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Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite huge protests

Modi refuses to back down on farm reforms despite huge protests

-- 2020-11-30 19:06:45

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday resisted calls for the repeal of farm reforms that have ignited the biggest protests by farmers in years around the national capital, saying they were bei...

Pakistan arrests hundreds in opposition ahead of rally

Pakistan arrests hundreds in opposition ahead of rally

AP 2020-11-30 17:20:59

Pakistani police arrested hundreds of supporters of opposition parties ahead of a planned rally Monday calling for the country's prime minister to resign, a move the government defended as necessary t...

Iran's state TV claims weapon used in scientist's killing was made in Israel

Iran's state TV claims weapon used in scientist's killing was made in Israel

REUTERS 2020-11-30 14:59:39

Iran’s English-language Press TV said on Monday that the weapon used in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist last week was made in Israel. “The weapon collected from the s...

Prison riot over Covid panic in Sri Lanka kills eight inmates, injures over 50

Prison riot over Covid panic in Sri Lanka kills eight inmates, injures over 50

-- 2020-11-30 13:46:38

At least eight prisoners were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes with guards at a Sri Lankan prison, officials said on Monday, as authorities tried to quell a protest over rising corornavirus...

India regulators probing alleged AstraZeneca shot reaction

India regulators probing alleged AstraZeneca shot reaction

REUTERS 2020-11-30 13:21:45

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is assisting an inquiry into an alleged adverse reaction during AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine trial, but has found no reason to recommend halting i...

Australia demands apology from China over ‘truly repugnant’ post on social media

Australia demands apology from China over ‘truly repugnant’ post on social media

-- 2020-11-30 11:05:51

Australia’s prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese official’s Twitter account was “truly repugnant” and Canberra was demanding it be take...

South Korea prohibits year-end parties as infections rise

South Korea prohibits year-end parties as infections rise

-- 2020-11-29 18:10:34

South Korean authorities announced a ban on year-end parties and some music lessons on Sunday and said public saunas and some cafes must also close after coronavirus infections surged at their fastest...

Thai protesters challenge king's control over some army units

Thai protesters challenge king's control over some army units

-- 2020-11-29 17:24:11

Thai anti-government protesters challenged on Sunday King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s personal control over some army units to condemn the military’s role in politics. It was the latest open de...

Singaporean gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies

Singaporean gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies

Reuters 2020-11-29 15:04:31

A Singaporean woman, who was infected with the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, offering a new clue as to whether the infe...

30 Afghan security force personnel killed in car bomb attack

30 Afghan security force personnel killed in car bomb attack

-- 2020-11-29 14:53:58

A car bombing in the Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni killed at least 30 Afghan security force members on Sunday, officials said, and casualties could increase given the intensity and lo...

Global Covid-19 cases exceed 62 million

Global Covid-19 cases exceed 62 million

-- 2020-11-29 12:32:47

The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases surged past 62 million on Sunday, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The number of confirmed cases across the world ro...

Israeli embassies on high alert after Iran’s threats of retaliation

Israeli embassies on high alert after Iran’s threats of retaliation

-- 2020-11-28 18:33:58

Israel put its embassies around the world on high alert on Saturday after Iranian threats of retaliation following the killing of a nuclear scientist near Tehran. A spokesman for the Israeli foreign...

Malaysia will hold general election after pandemic

Malaysia will hold general election after pandemic

-- 2020-11-28 18:01:32

Malaysia will hold a general election when the novel coronavirus pandemic is over, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Saturday, shortly after he averted a showdown by winning parliamentary suppor...

Khamenei promises retaliation for nuclear scientist's killing

Khamenei promises retaliation for nuclear scientist's killing

Reuters 2020-11-28 17:16:26

Iran's supreme leader promised on Saturday to retaliate for the assassination of the Islamic Republic's top nuclear scientist, who the West and Israel believed was the architect of a secret Iranian pr...

Chinese scientists claim COVID-19 came from India or Bangladesh

Chinese scientists claim COVID-19 came from India or Bangladesh

The Sun 2020-11-28 15:16:21

Scientists in China have claimed that coronavirus may have originated in India or Bangladesh as they try to shift the blame from Wuhan. A paper by researchers at the Shanghai Institute for Biological...

Iran president accuses Israel of nuclear scientist assassination

Iran president accuses Israel of nuclear scientist assassination

REUTERS 2020-11-28 15:11:46

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Saturday accused Israel of killing the country’s top nuclear scientist, believed by the West to be the architect of Tehran’s secret military nuclear pro...

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say Covid originated outside China

WHO says would be 'highly speculative' to say Covid originated outside China

REUTERS 2020-11-28 11:56:07

The World Health Organization’s top emergency expert said on Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not emerge in China, where it was first id...

Killing of Iranian nuclear 'mastermind' risks confrontation in Trump's final days

Killing of Iranian nuclear 'mastermind' risks confrontation in Trump's final days

REUTERS 2020-11-28 11:28:31

An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foe...

Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist shot dead

Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist shot dead

FE Online Desk 2020-11-27 21:39:37

Prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in hospital on Friday of injuries suffered in an armed attack, Reuters reports quoting Iranian state media. According to Aljazeera, Iranian...

Five COVID-19 patients killed in Indian hospital fire

Five COVID-19 patients killed in Indian hospital fire

Reuters 2020-11-27 21:07:53

Five patients were killed in India on Friday in a fire that broke out in a COVID-19 ward, the fourth blaze in a novel coronavirus hospital since the outbreak began, which drew angry questions from the...

Malaysia secures Pfizer vaccine as a first country in for Southeast Asia

Malaysia secures Pfizer vaccine as a first country in for Southeast Asia

-- 2020-11-27 17:59:42

Malaysia has agreed to buy 12.8 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to announce a deal with the US drugmaker after some expressed reservation...

Pakistan's first transgender lawyer goes fighting in court

Pakistan's first transgender lawyer goes fighting in court

-- 2020-11-27 17:36:08

Lawyer Nisha Rao maneuvers among the throng of black-coated attorneys clustered near Karachi's city courts searching for her client. But Rao, 28, is not just another lawyer running for a meeting. As...

India to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V

India to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V

REUTERS 2020-11-27 14:06:31

Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19, according to a...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million

Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million

-- 2020-11-26 11:18:52

Amid a surge in the number of coronavirus (Covid-19)) cases in the world, the confirmed Covid-19 cases surpassed 60 million on Thursday, according to the data compiled by John Hopkins University (JHU)...

India's Modi warns of possible side-effects of Covid vaccines

India's Modi warns of possible side-effects of Covid vaccines

REUTERS 2020-11-25 10:29:31

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned that any Covid-19 vaccine could lead to side-effects in some people, as even popular medicines do, and that the government would only go by science in fi...

Global Covid-19 infections top 59 million

Global Covid-19 infections top 59 million

-- 2020-11-24 12:35:57

Globally, more than 59 million cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) were reported until Tuesday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Meanwhile, the death toll from the vi...

China’s Manila mission denounces US for ‘creating chaos’ in Asia

China’s Manila mission denounces US for ‘creating chaos’ in Asia

-- 2020-11-24 11:03:11

China’s embassy in the Philippines has denounced the United States for “creating chaos” in Asia, after a visiting White House envoy backed countries in disputes with China and accuse...

Saudi Arabia rejects report on 'secret meeting' with Israeli PM

Saudi Arabia rejects report on 'secret meeting' with Israeli PM

-- 2020-11-23 21:52:35

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has denied that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to the Gulf kingdom on Sunday to secretly meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "No such meeting occurr...

Israeli PM ‘secretly visits’ Saudi Arabia

Israeli PM ‘secretly visits’ Saudi Arabia

-- 2020-11-23 16:54:10

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly flew to Saudi Arabia on Sunday to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and visiting US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israel's Kan public radio and...

China vows to respond to US admiral visit to Taiwan

China vows to respond to US admiral visit to Taiwan

REUTERS 2020-11-23 16:03:39

China will respond to the reported visit of a US Navy admiral to Taiwan and firmly opposes any military relations between Taipei and Washington, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. A two-s...