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REUTERS 2020-08-07 15:10:11
Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections handed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother an overwhelming majority, results showed on Friday, giving the family power to enact sweeping changes to t...
REUTERS 2020-08-07 12:33:10
The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a leaky Russian-leased cargo ship that, according to its captai...
-- 2020-08-07 11:48:01
India's coronavirus (Covid-19) tally crossed 2.0 million mark on Friday, reaching 2,027,074, the federal health ministry said. As many as 62,538 new cases were detected in the country in the past 24...
Reuters 2020-08-06 23:03:42
Facebook has objected to a request from Gambia, which has accused Myanmar at the World Court of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority, to release posts and communications by members of Myanmar...
-- 2020-08-06 17:15:54
A massive search was under way in South Korea on Thursday for five rescue workers swept over a dam when their boats overturned in surging floodwaters, while President Moon Jae-in raised concerns about...
Reuters 2020-08-06 16:43:37
India's federal government named a former telecoms minister on Thursday to lead the restive region of Kashmir, where it hopes to accelerate economic development and end years of strife. Manoj Sinha,...
REUTERS 2020-08-06 16:13:19
A South Korean farmers’ cooperative said on Thursday it has clinched a $150 million deal to barter sugar for North Korean liquor and food products, bypassing sanctions banning cash transfers. T...
Reuters 2020-08-06 14:51:37
Singapore is monitoring a recent spate of suicides and attempted suicides involving migrants which have heightened concerns over the mental health of thousands of low-paid workers confined to their do...
REUTERS 2020-08-06 14:48:22
Lebanon mourned on Thursday the victims of the most powerful blast to hit the country that was already being crushed by an economic crisis, as rescuers searched for those missing since the explosion t...
-- 2020-08-06 13:28:57
Eight coronavirus (Covid-19) patients died in a fire that broke out in the intensive care ward of a private hospital in India’s western city of Ahmedabad early on Thursday, officials said as the...
-- 2020-08-06 10:34:06
Bells tolled in Hiroshima on Thursday for the 75th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing, with ceremonies downsized due to the coronavirus and the city’s mayor urging nations to...
REUTERS 2020-08-06 09:16:06
Lebanese rescue teams pulled out bodies and hunted for missing in the wreckage of buildings on Wednesday as investigations blamed negligence for a massive warehouse explosion that sent a devastating b...
-- 2020-08-05 21:38:58
Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest, reports AP. The scale...
-- 2020-08-05 19:50:53
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the construction of a Hindu temple on a site that has been contested by Muslims for decades in a dispute that has sparked some of India's most...
-- 2020-08-05 17:09:35
Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) is among those searching for survivors in Beirut after a massive blast in the city killed 100 people and injured nearly 4,000, and Ankara has offere...
-- 2020-08-05 12:51:47
Malaysian authorities conducted a drive at Kuala Lumpur office of Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera and seized two computers on Tuesday, as part of the ongoing investigation over a documentary repor...
Reuters 2020-08-05 11:57:45
Latin America surpassed Europe on Tuesday to become the region with the highest coronavirus death toll worldwide, according to a Reuters tally. The region has now recorded more than 206,000 deaths, a...
-- 2020-08-05 11:16:18
Voting to elect a new Parliament was underway in Sri Lanka on Wednesday. It is expected to give strong support to the powerful and popular Rajapaksa brothers, reports the Associated Press. At least...
-- 2020-08-05 10:07:19
Deadly Tropical Storm Isaias knocked out power to millions on the US east coast after making landfall in North Carolina as a hurricane. Two people died when a tornado struck a mobile home park. At le...
-- 2020-08-05 09:28:48
Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officia...
BBC 2020-08-04 23:48:06
A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people, officials say. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Vide...
-- 2020-08-04 21:21:17
Fourteen people were killed and more than 1,000 people forced from their homes as 42 consecutive days of rain - South Korea's longest monsoon in seven years - triggered floods and landslides, authorit...
-- 2020-08-04 19:18:17
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term in an election in November that is seen as a test of the Southeast Asian nation's tentative democratic...
-- 2020-08-04 18:44:03
After strict lockdown measures pushed down infection rates, many European countries are now watching numbers creep back up, a consequence of easing curbs to try to limit economic damage and greater so...
-- 2020-08-04 18:11:30
Authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai issued a red alert on Tuesday and warned people not to venture out after heavy overnight rain in the financial hub brought flooding and travel chaos, reports R...
-- 2020-08-04 17:54:51
In a gesture of reconciliation, two prominent Muslims who lived through deadly riots following the razing of a mosque in northern India in 1992 plan to attend the foundation-laying ceremony for a Hind...
-- 2020-08-04 17:54:43
Broadcaster Al Jazeera said Malaysian police had raided its office in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, amid an investigation into a programme it aired on the country’s treatment of undocumented foreign...
-- 2020-08-04 17:04:22
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a foundation-laying ceremony for a Hindu temple on Wednesday, organisers said, even though his interior minister has contracted Covid-19, reports Reuter...
Reuters 2020-08-04 16:03:22
Indian soldiers patrolled streets and kept watch from the rooftops in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar on the eve of the first anniversary of the Muslim majority region’s loss of autonomy....
Xinhua 2020-08-04 14:39:09
Although the first clusters of atypical pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, China, it doesn't necessarily mean that is where the Covid-19 disease crossed from animals into humans, a senior World Health...
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