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Israel pounds Gaza with dozens of strikes as fighting enters second week

-- 2021-05-17 11:01:15

Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled into a second week on Monday. International calls moun...

Israeli air strikes kill 181 Palestinians, including 47 children, in seven days

-- 2021-05-16 19:28:14

Israeli air strikes killed at least 181 Palestinians, including 47 children, amid an intensive air and artillery barrage since the fighting erupted last Monday. Ten people have been killed in Israel,...

KSA condemns Israel's 'flagrant violations' of Palestinian rights

Reuters 2021-05-16 18:46:53

Saudi Arabia on Sunday condemned Israel's "flagrant violations" of Palestinian rights and called for global action to end military operations while fellow Gulf states that forged ties with Israel said...

No alternative to vaccine passports, says Dubai airport boss

BBC 2021-05-16 17:47:39

The boss of the world's busiest airport for international passengers has said Covid passports are the only way to restart mass foreign travel. Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths told the B...

India to start evacuating parts of west coast as powerful cyclone approaches

REUTERS 2021-05-16 17:26:01

India is preparing to evacuate thousands of people from low-lying areas along its western coast as a powerful cyclone is expected to make landfall on Tuesday morning in the state of Gujarat. "It is v...

Israel air strikes kill 26 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza

-- 2021-05-16 16:44:44

Israeli air strikes killed 26 Palestinians, including eight children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and rockets were fired into Israel as hostilities stretched into a seventh da...

Philippines douses five-hour blaze in hospital treating COVID-19 patients

-- 2021-05-16 16:36:33

Firefighters put out a blaze early on Sunday at one of the Philippines' largest hospitals that had prompted the evacuation of dozens of patients from the facility, which also treats coronavirus suffer...

Global coronavirus cases hit 162 million

-- 2021-05-16 11:49:23

As Covid-19 cases keep rising day by day in the world, over 162 million people have so far been infected with the deadly virus. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total caseload from th...

Iraq lifts lockdown, imposing partial curfew

-- 2021-05-16 11:08:39

Iraq's authorities has lifted the planned 10-day full lockdown put into effect to curb the rising COVID-19 infections, replacing it with a partial curfew. The Iraqi authorities earlier decided to tig...

6.1-magnitude quake hits off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture

-- 2021-05-16 10:40:18

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck off Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture on Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 0:24 pm local time, with its...

Nine killed in shootout in Pakistan's Sindh

-- 2021-05-16 10:31:25

At least nine people were killed and five others seriously injured in a shootout between two rival groups on Saturday night in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, local media reported. According to t...

Israel bombs Hamas Gaza chief's home

REUTERS 2021-05-16 10:00:55

Israel bombed the home of Hamas's chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating. At least...

AP, Al Jazeera offices in Gaza collapse after missile strike

REUTERS 2021-05-15 19:26:03

A 12-storey Gaza tower block housing the offices of the US-based Associated Press and Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera collapsed on Saturday after being struck by Israeli missiles, a Reuters witness...

Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels in northwest town

REUTERS 2021-05-15 19:08:46

Myanmar's army battled local militia fighters in the northwestern town of Mindat on Saturday, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in t...

Tornadoes kill 12, injure hundreds in China

-- 2021-05-15 17:45:45

Two tornadoes ripped through China's central city of Wuhan and a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu, killing 12 people and injuring hundreds while destroying homes and property, the official Xinh...

Chinese spacecraft lands on the surface of Mars successfully

-- 2021-05-15 16:32:54

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on...

COVID-19 cases rise to 24min India, death toll reaches over 0.26m

Xinhua 2021-05-15 15:45:23

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India rose to 24,372,907 and the death toll reached 266,207 on Saturday morning, India's federal health ministry said. During the past 24 hours, 326,098 new...

Death toll continues to rise as violence rocks Gaza, Israel and West Bank

-- 2021-05-15 09:12:46

Israeli planes renewed air strikes in Gaza early on Saturday and Hamas militants responded by firing rockets into Israel as their battle entered a fifth night and US and Arab diplomats sought an end t...

India’s COVID crisis pushes up the cost of living – and dying

Reuters 2021-05-14 20:34:21

Ashok Khondare, a 39-year-old vegetable seller in the western Indian city of Pune, had already borrowed money to pay for his sister's treatment when she died in a private hospital two weeks after cont...

Australia designates old mining camp to quarantine India returnees

-- 2021-05-14 17:28:30

The first repatriation flight for Australians from COVID-ravaged India will reach home on Saturday with the up to 150 citizens and permanent residents heading for two weeks of quarantine in an old min...

Myanmar junta declares martial law in town after attacks on bank, police

-- 2021-05-14 17:17:20

Myanmar's junta has declared martial law in a town in Chin State after blaming "armed terrorists" for attacks on a police station and a bank, state media reported on Friday, amid an upsurge in fightin...

KP Sharma Oli sworn in as Prime Minister of Nepal

-- 2021-05-14 15:59:20

KP Sharma Oli was sworn in as Nepal’s Prime Minister for the third time on Friday, days after he lost a vote of confidence in Parliament, reports PTI. President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered...

Japanese journalist detained in Myanmar freed

-- 2021-05-14 13:24:34

A Japanese freelance journalist detained by security forces in Myanmar in mid-April and accused of supporting protests against the military coup has been released and departed Yangon for Japan by plan...

Israel fires artillery into Gaza, Palestinian rocket attacks continue

REUTERS 2021-05-14 09:37:52

Israel fired artillery and mounted more air strikes on Friday against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip amid constant rocket fire deep into Israel's commercial centre. As hostilities entered th...

India widens gap between two doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks

UNB 2021-05-13 20:39:26

India on Thursday extended the gap between the first and second doses of the Serum Institute-produced Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine Covishield to 12-16 weeks from the existing six-eight weeks, amid a hug...

Israel sends reinforcements to Gaza border

BBC 2021-05-13 19:37:15

Israel has started sending thousands of troops to its border with Gaza and has warned it may carry out a ground operation The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said its troops should "prepare for battl...

New Zealand PM sets out plans to re-connect with post-pandemic world

-- 2021-05-13 18:54:46

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday her government will explore more travel "bubbles" and lead trade delegations later this year to re-connect with a post-pandemic world after m...

Bodies found buried in sand on banks of India’s holiest river

-- 2021-05-13 18:33:32

Just days after the dead bodies of suspected COVID-19 patients were spotted floating on the Ganges River in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, fresh reports have now emerged of multiple bodies found buried in s...

Rockets hit Israel after airstrikes kill top commanders

-- 2021-05-13 17:48:08

Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel after its air strikes killed top commanders and felled another tower block there. The escalation, which began on Monday, has trigg...

China calls for restraint from Israel amid tensions

-- 2021-05-13 14:40:46

A Chinese envoy has called for restraint from Israel amid heightened tensions between Israel and Palestinians. Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, presided over closed-...