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Australia cuts annual intake of immigrants by 15pc

Australia cuts annual intake of immigrants by 15pc

-- 2019-03-20 12:32:21

Australia cut its annual intake of immigrants by nearly 15 per cent on Wednesday, and barred some new arrivals from living in its largest cities for three years, in a bid to ease urban congestion. Pr...

Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

Burials begin for New Zealand mosque shooting victims

Reuters 2019-03-20 10:01:13

The bodies of two victims from New Zealand’s mosques mass shooting were carried in open caskets on the shoulders of mourners into a large tent at Christchurch’s Memorial Park Cemetery on W...

New Zealand PM vows not to say gunman’s name

New Zealand PM vows not to say gunman’s name

-- 2019-03-19 19:00:57

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed never to say the name of the Christchurch mosque gunman. "He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety - that is why you w...

Money raised for ‘Egg Boy’ will be donated to New Zealand victims

Money raised for ‘Egg Boy’ will be donated to New Zealand victims

-- 2019-03-19 17:38:05

Money raised for a teenager who shot to worldwide fame after smashing an egg on the head of an Australian far-right politician will go toward the victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings, according...

Australia PM calls for social media crackdown after NZ attacks

Australia PM calls for social media crackdown after NZ attacks

-- 2019-03-19 11:23:38

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for global restrictions on social media following the Christchurch mosque attacks. Facebook and other firms have been criticised for failing to blo...

Indonesia flood: Death toll rises to nearly 80

Indonesia flood: Death toll rises to nearly 80

-- 2019-03-18 16:46:21

Authorities in Indonesia raised the death toll from floods and landslides in the easternmost province of Papua to nearly 80 on Monday as the country's President Joko Widodo called for the urgent evacu...

13,000 ‘terrorists’ arrested in Xinjiang since 2014, China says

13,000 ‘terrorists’ arrested in Xinjiang since 2014, China says

-- 2019-03-18 11:34:14

Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 ‘terrorists’ in the restive far western region of Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday, in a lengthy policy paper again defen...

New Zealand cabinet agrees on gun law reforms

New Zealand cabinet agrees on gun law reforms

Reuters 2019-03-18 11:18:34

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that her cabinet had made in principle decisions around the reform of gun laws following the mass shooting in Christchurch “I intend to...

Around 35 tourists trapped after landslides in Indonesia

Around 35 tourists trapped after landslides in Indonesia

-- 2019-03-17 19:23:42

Around 35 foreign and domestic tourists are believed to be trapped and two others died after landslides hit a waterfall site on Indonesia’s tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, a disaster agency...

Suspicious package shutters New Zealand airport

Suspicious package shutters New Zealand airport

-- 2019-03-17 17:43:29

New Zealand's police on Sunday closed an airport in the city of Dunedin in the south-eastern part of the country after reports of a suspicious package. Local police have confirmed in a statement that...

Pakistan train derails after blast, four dead

Pakistan train derails after blast, four dead

-- 2019-03-17 16:39:55

Four people have died and 10 others were injured in Pakistan on Sunday when a bomb went off on a train track in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, where separatist rebels have been fighting th...

Modi, BJP leaders add 'Chowkidar' to Twitter names

Modi, BJP leaders add 'Chowkidar' to Twitter names

-- 2019-03-17 16:23:00

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest campaign, 'Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm a watchman too)', on Sunday found expression in social media titles. This morning, the Prime Minister led the way, add...

New Zealand mosque attacker 'acted alone'

New Zealand mosque attacker 'acted alone'

-- 2019-03-17 15:08:40

The man charged over Friday's twin mosque attacks in the New Zealand city of Christchurch is believed to have acted alone, police say. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a self-described white supremaci...

China to prosecute top Uighur official for corruption

China to prosecute top Uighur official for corruption

-- 2019-03-17 13:24:18

China’s anti-corruption watchdog said it would prosecute Nur Bekri, one of the highest-ranking ethnic Uighur officials in the country, over allegations of graft during to his time as governor of...

At least 50 die in Indonesia flash floods

At least 50 die in Indonesia flash floods

-- 2019-03-17 10:56:35

Flash floods in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua have killed at least 50 people and badly injured dozens of others and damaged a small plane at the region’s main airport, author...

New Zealand mosque shootings toll rises to 50

New Zealand mosque shootings toll rises to 50

Reuters 2019-03-17 10:01:30

The death toll in the New Zealand mosque shootings rose to 50 on Sunday after police found another victim at one of the mosques, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said bodies of those killed would beg...

New Zealanders reach out to Muslims with compassion

New Zealanders reach out to Muslims with compassion

-- 2019-03-16 18:09:35

New Zealand’s stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighbourhoods and around the country on Saturday, with a fierce determination to show kindness to a community in pain as a 28-ye...

China passes foreign investment law to facilitate US trade talks

China passes foreign investment law to facilitate US trade talks

-- 2019-03-16 16:45:22

China has passed a new foreign investment law in a move widely seen as an effort to facilitate US trade talks. Delegates voted overwhelmingly in favour of the law on the final day of the National Peo...

Australian senator egged after racist comments on New Zealand

Australian senator egged after racist comments on New Zealand

-- 2019-03-16 16:03:13

Australian Senator Fraser Anning was hit with an egg on Saturday after he made controversial comments on Muslims following the attack on two mosques in New Zealand. The incident occurred at an event...

NZ PM pledges gun law reforms after mosque massacre

NZ PM pledges gun law reforms after mosque massacre

-- 2019-03-16 14:52:55

New Zealand is normally peaceful and calm - and has plenty of guns. New Zealand’s reputation as a laid-back and safe country, where even police are mostly unarmed, belies easy access to weapons...

Car bomb kills driver in Kabul

Car bomb kills driver in Kabul

-- 2019-03-16 14:19:44

A car bomb exploded prematurely in Koti Sangi district of western Kabul in Afghanistan, killing the driver and injuring two passers-by early on Saturday, local police said. The car was carrying a mag...

New Zealand shootings: Main suspect charged with murder

New Zealand shootings: Main suspect charged with murder

-- 2019-03-16 10:04:48

The main suspect in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques was charged with one count of murder a day after an attack that killed 49 people and wounded dozens, prompting the prime minister to vow r...

N Korea may break off US  talks, resume missile tests

N Korea may break off US talks, resume missile tests

-- 2019-03-15 21:37:36

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may break off denuclearisation talks with the US and resume missile and nuclear testing, a senior official says, reports BBC. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Sun-hui told f...

New Zealand Muslims urge govt vigilance on hate crimes

New Zealand Muslims urge govt vigilance on hate crimes

-- 2019-03-15 12:55:38

The South Auckland Muslim Association (SAMA) in New Zealand has called on the country's government to be vigilant in combating hate against all minorities following a terrorist attack at a mosque. "I...

New Zealand police detain four after mosque shootings

New Zealand police detain four after mosque shootings

Reuters 2019-03-15 11:53:31

New Zealand police detained four people on Friday after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. “Four are in custody. Three are men and one is a woman,” New Zealand Pol...

At least 49 killed in mosque shootings, New Zealand PM says

At least 49 killed in mosque shootings, New Zealand PM says

Reuters 2019-03-15 11:32:13

At least one gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst ever mass shooting which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern con...

Many dead in Christchurch mosque shootings

Many dead in Christchurch mosque shootings

Reuters 2019-03-15 10:10:53

Multiple fatalities were inflicted at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday when at least one gunman opened fire on worshippers. “This is one of New Zealand’s dark...

Water shortage affects more than six million people in Philippine

Water shortage affects more than six million people in Philippine

-- 2019-03-14 19:42:54

More than six million people have been affected by a water shortage in large areas of the Philippine capital and a nearby province, with long lines forming for rationed water. A spokesman for Manila...

Scott Morrison rejects IS bride's request to return

Scott Morrison rejects IS bride's request to return

-- 2019-03-14 14:24:48

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out allowing an Australian Islamic State (IS) bride back into the country to provide better care for her children. Speaking to reporters on Thursday...

Malaysia refuses to drop case against Vietnamese in Kim murder

Malaysia refuses to drop case against Vietnamese in Kim murder

-- 2019-03-14 13:29:46

Malaysia’s attorney-general ordered the murder case to proceed against a Vietnamese woman accused in the killing of the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, prosecutors said in...