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China accuses Indian troops of firing warning shots amid border row

China accuses Indian troops of firing warning shots amid border row

-- 2020-09-08 10:26:20

China accused Indian troops of violating a bilateral agreement and firing warning shots in the air during a confrontation with Chinese personnel on the disputed border on Monday, amid renewed tensions...

Saudi Arabia overturns death sentences in Jamal Khashoggi killing

Saudi Arabia overturns death sentences in Jamal Khashoggi killing

-- 2020-09-07 21:49:51

A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday overturned the death sentences handed to five people convicted over the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The kingdom’s prosecution sa...

Stranded at sea for months, hundreds of Rohingya land in Indonesia

Stranded at sea for months, hundreds of Rohingya land in Indonesia

Reuters 2020-09-07 12:29:33

Almost 300 Rohingya refugees believed to have been at sea for six months landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province early on Monday, Indonesian authorities said. Acehnese police said a wooden boat car...

Coronavirus: India now second-worst hit country with over 4.2m cases

Coronavirus: India now second-worst hit country with over 4.2m cases

-- 2020-09-07 11:24:26

India’s coronavirus infections surged past 4.2 million on Monday as it overtook Brazil to become the country with the second-highest number of cases. With 4,204,613 infections, India is nearly...

Female journalist shot dead in Pakistan

Female journalist shot dead in Pakistan

-- 2020-09-06 19:15:39

Shaheena Shaheen, a talk show host at Pakistan’s state-owned broadcaster Pakistan Television and editor of a local magazine, was shot dead at her home in Balochistan on Saturday evening. Police...

China plans infrastructure investment in Tibet as India tensions rise

China plans infrastructure investment in Tibet as India tensions rise

-- 2020-09-06 18:31:48

China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) push to accelerate infrastructure investment in Tibet, including new and previously announced projects, three sources familiar with the mat...

Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan

Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan

-- 2020-09-06 14:29:24

More than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm. Typhoon Haishen is expected to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and win...

Malaysian government urged to reconsider blanket entry ban

Malaysian government urged to reconsider blanket entry ban

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-05 22:08:55

International chambers of commerce have urged the Malaysian government to reconsider the blanket entry ban on citizens of countries with more than 150,000 Covid-19 cases. The European Union-Malaysia...

World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon's controversial dam

World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon's controversial dam

-- 2020-09-05 18:38:56

The World Bank on Friday said it had cancelled $244 million in undisbursed funds for the Bisri Dam project in Lebanon after repeatedly raising concerns about the project since January. In a statement...

Hundreds of Thai students rally for school reform

Hundreds of Thai students rally for school reform

-- 2020-09-05 17:51:02

Hundreds of high school students demonstrated in Bangkok on Saturday to demand reform of an education system they say is outdated in the latest of more than a month of anti-authority protests, reports...

India, China agree to ease tension on border

India, China agree to ease tension on border

Reuters 2020-09-05 17:32:35

India and China said on Saturday they had agreed to work towards reducing tensions along their contested border, following a meeting of the defence ministers of the nuclear-armed Asian giants. Both s...

Sri Lanka navy holds blazing supertanker off east coast

Sri Lanka navy holds blazing supertanker off east coast

-- 2020-09-05 16:56:06

Sri Lanka’s navy said on Saturday it was holding an abandoned supertanker off its east coast as it continued to work to put out a blaze on the ship, reports Reuters. The fire broke out in the...

India becomes third country to surpass four million Covid-19 cases

India becomes third country to surpass four million Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-09-05 13:34:54

India’s total coronavirus cases surged beyond 4 million with a record rise on Saturday, making it the third country in the world to surpass that mark, following the United States and Brazil. In...

Beirut explosion: Hopes fade in search for survivor

Beirut explosion: Hopes fade in search for survivor

-- 2020-09-05 12:00:21

Hopes are fading in Beirut that anyone will be found beneath the rubble of a building destroyed in last month's explosion, following two days of search efforts. Rescue workers began looking through t...

Indian, Chinese defence ministers meet amid border tensions

Indian, Chinese defence ministers meet amid border tensions

-- 2020-09-05 11:26:39

Defence ministers of India and China have met in the Russian capital to try to solve rising tensions along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region, reports AP. India’s Defence Minist...

Bahrain opens its airspace for flights between Israel, UAE

Bahrain opens its airspace for flights between Israel, UAE

-- 2020-09-04 19:18:08

Flights between Israel and the United Arab Emirates will be able to fly over Bahrain after the kingdom has said all services to and from the UAE can cross its airspace. The decision, which the kingdo...

Chilean rescue team reports ‘signs of life’ under Beirut blast rubble

Chilean rescue team reports ‘signs of life’ under Beirut blast rubble

Al Jazera 2020-09-04 19:08:51

A Chilean rescue team said it detected signs of life underneath the rubble of a building that collapsed in the massive explosion that tore through Beirut one month ago. A member of the TOPOS CHILE re...

Bangladesh among priority countries for Korea's ODA: Envoy

Bangladesh among priority countries for Korea's ODA: Envoy

-- 2020-09-04 16:36:54

South Korean Ambassador Lee Jang-keun has said Bangladesh is among the priority partner countries for Korea’s official development assistance (ODA) cooperation. Korea was the ninth-largest ODA...

India coronavirus infections near 4.0m

India coronavirus infections near 4.0m

-- 2020-09-04 16:17:43

India reported a daily jump of 83,341 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 3.94 million, health ministry data showed on Friday, as it closes in on Brazil as the world's second-most affected nat...

Indian village offers window into surging Covid-19 caseload

Indian village offers window into surging Covid-19 caseload

Reuters 2020-09-04 13:10:10

The quaint, sugarcane-growing village of Rajewadi in India’s west did not have a single confirmed coronavirus case until mid-August. Now one in every four people there is positive for the virus,...

1MDB scandal: Malaysia drops charges against Goldman Sachs

1MDB scandal: Malaysia drops charges against Goldman Sachs

Reuters 2020-09-04 11:28:40

Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the B...

Tagore no threat to China, why should PUBG be a risk to India, asks Beijing

Tagore no threat to China, why should PUBG be a risk to India, asks Beijing

Hindustan Times 2020-09-03 21:27:53

Beijing on Thursday cited Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and yoga’s popularity in China to criticise India banning 118 Chinese apps and subtly warned New Delhi not to join the US’s &ls...

Malaysia expands entry ban to US, UK, France pass holders

Malaysia expands entry ban to US, UK, France pass holders

Reuters 2020-09-03 19:00:59

Malaysia on Thursday added at least nine more countries, including the United States, Britain and France, to its list of long-term immigration pass holders to be barred from the country, national news...

Facebook bans India's BJP leader for sparking hate speech row

Facebook bans India's BJP leader for sparking hate speech row

-- 2020-09-03 17:12:41

Facebook has banned T Raja Singh, a BJP leader at the core of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules on members of the ruling BJP. The politician was banned for violat...

Myanmar seals off capital amid virus surge

Myanmar seals off capital amid virus surge

-- 2020-09-03 14:25:52

Myanmar has imposed mandatory quarantine and coronavirus tests for visitors to its capital city after the country reported dozens more infections on Wednesday and leader Aung San Suu Kyi warned of a "...

India records highest single-day spike of 83,883 Covid-19 cases

India records highest single-day spike of 83,883 Covid-19 cases

-- 2020-09-03 12:52:15

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 3,853,406, as the death toll mounted to 67,376 on Thursday, showed the latest data released by the federal health ministry. As many as 83,883 new cases and 1,043 deaths...

Saudi Arabia sentences seven Islamist militants to death over killings of Shias

Saudi Arabia sentences seven Islamist militants to death over killings of Shias

-- 2020-09-02 21:34:36

A Saudi court has sentenced seven Islamic State militants to death over a 2014 shooting attack that killed eight Shia Muslims near the eastern city of al-Ahsa, state television reported on Wednesday,...

5th BIMSTEC Summit in January

5th BIMSTEC Summit in January

FE Online Report 2020-09-02 20:06:46

The 5th BIMSTEC Summit, preceded by the 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting, is proposed to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the first half of January 2021 subject to the improved COVID situation. This...

Taiwan to alter passport, fed up with confusion with China

Taiwan to alter passport, fed up with confusion with China

-- 2020-09-02 17:13:29

Fed up with being confused for China amid the coronavirus pandemic and Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to assert sovereignty, Taiwan said on Wednesday it would redesign its passport to give greater...

Beijing rejects US report on Chinese nuclear warheads

Beijing rejects US report on Chinese nuclear warheads

Reuters 2020-09-02 15:44:15

China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected a US report that Beijing was expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads. The Pentagon said on Tuesday that China is expected to at leas...