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Refugees in India hit hard by Covid-19 impact: Report

Refugees in India hit hard by Covid-19 impact: Report

Reuters 2021-06-17 11:30:29

At least 200,000 refugees are among the worst affected by India's Covid-19 outbreak as they have no access to welfare schemes or free healthcare, a report by an international consortium of rights grou...

Kim Jong-un acknowledges 'tense' food situation in North Korea

Kim Jong-un acknowledges 'tense' food situation in North Korea

-- 2021-06-17 09:53:53

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has formally acknowledged that the country is facing food shortages. Addressing a meeting of senior leaders, Mr Kim said "the people's food situation is now gettin...

Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, seven missing in Nepal

Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, seven missing in Nepal

-- 2021-06-16 16:48:34

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains washed away a remote mountain camp in Bhutan on Wednesday killing 10 people and injuring five, while floods in neighbouring Nepal left seven people missing, autho...

Taj Mahal re-opens for tourists as India rushes to lift Covid restrictions

Taj Mahal re-opens for tourists as India rushes to lift Covid restrictions

-- 2021-06-16 13:58:40

India's iconic Taj Mahal re-opened to the public on Wednesday as the country, still reeling from a disastrous second wave of the pandemic, rushes to lift restrictions in a bid to revitalise its econom...

Indian scientists say they didn't back doubling of Covid vaccine dosing gap

Indian scientists say they didn't back doubling of Covid vaccine dosing gap

Reuters 2021-06-16 10:20:25

The Indian government doubled the gap between the two doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine without the agreement of the scientific group that it said recommended the increase, three members of th...

Israel launches air strikes in Gaza strip for first time since end of last month's fighting

Israel launches air strikes in Gaza strip for first time since end of last month's fighting

-- 2021-06-16 08:36:49

Israel mounted air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian terr...

G7 infrastructure plan can hardly rival BRI

G7 infrastructure plan can hardly rival BRI

Global Times 2021-06-15 17:00:20

With eyes fixated on China, the just concluded G7 summit in the UK announced an infrastructure plan, aiming to rival the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) adopted and implemented by China. Though it was...

Experts warn of COVID-19 explosion in Delhi

Experts warn of COVID-19 explosion in Delhi

-- 2021-06-15 15:27:52

In India's capital, Delhi, thousands of commuters crowded into underground train stations and shopping malls on Tuesday, prompting some doctors to warn it could lead to a resurgence in COVID-19 infect...

Beijing urges NATO to stop exaggerating 'China threat theory'

Beijing urges NATO to stop exaggerating 'China threat theory'

Reuters 2021-06-15 12:31:16

China's mission to the European Union urged NATO on Tuesday to stop exaggerating the "China threat theory" after the group's leaders warned that the country presents "systemic challenges". NATO leade...

Global coronavirus cases top 176 million

Global coronavirus cases top 176 million

-- 2021-06-15 12:13:44

Notwithstanding a drop in the number of fresh cases in several countries, the global Covid-19 caseload surged past 176 million on Tuesday. The total Covid case count and fatalities currently stand at...

India gingerly eases rules as infections hit 2-month low

India gingerly eases rules as infections hit 2-month low

-- 2021-06-15 11:19:43

Many Indian states have eased coronavirus restrictions including the capital Delhi, where authorities allowed all shops and malls to open, as the number of new infections dropped to the lowest in more...

Indonesian police investigate death of critic who died during flight

Indonesian police investigate death of critic who died during flight

-- 2021-06-15 11:00:33

Indonesian police are looking into the sudden death of an official who fought against a controversial gold mine, following calls for an investigation. Helmud Hontong, deputy regent of Indonesia's...

Far-right Israeli groups to march in East Jerusalem

Far-right Israeli groups to march in East Jerusalem

-- 2021-06-15 10:01:08

Far-right Israeli groups will march in and around East Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday in a flag-waving procession that risks igniting tensions with Palestinians in the contested city and rekindling v...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi goes on trial

Myanmar's Suu Kyi goes on trial

REUTERS 2021-06-14 20:28:09

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial on Monday, appearing unwell as the first witnesses took the stand in cases against her of illegally possessing walkie-talkie radios and breaking...

India records 70,421 COVID-19 cases, 3,921 deaths

India records 70,421 COVID-19 cases, 3,921 deaths

PTI 2021-06-14 16:25:36

India recorded a single-day rise of 70,421 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 74 days, taking the country’s infection tally to 2,95,10,410, while the count of active cases fell below 10 lakhs aft...

China denounces joint statement by G7 leaders

China denounces joint statement by G7 leaders

-- 2021-06-14 14:07:58

China denounced on Monday a joint statement by the Group of Seven leaders that had scolded Beijing over a range of issues as a gross interference in the country's internal affairs, and urged the group...

Former head of Myanmar's Covid vaccination programme arrested

Former head of Myanmar's Covid vaccination programme arrested

Reuters 2021-06-14 13:11:42

The former head of Myanmar's Covid-19 immunisation programme has been arrested and faces charges of high treason for colluding with opponents of the military authorities, state media reported on Monda...

Christchurch mosque attack movie: Producer quits after backlash

Christchurch mosque attack movie: Producer quits after backlash

-- 2021-06-14 12:33:45

The producer of a movie about the Christchurch terror attacks in New Zealand has pulled out of the project after mounting criticism over the film. Philippa Campbell apologised for her involvement...

Suu Kyi's trial set to start in Myanmar

Suu Kyi's trial set to start in Myanmar

-- 2021-06-14 12:19:16

The trial of Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was set to start on Monday, as the junta that overthrew her elected government rejected criticism by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ove...

Netanyahu's era ends in Israel as Bennett becomes new PM

Netanyahu's era ends in Israel as Bennett becomes new PM

Reuters 2021-06-14 10:53:26

Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an...

G7 calls out China, demands COVID origins investigation

G7 calls out China, demands COVID origins investigation

-- 2021-06-13 22:00:03

Group of Seven leaders on Sunday scolded China over human rights in Xinjiang, called for Hong Kong to keep a high degree of autonomy and demanded a full and thorough investigation of the origins of th...

Israel's Knesset set to vote on new government, ending Netanyahu's rule

Israel's Knesset set to vote on new government, ending Netanyahu's rule

Reuters 2021-06-13 17:07:32

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year hold on power was set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged to heal a na...

S Korea pledges $200m to provide vaccines in lower-income countries

S Korea pledges $200m to provide vaccines in lower-income countries

-- 2021-06-13 16:37:46

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said his country will provide $200 million in aid through next year for equitable access of COVID-19 vaccines in lower-income countries. President Moon, during...

Syria artillery attacks leave 13 dead

Syria artillery attacks leave 13 dead

-- 2021-06-13 12:29:24

At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources and Turkey's government said. The first at...

Myanmar junta accuses ethnic armed groups over bombings

Myanmar junta accuses ethnic armed groups over bombings

-- 2021-06-13 11:25:17

Myanmar's junta on Saturday accused some of the country's two dozen ethnic armed groups of providing training to its opponents to carry out a wave of bombings that it said had targeted public building...

Hajj to be limited to 60,000 in kingdom, says Saudi Arabia

Hajj to be limited to 60,000 in kingdom, says Saudi Arabia

-- 2021-06-12 17:17:54

Saudi Arabia says this year's hajj pilgrimage will be limited to no more than 60,000 people, all of them from within the kingdom, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reports AP. The kingdom mad...

Indian village prays to 'goddess corona'

Indian village prays to 'goddess corona'

-- 2021-06-12 17:03:52

Indian villagers have erected a shrine to "goddess corona" and are offering her prayers in the hope that divine intervention can banish the deadly virus. Devotees in Shuklapur village, in the norther...

UN rights commissioner warns of intensifying violence in Myanmar

UN rights commissioner warns of intensifying violence in Myanmar

-- 2021-06-12 13:08:33

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday of that violence in Myanmar is intensifying and condemned the army's "outrageous" use of heavy weapons, while urging a wider diplom...

Indian health workers scale mountains to vaccinate locals in remote areas

Indian health workers scale mountains to vaccinate locals in remote areas

Reuters 2021-06-12 13:06:09

As India rushes to vaccinate its people against the coronavirus, medical workers often have to trek to perilous heights and across treacherous terrain to reach those in remote areas. In the northern...

At least 20 Muslim pilgrims die in Pakistan bus crash

At least 20 Muslim pilgrims die in Pakistan bus crash

-- 2021-06-11 16:23:15

A bus crammed with pilgrims coming back from a religious festival crashed in southwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 20 and leaving 10 others critically injured, officials and a hospital doctor...