-- 2019-03-27 13:50:24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had shot down a live satellite in space on Wednesday with an anti-satellite missile, hailing the test as a major breakthrough in its space programme. Modi made...
-- 2019-03-27 13:35:54
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has accepted the plea of the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif granting him bail for six weeks, allowing him to seek medical treatment within the country. Nawaz Sharif...
-- 2019-03-27 12:47:38
Those who criticise China over human rights in Tibet have been “bewitched” by the Dalai Lama, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, days before the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan s...
AP 2019-03-27 11:43:00
A hospital in a rural area of northwest Yemen was hit by an airstrike Tuesday killing seven people and wounding eight others, Save the Children said. The international aid organisation, which support...
-- 2019-03-26 20:56:09
NEW DELHI: Facebook says it is preparing for Indian elections by working to limit false stories, videos and photos on its platform. It says it is tying up with fact checkers and media organiz...
-- 2019-03-26 16:09:24
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to release former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on bail for six weeks to receive medical treatment but said he would not be allowed to leave t...
-- 2019-03-26 15:49:35
BANGKOK, Mar 26 (Reuters) : The run-up to Thailand’s weekend vote was “heavily tilted” to benefit a party close to the ruling military junta, an Asian election monitor said on Tuesda...
-- 2019-03-26 15:45:18
About 1.85 million people have now been affected by Cyclone Idai and its aftermath in Mozambique alone, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said on Tuesday, as aid workers raced to fathom the scale of the dis...
-- 2019-03-26 15:35:51
Myanmar’s Supreme Court was scheduled on Tuesday to hear the appeal of two Reuters journalists imprisoned for breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, in a case that has raised questions ab...
-- 2019-03-25 18:41:45
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has pledged to create "the world's largest minimum income scheme" if his party wins election. He said the Congress Party would guarantee an income for 50 million...
-- 2019-03-25 14:23:13
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he will cut short his trip to the United States after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv wounded seven people. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesma...
-- 2019-03-25 10:51:47
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she will travel to China at the end of the week for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, amid concerns of strained relations be...
Reuters 2019-03-25 09:51:33
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday a royal commission inquiry into the events leading up to a March 15 attack on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 people, including...
-- 2019-03-24 16:28:54
Thousands gathered in New Zealand’s cities on Sunday to protest racism and remember the 50 Muslims killed by a gunman in Christchurch and as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a national re...
-- 2019-03-24 12:02:03
Thai voters went to the polls on Sunday in a long-delayed election following a 2014 coup, in a race that pits a military junta chief seeking to retain power against a "democratic front" led by the pop...
-- 2019-03-23 19:36:09
Rescuers in eastern China pulled a survivor from rubble early on Saturday, two days after a massive explosion at a pesticide plant killed at least 64 people, flattening nearby buildings and shattering...
-- 2019-03-23 13:42:24
Islamic State has been defeated at its final shred of territory of Baghouz in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday, announcing the end of its self-declared ‘calip...
-- 2019-03-23 11:59:20
Smelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week reopened their doors on Saturday, with many survivors among the first to...
-- 2019-03-23 10:44:53
Twenty six people were killed after a tour bus in which they were travelling caught fire in central China’s Hunan Province on Friday, local authorities said. The 28 injured in the incident were...
-- 2019-03-22 19:58:55
New Zealanders of all religions donned headscarves on Friday in a symbol of unity as a mass funeral was held for dozens of victims of last week's mosque attacks, reports AP. Worshipers were gunned do...
-- 2019-03-22 13:05:12
At least two militants were killed and three troopers were wounded in a fierce gunfight between them in restive India-controlled Kashmir, police said on Friday. The gunfight broke out Thursday mornin...
-- 2019-03-22 11:24:31
The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand on Friday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed by a lone gunman at two mosques a week ago. Prime Mini...
Reuters 2019-03-22 10:43:09
An explosion at a pesticide plant in eastern China has killed 47 people and injured more than 600, state media said on Friday, the latest casualties in a series of industrial accidents that has ange...
-- 2019-03-22 10:39:33
New Zealanders on Friday marked one week since a mass shooting killed 50 Muslim worshippers in the South Island city of Christchurch, holding nationwide prayers and wearing headscarves to show their s...
Reuters 2019-03-22 10:17:02
At least 79 people died when an overloaded ferry carrying families on an outing sank in the Tigris river in Mosul in northern Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. Most of the casualties on...
Reuters 2019-03-21 14:28:14
The bullet-riddled Al Noor mosque in Christchurch was being repaired, painted, and cleaned ahead of Friday prayers, as grieving families buried more victims of New Zealand’s worst mass shooting....
-- 2019-03-21 10:19:58
New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ard...
-- 2019-03-20 20:36:52
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week's deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch. In one of her first...
-- 2019-03-20 18:10:34
Fugitive billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi was arrested in London on behalf of the Indian authorities, British police said on Wednesday. India had asked Britain in August to extradite Modi, one of the...
Reuters 2019-03-20 13:45:37
The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with kno...
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