covid-19 vaccine could come in late October'

Reuters 2020-09-04 09:41:55

US public health officials and Pfizer said a Covid-19 vaccine could be ready for distribution as soon as late October, just ahead of the November election in which the coronavirus pandemic is likely t...

Mother kills five of her children in German town: Bild

Mother kills five of her children in German town: Bild

-- 2020-09-03 22:19:39

German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition on Thursday, citing the police, reports...

Tagore no threat to China, why should PUBG be a risk to India, asks Beijing

Tagore no threat to China, why should PUBG be a risk to India, asks Beijing

Hindustan Times 2020-09-03 21:27:53

Beijing on Thursday cited Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and yoga’s popularity in China to criticise India banning 118 Chinese apps and subtly warned New Delhi not to join the US’s &ls...

Malaysia expands entry ban to US, UK, France pass holders

Malaysia expands entry ban to US, UK, France pass holders

Reuters 2020-09-03 19:00:59

Malaysia on Thursday added at least nine more countries, including the United States, Britain and France, to its list of long-term immigration pass holders to be barred from the country, national news...

Facebook bans India's BJP leader for sparking hate speech row

Facebook bans India's BJP leader for sparking hate speech row

-- 2020-09-03 17:12:41

Facebook has banned T Raja Singh, a BJP leader at the core of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules on members of the ruling BJP. The politician was banned for violat...