-- 2021-06-29 12:52:38
The global Covid-19 caseload surged past 181 million Tuesday even with mass inoculations underway. The total caseload and fatalities stand at 181,388,210 and 3,928,804, respectively, as of Tuesday mo...
-- 2021-06-29 11:54:36
Hong Kong is to ban all flights from the UK to curb the spread of the Delta variant of Covid. The UK is to be classified as an "extremely high-risk" country, the highest rating Hong Kong has for...
-- 2021-06-29 09:35:59
US troops came under rocket fire in Syria on Monday, but escaped injury, in apparent retaliation for weekend US airstrikes against Iran-aligned militia in Syria and Iraq. A US military spokesman said...
-- 2021-06-29 08:34:20
United Nations peacekeeping missions globally are preparing for a possible shutdown on Thursday if the 193-member UN General Assembly is unable to agree on a new $6 billion budget for the year to June...
-- 2021-06-28 22:10:33
India will provide free visas to 500,000 tourists as part of the country’s measures to revive the tourism sector battered by the Covid-19 pandemic. India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sithar...
Reuters 2021-06-28 09:53:34
Everyone in North Korea is heartbroken over leader Kim Jong Un's apparent weight loss, said an unidentified resident of Pyongyang quoted on the country's tightly controlled state media, after watching...
-- 2021-06-27 19:56:37
In a first-ever drone attack on a military facility in India, two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early...
REUTERS 2021-06-27 13:50:46
Iran said on Saturday it believes a reinstatement of its 2015 nuclear deal with major world powers is possible but warned that Tehran “will not negotiate forever”. "Out of a steadfast com...
-- 2021-06-27 12:53:25
India's daily COVID-19 infections rose by 50,040 on Sunday, official data showed, as concerns grew about the detection of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus in some states. The CO...
-- 2021-06-27 11:44:14
Two back-to-back blasts rocked a high-security Indian Air Force station in the central government-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir early on Sunday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were re...
Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-26 15:05:36
A plan by India to build digital databases of farmers to boost their incomes has raised concerns about privacy and the exclusion of poor farmers and those without land titles. Tech firm Microsoft wil...
REUTERS 2021-06-26 13:41:18
Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media reported on Fr...
-- 2021-06-26 12:07:41
Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the second-biggest city, state media has reported....
Reuters 2021-06-26 10:42:15
India's richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has scuppered plans to ease lockdown measures....
-- 2021-06-25 19:38:55
Nearly 93 per cent organisations, of 252 surveyed in a study, in Saudi Arabia experienced a cyberattack last year, according to a report. VMware, an American cloud computing technology company, relea...
REUTERS 2021-06-25 19:28:42
Israel told its citizens on Friday they must again wear masks indoors, 10 days after being allowed to ditch them, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly contagious D...
Reuters 2021-06-25 12:37:59
A fire tore through a martial arts training centre in China on Friday killing 18 people, with one state media outlet saying most of the victims were children who were staying there. The blaze broke o...
REUTERS 2021-06-24 20:06:35
Oman will start granting long-term residence visas to foreign investors, state media said on Wednesday, as the debt-burdened Gulf state pursues wide-ranging reforms to fix its shaky finances. The mov...
-- 2021-06-24 17:30:32
Bhutan's Prime Minister on Thursday said he "has no problem" in mixing-and-matching COVID-19 vaccine doses to immunise a population of about 700,000 people in the tiny Himalayan nation. Bhutan, nestl...
-- 2021-06-23 19:31:54
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with it, Russia's RIA news agency reported. R...
REUTERS 2021-06-23 16:19:39
Japan's top court on Wednesday threw out a challenge by three couples who wanted to keep their own surnames after marriage, ruling those laws stipulating Japanese couples must choose one family name w...
-- 2021-06-23 14:10:02
At least seven people were injured when a blast went off inside a residential area in Lahore, the capital city of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Wednesday, local media reported. The nature of the...
Reuters 2021-06-23 14:04:24
The US Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organisations, taking them offline for violatin...
-- 2021-06-23 13:28:46
Sweeping new restrictions will be imposed across Sydney as Australia's largest city grapples with a fast-growing Covid outbreak. Authorities reported 16 new infections on Wednesday, which brings...
-- 2021-06-23 12:41:34
India's COVID-19 tally surpassed 30 million-mark and the death toll crossed 390,000 on Wednesday, said the federal health ministry. While the tally rose to 30,028,709, the aggregate death toll reache...
-- 2021-06-23 11:49:20
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world. The total caseload has now surged past 179 million. In fact, the global case count and fatalities stand at 179,095,448 and 3,8...
Reuters 2021-06-23 09:14:30
India on Tuesday declared a new coronavirus variant to be of concern, and said nearly two dozen cases had been detected in three states. The variant, identified locally as "Delta plus", was found in...
AP 2021-06-22 21:56:44
Palestinians and Jewish settlers hurled stones, chairs and fireworks at each other overnight in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood where settler groups are trying to evict several Palestinian families, of...
REUTERS 2021-06-22 20:41:58
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks, with over 1.3 million case...
REUTERS 2021-06-22 17:35:50
Myanmar security forces backed by armoured vehicles clashed on Tuesday with a newly formed militia group in the second-biggest city of Mandalay resulting in at least two casualties, according to membe...
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