Reuters 2021-03-29 10:37:24
Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since l...
Reuters 2021-03-29 09:56:46
In scenes very different from last year, Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre opened to the public on Palm Sunday, allowing Christians to attend mass at the start of Holy Week on the site wh...
Reuters 2021-03-29 09:07:23
The United Nations is holding “serious negotiations” with China for unfettered access to the Xinjiang region to verify reports that Muslim Uighurs are being persecuted, UN Secretary Genera...
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Iranian Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, proposed activating a shipping line that passes through Iran as an alternative to Egypt’s Suez Canal. The Suez Canal has been temporarily suspended s...
-- 2021-03-28 21:17:09
Saudi Arabia aims to plant 10 billion trees in the coming decades as part of an ambitious campaign unveiled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday to reduce carbon emissions and combat pollut...
-- 2021-03-28 19:37:36
Indonesia has announced a plan to reopen Bali province to foreign tourists in July this year. The country will also prepare a travel corridor, or travel bubble, with other countries to boost tourism...
BBC 2021-03-28 19:10:16
The killing of more than 90 anti-coup protesters in Myanmar has drawn global outrage, with defence ministers of 12 nations condemning the military. The US accused the security forces of a "reign of t...
REUTERS 2021-03-28 17:26:06
A digital illustration by a prominent Chinese propaganda artist mocking Western governments, media and businesses critical of labour conditions in Xinjiang has gone viral on China’s social media...
-- 2021-03-28 17:16:42
Myanmar security forces opened fire on Sunday, witnesses said, at people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed the previous day, the bloodiest day of protests since the military cou...
REUTERS 2021-03-28 13:48:11
Across Myanmar, opponents of the ruling junta on Sunday mourned the killings of at least 114 people by security forces in the bloodiest day since the military coup on Feb 1, but vowed to keep protesti...
REUTERS 2021-03-28 13:23:16
The Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, its defence minister said, as he repeated his demand the fl...
-- 2021-03-28 13:00:45
Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country&...
REUTERS 2021-03-28 12:18:02
Malaysia’s biggest political party and key ruling coalition ally UMNO on Sunday said it will not cooperate with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s alliance in the next national election, de...
REUTERS 2021-03-28 00:00:36
Myanmar security forces killed 114 people, including some children, in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday, the bloodiest day of violence since last month’s military coup,...
-- 2021-03-27 18:29:51
The Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Saturday signed a 25-year cooperation agreement between the two allies in a ceremony carried live on state television. “Our relations with Iran will...
-- 2021-03-27 16:31:05
Myanmar's security forces shot and killed at least 50 protesters on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, a brutal crackdown on dissent that came as the leader of the ruling junta said the milita...
REUTERS 2021-03-27 14:10:26
Voting began in Assam and West Bengal on Saturday in state elections that will show how support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding up following a coronavirus-stricken year, and months...
Reuters 2021-03-27 12:26:36
Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least 16 protesters on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, as the leader of the ruling junta said the military will protect the people and str...
Reuters 2021-03-27 11:35:46
Security forces opened fire at a crowd protesting outside a police station in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon in the early hours of Saturday and at least four people were killed, Myanmar Now...
REUTERS 2021-03-27 11:35:11
Every Saturday, Shankar Yadav dusts off an old bike and pedals to work, reliving his carefree schooldays and hoping fellow Indians will join him in ditching cars to protect the planet. In one of Indi...
Reuters 2021-03-26 21:28:32
Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday described his Saudi counterpart’s advice to reduce oil stores to tackle high crude prices as “undiplomatic”. “That was in a wa...
Reuters 2021-03-26 14:55:57
India plans to widen a coronavirus vaccination campaign soon to include more younger people, the health minister said on Friday, as its new infections rose by the most in more than five months. The w...
Reuters 2021-03-26 13:08:11
At least six people died in a fire that engulfed a mall housing a hospital that treated coronavirus patients in Mumbai, authorities said on Friday. More than 70 patients with Covid-19 infections in t...
Reuters 2021-03-25 12:35:45
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to secure a solid parliamentary majority in the country’s election on Tuesday but a potential deal with a rival rightist could make him the event...
Reuters 2021-03-25 10:32:25
India has put a temporary hold on all major exports of the AstraZeneca coronavirus shot made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine-maker, to meet domestic demand as...
-- 2021-03-24 21:04:38
A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. Officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be...
-- 2021-03-24 20:23:20
One of the leaders of a group of civilian rivals to Myanmar's military junta promised on Wednesday to deliver justice for the country's Rohingya minority, saying they had also suffered at the hands of...
-- 2021-03-24 18:22:21
Myanmar’s junta freed hundreds of demonstrators arrested during its brutal crackdown on protests on Wednesday, while many businesses in Yangon remained closed and streets were deserted after ant...
REUTERS 2021-03-24 16:56:43
The bodies of two men were found in Australia on Wednesday in cars trapped in floodwaters, the first deaths linked to wild weather in recent days that has submerged houses, swept away livestock and cu...
REUTERS 2021-03-24 15:31:34
China's State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Guilin, China, March 22, 2021 —Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters...
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