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North Korea slams end to US guidelines limiting South Korea missile range

REUTERS 2021-05-31 12:49:03

North Korea's state media on Monday criticised the recent termination of a pact between the United States and South Korea that capped the development of South Korea's ballistic missiles, calling it a...

Turkey kills 1,162 PKK terrorist in 2021

-- 2021-05-31 12:04:40

Turkish security forces have killed 1,162 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 181 operations within the country and outside its borders in 2021, the defense ministry said Sunday....

India's Serum to raise AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine output

Reuters 2021-05-31 11:09:37

The Serum institute of India will raise production of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to about 90 million doses in June from about 65 million a month now, a company spokesman told Reuters on Monday.

Global coronavirus cases cross 170 million mark

-- 2021-05-31 10:22:00

With the new variants of Covid-19 spreading faster than ever before in several nations, the global corona cases have now topped 170 million. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total cas...

First blind Chinese mountaineer climbs world’s tallest peak

-- 2021-05-30 15:02:24

The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. "No matter if...

Roadside bomb kills three university teachers in Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-05-29 22:33:13

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Charikar, t...

Malaysia reports record coronavirus cases, deaths

REUTERS 2021-05-29 19:55:15

Malaysia reported 9,020 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic and the fifth straight day of record new infections. The health ministry also reporte...

Vietnam detects new coronavirus variant - a hybrid of Indian and UK ones

Reuters 2021-05-29 12:05:05

Vietnam health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday the country has detected a new variant of the coronavirus, a mix of the Indian and UK Covid-19 variants that spreads quickly by air, online n...

UN agrees to launch probe into alleged crimes during Israel-Palestine conflict

REUTERS 2021-05-28 17:19:08

The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Thursday to launch an international investigation into alleged crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas...

Nine Southeast Asian countries do not want arms embargo on Myanmar

REUTERS 2021-05-28 16:53:55

Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar. A Benar News report, by the affiliate of the US-funded Radio Free Asia, quoted a Liechte...

Two Bengaluru rape suspects shot in escape bid

-- 2021-05-28 16:04:11

Two of the six people arrested in the Bengaluru rape and assault case were shot in the leg on Friday when they allegedly tried to escape from the crime scene. Police took the suspects to the spot at...

South Asia surpasses 30 million Covid cases

Reuters 2021-05-28 14:58:24

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and a vaccin...

Nine Southeast Asian countries oppose arms embargo on Myanmar

Reuters 2021-05-28 09:54:49

Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar, according to a report from Benar News. The report by the affiliate of the US-funded Radi...

Syria's President Assad wins 4th term with 95pc of vote

-- 2021-05-28 09:29:30

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1 per cent of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say...

Israel rejects, Palestine welcomes UNHRC's decision to probe conflict

-- 2021-05-28 09:00:45

Palestine on Thursday welcomed the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to form an independent committee to investigate Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories. Durin...

Cyclone Yaas leaves 150,000 people homeless in India

-- 2021-05-28 08:36:45

More than 150,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath of a cyclone that unleashed storm surges in eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday, with heavy rains hampering relief wor...

UN rights chief says Israeli strikes on Gaza may be war crimes

REUTERS 2021-05-27 20:22:41

The UN high commissioner for human rights said on Thursday that Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza might constitute war crimes and that Islamist group Hamas had violated international humanitarian law by...

Five dead as villages in India, Bangladesh marooned by tidal surges

-- 2021-05-27 14:38:29

Hundreds of thousands of villagers along the low-lying coast of eastern India and Bangladesh were marooned by floodwaters on Thursday in the aftermath of a powerful cyclone that has killed at least fi...

Total, Chevron suspend payments in Myanmar

-- 2021-05-27 12:53:24

French oil and gas group Total and US energy company Chevron have suspended some payments from a gas joint venture that would have reached Myanmar's junta, earning praise from pro-democracy activists...

Australia’s Victoria enters fourth lockdown to counter virus outbreak

-- 2021-05-27 10:38:17

Australia's second most populous state Victoria will enter a seven-day lockdown to counter a fast-spreading outbreak in its capital, Melbourne. The lockdown will begin at midnight on Thursday (14...

Pakistan starts production of homemade single-dose COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-05-26 21:40:54

Pakistan has started production of its homemade single-dose vaccine, PakVac, for COVID-19 disease at its own plant to reduce dependence on importing vaccine from other countries. The country will pro...

Saudi Arabia refuses to allow Israeli flight to use airspace

-- 2021-05-26 21:17:32

An Israeli carrier was forced on Tuesday to cancel a flight to Dubai after failure to obtain Saudi permission to fly through its airspace. Israeli army radio said the passengers waited for 10 hours a...

Myanmar cardinal calls for end to fighting

Reuters 2021-05-26 12:35:49

Myanmar’s Roman Catholic leader has called for attacks on places of worship to end after he said four people had died and more than eight were wounded when a group of mainly women and children s...

Powerful Cyclone Yaas makes landfall in eastern India

-- 2021-05-26 12:30:09

A powerful cyclone with winds gusting to 140 kph (87 mph) has begun landfall in eastern India, the weather office said on Wednesday, warning of tidal surges in the coastal areas. Cyclone Yaas is the...

India's total Covid cases cross 27 million

Reuters 2021-05-26 12:13:56

India's total coronavirus infections crossed 27 million on Wednesday, swelled by 208,921 new cases over the last 24 hours, while daily deaths from Covid-19 rose by 4,157. The South Asian country's ov...

Vaccinated South Koreans no longer need masks outdoors

Reuters 2021-05-26 11:11:58

South Korea on Wednesday said masks will no longer be required outdoors from July for those vaccinated with at least one Covid-19 shot. The move is a bid to encourage older residents to get vaccinate...

Coronavirus 'unlikely leaked from lab', Chinese researchers claim again

-- 2021-05-25 17:49:53

Chinese researchers have again claimed that the novel coronavirus was unlikely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The Global Times, owned by The Chinese Communist Party, published a r...

India relocating over a million people as cyclone approaches

-- 2021-05-25 17:28:57

Authorities on India's east coast began moving more than a million people to safety on Tuesday as a "severe" Cyclone Yaas neared, days after the deadly cyclone hit the west coast. The India Meteorolo...

Blinken says US will work to rebuild Gaza, prevent return to war

REUTERS 2021-05-25 16:48:58

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would rally support to rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Hamas Islamis...

Japan to impose 10-day quarantine on travellers to Bangladesh, five South Asian countries

-- 2021-05-25 15:38:11

Japan on Tuesday said it has extended the quarantine period for travellers who have recently been to Bangladesh and five other South Asian countries amid growing concerns over B.1.617 Covid-19 variant...