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New Zealand PM extends Covid lockdown by another two weeks in Auckland

-- 2021-10-18 10:35:27

New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that the country's biggest city Auckland will remain in lockdown for another two weeks as it looks to control the spread of the Delta variant of...

Myanmar opposition welcomes ASEAN's junta snub

-- 2021-10-18 10:13:59

Myanmar's shadow government, formed by opponents of ruling military, welcomed on Monday the exclusion of junta leader Min Aung Hlaing from an upcoming regional summit, but said it should be the legiti...

Heavy rains, landslides leave 18 dead in south India

-- 2021-10-17 20:46:07

At least 18 people have died a day after torrential rains swept through villages and flooded roads in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Officials said rescuers recovered the bodies in two of the w...

Saudi Arabia starts operating airports at full capacity

-- 2021-10-17 20:08:00

Saudi Arabia General Authority of Civil Aviation said it has started operating airports at full capacity for international and domestic flights, reports Reuters The Kingdom’s Interior Ministry...

Melbourne to ease world's longest Covid lockdowns as vaccination rate surges

-- 2021-10-17 10:16:03

Melbourne, which has spent more time under COVID-19 lockdowns than any other city in the world, is set to lift its stay-at-home orders this week, officials said on Sunday. By Friday, when some curbs...

Militants kill two civilians in Indian Kashmir amid intensified security crackdown

-- 2021-10-16 23:44:06

Militants shot and killed two civilians in Indian Kashmir on Saturday as a security crackdown in the disputed region intensified, officials said. Two migrant labourers were attacked in Kashmir's main...

Myanmar junta blames 'foreign intervention' for ASEAN summit exclusion

-- 2021-10-16 17:58:13

A spokesman for Myanmar's military government blamed 'foreign intervention' for the rare exclusion of its junta leader from a regional leaders' summit later this month. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun sa...

11 kids drowned, 10 rescued in Indonesian river cleanup

-- 2021-10-16 16:04:07

Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia's West Java Province, officials said Saturday. Local officials said 150 students from an Isl...

Indian police investigate murder at farmers' protest site, arrest suspect

-- 2021-10-16 14:22:28

Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers' protest in New Delhi said on Saturday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the mutilated body w...

Moderate quake hits Bali, killing at least three

-- 2021-10-16 12:38:46

Three people were killed and another seven were injured when a moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali early Saturday. The quake hit just before daw...

ASEAN decides to exclude Myanmar junta chief from summit

-- 2021-10-16 12:24:29

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed on Friday to sideline Myanmar's military ruler from a leaders' summit this month, sources said, a rare tough stand by a bloc known for its policy of e...

Blast at Shia mosque in Afghanistan leaves at least 33 dead

-- 2021-10-15 18:06:28

A large explosion tore through a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, killing at least 33 people and wounding 73, officials said, the second massive attack in a w...

China's Xi will not attend COP26 in person, British PM says

-- 2021-10-15 16:16:53

Chinese President Xi Jinping will not attend the COP26 climate summit in person, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told. Britain, which hosts the 26th United Nations Climate Change Confer...

India reopens for foreign tourists as virus infections ebb

-- 2021-10-15 15:04:12

India reopened to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights on Friday in the latest easing of its coronavirus restrictions as infection numbers decline. Foreign tourists on reg...

Iran urges "practical" steps, "tangible" results in nuke talks

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-15 14:56:00

Taking "practical" steps with "tangible" outcomes should be the purpose of the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive...

Sydney to open for international travellers

-- 2021-10-15 14:43:05

Sydney will open up to fully vaccinated international travellers from Nov. 1 without the need for quarantine, the country's most populous state said on Friday, bringing forward a full return of overse...

Suu Kyi's lawyer says he has been issued a gag order

-- 2021-10-15 11:59:28

The head lawyer representing Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday authorities in the military-ruled country had imposed a gag order on him because they said his communications could...

Kabul orphanage struggles to feed its children as aid dries up

-- 2021-10-15 10:21:44

Ahmad Khalil Mayan, programme director at a large Kabul orphanage, says he is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he gives the children each week because the home is running out of money, rep...

At least 46 killed in Taiwanese apartment building inferno

-- 2021-10-14 22:50:34

At least 46 people were killed and another 41 injured after a fire broke out early Thursday in a run-down mixed commercial and residential building in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, officials s...

Former Indian PM Manmohan Singh hospitalised

-- 2021-10-14 18:53:31

India’s former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh has been hospitalised after he complained of fever and weakness, reports news broadcaster NDTV. He was admitted to the All India Institute of Med...

Bali reopens to international tourists, but with no flights

-- 2021-10-14 16:26:08

Indonesia's holiday island of Bali reopened to foreign tourists after 18 months of pandemic hiatus on Thursday, but the island is lacking one crucial ingredient: international flights, reports Reuters...

Taiwan residential building fire kills 46

-- 2021-10-14 14:37:35

A fire in a residential building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 46 people and injured another 41, the government said on Thursday. The fire broke out in the 40-year-old buildi...

Melbourne set for Covid lockdown exit despite record cases

-- 2021-10-14 14:07:22

Melbourne will exit months of Covid-19 lockdown next week helped by a faster-than-expected vaccine uptake, Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday, ahead of schedule even though daily i...

US to ship 2.4 million Covid vaccine doses to Pakistan

-- 2021-10-14 12:37:39

The US government will ship 2.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan on Thursday, bringing the total number of doses sent to the South Asian country to about 18.3 million, more than any other...

Suicides among Japanese children hit record high during pandemic

-- 2021-10-14 12:12:23

Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than four decades, local media have reported, citing the country's education ministry. As the Covid-19 pandemic prompted school closings...

New Zealand reports biggest rise in Covid cases in six weeks

-- 2021-10-14 11:41:56

New Zealand reported on Thursday its biggest rise in Covid-19 infections in six weeks, with all cases detected in Auckland, raising prospects of a further extension of lockdown restrictions in the cou...

Myanmar military won't allow ASEAN envoy to meet detained leader Suu Kyi

-- 2021-10-14 11:00:11

Myanmar's ruling military has not blocked a special Southeast Asian envoy from visiting the country but will not allow him to meet detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, because she is charged with...

Indonesia's Bali reopens to foreign tourists after 18 months, but with no flights

-- 2021-10-14 10:41:47

Indonesia's holiday island of Bali reopened to foreign tourists after 18 months of pandemic hiatus on Thursday, but the island is lacking one crucial ingredient: international flights. Tourism-relian...

Taiwan says don't get too close as China defends military drills

-- 2021-10-13 20:28:26

Taiwan's defence ministry warned China of strong countermeasures on Wednesday if its forces got too close to the island, as Beijing defended its incursions into Taiwan's air defence zone as "just" mov...

China says military drills near Taiwan a ‘just’ move to protect peace

-- 2021-10-13 14:03:32

Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are targeted at forces promoting the island's formal independence and are a "just" move to protect peace and stability, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wed...