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Reuters 2021-07-10 11:26:11
India's devastating second coronavirus wave, which has raged since March and killed thousands of people, is not over yet, a senior government official said on Friday, warning citizens to avoid crowdin...
-- 2021-07-09 18:27:38
A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85 per cent of territory in Afghanistan and reassured Russia it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to att...
Reuters 2021-07-09 12:24:51
Filipino fisherman Randy Megu has often braved the storms that spring up in the South China Sea, but these days he has a greater fear: seeing a Chinese maritime enforcement vessel on the horizon. Fiv...
Reuters 2021-07-08 17:26:10
Sorbonne-educated Chryssoula Fayad spent nearly two decades teaching history and geography at Lebanon's elite French schools, ultimately heading departments. Now she is a substitute teacher in Paris,...
Reuters 2021-07-08 16:46:21
Afghan government forces on Thursday wrested back control of a western provincial capital stormed by the Taliban a day earlier and hundreds of fresh troops have been deployed to the region, the defenc...
-- 2021-07-08 13:40:11
Thailand's plan to re-open the country to foreign tourists in about 100 days has been thrown into doubt as it sees a new spike in Covid cases. Some 7,000 cases and 75 deaths were reported on Thur...
-- 2021-07-08 12:08:48
Russia has offered North Korea Covid vaccines once again, amid reports that a harsh lockdown is leading to extreme hunger. Pyongyang has refused vaccines and aid from a number of countries....
-- 2021-07-08 10:27:20
More than four million people around the world have died of COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In total, three countries account for more than a third of all global deat...
Reuters 2021-07-08 09:37:27
Japan is set to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo through August 22 to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections, a key minister said on Thursday, as the organisers consider banning all specta...
-- 2021-07-07 22:06:42
Under fire for its poor handling of the Covid second wave and the economy, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government carried out a mega Cabinet rejig Wednesday, inducting as many as 43 new Mini...
-- 2021-07-07 20:25:53
Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mega cabinet expansion, 12 ministers and state ministers of the central government of the country have resigned from their posts. India’s ce...
REUTERS 2021-07-07 19:42:23
Taliban insurgents on Wednesday stormed the capital of Afghanistan's northwestern Badghis province, officials said, briefly taking over police headquarters and sparking panic among local people. Offi...
-- 2021-07-07 18:53:52
The GAVI vaccine alliance hopes the Serum Institute of India (SII) will resume exports of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from this quarter, it told Reuters, earlier than the firm's forecast of the e...
-- 2021-07-07 13:42:54
The leader of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) state on Wednesday ordered a week-long extension of Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown, warning new cases are bound to rise as the country's biggest city grappl...
Reuters 2021-07-07 12:22:58
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was working to expedite the implementation of a five-point consensus reached by their leaders to deal with the crisis in Myanmar, Singapore's foreign...
Reuters 2021-07-07 09:45:11
Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday, a move that could help it develop a nuclear weapon and that three European powers said threatene...
AP 2021-07-06 18:46:33
Israel’s parliament early on Tuesday failed to renew a law that bars Arab citizens from extending citizenship or residency rights to spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in a tight vote...
REUTERS 2021-07-06 18:43:28
Rescuers in Japan waded through mud, rock and splintered wood in search of 24 people still missing on Tuesday after heavy rain triggered massive landslides in the seaside city of Atami three days ago,...
-- 2021-07-06 16:14:26
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi let the world know on Tuesday that he had rung Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to wish him a happy 86th birthday, disregarding any potential disapproval fro...
Reuters 2021-07-06 12:04:14
A Russian AN-26 airplane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east, the country's emergencies ministry said on Tuesday. The plane, en route from regiona...
-- 2021-07-06 11:35:34
Israel will deliver about 700,000 expiring doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine to South Korea later this month, and South Korea will give Israel back the same number, already on order from...
Reuters 2021-07-06 09:02:20
Israel reported on Monday a decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness but said it remained highly effective in preventing s...
Reuters 2021-07-05 20:15:39
Tajikistan is looking into setting up camps for potential refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan amid escalating violence across the border, government sources told Reuters on Monday. Taliban insurge...
REUTERS 2021-07-05 19:35:59
More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, while dozens of others w...
REUTERS 2021-07-05 18:55:35
Malaysia will examine recruitment fees charged to workers and review its agreements with the home countries of migrant workers, the Human Resources Ministry said, after the Southeast Asian nation was...
-- 2021-07-05 13:19:12
Saudi Arabia has approved the security plan for the 2021 Hajj season that takes into account precautions against COVID-19, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. According to the plan issued by the S...
Reuters 2021-07-05 13:04:56
South Korea is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers including Pfizer and Moderna to produce Covid-19 shots in the country and is ready to offer the capacity to make up to 1 billion doses immedi...
-- 2021-07-05 12:23:20
Australia's New South Wales (NSW) on Monday said the next two days would be "absolutely critical" in deciding whether a two-week anti-coronavirus lockdown in Sydney, set to end on July 9, will have to...
-- 2021-07-05 11:32:09
Indonesia's government has ordered oxygen producers to prioritise medical needs as a surge in Covid cases has led to shortages in a number of cities. Hospitals say they are struggling at the limi...
Reuters 2021-07-05 10:43:57
Senior foreign executives of major telecommunications firms in Myanmar have been told by the junta that they must not leave the country without permission, a person with direct knowledge of the matter...
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