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Indonesian navy officers ask for $375,000 to release tanker

Indonesian navy officers ask for $375,000 to release tanker

-- 2022-06-09 20:47:10

More than a dozen shipowners have made payments of about $300,000 apiece to release vessels detained by the Indonesian navy, which said they were anchored illegally in Indonesian waters near Singapore...

Dispute between gold miners in Peru leaves 14 people dead

Dispute between gold miners in Peru leaves 14 people dead

-- 2022-06-09 14:31:31

Fourteen people died in an armed dispute between small-scale miners in a remote gold-mining town in southern Peru, authorities said Wednesday. The violence was the latest incidence of unrest in Peru'...

India's Amul urges Modi to delay plastic straw ban, cites impact on dairy farmers

India's Amul urges Modi to delay plastic straw ban, cites impact on dairy farmers

REUTERS 2022-06-09 13:41:04

India's biggest dairy group Amul has written to the government urging it to delay a planned ban on tiny plastic straws, saying the move will have a "negative impact" on farmers and milk consumption in...

Sri Lanka hit by power cuts after key union goes on strike

Sri Lanka hit by power cuts after key union goes on strike

-- 2022-06-09 13:30:30

Swathes of Sri Lanka were hit by electricity cuts on Thursday after a power sector union went on strike opposing new government regulations, compounding hardships as the country tackles a crippling ec...

Thailand legalises cannabis trade but still bans recreational use

Thailand legalises cannabis trade but still bans recreational use

-- 2022-06-09 12:52:56

People in Thailand can now grow cannabis plants at home and sell the crop after the nation removed marijuana from its banned narcotics list. The nation is the first to advance such a move...

US and China set to clash at Asian security meeting

US and China set to clash at Asian security meeting

-- 2022-06-09 12:04:22

The United States and China are expected to use Asia's top security meeting this week to trade blows over everything from Taiwan's sovereignty to the war in Ukraine, although both sides have indicated...

India reports highest daily Covid cases since March 2

India reports highest daily Covid cases since March 2

-- 2022-06-09 11:39:09

India reported 7,240 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, its highest number of daily cases since March 2. India's financial capital Mumbai, which ha...

Parts of Shanghai impose new Covid lockdown measures

Parts of Shanghai impose new Covid lockdown measures

-- 2022-06-09 11:01:14

Parts of Shanghai began imposing new lockdown restrictions on Thursday, with residents of sprawling Minhang district ordered to stay home for two days in a bid to control Covid-19 transmission risks....

22, including nine of a family, killed as van plunges into ravine in Pakistan

22, including nine of a family, killed as van plunges into ravine in Pakistan

-- 2022-06-08 21:03:02

At least 22 people were killed, including nine members of one family when a passenger van fell into deep ravine in southwest Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday. The accident happened apparently du...

Taliban unveils new uniforms for reconstituted police force

Taliban unveils new uniforms for reconstituted police force

-- 2022-06-08 19:15:05

Taliban authorities on Wednesday introduced new uniforms for its reconstituted Afghan police force, as the de facto government attempts to shift away from using its insurgent military forces to handle...

India tightens security after militants threaten attacks

India tightens security after militants threaten attacks

-- 2022-06-08 19:12:24

India tightened public security on Wednesday after the circulation of a letter warning of Islamist militant attacks to avenge derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad by an official of the ruling...

Russian FM says Ukraine can resume grain shipments by de-mining its ports

Russian FM says Ukraine can resume grain shipments by de-mining its ports

-- 2022-06-08 18:27:50

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday the onus was on Ukraine to solve the problem of resuming grain shipments by de-mining its ports. Lavrov said no action was required on the Russian...

Brothers at odds, but ruling family still holds key to Sri Lanka's future

Brothers at odds, but ruling family still holds key to Sri Lanka's future

-- 2022-06-08 14:27:08

It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka's politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways. On May 9, when a crowd of ruling party supporters marched towards ac...

Indian police arrest BJP youth leader for anti-Muslim comments

Indian police arrest BJP youth leader for anti-Muslim comments

-- 2022-06-08 13:52:09

Police in northern India arrested a youth leader from the Hindu nationalist ruling party for posting anti-Muslim comments on social media after derogatory remarks by another party official about the P...

Display of Palestinian flag to be banned at Israeli institutions

Display of Palestinian flag to be banned at Israeli institutions

-- 2022-06-07 22:45:02

Following weeks of violence in different parts of Israel and the West Bank, Israeli nationalists have targeted the red, green, black and white Palestinian colours in an escalating "flag war" that unde...

Sri Lanka needs $5.0b, help from China for essentials

Sri Lanka needs $5.0b, help from China for essentials

-- 2022-06-07 19:04:40

Sri Lanka will need $5 billion over the next six months to ensure basic living standards, and is renegotiating the terms of a yuan-denominated swap worth $1.5 billion with China so as to fund essentia...

Ukraine grain exports capped at 2.0m tonnes per month

Ukraine grain exports capped at 2.0m tonnes per month

-- 2022-06-07 17:23:11

Ukraine will only be able to export a maximum 2.0 million tonnes of grains a month if Russia refuses to lift its blockade of the country's Black Sea ports, Taras Vysotskyi, Ukraine's first deputy mini...

World must tell Taliban it's going in wrong direction, says German foreign minister

World must tell Taliban it's going in wrong direction, says German foreign minister

-- 2022-06-07 15:29:13

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the international community to send Afghanistan's Taliban leadership the message that it is heading in the wrong direction. "Our influence on what...

Famine risk rises in Somalia as rains fail, food prices soar: UN

Famine risk rises in Somalia as rains fail, food prices soar: UN

-- 2022-06-07 15:00:12

Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday. The agencies said a fo...

India diplomatic woes deepen over Prophet Muhammad row

India diplomatic woes deepen over Prophet Muhammad row

-- 2022-06-07 10:50:41

India's diplomatic nightmare over controversial comments made by two senior officials of the country's ruling party about the Prophet Muhammad is showing no signs of ending. The UAE, Oman, In...

Fierce street fighting in Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk

Fierce street fighting in Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk

-- 2022-06-07 10:31:07

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops were engaged in fierce street fighting with Russian soldiers in the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a pivotal battle in the Kremlin's attempt to...

US wins authority to seize Russian oligarch's planes

US wins authority to seize Russian oligarch's planes

-- 2022-06-07 10:26:26

A US court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under US measures imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, court records show...

UK's Boris Johnson wins confidence vote but suffers big rebellion

UK's Boris Johnson wins confidence vote but suffers big rebellion

-- 2022-06-07 10:23:58

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday but a rebellion by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party lawmakers dealt a serious blow to his authority, Reuters reports. A majo...

US media in Moscow may lose accreditation, warns Russia

US media in Moscow may lose accreditation, warns Russia

-- 2022-06-06 23:17:03

Russia warned US news organisations on Monday they risked being stripped of their accreditation unless the treatment of Russian journalists in the United States improves, according to three sources wi...

Ukrainian, Russian troops fight to win control of industrial city

Ukrainian, Russian troops fight to win control of industrial city

-- 2022-06-06 21:45:48

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin's eastern Ukraine offencive. Which side ha...

Three countries block Russian FM’s plane from travelling to Serbia

Three countries block Russian FM’s plane from travelling to Serbia

-- 2022-06-06 20:13:58

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia was cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to Lavrov’s aircraft. Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro had clo...

US ambassador says Washington, Moscow should not break off relations

US ambassador says Washington, Moscow should not break off relations

-- 2022-06-06 18:44:28

Russia should not close the US embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world's two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the US ambassador to Moscow was quoted a...

Ryanair forces South Africans to prove nationality with Afrikaans test

Ryanair forces South Africans to prove nationality with Afrikaans test

-- 2022-06-06 18:30:38

Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just by 12 per cent of the population that has long bee...

British prime minister faces confidence vote after ‘partygate’ scandal

British prime minister faces confidence vote after ‘partygate’ scandal

-- 2022-06-06 17:10:16

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote later on Monday, after a growing number of lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party questioned the British leader's flagging autho...

Death toll in southwestern Iran tower collapse rises to 41

Death toll in southwestern Iran tower collapse rises to 41

-- 2022-06-06 16:59:54

The death toll in the collapse of a building in southwestern Iran rose Monday to at least 41, state media reported, two weeks after the disaster struck, reports AP. Ehsun Abbaspour, the governor of t...