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New Zealand Muslims object to plan for mosque attack film

New Zealand Muslims object to plan for mosque attack film

Reuters 2021-06-11 14:00:58

New Zealand Muslims objected on Friday to a plan for a film about the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which a gunman killed 51 people, saying the attack was still too raw for grieving families a...

Global coronavirus cases top 174 million

Global coronavirus cases top 174 million

-- 2021-06-11 11:07:50

Amid the emergence of new variants and efforts to achieve vaccine equality, the global Covid-19 caseload has crossed the 174-million mark. The global case count and fatalities stand at 174,766,343 an...

Skull and crossbones sign given to unvaccinated in rural India

Skull and crossbones sign given to unvaccinated in rural India

REUTERS 2021-06-10 19:07:22

Police in rural India have made some citizens, who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, wear signs with a skull and crossbones, the universal symbol for danger, stoking anger in a country...

India frets as Myanmar's pro-democracy fighters cross border

India frets as Myanmar's pro-democracy fighters cross border

REUTERS 2021-06-10 18:59:37

Thousands of people fleeing the junta's crackdown in Myanmar have crossed into India's far-flung eastern states, leading to worries among officials there that the region could become a staging post fo...

Al Jazeera says it fended off continual hacking attempts

Al Jazeera says it fended off continual hacking attempts

Reuters 2021-06-10 14:04:40

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to continual hacking attempts over recent days but the cyber attack on Qatar's flagship broadcaster had been fended off. Al Jazeera's websi...

China arrests over 1,100 on crypto-related money laundering charges

China arrests over 1,100 on crypto-related money laundering charges

Reuters 2021-06-10 12:50:12

Police in China arrested over 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent crackdown, the Ministry of Public Security said...

Military plane crashes in Myanmar, 12 feared dead

Military plane crashes in Myanmar, 12 feared dead

-- 2021-06-10 12:29:58

A military plane crashed in Myanmar's Mandalay region due to severe weather on Thursday morning, a military spokesperson said. With 14 people on board, the military plane travelling from the capital...

India reports 6,148 daily coronavirus deaths, a new global record

India reports 6,148 daily coronavirus deaths, a new global record

Reuters 2021-06-10 11:43:34

India reported on Thursday the highest single-day death toll from Covid-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at h...

Suu Kyi faces new corruption charges

Suu Kyi faces new corruption charges

-- 2021-06-10 11:23:45

New corruption cases have been opened against Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other former officials from her government, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said on Thursday. The...

Mumbai building collapse leaves 11 dead

Mumbai building collapse leaves 11 dead

-- 2021-06-10 09:16:26

Eleven people were killed and at least seven others were injured after a double-storey residential building collapsed on another structure at a slum in Mumbai's Malad late on Wednesday night, bdnews24...

'She screams when someone comes near'

'She screams when someone comes near'

Reuters 2021-06-09 20:50:33

Three weeks since Suzy Eshkuntana was pulled from the rubble of her house, destroyed by an Israeli air strike, the six-year-old girl has barely spoken except to ask for her mother and four siblings wh...

Myanmar's Kayah State may face starvation, UN rights envoy warns

Myanmar's Kayah State may face starvation, UN rights envoy warns

REUTERS 2021-06-09 16:32:54

Myanmar's Kayah State could suffer a "massive" loss of life beyond anything seen since the military seized power, with more than 100,000 people fleeing their homes to escape conflict, a UN human right...

Women falling behind in India's vaccination drive

Women falling behind in India's vaccination drive

Reuters 2021-06-09 13:21:01

Many more men in India have received Covid-19 vaccines than women, government data showed on Tuesday, highlighting gender disparity in the country's immunisation drive that has also disadvantaged the...

10 mine-clearing workers killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan  

10 mine-clearing workers killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan  

-- 2021-06-09 12:38:35

Taliban insurgents shot dead 10 Afghans working for a de-mining agency in an attack on their camp in the north of the country, police said on Wednesday. Violence has sharply increased across Afghanis...

Jerusalem flag march through Muslim Quarter to go ahead

Jerusalem flag march through Muslim Quarter to go ahead

-- 2021-06-09 11:54:21

The outgoing Israeli government has given the go-ahead for a march by religious nationalists which was cancelled by organisers over fears it could trigger a new round of conflict. The flag march...

Gandhi's great-granddaughter jailed for fraud in South Africa

Gandhi's great-granddaughter jailed for fraud in South Africa

-- 2021-06-08 17:43:17

A 56-year-old great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, who was accused in a six-million rand fraud and forgery case, has been sentenced to seven years in jail by a Durban court. Ashish Lata Ramgobin wa...

Myanmar junta defends its plan for ‘restoring’ democracy

Myanmar junta defends its plan for ‘restoring’ democracy

-- 2021-06-08 16:20:56

The Myanmar junta's foreign minister had defended its plan for restoring democracy, state media reported on Tuesday, after a meeting at which Southeast Asian counterparts pressed the army to implement...

Death toll in Pakistan train crash reaches 56

Death toll in Pakistan train crash reaches 56

-- 2021-06-08 14:44:27

The death toll in a train crash in southern Pakistan rose to 56 on Tuesday, a railway spokeswoman said, the latest accident to highlight a broken railway system that dates back to the 19th century. A...

Modi changes India's vaccine policy amid criticism

Modi changes India's vaccine policy amid criticism

Reuters 2021-06-08 12:52:35

India's Covid-19 immunisation campaign has struggled to keep pace with demand, especially after a dramatic second wave of infections has left hospitals inundated with patients and killed more than 180...

India's COVID-19 death toll crosses 350,000-mark

India's COVID-19 death toll crosses 350,000-mark

-- 2021-06-08 11:55:09

India's coronavirus death toll surpassed the 350,000-mark, reaching 351,309 on Tuesday, confirmed the country's health ministry. As many as 2,123 people died due to the pandemic during the past 24 ho...

Thailand debut locally made AstraZeneca but supplies are tight

Thailand debut locally made AstraZeneca but supplies are tight

AP 2021-06-07 20:06:47

Health authorities in Thailand began their much-anticipated mass rollout of locally produced AstraZeneca vaccines on Monday, but it appeared that supplies were falling short of demand from patients wh...

All adults in India to get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost

All adults in India to get COVID-19 vaccine free of cost

-- 2021-06-07 18:52:57

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the federal government of the country would provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to all adults from later this month in an effort to turn th...

First case against Suu Kyi to end by next month, lawyer says

First case against Suu Kyi to end by next month, lawyer says

-- 2021-06-07 18:07:27

Court proceedings in the first criminal case involving deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi are set to finish late next month, her lawyer said on Monday, citing a decision by the presiding judge....

Covid crisis makes electricity too costly for millions in Africa, Asia

Covid crisis makes electricity too costly for millions in Africa, Asia

REUTERS 2021-06-07 14:15:59

The economic toll from the Covid-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, inter...

Two die of black fungus in Nepal

Two die of black fungus in Nepal

-- 2021-06-07 13:26:34

At least two people have died in Nepal from mucormycosis, a rare fungal infection mostly found among COVID-19 patients with diabetes, while the country have reported around a dozen of such cases, said...

Netanyahu alleges Israeli election fraud

Netanyahu alleges Israeli election fraud

Reuters 2021-06-07 11:34:29

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday a newly formed coalition that is poised to unseat him was the result of "the greatest election fraud" in the history of democracy. Hours after...

Two trains collide in Pakistan, killing at least 35

Two trains collide in Pakistan, killing at least 35

AP 2021-06-07 10:11:23

Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early on Monday, killing at least 35 passengers, authorities said, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull injured people and more bodies from the wre...

Turkey says it will defeat 'sea snot' outbreak in Marmara Sea

Turkey says it will defeat 'sea snot' outbreak in Marmara Sea

-- 2021-06-06 19:08:57

Turkey's environment minister pledged on Sunday to defeat a plague of "sea snot" threatening the Sea of Marmara with a disaster management plan he said would secure its future. A thick slimy layer of...

India to ease lockdown restrictions

India to ease lockdown restrictions

-- 2021-06-06 13:18:16

India reported 114,460 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, the lowest in two months, while the death toll increased by 2,677, as parts of the country prepared to ease movement restrictions. India h...

Four killed, seven missing as flash floods hit Sri Lanka

Four killed, seven missing as flash floods hit Sri Lanka

-- 2021-06-06 11:32:30

Flash floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in Sri Lanka have killed at least four people and left seven missing, while more than 5,000 are displaced, officials said Saturday. Rains have been...