-- 2020-11-10 16:29:42
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia have signed a deal to end the military conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region after more than a month of bloodshed. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan first ann...
Reuters 2020-11-09 20:04:09
Myanmar's ruling party said on Monday it had won enough seats in parliament to form the next government, after reporting a lead based on its unofficial count of votes from the country’s second g...
-- 2020-11-09 16:50:12
India has registered 45,903 new cases in the past 24 hours on Monday, bringing the total tally to 8,553,657, said the latest data released by the federal health ministry. With 490 deaths since Sunday...
-- 2020-11-09 16:32:19
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on his country's neighbours to cooperate in achieving common interests, following US President Donald Trump's defeat in the presidential election....
-- 2020-11-09 16:19:55
Myanmar authorities are due to release early election results on Monday after what appeared to be an enthusiastic turnout despite fears of the novel coronavirus for a vote that is expected to give lea...
Reuters 2020-11-08 21:57:05
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden in a statement that indicated he will drop his three-year political boycott of the White House. Abbas had ende...
-- 2020-11-08 20:46:45
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday instructed officials to expedite the construction of the new $47.8 billion railway project connecting the country’s southwest Sichuan province to Linzhi in...
-- 2020-11-08 19:17:43
Four Indian army soldiers and three militants were killed in Kashmir on Sunday, an Indian Defence Ministry spokesperson said, in the bloodiest gunbattle in the disputed region since April this year, r...
Reuters 2020-11-08 17:10:21
Indians burst firecrackers on Sunday and offered prayers of gratitude over the election of Kamala Harris as the next US vice president, declaring it a proud moment for Indian-Americans. Harris, born...
Reuters 2020-11-08 17:05:51
“God Bless You Donald and Melania” read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the US election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, anti-Trump graffiti adorned walls. Perhaps...
REUTERS 2020-11-08 16:02:58
The next US administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trump’s mistakes, Iranian state media quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying on Sunday after Democrat...
-- 2020-11-08 13:00:07
Myanmar voted on Sunday in an election seen as a referendum on a fledgling democratic government whose reputation collapsed overseas amid allegations of genocide but which remains popular at home. Le...
-- 2020-11-07 18:13:33
The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country’s Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalising...
AP 2020-11-07 17:27:57
A thick quilt of smog lingered over the Indian capital and its suburbs on Friday, fed by smoke from raging agricultural fires that health experts worry could worsen the city’s fight against the...
-- 2020-11-06 18:41:07
A religious charity has opened the first school in Bangladesh for hijras, a transgender community whose members face widespread discrimination in the mostly conservative Muslim society and often live...
-- 2020-11-05 13:49:57
The number of global coronavirus (Covid-19) cases is approaching 48 million on Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. According to the data, the death toll from the virus c...
-- 2020-11-04 21:50:59
Myanmar’s army chief said on Tuesday the civilian government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, is making ‘unacceptable mistakes’ in the run-up to a pivotal general elect...
-- 2020-11-04 12:05:19
Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami arrested by Raigad police from his residence in Maharashtra in an abetment to suicide case. Architect Anvay Naik had committed suicide on May 5, 2018, in Alibaug at R...
-- 2020-11-03 17:45:23
Sri Lanka's navy said on Tuesday more than 100 whales were rescued after becoming stranded on a beach on the island's southwest coast a day earlier. Villagers defied a novel coronavirus curfew to joi...
Reuters 2020-11-02 20:50:07
Gunmen stormed Kabul University, killing students in their classrooms and firing on others as they fled on Monday, in the second attack on an educational institution in the city in just over a week, o...
REUTERS 2020-11-02 15:38:48
Gunmen traded fire with Afghan security forces on the Kabul University campus following a blast in the area, and at least six people were wounded, Afghan government officials said. The Taliban denied...
REUTERS 2020-11-02 13:36:08
Indian security forces killed the chief of the largest rebel group in Kashmir in a gun battle on Sunday, as the disputed region is riven by violence more than a year after New Delhi withdrew its semi-...
-- 2020-11-02 13:04:21
Sri Lankan authorities have that a weekend curfew in the Western Province including the capital Colombo would be extended till Nov. 9 as the number of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients continued to rise...
-- 2020-11-02 11:40:10
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday his government will give provisional provincial status to part of Kashmir, drawing condemnation from India, which has long objected to any such chang...
-- 2020-11-02 10:37:48
The Philippines’ disaster agency said on Monday the death toll from Typhoon Goni, the world’s strongest typhoon this year, had climbed to 16. Goni’s powerful winds and heavy rains c...
-- 2020-11-01 17:55:19
Seven pro-democratic lawmakers were arrested in Hong Kong on Sunday on charges related to obstructing a legislative council meeting in May, they said on Facebook, a move that comes after Beijing passe...
REUTERS 2020-11-01 10:52:51
A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety on Saturday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir that was flattened in a powerful eart...
REUTERS 2020-10-31 14:12:54
Some students at Thailand’s Thammasat University posed with cardboard cutouts of well-known critics of the monarchy on Saturday in a protest as King Maha Vajiralongkorn was to present degrees am...
REUTERS 2020-10-31 11:52:43
Saudi Arabia plans to cancel a foreign worker sponsorship system, known as kafala, and replace it with a new form of contract between employers and employees, the financial newspaper Maaal said on Tue...
-- 2020-10-30 21:26:29
Malaysian government is considering issuing temporary work permits to illegal foreign workers in the country to overcome the shortage of workers in the oil palm and rubber industries. Muhyiddin Yassi...
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