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Japan's KDDI says 70pc of services restored after wide network troubles

Japan's KDDI says 70pc of services restored after wide network troubles

-- 2022-07-03 11:02:33

Japanese mobile carrier KDDI Corp said on Sunday that about 70 per cent of services have been recovered and the company is working hard to restore the rest after nationwide network troubles made calls...

North Korea says US-South Korea-Japan agreement materialises US plan for 'Asian NATO'

North Korea says US-South Korea-Japan agreement materialises US plan for 'Asian NATO'

REUTERS 2022-07-03 10:40:52

North Korea criticised the United States, South Korea and Japan's recent agreement on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a US plan for a military alliance like NATO in the...

Libyan protesters storm, set fire to parliament building

Libyan protesters storm, set fire to parliament building

-- 2022-07-02 23:41:44

Protesters broke into Libya's parliament in Tobruk on Friday evening and set a fire in front of the building to express their anger towards Libya's warring political parties. According to a Reuters r...

US states may arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions: Biden

US states may arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions: Biden

-- 2022-07-02 23:10:15

US President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some US states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the pro...

Taliban's large gathering ends with calls for international recognition

Taliban's large gathering ends with calls for international recognition

-- 2022-07-02 22:22:55

A Taliban-run gathering of thousands of male religious and ethnic leaders ended on Saturday by asking foreign governments to formally recognise their administration, but made no signals of changes on...

EU agrees to tame 'Wild West' with new crypto market rules

EU agrees to tame 'Wild West' with new crypto market rules

-- 2022-07-02 18:21:32

Cryptocurrency companies will need a licence and customer safeguards to issue and sell digital tokens in the European Union under groundbreaking new rules agreed by the bloc to tame a volatile "Wild W...

Mexico opens major oil refinery to cut dependence on foreign supplies

Mexico opens major oil refinery to cut dependence on foreign supplies

-- 2022-07-02 18:15:36

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador formally opened a major new oil refinery on Friday, a signature project for the leftist leader who argues it will help the country cut a longstanding depe...

Norway pledges 1.0b euros to support Ukraine

Norway pledges 1.0b euros to support Ukraine

-- 2022-07-02 17:50:46

Norway on Friday pledged 1.0 billion euros ($1.04 billion) to help Ukraine defend itself, support people in need and for reconstruction in the wake of Russia's invasion. Addressing a news conference...

Indian police arrest 'masterminds' behind execution of Hindu tailor, officials say

Indian police arrest 'masterminds' behind execution of Hindu tailor, officials say

-- 2022-07-02 14:40:49

Indian police made fresh arrests in the case of the execution of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, a murder that stoked unease between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority, leading to a clampdown on prot...

Hamburg senator warns of hot water rationing if gas shortage becomes acute

Hamburg senator warns of hot water rationing if gas shortage becomes acute

-- 2022-07-02 12:58:08

 The German city of Hamburg will ration hot water for private households and limit the maximum heating temperature in the event of an acute gas shortage, its environment senator said as Germany b...

Muslim pilgrims flock to Makkah for first post-pandemic Hajj

Muslim pilgrims flock to Makkah for first post-pandemic Hajj

-- 2022-07-02 11:43:56

Thousands of pilgrims started arriving in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia on Friday, among some one million Muslims expected to attend the 2022 Hajj pilgrimage season after two years of majo...

New York bans guns in many public places after Supreme Court ruling

New York bans guns in many public places after Supreme Court ruling

-- 2022-07-02 10:32:44

New York state passed a law on Friday banning guns from many public places, including Times Square, and requiring gun-license applicants to prove their shooting proficiency and submit their social med...

Modi, Putin discuss energy, food markets

Modi, Putin discuss energy, food markets

-- 2022-07-02 09:56:29

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Friday and discussed the state of global energy and food markets, Modi's office said in a statement, as I...

Magnitude 6.1 quake kills five in Iran

Magnitude 6.1 quake kills five in Iran

-- 2022-07-02 09:40:16

At least five people were killed by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit by two later strong quakes of up to 6.3 magnitude, repor...

Assange lodges appeal to block his extradition to US

Assange lodges appeal to block his extradition to US

-- 2022-07-01 22:33:57

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has appealed to the High Court in London to block his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges, his brother said on Friday, the latest step in his le...

India bans single-use plastic

India bans single-use plastic

-- 2022-07-01 20:33:02

India on Friday imposed a ban on single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat worsening pollution in country whose streets are strewn with waste. Announcing the ban...

Russian missiles kill at least 19 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

Russian missiles kill at least 19 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

-- 2022-07-01 20:23:40

Russian missile attacks on residential areas killed at least 19 people in a Ukrainian town near Odesa early Friday, authorities reported. The airstrikes pierced the cautious relief expressed a day ear...

Thailand scrambles fighter planes after Myanmar jet ‘violates’ airspace

Thailand scrambles fighter planes after Myanmar jet ‘violates’ airspace

-- 2022-07-01 16:05:48

Thailand scrambled fighter jets near its border with Myanmar on Thursday and ordered its defence attache to issue a warning to the military government, its air force said, over what it called an airsp...

China urges US to fulfill climate duties after Supreme Court ruling

China urges US to fulfill climate duties after Supreme Court ruling

REUTERS 2022-07-01 15:59:14

The United States must meet its international obligations on climate change and do more than "shout slogans", China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday following a U.S. Supreme Cou...

Japan govt asks citizens to cut power use

Japan govt asks citizens to cut power use

-- 2022-07-01 15:40:48

The highest temperatures for the season since record-keeping began have scorched much of eastern Japan for a week, prompting the government to ask citizens to cut power use as much as possible, while...

Zelenskiy says Ukraine is now exporting power to EU

Zelenskiy says Ukraine is now exporting power to EU

-- 2022-07-01 14:25:25

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the launching of power transmissions to Romania was the start of a process that could help Europe reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons. Zelenskiy...

India court says Prophet row 'set country on fire'

India court says Prophet row 'set country on fire'

-- 2022-07-01 13:44:51

India's top court has rebuked a former spokesperson of the ruling party for her controversial remarks on the Prophet Muhammad. The court told Nupur Sharma that "her loose tongue has set t...

North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for COVID outbreak

North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for COVID outbreak

REUTERS 2022-07-01 10:59:28

North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for th...

Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle, Voice of America for not getting licences

Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle, Voice of America for not getting licences

-- 2022-07-01 10:11:14

Turkey's RTUK media watchdog has blocked access to US-based Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle for not applying for the licences it requests, a member of the watchdog said on Thu...

Landslide kills 14 in eastern India, nearly 50 others feared dead

Landslide kills 14 in eastern India, nearly 50 others feared dead

-- 2022-06-30 22:24:50

At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, officials said on Thursday....

NATO leaders plan to increase combat-ready forces to counter Russia

NATO leaders plan to increase combat-ready forces to counter Russia

-- 2022-06-30 20:16:45

NATO leaders have agreed to put over 300,000 troops on high alert from mid-2023, up from 40,000 currently, to counter Russia, the country designated by the alliance as posing the greatest threat over...

Philippines begins new era of Marcos rule

Philippines begins new era of Marcos rule

-- 2022-06-30 13:27:04

The son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sworn in as president of the Philippines on Thursday, completing a stunning comeback for one of Asia's most famous political dynasties, 36 ye...

Sweden and Finland invited to join NATO

Sweden and Finland invited to join NATO

-- 2022-06-29 19:54:11

NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday to join the military alliance in one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades after Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed Helsinki and Stockholm...

20 migrants, who went missing in Libya two weeks ago, found dead

20 migrants, who went missing in Libya two weeks ago, found dead

-- 2022-06-29 19:00:51

The bodies of 20 migrants who got lost in the Libyan desert near Chad have been found, the ambulance service said on Wednesday, showing pictures of them lying around a black pickup truck on the sand....

Taliban to exclude women at its ‘gathering for unity’

Taliban to exclude women at its ‘gathering for unity’

-- 2022-06-29 18:56:23

A large gathering organised by the Taliban of Afghanistan's religious scholars and tribal elders will address issues of national unity and will be without female participants, the acting deputy prime...