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Reuters 2020-10-01 18:19:29
Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only...
-- 2020-10-01 17:09:20
Asia has become the world’s surveillance hotspot and is at risk of serious privacy breaches as measures rolled out to contain the spread of COVID-19 become permanent in many countries, researche...
Reuters 2020-10-01 15:39:40
Indian police on Thursday imposed emergency laws in a village where a woman from the lowest rung of the country’s caste system was allegedly raped and killed, barring gatherings of more tha...
-- 2020-10-01 12:03:56
India’s coronavirus case tally increased by 86,821 in the last 24 hours to 6.31 million by Thursday morning, data from the health ministry showed, as the country eased more restrictions to comba...
-- 2020-10-01 11:52:58
Japan eased entry restrictions into the country on Thursday for foreigners around the world put in place to combat the spread of coronavirus (Covid-190, although entry is still being refused for touri...
REUTERS 2020-10-01 11:41:16
India's federal government on Wednesday allowed states to reopen schools and other educational institutions in a phased manner, as well as movie theatres, even as the coronavirus cases continue to ris...
Reuters 2020-10-01 10:17:27
A magnitude 6.7 quake struck off Tonga in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, 40 miles (64.57 km) southeast of Neiafu, Tonga, was very shallow - only 6.2 m...
Reuters 2020-09-30 17:08:27
Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was named emir by the country's cabinet to succeed his brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who died on Tuesday. The cabinet announcement was re...
-- 2020-09-30 14:07:04
More than 63 million people in India may have contracted coronavirus (Covid-19), health authorities said on Tuesday -- about 10 times higher than the official reported figures. According to a survey...
FE Online Report 2020-09-30 13:35:48
Nearly thirty years after the Babri Masjid was razed by a mob in Uttar Pradesh, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Lucknow on Wednesday acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP le...
-- 2020-09-29 20:52:50
Kuwait’s ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah died at a hospital in the United States on Tuesday. “With great sadness and sorrow, we mourn … the death of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahma...
REUTERS 2020-09-29 15:03:02
Armenian and Azeri forces deployed heavy artillery on Tuesday in the latest fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, they both said. The Azeri defence ministry said the opposing forces...
Reuters 2020-09-29 14:19:45
Thailand will receive its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel curbs, a senior off...
-- 2020-09-29 12:57:05
Amnesty International has halted its operations in India and said it had to let go of its staff after its accounts were frozen earlier this month as part of what it called a "witch-hunt" by the govern...
-- 2020-09-29 11:17:23
South Korea appealed on Tuesday for strict social-distancing despite a slight fall in the number of its new coronavirus cases, with millions of people set to travel for a major holiday. The Korea Dis...
REUTERS 2020-09-29 11:04:17
Fighting escalated sharply on Monday between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at least 55 people were killed in a second day of heavy clashes. The two side...
Reuters 2020-09-28 14:18:48
Armenian and Azeri forces exchanged fierce fire for the second day on Monday morning, with both sides accusing each other of using heavy artillery. The outbreak of fighting over the territory of Nago...
-- 2020-09-28 14:05:29
The operator of Australia's Dreamworld theme park has been fined A$3.6m (£2m; $2.5m) over the deaths of four people on a malfunctioning water ride. Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozbeh Araghi...
Reuters 2020-09-28 11:46:44
India’s coronavirus case tally topped 6 million after it reported 82,170 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed on Monday. Deaths from Covid-19 rose by 1,039...
-- 2020-09-27 17:28:02
Afghan woman Laleh Osmany has been campaigning for years for a change to the age-old custom of officially identifying people by the names of their fathers, calling for mothers’ names to be inclu...
-- 2020-09-26 21:59:34
The East India Company’s name has been synonymous with the colonial exploitation of South Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, since the 16th century. Today, in one of the great ironies of h...
AP 2020-09-26 16:39:08
China’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top 1 billion doses by 2021, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new factories, said a Chinese...
Reuters 2020-09-26 16:26:54
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorised the country’s provinces to impose lockdowns wherever necessary to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus cases. “We are forced to intensi...
REUTERS 2020-09-26 15:56:24
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet, failing despite French pressure on sectarian leaders to rally together to d...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-26 14:39:45
In a speech to the United Nations, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called India’s Hindu-nationalist government a sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam, while denouncing its moves to...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-26 14:04:23
On television and in the courtroom, the young lawyer could be a force. Babar Qadri stood as a rare, pugilistic voice arguing on behalf of his native Kashmir, the rocky region long torn between India a...
-- 2020-09-26 10:51:15
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene an international conference early next year to launch “a genuine peace proce...
REUTERS 2020-09-26 10:50:46
Thai activists on Friday planted a symbolic plaque declaring Thailand belongs to the people in front of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s villa in Germany, as protests calling for reforms to his monarc...
FE REPORT 2020-09-26 09:30:58
The Indian Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) has recently detected the alleged involvement of the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel of India in cattle smuggling through the India-Bangladesh bor...
-- 2020-09-25 19:37:22
Farmers in India blocked roads and railway tracks on Friday in a protest against new legislation that they say could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving...
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