Reuters 2020-02-24 12:42:01
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submitted a letter of resignation to Malaysia’s king, his office said on Monday, amid talk of forming a new governing coalition. The fate of Malaysia’s...
-- 2020-02-24 11:35:23
New Zealand has extended for eight days a ban on arrivals from mainland China, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, carrying into its fourth week an effort to block exposure to the coronaviru...
REUTERS 2020-02-24 10:51:20
Fears mounted on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak in China will grow into a pandemic with disruptive and deadly consequences for countries around the world, after sharp rises in infections in Sout...
WHO concerned by global spread 2020-02-23 17:07:05
China reported a sharp fall in new deaths and cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections continue...
Reuters 2020-02-23 14:57:40
Authorities in Iran have announced the detection of at least 10 new cases of coronavirus and two more deaths, deepening a sense of public unease over the handling of the spread of the disease. The la...
REUTERS 2020-02-23 11:56:01
Bernie Sanders solidified his front-runner status with what appeared to be a decisive victory in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, while Joe Biden was on track for a second-p...
-- 2020-02-23 11:33:10
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is "not sure" a UK-EU trade deal will be struck by 31 December, the end of the Brexit transition period. Mr Macron said negotiations starting in March wil...
REUTERS 2020-02-23 10:53:26
US president Donald Trump will raise the issue of religious freedom in India during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, a senior administration official said, a sensitive subject...
REUTERS 2020-02-23 10:32:02
China reported another fall in the new coronavirus infections outside of its epicentre on Sunday, but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infec...
-- 2020-02-22 18:10:32
Dozens of Rohingya Muslims, including two children, appeared in court in Myanmar on Friday, the latest group to face charges after attempting to flee conflict-torn Rakhine state. The group of about 2...
-- 2020-02-22 17:27:37
Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100,000 civilians killed or hurt in the last 10 years since the international body began documenting casualties in a war that has raged for 18 years....
-- 2020-02-22 16:08:21
Pakistan won an extra four months to meet international anti-terrorism financing norms on Friday when a global dirty money watchdog decided to keep the country off its blacklist for now, reports Reute...
-- 2020-02-22 11:16:44
An elderly man in the northern Italian city of Padua has died after being infected with the coronavirus, becoming the first Italian victim of the disease, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Frid...
-- 2020-02-22 10:41:51
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Saturday ordered an investigation into a violent crackdown by security forces on protesters in Khartoum. Hamdok said in a televised speech: “I decided...
-- 2020-02-22 10:29:43
China reported a decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, while its central bank predicted a limited short-term economic impact and said the country was confi...
-- 2020-02-21 20:39:38
A popular pro-democracy party in Thailand has been dissolved over a loan it received from its leader. The constitutional court ruled a loan of around $6m (£4.6m) to Future Forward from Thanatho...
-- 2020-02-21 19:48:57
The seven-day “reduction of violence” deal promised by the Taliban will begin on Friday night, a senior U.S. State Department official said, without specifying the exact time. That will s...
-- 2020-02-21 18:32:10
Syrian government troops covered by Russian warplanes on Thursday repelled several massive attacks of militants supported by Turkey in Syria’s Idlib, according to the Russian military. Militant...
-- 2020-02-21 18:26:31
Saudi-led coalition announced Friday it intercepted several ballistic missiles launched by Houthi militia towards Saudi cities, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Turki Al Maliki, spokesperson of the c...
-- 2020-02-21 17:33:14
An Indian woman has been arrested and charged with sedition for chanting "long live Pakistan" at a protest in the southern city of Bangalore. Amulya Leona was participating in a demonstration again...
-- 2020-02-21 17:31:30
A prayer leader in his 70s was stabbed in a London mosque on Thursday and the assailant was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, police and mosque officials said. “The attacker was appreh...
-- 2020-02-21 16:17:33
Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China, reports BBC. The evacuees were brought to a health spa in Novi Sanzhary, in the central Po...
-- 2020-02-21 16:05:25
Intelligence officials have warned lawmakers that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign to help President Donald Trump get reelected, three officials familiar with the closed-door briefi...
-- 2020-02-21 15:56:18
Convalescent plasma therapy has proved to be effective on severe cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a Chinese official said on Friday. More than 100 patients who have recovered from COVID...
-- 2020-02-21 15:46:02
Voting began in the Iranian parliamentary election on Friday as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was seen casting the first vote on the state television, says a Xinhua report. “The electio...
-- 2020-02-21 15:09:38
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner will be part of a high-powered delegation that accompanies US President Donald Trump to India next week. US National Security Advisor...
-- 2020-02-21 15:09:18
South Korea has stepped up measures to contain the spread of the deadly new coronavirus, as confirmed infections rose sharply for a second day, reports BBC. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said it was...
-- 2020-02-21 14:56:57
A woman in Australia has shared a heartbreaking video of her young son crying and saying he wants to kill himself because of the constant bullying he faces at school because of his height. In a powerf...
-- 2020-02-21 14:25:20
An intergovernmental group of Asian countries on Thursday pledged support to China in its fight against the killer coronavirus outbreak, according to Arab News. Member states of the Association of So...
-- 2020-02-21 12:06:09
A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views,...
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