Reuters 2020-09-02 14:56:51
The Afghan government released nearly 200 Taliban prisoners to spur the start of long-delayed peace negotiations, senior Afghan officials said on Wednesday. The fresh releases are from a group of 400...
-- 2020-09-02 12:28:22
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...
Reuters 2020-09-02 12:06:38
“Every person you meet is a potential carrier of the disease,” a doctor said this to me when I visited the town of Bhagalpur and its nearby villages to cover the raging coronavirus pandemi...
Reuters 2020-09-01 19:04:34
Malaysia on Tuesday said it would bar entry of long-term immigration pass holders from India, Indonesia and the Philippines from Sept 7, in a bid to curtail imported coronavirus cases amid a spate of...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-09-01 18:49:39
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Myanmar authorities to stop using criminal laws, website blocks, and licensing delays to severely restrict the two ethnic media outlets in Rakhine State. The in...
-- 2020-09-01 18:07:19
The United Arab Emirates has betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal toward normalising ties with Israel, Iran’s top authority Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sa...
-- 2020-09-01 17:25:19
Myanmar’s telecommunications ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered mobile operators to block a website run by activists investigating the military for spreading fake news, which the group said...
-- 2020-08-31 23:08:27
India has announced a seven-day state mourning after the country’s former president Pranab Mukherjee died at a Delhi hospital on Monday. He was 84-years-old. “As a mark of respect to the...
-- 2020-08-31 19:16:38
Former president of India Pranab Mukherjee, who was under treatment at a hospital, died at 84. The elder statesman and one of most respected politicians of India had been in coma after a brain surger...
-- 2020-08-31 18:24:10
Czech Senate Speaker Milos Vystrcil will ‘pay a heavy price’ for making an official trip to Taiwan, the Chinese government’s top diplomat said on Monday, prompting Prague to summon C...
-- 2020-08-31 18:08:01
Top aides to US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a historic first flight from Tel Aviv to the United Arab Emirates on Monday to finalise a pact marking open re...
-- 2020-08-31 15:25:03
Malaysia marked the 63rd anniversary of its independence on Monday, with a scaled back celebration due to the restrictive measures to contain the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Malaysia's king Sult...
-- 2020-08-31 15:03:06
A landslide and floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 41 people in Nepal and India in the past week, officials said on Monday, as the annual monsoon season enters its final stretch after c...
REUTERS 2020-08-31 14:54:19
India reported 78,512 novel coronavirus infections on Monday, more than any other country but fewer than the previous day when it posted the world’s biggest, single-day tally, as authorities loo...
Reuters 2020-08-31 12:54:28
India said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to change the status quo on their disputed and ill-defined border in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. “O...
-- 2020-08-31 09:31:58
Australia reported a record daily rise in Covid-19 deaths on Monday, although the number of new infections in the country’s virus epicentre fell to a near two-month low. Victoria state said its...
-- 2020-08-30 18:42:21
Qatar on Sunday set a basic monthly minimum wage of 1,000 Qatari riyals ($274.6) and scrapped a rule requiring employers to consent to employees changing jobs. The announcement is the latest in a ser...
-- 2020-08-30 18:29:49
The death toll from this month’s Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon’s caretaker government said in a report on Sunday. Leban...
-- 2020-08-30 18:24:24
Israel hopes to hold a signing ceremony in Washington for its normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates by mid-September, a member of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ca...
-- 2020-08-30 16:35:14
Afghanistan's president has appointed a council for national reconciliation, which will have final say on whether the government will sign a peace deal with the Taliban after what are expected to be p...
Reuters 2020-08-30 15:35:55
India on Sunday reported the biggest single-day jump in coronavirus infections of any nation in the Covid-19 pandemic, as the epicentre shifts to the south Asian giant. India’s 78,761 cases exc...
-- 2020-08-30 14:52:01
Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s emergencies ministry media said on Sunday. The bu...
FE ONLINE DESK 2020-08-30 12:58:05
India and China continue to build roads in the remote Himalayan region blocking the road to peace between the two countries, says an article in South China Morning Post (SCMP). “Border talks be...
REUTERS 2020-08-30 10:55:09
Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the country, offic...
-- 2020-08-29 21:25:11
Seventeen people were killed in China's Shanxi Province after a two-story restaurant collapsed during a gathering Saturday. At least 28 other people were injured in the accident that took place at Xi...
-- 2020-08-29 20:15:57
Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday. As many as 2,842 educational institutions a...
-- 2020-08-29 19:33:49
Japan’s ruling party will pick Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s successor around September 15, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday, after Abe abruptly announced his resignation for health reason...
Reuters 2020-08-29 19:15:29
Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people on Saturday after flash flooding this week killed around 160 people and washed away homes across the country, offic...
-- 2020-08-29 17:35:51
Even as India is poised for the next round of unlocking the economy on September 1, a new modelling study projects that the country could prevent more than 0.2 million Covid-19-linked deaths by Decemb...
-- 2020-08-29 17:30:08
Four Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidates have started international phase-3 clinical trials. Some of the phase-3 trials are expected to complete the first round of vaccinations in early September, wi...
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