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Daughter of Afghan envoy kidnapped, hurt in Pakistan

Daughter of Afghan envoy kidnapped, hurt in Pakistan

REUTERS 2021-07-18 13:49:34

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped by unknown assailants who left her with injuries and rope marks, officials and a hospital report said on Saturday. Silsila A...

Sydney tightens lockdown as coronavirus cases rise

Sydney tightens lockdown as coronavirus cases rise

-- 2021-07-17 10:40:23

Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, on Saturday ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned non-essential retail, and threatened fines for employers who make sta...

India orders 660m vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages

India orders 660m vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages

Reuters 2021-07-16 17:04:45

The Indian government has ordered 660 million vaccine doses for August-December, its largest procurement, local news reports said on Friday, as state authorities and health experts warned that shortag...

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in clashes in Afghanistan

Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in clashes in Afghanistan

-- 2021-07-16 14:33:21

Danish Siddiqui, a chief photographer of Reuters who was based in Mumbai, was killed in the violence in Afghanistan, according to Indian and Afghan media outlets. Afghanistan's Tolo News reported tha...

Women’s groups call for UN force in Afghanistan

Women’s groups call for UN force in Afghanistan

-- 2021-07-16 13:47:01

Women’s rights supporters and faith leaders are calling for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Afghanistan to protect hard-won gains for women over the last two decades as American and NATO...

Pakistan to bring cryptocurrency boom out of the dark

Pakistan to bring cryptocurrency boom out of the dark

REUTERS 2021-07-16 12:47:28

Once a week Ghulam Ahmed, 38, takes time out from his cryptocurrency consulting business to log into a WhatsApp group with hundreds of members eager to learn how to mine and trade cryptocurrency in Pa...

Afghan gov’t says it retook border crossing, Taliban denies

Afghan gov’t says it retook border crossing, Taliban denies

-- 2021-07-16 11:14:43

Afghan security forces have retaken control of a major southern border crossing with Pakistan that the Taliban briefly captured, a senior Afghan government official says, but the Taliban dismisses tha...

Indonesia bracing for worsening Covid outbreak

Indonesia bracing for worsening Covid outbreak

Reuters 2021-07-15 13:17:26

Indonesia is bracing for its Covid-19 outbreak to get worse after a near vertical climb in cases, a senior minister said on Thursday, warning that infections had spread faster than anticipated due to...

Global coronavirus cases top 188 million

Global coronavirus cases top 188 million

-- 2021-07-15 10:14:38

The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 188 million, with the world still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic. The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 188,2...

Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins after COVID-19 case on Singapore cruise

Nearly 3,000 confined to cabins after COVID-19 case on Singapore cruise

-- 2021-07-14 18:52:39

A Genting Cruise Lines ship on a "cruise to nowhere" has returned to Singapore after a confirmed case of COVID-19 in a passenger, and the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew on board were confined to the...

Taliban claims to control key Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Taliban claims to control key Afghanistan-Pakistan border

-- 2021-07-14 14:40:01

Taliban fighters on Wednesday said they have gained control over an important trade route linking Pakistan with southern Afghanistan, hours after Afghan forces surrendered the critical transit point t...

S Korea extends Covid restrictions far and wide as new cases spike to record

S Korea extends Covid restrictions far and wide as new cases spike to record

Reuters 2021-07-14 13:34:34

South Korea tightened social distancing rules across most of the country on Wednesday to tackle its worst-ever outbreak of coronavirus a day after new cases soared to a new daily peak of 1,615. The l...

Six Chinese nationals among eight killed in Pakistan bus blast

Six Chinese nationals among eight killed in Pakistan bus blast

-- 2021-07-14 13:25:26

At least eight people, including at least six Chinese nationals and one Pakistani soldier, were killed in a blast targeting a bus in a remote region of northern Pakistan on Wednesday. It was not imme...

US urges Southeast Asian nations to take action on Myanmar

US urges Southeast Asian nations to take action on Myanmar

-- 2021-07-14 13:11:31

The United States has "deep concerns" about the military coup in Myanmar and called on Southeast Asian nations to take action to end violence and restore democracy in the country, Secretary of State A...

Boats full of vaccines bring hope to India's Sundarbans

Boats full of vaccines bring hope to India's Sundarbans

Reuters 2021-07-14 12:34:03

For Deepak Jena, a labourer on a remote island in the Sundarbans delta in India, getting a Covid-19 vaccine was proving to be difficult. Then a government boat arrived with vaccines. Home to more tha...

Australia extends Sydney lockdown as Covid situation worsens

Australia extends Sydney lockdown as Covid situation worsens

Reuters 2021-07-14 10:52:42

Australian authorities extended a lockdown in Sydney on Wednesday by at least 14 days, after three weeks of initial restrictions failed to stamp out an outbreak of Covid-19 in the country's largest ci...

Liberal Deuba becomes PM as Nepal struggles with COVID

Liberal Deuba becomes PM as Nepal struggles with COVID

Reuters 2021-07-13 19:31:55

Nepal’s president appointed veteran liberal Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister on Tuesday, the president's office said, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the parliament that was dissolv...

Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes PM of Nepal

Sher Bahadur Deuba becomes PM of Nepal

REUTERS 2021-07-13 17:57:11

Nepal’s president-appointed veteran liberal Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister on Tuesday, the president's office said, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the parliament that was dissolv...

Malaysia shuts vaccination centre after 200 workers test Covid positive

Malaysia shuts vaccination centre after 200 workers test Covid positive

Reuters 2021-07-13 14:56:24

A Covid-19 vaccination centre in Malaysia was ordered to close for sanitisation on Tuesday after more than 200 volunteers and workers there tested positive over the weekend, the country's science mini...

China hotel collapse leaves eight dead

China hotel collapse leaves eight dead

Reuters 2021-07-13 14:10:17

Part of a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Suzhou killing eight people and rescue workers were searching on Tuesday for nine people missing in the ruins, state media reported. The collapse of p...

Plastic surgery on the rise in China despite dangers

Plastic surgery on the rise in China despite dangers

-- 2021-07-13 09:56:08

Like many of her peers, 23-year-old Ruxin scrolls her social media feed every day, but she is looking for something very specific - updates about cosmetic surgery. Ruxin is planning to have "doub...

Fire at coronavirus hospital in Iraq kills 44

Fire at coronavirus hospital in Iraq kills 44

-- 2021-07-13 08:51:39

At least 44 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital in Iraq's southern city of Nassiriya, health officials and police said...

Chinese producers to supply more than half a billion vaccines to COVAX

Chinese producers to supply more than half a billion vaccines to COVAX

REUTERS 2021-07-12 17:06:14

The GAVI alliance said on Monday it had signed two advance purchase agreements with Chinese drugmakers Sinopharm and Sinovac to provide up to 550 million COVID-19 vaccines to the COVAX programme. The...

Thailand to mix Sinovac, AstraZeneca jabs to increase protection

Thailand to mix Sinovac, AstraZeneca jabs to increase protection

Reuters 2021-07-12 15:31:20

Thailand said on Monday it will use AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine as a second dose for those who received Sinovac's shot as their first dose to increase protection against the disease. The plan, if...

Taiwan tech giants Foxconn, TSMC to buy 10m doses of Covid vaccine

Taiwan tech giants Foxconn, TSMC to buy 10m doses of Covid vaccine

-- 2021-07-12 14:05:13

Two of the world's biggest technology manufacturers are buying 10 million doses of a Covid vaccine for Taiwan. Taiwanese firms Foxconn, which makes devices for Apple, and chip giant TSMC brokered...

11 killed in lightning strike while taking selfies in India

11 killed in lightning strike while taking selfies in India

-- 2021-07-12 10:59:48

Eleven people have died and many feared injured in a lightning strike in front of the 12th century Amer Palace near Jaipur city of India’s Rajasthan state. The incident took place when people w...

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid worsening Covid-19 situation

Sydney braces for extended lockdown amid worsening Covid-19 situation

Reuters 2021-07-12 10:39:46

The prospect of an extended lockdown in Sydney loomed on Monday as Australian health officials reported yet another record daily rise in Covid-19 cases for the year, fuelled by the highly infectious D...

Israel strikes Pfizer deal for new vaccine batch

Israel strikes Pfizer deal for new vaccine batch

AP 2021-07-11 16:30:15

Israel’s prime minister says the country has struck a deal with Pfizer to receive a fresh batch of coronavirus vaccines in August to help with its drive to vaccinate teenagers. Prime Minister N...

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh seeks to promote two-child policy

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh seeks to promote two-child policy

-- 2021-07-11 11:39:29

India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has proposed legislation that aims to discourage couples from having more than two children, becoming the second state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20

Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20

-- 2021-07-10 17:20:56

Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 20 as the crescent moon of the month of Zilhajj was not spotted in kingdom on Friday, according to an official. According to the Saudi Arabia official,...