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Biden tests negative for Covid-19, ends isolation period

Biden tests negative for Covid-19, ends isolation period

-- 2022-07-27 23:03:20

US President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 after coming down with the coronavirus last week and is ending his isolation period at the White House, his physician said on Wednesday. Biden...

Coordination centre opened in Istanbul to oversee exports of Ukrainian grains

Coordination centre opened in Istanbul to oversee exports of Ukrainian grains

-- 2022-07-27 19:21:16

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Wednesday unveiled a centre in Istanbul to oversee the export of Ukrainian grains after a landmark UN deal last week, with the first shipment expected to depart...

Powerful 7.1 earthquake strikes Philippines; at least four dead

Powerful 7.1 earthquake strikes Philippines; at least four dead

-- 2022-07-27 17:04:21

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the northern Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday killing four people, damaging buildings and sending strong tremors through the capital, Manila. Two peo...

South Korean PM to recommend presidential pardon for Samsung's Jay Y Lee

South Korean PM to recommend presidential pardon for Samsung's Jay Y Lee

REUTERS 2022-07-27 15:18:52

South Korea's prime minister said on Wednesday he would recommend to the president a pardon for Jay Y. Lee, vice chairman of the world's biggest memory chip maker, Samsung Electronics. Lee, heir to t...

Corruption convictions no bar to running in Kenya's elections

Corruption convictions no bar to running in Kenya's elections

REUTERS 2022-07-27 14:01:32

A member of parliament fined $7 million for corruption and handed a 67-year jail term; a top civil servant with an asset seizure order against her; lawmakers convicted of bribery, economic crimes and...

Powerful 7.1 quake strikes Philippines

Powerful 7.1 quake strikes Philippines

-- 2022-07-27 10:28:00

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippine island of Luzon on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, badly damaging a hospital and buildings in a northern province and sending strong...

India’s Haryana chief minister says Bangladesh, Pakistan, India can reunite

India’s Haryana chief minister says Bangladesh, Pakistan, India can reunite

-- 2022-07-26 23:17:06

Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of India’s Haryana state, on Monday said that Bangladesh, Pakistan and India can reunite just like the unification of East Germany and West Germany. "Whe...

Israel says Russians fired at its jets over Syria in May in "one-off"

Israel says Russians fired at its jets over Syria in May in "one-off"

-- 2022-07-26 21:06:31

Israel said on Tuesday that its military jets came under Russian anti-aircraft fire over Syria in May but they missed their target, describing the confrontation as a "one-off incident". The disclosur...

Europe agrees compromise gas curbs as Russia reduces supply

Europe agrees compromise gas curbs as Russia reduces supply

-- 2022-07-26 20:41:48

European Union countries approved a weakened emergency plan to curb their gas demand on Tuesday, after striking compromise deals to limit the cuts for some countries, as they brace for further Russian...

‘Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka soon’

‘Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka soon’

-- 2022-07-26 20:11:44

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to Sri Lanka from Singapore soon. Sri Lanka’s cabinet spokesman Bandula Gunewardena gave the information on Tuesday, reports Daily Mir...

Trump returning to Washington to deliver speech on crime

Trump returning to Washington to deliver speech on crime

-- 2022-07-26 19:58:23

Former US president Donald Trump will return to Washington on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech on crime before an allied think tank that has been crafting an agenda...

Pakistan increases power prices amid energy crisis

Pakistan increases power prices amid energy crisis

-- 2022-07-26 19:48:33

Pakistan has raised electricity prices to match rising generation costs amid a global energy crisis and a heatwave, even as the country grapples with its highest inflation in over a decade, the power...

Myanmar defends executions as ‘justice for people’

Myanmar defends executions as ‘justice for people’

-- 2022-07-26 19:10:16

Myanmar's ruling military on Tuesday defended its execution of four democracy activists as "justice for the people", brushing off a deluge of international condemnation including from its closest neig...

Rahul Gandhi detained during protest in Delhi

Rahul Gandhi detained during protest in Delhi

-- 2022-07-26 18:00:57

Authorities have detained Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a road protest in Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate. The opposition leader,...

India probes spurious liquor incident that killed 26

India probes spurious liquor incident that killed 26

-- 2022-07-26 14:09:52

Authorities in India's western state of Gujarat are investigating an incident in which at least 26 people died and more than 30 were admitted to hospital after drinking spurious liquor, an offic...

Australia's Covid hospitalisations, deaths rise as variant surges

Australia's Covid hospitalisations, deaths rise as variant surges

-- 2022-07-26 14:01:45

Hospital admissions for Covid-19 in Australia have reached a new high for a second straight day, data showed on Tuesday, while the daily death toll rose to its second-highest as an outbreak fuelled by...

China confirms warnings to US on Pelosi's possible Taiwan visit

China confirms warnings to US on Pelosi's possible Taiwan visit

-- 2022-07-26 12:43:48

China delivered sterner warnings to US officials about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's possible visit to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday, confirming a report by the Financial Times (F...

Myanmar's neighbours dismayed over 'highly reprehensible' executions

Myanmar's neighbours dismayed over 'highly reprehensible' executions

REUTERS 2022-07-26 12:15:46

Myanmar's Southeast Asian neighbours issued a stinging rebuke on Tuesday of the ruling military's execution of four political activists, calling it "highly reprehensible" and destructive to regional e...

World condemns Myanmar junta for 'cruel' execution of activists

World condemns Myanmar junta for 'cruel' execution of activists

-- 2022-07-26 11:15:47

Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding "terror acts", sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions in decades, R...

Execution of Myanmar’s four democracy activists sparks condemnation

Execution of Myanmar’s four democracy activists sparks condemnation

-- 2022-07-25 23:15:26

Myanmar's ruling military announced on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of aiding ‘terror acts’, sparking widespread condemnation of the country's first executions i...

Japan detects its first case of monkeypox virus

Japan detects its first case of monkeypox virus

-- 2022-07-25 21:32:45

Japan has detected its first case of the monkeypox virus in Tokyo, the capital's governor said on Monday. The infected person is a man in his 30s who returned from Europe and is currently in a hospit...

Several people killed in mass shooting in Canada

Several people killed in mass shooting in Canada

-- 2022-07-25 21:28:23

Several people were killed in a mass shooting early on Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia, according to a Reuters report that cited Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Police ha...

Pakistan selling state assets to foreign countries for loan repayment

Pakistan selling state assets to foreign countries for loan repayment

-- 2022-07-25 20:40:41

The government of Pakistan has decided to sell assets, owned by the state, to foreign countries to prevent the country from defaulting on loans. According to Pakistan-based news agencies, the federal...

Sri Lanka to restrict fuel imports for next 12 months

Sri Lanka to restrict fuel imports for next 12 months

-- 2022-07-25 20:30:53

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said on Monday, as the island nation's new government seeks to find a...

Ukraine hopes grain export deal to be implemented this week

Ukraine hopes grain export deal to be implemented this week

-- 2022-07-25 18:34:35

Ukraine said on Monday it hoped a UN-brokered deal aimed at easing global food shortages by resuming grain exports from the Black Sea region would start being implemented this week. Senior government...

India’s first tribal president takes oath of office

India’s first tribal president takes oath of office

-- 2022-07-25 17:37:11

India's first president from a marginalised tribal community, Droupadi Murmu, has taken the oath of office. After being sworn in on Monday, Droupadi Murmu said her election was an "achievement of eve...

Taiwan holds air-raid exercise amid China tension

Taiwan holds air-raid exercise amid China tension

-- 2022-07-25 16:55:02

Roads emptied and people were ordered to stay indoors in parts of Taiwan, including its capital Taipei, on Monday for an air-raid exercise as the island steps up preparations in the event of a Chinese...

Doxxing: a new tool of repression against Arab women

Doxxing: a new tool of repression against Arab women

-- 2022-07-25 16:07:10

When dozens of Tunisian judges went on strike last month to protest the sacking of 57 of their colleagues, lurid posts containing damaging allegations about some of the female jurists began appearing...

France to issue decrees to save energy

France to issue decrees to save energy

-- 2022-07-25 15:58:12

French Minister for Energy Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher announced on Sunday future decrees to force air-conditioned stores to keep their doors closed and to ban illuminated advertisements during...

Schools reopen in Sri Lanka after closure from fuel shortages

Schools reopen in Sri Lanka after closure from fuel shortages

-- 2022-07-25 15:36:23

Sri Lanka on Monday reopened government-owned public and state-approved private schools, which were closed for nearly a month due to fuel shortages. However, schools will be open only three days a we...