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North Korea tightens anti-virus measures amid global pandemic

North Korea tightens anti-virus measures amid global pandemic

-- 2020-11-16 17:50:33

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of the politburo of the ruling Wor...

Global coronavirus cases top 54 million

Global coronavirus cases top 54 million

-- 2020-11-16 11:08:49

Over 54 million coronavirus (Covid-19) cases have been confirmed around the world while the global death toll surged to 1,316,502 on Monday. According to the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University...

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale" screened at Brunei

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale" screened at Brunei

FE Online Report 2020-11-15 20:47:36

"Hasina: A Daughter's Tale", a documentary on the life of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was screened at the residence of the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in the capital of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawa...

Pakistan to provide 'irrefutable evidence' India sponsors militant groups

Pakistan to provide 'irrefutable evidence' India sponsors militant groups

Reuters 2020-11-15 19:15:34

Pakistan will present evidence to the United Nations and other international bodies that India, its neighbour and arch rival, is involved with militant organisations on its soil, Pakistan's foreign mi...

Australia hopes for better ties with China under Asia-Pacific trade deal

Australia hopes for better ties with China under Asia-Pacific trade deal

-- 2020-11-15 15:34:42

Australia hopes that the country’s strained relations with China will improve under an ambitious trade deal between 15 Asia-Pacific economies, Reuters reports. The country's Trade Minister Simo...

Armenians burn homes before handing over village to Azerbaijan

Armenians burn homes before handing over village to Azerbaijan

REUTERS 2020-11-15 14:07:15

Still wearing the camouflage fatigues in which he had fought against Azeri forces a week earlier, Arsen, an ethnic Armenian, lit a fire on Saturday under his sister’s dining room table in the sm...

Thousands of Thai protesters call for removal of prime minister

Thousands of Thai protesters call for removal of prime minister

Reuters 2020-11-14 19:32:53

Thousands of people protested in Bangkok on Saturday in the latest in months of anti-government demonstrations that have also called for reforms to Thailand’s powerful monarchy. A few kilometre...

Vietnam braces for Typhoon Vamco, 53 dead in Philippines

Vietnam braces for Typhoon Vamco, 53 dead in Philippines

Reuters 2020-11-14 19:15:48

Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country’s central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country’s deadliest storm t...

Trump skips Southeast Asia summit for third year in a row

Trump skips Southeast Asia summit for third year in a row

-- 2020-11-14 19:05:31

US President Donald Trump skipped a summit with his Southeast Asian counterparts for the third year in a row on Saturday, with rival China set to expand its influence with a massive free trade deal in...

Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule

Syria marks 50 years of Assad family rule

-- 2020-11-14 18:53:36

On November 13 in 1970, a young air force officer from the coastal hills of Syria launched a bloodless coup. It was the latest in a succession of military takeovers since independence from France in 1...

Iran denies report al Qaeda’s number two killed in Iran

Iran denies report al Qaeda’s number two killed in Iran

REUTERS 2020-11-14 15:04:55

Iran on Saturday denied a New York Times report that al Qaeda’s second-in-command was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States. Iran’s Foreign Min...

15 die as India, Pakistan engage in cross-border firing

15 die as India, Pakistan engage in cross-border firing

REUTERS 2020-11-14 12:39:42

At least 10 civilians and five security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan on Friday, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised fr...

Global Covid-19 cases exceeds 53 million

Global Covid-19 cases exceeds 53 million

-- 2020-11-14 11:33:09

The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases exceeded 53 million globally, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. The confirmed Covid-19 cases reached 53, 284,867 with o...

Israeli operatives killed al Qaeda’s number two in Iran in August: Report

Israeli operatives killed al Qaeda’s number two in Iran in August: Report

REUTERS 2020-11-14 11:19:23

Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the Uni...

China, India close to ending Ladakh standoff

China, India close to ending Ladakh standoff

Reuters 2020-11-13 17:35:16

Seeking to end a dangerous military standoff in the western Himalayas, India and China are formulating a plan that involves creating no-patrol zones, pulling back tanks and artillery, and using drones...

Indonesia to start mass Covid-19 vaccination this year

Indonesia to start mass Covid-19 vaccination this year

-- 2020-11-13 17:07:51

Indonesia has sought emergency authorisation to start a mass vaccination campaign by the end of the year to combat the coronavirus in the archipelago. Indonesian President Joko Widodo, commonly known...

China extends congratulations to Biden

China extends congratulations to Biden

REUTERS 2020-11-13 14:48:12

China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that it extended congratulations to US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, who won the November 3 election that President Do...

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins in general elections

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins in general elections

-- 2020-11-13 13:19:40

Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party has won more than enough seats to form a new government in the general elections held across the country on Nov. 8, according to a result ann...

Thailand seizes nearly $1.0b worth of contraband ketamine

Thailand seizes nearly $1.0b worth of contraband ketamine

Reuters 2020-11-12 20:28:44

Thailand has seized almost $1.0 billion worth of contraband ketamine, most of it probably destined for Europe, Japan or Korea, the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau said on Thursday. Montri Yimyaem,...

Top ULFA leader Drishti Rajkhowa surrenders in Meghalaya

Top ULFA leader Drishti Rajkhowa surrenders in Meghalaya

-- 2020-11-12 20:14:11

One of the top leaders of Assam’s United Liberation Front of Asom or ULFA has surrendered to security forces in Meghalaya which comes as a huge blow to the Paresh Barua-led faction of insurgent...

ICU beds full as COVID surges in Delhi, weekend festival a worry

ICU beds full as COVID surges in Delhi, weekend festival a worry

-- 2020-11-12 18:24:31

After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private hospitals in New Delhi on Monday. Neither took her in, even after o...

Global coronavirus cases exceed 52 million

Global coronavirus cases exceed 52 million

-- 2020-11-12 10:41:03

The number of confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases has exceeded 52 million globally on Thursday morning, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. So far, 1,282,184 fatalities fr...

Bomb blast at WW1 remembrance in Saudi Arabia wounds several

Bomb blast at WW1 remembrance in Saudi Arabia wounds several

-- 2020-11-11 19:33:15

A bomb attack on a World War One remembrance ceremony in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah wounded several people on Wednesday. According to Reuters, the attack had taken place early on Wednesday when...

Hong Kong lawmakers to resign en masse as Beijing expels four legislators

Hong Kong lawmakers to resign en masse as Beijing expels four legislators

-- 2020-11-11 17:18:50

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy opposition lawmakers said on Wednesday they will resign en masse in protest against the dismissal of four of their colleagues from the city assembly after Beijing gave...

Bahrain's long-serving PM Sheikh Khalifa dies

Bahrain's long-serving PM Sheikh Khalifa dies

-- 2020-11-11 16:48:41

Bahrain’s Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, the world’s longest-serving prime minister and a staunch ally of neighbouring Saudi Arabia and the United States, died on Wednesday. Sheikh...

Malaysia denying UN access to detained asylum seekers

Malaysia denying UN access to detained asylum seekers

-- 2020-11-11 16:22:36

The United Nations' refugee agency said Malaysia has not allowed it to meet detained refugees and asylum seekers for more than a year as the country cracks down on undocumented migrants, raising conce...

Russian peacekeepers deploy to Nagorno-Karabakh after ceasefire deal

Russian peacekeepers deploy to Nagorno-Karabakh after ceasefire deal

REUTERS 2020-11-11 15:02:38

Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday under a deal that halted six weeks of fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces, locking in place territorial gains by Azerb...

Global Covid-19 cases top 51 million

Global Covid-19 cases top 51 million

-- 2020-11-11 12:14:22

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has exceeded 51 million globally on Wednesday morning, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. So far, 1,270,171 fatalities have been repor...

Myanmar should amend its citizenship law, UK says

Myanmar should amend its citizenship law, UK says

-- 2020-11-10 18:01:34

The United Kingdom has sought an amendment to Myanmar's citizenship law to allow everyone to fully participate in Myanmar's political process. "It’s now vital to amend the citizenship laws to e...

Saeb Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65

Saeb Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65

-- 2020-11-10 17:51:14

Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavirus. He was 6...