-- 2020-09-12 18:20:35
India’s drug regulator has asked Serum Institute of India to suspend recruitment in its clinical trials of AstraZeneca Plc’s potential COVID-19 vaccine in the country until further orders....
-- 2020-09-12 17:59:29
China has announced new restrictions on the activities of US diplomats working in mainland China and Hong Kong, in what it called a justified response to similar measures imposed on Chinese diplomats...
-- 2020-09-12 16:59:24
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari has been executed after being convicted of stabbing to death a security guard during anti-government protests in 2018, state media said on Saturday, reports Reut...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-12 14:31:18
Russia’s efforts to mediate in the China-India border dispute show what is at stake for Moscow if the row worsens between the two nuclear-armed Asian neighbours, South China Morning Post (SCMP)...
Reuters 2020-09-12 14:19:27
The opening ceremony for talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents began in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday, marking the start of negotiations aimed at ending two decades of wa...
Reuters 2020-09-12 13:29:04
India reported a record daily jump in coronavirus cases for a second consecutive day, logging 97,570 new infections on Saturday, data from the federal health ministry showed. With total cases of more...
REUTERS 2020-09-12 09:27:49
Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalise relations with Israel on Friday, a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further is...
-- 2020-09-11 21:33:50
Bahrain is going to normalise relations with Israel, the diplomatic correspondent for Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said in a tweet on Friday, without citing sources. Another Israeli reporter...
-- 2020-09-11 17:36:50
Three years ago, Myanmar’s military burned the Rohingya village of Kan Kya to the ground and bulldozed over its remains. Last year, the government erased its name from official maps, according t...
REUTERS 2020-09-11 12:36:35
About 2,000 academics from top institutions in India and abroad have signed petitions demanding federal authorities stop targeting people critical of the government as part of a widening investigation...
REUTERS 2020-09-11 10:10:22
China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomati...
Indian Express 2020-09-10 22:19:48
In a bid to dial down tensions on the Line of Actual Control, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is set to hold a meeting soon in Moscow on the sidelines of the S...
Reuters 2020-09-10 19:58:30
A store of oil and tyres at Beirut port caught fire on Thursday, a military source said, a little more than a month after a massive blast devastated the port and a surrounding residential area of the...
FE Online Report 2020-09-10 19:32:12
State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi said on Thursday that they want a global initiative on data security. He made his assertion while delivering a keynote speech titled "Upholding M...
Reuters 2020-09-10 12:36:55
India reported record jumps in new coronavirus infections and deaths on Thursday, taking its tally of cases past 4.4 million, health ministry figures showed. In the last 24 hours, 95,735 new infectio...
-- 2020-09-09 19:33:28
Southeast Asia's top diplomats are holding their annual talks to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid escalating rivalry between the United States and China...
-- 2020-09-09 15:02:56
The 53rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related meetings opened on Wednesday via video link under the chair of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minis...
-- 2020-09-09 14:13:01
China's state media says Australian agents raided the homes of Chinese journalists in June, in the latest flare of tensions between the nations. The reports come a day after the last two journalists...
Reuters 2020-09-09 12:37:14
A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted First Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning, but he escaped unharmed, said his spokesman after the attack which killed and wounded at least 20 peo...
Reuters 2020-09-09 11:52:21
Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1 billion people face being displaced by 2050, according to a new analysis of globa...
-- 2020-09-08 20:36:13
Iran has begun to build a hall in ‘the heart of the mountains’ near its Natanz nuclear site for making advanced centrifuges, Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday, aiming to replace a...
-- 2020-09-08 19:50:20
Two Australian foreign correspondents were flown out of China for their safety, with the help of Australian consular officials after being questioned by China’s state security ministry, the Aust...
-- 2020-09-08 19:47:13
Indigenous people in Asia are facing massive displacement, destruction of their environment and rising poverty due to land-grabbing, says a UN human rights expert. “Large-scale development pro...
-- 2020-09-08 19:37:37
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Tuesday for an alliance of democracies to defend against “aggressive actions” and protect freedom, alluding to Chinese actions in the South China Se...
-- 2020-09-08 17:55:09
Malaysian authorities on Tuesday reminded the public to avoid physical contact, including fist bumps as a form of greeting, as the number of new coronavirus cases in the country climbed to a three-mon...
-- 2020-09-08 17:17:13
The International Criminal Court (ICC) should swiftly prosecute two Myanmar Army soldiers who have confessed to their involvement in massacres, rape, and other crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar, and...
-- 2020-09-08 16:58:25
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi launched her re-election bid on Tuesday ahead of polls set for November, vowing victory at a scaled-down ceremony in the capital after her original plans were scuppered...
Reuters 2020-09-08 15:09:20
India and China have accused each other of firing in the air during a new confrontation on their border in the western Himalayas, in a further escalation of military tension between the nuclear-armed...
FE REPORT 2020-09-08 12:05:49
India recorded its highest daily deaths from the coronavirus in more than a month on Tuesday, even as new infections slowed, data from the health ministry showed. The health ministry said 1,133 peopl...
Reuters 2020-09-08 10:30:08
China announced an initiative on Tuesday to establish global standards on data security, saying it wanted to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when “individual countries” were...
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