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Delhi to stay under weekend, overnight curfew to curb Omicron spread

Delhi to stay under weekend, overnight curfew to curb Omicron spread

-- 2022-01-21 18:51:40

India's capital Delhi will remain under curfew over the weekend and overnight to help curb the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the city's disaster management authority said on Friday, re...

Singapore approves booster doses for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years

Singapore approves booster doses for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years

-- 2022-01-21 17:00:07

Singapore will extend its COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from next month, its health ministry said on Friday. The country is among the first few countries t...

TotalEnergies backs Myanmar gas sanctions

TotalEnergies backs Myanmar gas sanctions

-- 2022-01-21 16:37:43

French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies has asked the American and French governments to support targeted sanctions against Myanmar's oil and gas funds, the largest single source of income for the...

Delhi to lift weekend curfew as Covid cases fall

Delhi to lift weekend curfew as Covid cases fall

-- 2022-01-21 14:06:43

India's capital is set to lift a weekend curfew and allow private offices to be partially staffed after a fall in new COVID-19 infections, a city government official said on Friday. The number of new...

India test-fires latest version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

India test-fires latest version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

-- 2022-01-20 20:31:51

India Thursday successfully test-fired the latest version of its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land, reports UNB. The missile was launched...

Bomb blast in Pakistan`s Lahore, one killed, 20 injured

Bomb blast in Pakistan`s Lahore, one killed, 20 injured

-- 2022-01-20 18:32:02

At least one person was killed and 20 others were injured on Thursday in a bomb blast in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, a local police official told media. The death toll might rise as several of...

India sees 0.3m cases in a day after eight months

India sees 0.3m cases in a day after eight months

-- 2022-01-20 16:06:56

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 38,218,773 on Thursday, as 317,532 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. This is the...

Mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparks fear of owners abandoning pets

Mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparks fear of owners abandoning pets

-- 2022-01-19 11:52:52

A mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparked fears among animal welfare groups on Wednesday that panicky people would abandon their pets after 11 of the rodents from one petshop in the city tested positiv...

Half of global cyber defence investment made in Israel

Half of global cyber defence investment made in Israel

-- 2022-01-18 21:37:25

Around half of the global cyber defence investment in the past few years has been in Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. Speaking by video to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Be...

All homes one Tonga islands destroyed, three dead

All homes one Tonga islands destroyed, three dead

-- 2022-01-18 19:06:54

All the homes on one of Tonga's small outer islands were destroyed in the massive volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far confirmed dead, the government said on Tuesday in its first up...

Indonesia passes law to relocate its capital to remote Borneo

Indonesia passes law to relocate its capital to remote Borneo

-- 2022-01-18 16:40:57

Indonesia's parliament has approved a bill to relocate the nation's capital from Jakarta to a jungled area of Kalimantan on Borneo Island, the planning minister said on Tuesday. The new state capital...

Australia suffers deadliest day of pandemic as Omicron pushes up hospitalisation rates

Australia suffers deadliest day of pandemic as Omicron pushes up hospitalisation rates

-- 2022-01-18 11:12:33

Australia on Tuesday suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic as a fast-moving Omicron outbreak continued to push up hospitalisation rates to record levels, even as daily infections eased slightly....

ASEAN members still struggling to unite their views on Myanmar

ASEAN members still struggling to unite their views on Myanmar

-- 2022-01-17 19:24:37

Unresolved differences about engagement with Myanmar's military rulers are causing discord among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), diplomats and government officials say, as a minist...

Three killed in UAE fuel truck blast, Yemen Houthis claim attack

Three killed in UAE fuel truck blast, Yemen Houthis claim attack

-- 2022-01-17 18:47:02

Three fuel trucks exploded, killing three people, and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi airport on Monday in what Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said was an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirate...

China's birth rate falls to record low in 2021

China's birth rate falls to record low in 2021

-- 2022-01-17 11:03:20

Mainland China's birth rate dropped to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people in 2021, National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Monday, accelerating a downward trend that led Beijing last year to b...

Jordan army officer killed in shooting along border with Syria

Jordan army officer killed in shooting along border with Syria

-- 2022-01-16 18:25:05

A Jordanian army officer was killed and three army personnel injured on Sunday when drug smugglers trying to enter the country from Syria fired at an army outpost along the border, a Jordanian army st...

Death toll from unrest in Kazakhstan rises to 225

Death toll from unrest in Kazakhstan rises to 225

-- 2022-01-15 23:34:09

The bodies of 225 people killed in unrest in Kazakhstan last week, including 19 members of the security forces, were delivered to morgues throughout the country, the prosecutor general's office said o...

India extends ban on political rallies till Jan 22

India extends ban on political rallies till Jan 22

-- 2022-01-15 20:23:51

India's Election Commission has extended by a week the ban on political rallies in the five states that will go to polls next month amid the third wave of the Covid pandemic. The ban on political ral...

Singapore backs continued exclusion of Myanmar junta from ASEAN meetings

Singapore backs continued exclusion of Myanmar junta from ASEAN meetings

-- 2022-01-15 18:42:49

Singapore's leader said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should continue excluding Myanmar's junta from its meeting until it cooperates on an agreed peace plan. Prime Minister Lee H...

North Korean hackers stole $400m in 2021

North Korean hackers stole $400m in 2021

-- 2022-01-15 16:34:38

North Korea launched at least seven attacks on cryptocurrency platforms that extracted nearly $400 million worth of digital assets last year, one of its most successful years on record, blockchain ana...

China records 165 new Covid cases for Jan 14 vs 201 a day earlier

China records 165 new Covid cases for Jan 14 vs 201 a day earlier

-- 2022-01-15 15:28:39

China reported 165 new confirmed coronavirus cases for Jan. 14, down from 201 a day earlier, its health authority said on Saturday. Of the new infections, 104 were locally transmitted, according to a...

China slams US sanctions on Iran as 25-year cooperation agreement launched

China slams US sanctions on Iran as 25-year cooperation agreement launched

-- 2022-01-15 14:28:48

China reaffirmed its opposition to unilateral sanctions by the United States against Iran as the Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers announced the launch of a 25-year cooperation agreement aimed at...

Pakistan launches security policy focusing on peace, economic connectivity

Pakistan launches security policy focusing on peace, economic connectivity

-- 2022-01-14 23:21:44

Pakistan on Friday launched its first-ever comprehensive National Security Policy that it said was centred on regional peace and economic connectivity, and stressed that it wanted improved relations w...

Rohingya genocide case: Fresh round of hearings begins Feb 21

Rohingya genocide case: Fresh round of hearings begins Feb 21

-- 2022-01-14 21:07:23

Representatives of Myanmar's junta are expected to challenge the jurisdiction of the World Court to hear allegations the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority in a fresh round of he...

Philippines bans unvaccinated from public transport

Philippines bans unvaccinated from public transport

-- 2022-01-14 17:50:03

The Philippines will push through with its plan next week to ban from public transportation people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Friday, as the country grapples to quell a...

Suu Kyi to face five new corruption charges

Suu Kyi to face five new corruption charges

-- 2022-01-14 17:43:05

Myanmar's ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and deposed President Win Myint will face five additional charges of corruption, each carrying a maximum of 15 years in prison, a source familiar with t...

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for holy dip, defying COVID-19 surge

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for holy dip, defying COVID-19 surge

-- 2022-01-14 17:31:08

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers gathered on the banks of India's Ganges River on Friday for a holy bathe despite a 30-fold rise in coronavirus cases in the past month. Hindus believe a bat...

Nine dead in India train accident

Nine dead in India train accident

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 11:57:16

The death toll in the India rail tragedy rose to nine Friday morning, as rescuers called off the search for survivors in the wreckage of the train that derailed in the eastern state of West Bengal Thu...

Palestinian old man found dead after being held in Israeli raid

Palestinian old man found dead after being held in Israeli raid

-- 2022-01-13 11:40:13

An 80-year-old Palestinian-American man was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid on an occupied West Bank village, Palestinian officials and relatives said on Wednesda...

Taliban want greater role in distribution of foreign aid

Taliban want greater role in distribution of foreign aid

-- 2022-01-13 11:34:11

The Taliban administration that seized control of Afghanistan proposed a joint body on Wednesday of its officials and international representatives to coordinate billions of dollars in planned aid. I...