REUTERS 2021-03-14 15:26:09
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on Australia’s capital on Monday when the country’s parliament resumes as part of nationwide demonstrations, intensifying pressure on Prime...
REUTERS 2021-03-14 11:04:20
The acting leader of Myanmar’s parallel civilian government said it will seek to give people the legal right to defend themselves as the death toll in protests against last month’s coup ex...
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The Palestinian Authority and the Arab League on Saturday condemned the Czech Republic’s opening of a diplomatic office in Jerusalem as a violation of international law. Prague opened a Jerusal...
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The acting leader of Myanmar’s parallel civilian government, appointed by ousted lawmakers in the wake of a Feb. 1 military coup, addressed the public for the first time on Saturday from hiding...
-- 2021-03-13 21:40:42
Jordan’s health minister resigned on Saturday after six people died following an oxygen outage in a hospital treating coronavirus patients and police were deployed to hold back angry relatives,...
Reuters 2021-03-13 18:46:48
An An-26 aircraft flying from the Kazakh capital, Nur-Sultan, crashed while landing in Almaty on Saturday, Almaty airport said on its Facebook page. It was unclear how many people were on board or...
Reuters 2021-03-13 18:29:26
At least six people died in Jordan after an oxygen outage in a hospital treating coronavirus patients, prompting police to be deployed to hold back angry relatives who had gathered at the gate, witnes...
AP 2021-03-13 18:10:07
Abrar Zenkawi was cruising toward the beach in Kuwait City when she saw a man waving and smiling in her rearview mirror. Elsewhere, this may have been a benign highway flirtation. But in Kuwait, it&r...
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At least six protesters were killed by security forces in Myanmar, witnesses and media reported, as activists marked the death anniversary on Saturday of a student whose killing in 1988 sparked an upr...
REUTERS 2021-03-13 17:08:21
Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country's minority Muslim population...
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India reported its biggest daily spike in COVID-19 of the year on Saturday, with 24,882 infections as a resurgence since last month continues. The new cases mark the highest 24-hour figure since Dece...
REUTERS 2021-03-13 13:29:41
At least five protesters were killed by security forces in Myanmar, witnesses and media reported, as activists marked the death anniversary on Saturday of a student whose killing in 1988 sparked an up...
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An Iranian container ship was damaged in an attack in the Mediterranean, the state-run shipping company said on Friday, adding it would take legal action to identify the perpetrators of what it called...
REUTERS 2021-03-13 10:14:30
For one minute this week, workers at the Fukushima nuclear station fell silent to mark the 10-year anniversary of a natural disaster that triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Then th...
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A court in Myanmar extended custody on Friday for five journalists, including one from US news agency the Associated Press, who were arrested while covering anti-junta protests in the biggest city of...
-- 2021-03-12 16:21:42
Six miners have been killed in a blast at a coal mine in southwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. They were among eight miners trapped about 1,000 feet underground when accumulating me...
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Libya’s first woman foreign minister, Najla el-Mangoush, will be sworn in next week as part of a new unity government, a rare female voice at the top table whose appointment many Libyan women we...
-- 2021-03-12 09:37:42
Pakistan has on Thursday blocked the popular social media app TikTok after a court order over a complaint that it ran indecent content, a spokesman for the country’s telecoms regulator said. &l...
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The United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar said on Thursday the military junta had “murdered” at least 70 people since its Feb. 1 coup, committing killings, torture, and perse...
-- 2021-03-11 18:38:22
China’s parliament approved on Thursday a draft decision to change Hong Kong’s electoral system, further reducing democratic representation in the city’s institutions and introducing...
REUTERS 2021-03-11 17:29:43
Myanmar's military government accused deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi of taking illegal payments as eight people were killed on Thursday when security forces opened fire on protests against the coup,...
-- 2021-03-11 15:59:26
Amnesty International accused Myanmar's military government on Thursday of increasingly using battlefield weapons against peaceful protesters and conducting systematic, deliberate killings, reports AP...
REUTERS 2021-03-11 13:47:33
Seven people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-junta protests in Myanmar on Thursday, witnesses and local media said, as rights group Amnesty International accused the military of a...
REUTERS 2021-03-11 13:18:11
With a moment of silence, prayers and anti-nuclear protests, Japan on Thursday mourned about 20,000 victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 10 years ago, destroying towns and t...
Reuters 2021-03-11 12:44:45
A bus carrying school children and some parents returning from an excursion plunged into a ravine on the Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday night, killing 27 people, the country’s transporta...
Reuters 2021-03-11 12:19:56
Young Syrians have suffered heavy personal losses in a decade of war and still have to face rebuilding their shattered homeland, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday....
-- 2021-03-11 11:31:20
Myanmar’s military junta has removed Arakan Army (AA) insurgents from its list of terrorist groups because the faction has stopped attacks and in order to help establish peace across the country...
-- 2021-03-10 21:06:24
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the United Arab Emirates on Thursday in an opportunity to showcase new Gulf ties before a closely contested election in Israel. Netanyahu would ho...
-- 2021-03-10 18:00:10
Rajasthan, a big northwestern Indian state, said on Tuesday it had started limiting COVID-19 vaccinations to its major hospitals due to a shortage of doses, despite an assurance from the federal gover...
REUTERS 2021-03-10 17:27:23
Women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was released last month after three years in prison, said on Wednesday she hoped a Saudi court would amend her sentence ahead of the appeals hear...
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