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In safe Singapore's 'cursed' town, ghosts and odd happenings

In safe Singapore's 'cursed' town, ghosts and odd happenings

Reuters 2020-10-30 20:48:57

With a torch in one hand and an electromagnetic metre in the other, paranormal investigator Charles Goh scours some shrub land in suburban Singapore, looking for hidden graves that could give clues to...

Militants kill three BJP members in Kashmir

Militants kill three BJP members in Kashmir

-- 2020-10-30 20:45:27

Militants shot dead three young workers of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kashmir late on Thursday, days after his government changed laws allowing people from t...

Mahathir denies promoting violence with 'right to kill French' posts

Mahathir denies promoting violence with 'right to kill French' posts

-- 2020-10-30 18:38:39

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday denied promoting violence by saying that Muslims have a right to "kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past" and criticise...

New Zealand approves euthanasia, set to reject recreational marijuana

New Zealand approves euthanasia, set to reject recreational marijuana

-- 2020-10-30 18:23:47

New Zealand has provisionally voted to legalise euthanasia but is on course to reject law changes that would allow recreational marijuana use, the country’s Electoral Commission said on Friday....

In Tibet, China preaches the material over the spiritual

In Tibet, China preaches the material over the spiritual

Reuters 2020-10-30 17:09:22

Dzekyid, a 54-year-old barley farmer, presents himself as a role model for his neighbours and for the success of China’s efforts to tie economic development to social control in Tibet.  Dz...

Mahathir comments on Muslim anger with French sparks uproar in West

Mahathir comments on Muslim anger with French sparks uproar in West

Reuters 2020-10-30 09:46:53

Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” but he did not approve of the killi...

Nagorno-Karabakh says its military death toll crosses 1,100

Nagorno-Karabakh says its military death toll crosses 1,100

Reuters 2020-10-29 13:24:12

The defence ministry of the Nagorno-Karabakh region said on Thursday 51 more casualties have taken its military death toll to 1,119 since fighting with Azeri forces erupted on September 27. Fighting...

Global coronavirus cases surpass 44 million

Global coronavirus cases surpass 44 million

-- 2020-10-29 12:24:00

Amid its non-stop spread, the global confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) surpassed 44 million on Thursday, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The data shows the...

India crosses grim milestone of 8 million virus cases

India crosses grim milestone of 8 million virus cases

Reuters 2020-10-29 12:03:15

India crossed a grim milestone of 8 million coronavirus cases on Thursday, with a daily rise of 49,881 infections, health ministry data showed. The world’s second most populous nation also has...

25 die, dozens go missing after typhoon lashes Vietnam

25 die, dozens go missing after typhoon lashes Vietnam

-- 2020-10-29 10:38:20

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery on Thursday to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the r...

Turkey accuses West of relaunching 'Crusades' thru Prophet cartoons

Turkey accuses West of relaunching 'Crusades' thru Prophet cartoons

-- 2020-10-29 10:12:09

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Western countries mocking Islam wanted to “relaunch the Crusades”, heightening a confrontation with France over cartoons of the Prophet...

US asks Suu Kyi to ensure safe return of Rohingyas

US asks Suu Kyi to ensure safe return of Rohingyas

-- 2020-10-28 22:02:30

United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale has asked Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to ensure voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable return of Rohingyas and...

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi suspended

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi suspended

-- 2020-10-28 18:06:55

Delhi University Vice Chancellor Prof Yogesh Tyagi has been placed under suspension on President’s orders, India’s ministry of education officials said on Wednesday, reports hindustantimes...

India amends law allowing its citizens to buy land in disputed Kashmir

India amends law allowing its citizens to buy land in disputed Kashmir

Reuters 2020-10-28 16:09:22

India has amended a law in Jammu and Kashmir allowing Indian citizens to buy land in the disputed territory, said officials, sparking opposition criticism about a steady erosion of the rights of Kashm...

Iran starts building underground nuclear facility, UN watchdog confirms

Iran starts building underground nuclear facility, UN watchdog confirms

AP 2020-10-28 11:55:18

Inspectors from the UN’s atomic watchdog have confirmed Iran has started building an underground centrifuge assembly plant after its previous one exploded in what Tehran called a sabotage attack...

UN expresses concern over human rights situation in Myanmar

UN expresses concern over human rights situation in Myanmar

-- 2020-10-27 17:42:52

The UN human rights body has expressed serious concerns over the human rights situation and called on the government of Myanmar to take measures to ensure that the right to political participation can...

Japan's cabinet approves plan for free coronavirus vaccines

Japan's cabinet approves plan for free coronavirus vaccines

-- 2020-10-27 16:37:58

Japan's cabinet approved a plan on Tuesday to use public funds to provide novel coronavirus vaccines to the public for free, reports Reuters. The plan also calls for the government to bear the cost o...

China says it will act on US arms sales to Taiwan

China says it will act on US arms sales to Taiwan

REUTERS 2020-10-27 13:51:36

China’s foreign ministry said the country will take necessary measures to uphold its sovereignty and security interests, after the United States approved a further $2.4 billion in potential arms...

US, India must focus on China threat: Pompeo

US, India must focus on China threat: Pompeo

REUTERS 2020-10-27 13:10:14

The United States and China must work together to confront the threat posed by China to security and freedom, US Secretary Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday as he prepared for talks with Indian leaders. Po...

Saudi Arabia condemns caricatures offending Prophet Muhammad

Saudi Arabia condemns caricatures offending Prophet Muhammad

Reuters 2020-10-27 12:45:01

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned cartoons offending the Prophet Muhammad and any attempts to link Islam with terrorism but did not echo calls by other Muslim states for action against images being di...

Children among seven killed in blast at Pakistan religious school

Children among seven killed in blast at Pakistan religious school

-- 2020-10-27 11:58:41

A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people, including children, and wounded dozens, police and hospital officials said. “Unkn...

Erdogan backs boycott of French goods over cartoon row

Erdogan backs boycott of French goods over cartoon row

-- 2020-10-27 10:58:04

Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan has asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad,...

India, US to sign defence deal on satellite data

India, US to sign defence deal on satellite data

-- 2020-10-27 10:27:01

India will sign a military agreement with the United States for sharing of sensitive satellite data, the defence ministry said on Monday, as the two sides began a top-level security dialogue aimed at...

Iran reports virus death every four minutes, extends curbs

Iran reports virus death every four minutes, extends curbs

-- 2020-10-26 19:09:16

Iran extended COVID-19 curbs in Tehran and across the country on Monday as health authorities said they were recording a death from the virus every four minutes. Some hospitals had run out of beds to...

China to impose sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms sales

China to impose sanctions on US firms over Taiwan arms sales

-- 2020-10-26 18:58:07

China will impose sanctions on some US companies for their reported involvement in selling arms to Taiwan Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Monday said that China was acting to protec...

Malaysia's PM faces calls to quit

Malaysia's PM faces calls to quit

-- 2020-10-26 17:43:08

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Monday as doubts swirled over the support that he commands, after the king rejected his request to declare a state of emergency to fi...

China reports surge in asymptomatic Covid-19 cases

China reports surge in asymptomatic Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-10-26 10:45:38

China reported the highest number of asymptomatic Covid-19 cases in nearly seven months, following a mass infection of an unknown origin in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Xinjiang health authoriti...

Malaysia's king rejects emergency rule in blow to prime minister

Malaysia's king rejects emergency rule in blow to prime minister

-- 2020-10-25 20:32:18

Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah rejected on Sunday a request by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin for him to declare a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis, saying that he did not...

Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 24, mostly students

Suicide bombing in Kabul kills 24, mostly students

Reuters 2020-10-25 13:16:32

A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday, officials said. A Ministry of Interior s...

Malaysia’s rulers to meet to discuss PM Muhyiddin’s emergency proposal

Malaysia’s rulers to meet to discuss PM Muhyiddin’s emergency proposal

-- 2020-10-25 12:24:35

Malaysia’s rulers are set to meet on Sunday to discuss what sources have said is a proposal by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to impose a state of emergency amid a political crisis. Muhyiddin...