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Israel signs deal to buy $3.1b in US helicopters, tankers

Israel signs deal to buy $3.1b in US helicopters, tankers

-- 2021-12-31 16:01:37

Israel has signed a deal with the United States to buy 12 Lockheed Martin Corp CH-53K helicopters and two Boeing Co KC-46 refuelling planes, the Israeli Defence Ministry said on Friday, estimating the...

Iran sends rocket into space as US-Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna

Iran sends rocket into space as US-Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna

-- 2021-12-31 14:26:33

Iran used a satellite launch rocket to send three research devices into space on Thursday, a defence ministry spokesman said, as indirect US-Iran talks take place in Austria to try to salvage a 2015 n...

Chinese bishops, priests brief HK clerics on Xi's religious views

Chinese bishops, priests brief HK clerics on Xi's religious views

-- 2021-12-31 12:41:24

Chinese bishops and religious leaders briefed senior Hong Kong Catholic clergymen on President Xi Jinping's vision of religion with "Chinese characteristics" in an unprecedented meeting organised by t...

Women force change at Indian iPhone plant

Women force change at Indian iPhone plant

-- 2021-12-31 11:55:45

For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck. But when...

Goa's beaches packed with domestic tourists even as India tightens COVID rules

Goa's beaches packed with domestic tourists even as India tightens COVID rules

-- 2021-12-31 10:24:32

Thousands of Indian tourists have thronged the beaches, pubs and nightclubs of Goa to see in the New Year, even as the government imposed tougher restrictions to curb the latest variant of the coronav...

EU mulls arms embargo, more sanctions on Myanmar after 'appalling' violence

EU mulls arms embargo, more sanctions on Myanmar after 'appalling' violence

-- 2021-12-30 16:46:19

The European Union is ready to impose further sanctions on Myanmar after a new escalation of violence by the army and is also urging an international arms embargo on the country, its top diplomat said...

Thousands of people message late Chinese Covid whistleblower doctor two years on

Thousands of people message late Chinese Covid whistleblower doctor two years on

-- 2021-12-30 13:56:23

Thousands of people left messages on the social media account of the late Chinese COVID-19 whistleblower Li Wenliang on the anniversary of the day he learned of possible pneumonia-causing virus cases...

Indonesia says will allow stranded Rohingya boat to seek refuge

Indonesia says will allow stranded Rohingya boat to seek refuge

-- 2021-12-29 18:32:58

Indonesia will allow a boat packed with Rohingya which had become stranded off its coast to dock in the Southeast Asian country, its security ministry said on Wednesday, after calls from aid organisat...

China warns of 'drastic measures' if Taiwan provokes on independence

China warns of 'drastic measures' if Taiwan provokes on independence

-- 2021-12-29 16:05:20

China will take 'drastic measures' if Taiwan makes moves towards independence, a Beijing official warned on Wednesday, adding that Taiwan's provocations and outside meddling could intensify next year....

Australia seeks to ease Covid test rules as cases hit records

Australia seeks to ease Covid test rules as cases hit records

-- 2021-12-29 11:18:08

Australia will seek to make urgent changes to Covid-19 testing rules to ease pressure on test sites as infections surged and the country's most populous state reported a near doubling in daily cases,...

Malaysia lifts African travel ban, cuts booster waits amid omicron fears

Malaysia lifts African travel ban, cuts booster waits amid omicron fears

-- 2021-12-28 21:32:17

Malaysia has lifted a travel ban on eight southern African countries that had been among the first to report the omicron variant of the coronavirus, citing the greater spread of the variant worldwide,...

Indonesia to turn away boat of Rohingya refugees

Indonesia to turn away boat of Rohingya refugees

-- 2021-12-28 18:38:23

Indonesian authorities will help repair a stranded boat packed with over 100 Rohingya off its coast but will not allow its passengers to seek refuge in the country and will turn the vessel away, offic...

India approves emergency use of Merck's Covid-19 pill, two more vaccines

India approves emergency use of Merck's Covid-19 pill, two more vaccines

-- 2021-12-28 13:21:54

India gave emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Merck's Covid-19 pill molnupiravir, and Serum Institute of India's Covovax and Biological E's Corbevax coronavirus vaccines, the country's health minis...

Iran nuclear talks restart with Tehran focused on sanctions relief

Iran nuclear talks restart with Tehran focused on sanctions relief

-- 2021-12-28 11:10:58

Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal resumed on Monday with Tehran focused on one side of the original bargain, lifting sanctions against it, despi...

India refuses to renew foreign funding permission for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity

India refuses to renew foreign funding permission for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity

-- 2021-12-28 10:58:30

The Indian government on Monday "refused" to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity...

Foxconn India iPhone plant extends closure by extra three days

Foxconn India iPhone plant extends closure by extra three days

-- 2021-12-27 14:57:19

A Foxconn iPhone factory in India at the centre of a mass food-poisoning incident will extend a week-long closure by an extra three days, a senior official for the state of Tamil Nadu told Reuter...

Cyclone Yaas caused $3bn damage in India and Bangladesh

Cyclone Yaas caused $3bn damage in India and Bangladesh

-- 2021-12-27 13:57:50

From deadly Hurricane Ida in the United States to devastating floods in China and Europe, climate change-fuelled disasters have cost the world tens of billions of dollars in 2021, with both the poor a...

China's local Covid cases edge higher

China's local Covid cases edge higher

-- 2021-12-27 11:54:04

China's local symptomatic coronavirus cases crept up again, with most new infections reported in the northwestern city of Xian as it entered a fifth day of a lockdown. Xian's case load - 150 local sy...

Houthis fired 430 missiles, 851 drones at Saudi Arabia since 2015

Houthis fired 430 missiles, 851 drones at Saudi Arabia since 2015

-- 2021-12-26 22:35:03

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Sunday the Iran-aligned Houthi group had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 armed drones at Saudi Arabia since the war started in 2015, killing 59 S...

China reports highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in 21 months

China reports highest daily rise in COVID-19 cases in 21 months

-- 2021-12-26 21:31:11

China reported its highest daily rise in local COVID-19 cases in 21 months as infections more than doubled in the northwestern city of Xian, China's latest COVID hot spot. The city of 13 million, whi...

Save the Children workers missing after 30 villagers reportedly massacred by Myanmar troops

Save the Children workers missing after 30 villagers reportedly massacred by Myanmar troops

-- 2021-12-26 19:57:06

Two members of the international humanitarian group Save the Children are missing after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, fatally shot more than 3...

More than 100 domestic flights in Japan cancelled due to heavy snow

More than 100 domestic flights in Japan cancelled due to heavy snow

-- 2021-12-26 14:07:37

More than 100 domestic flights in Japan were grounded on Sunday due to heavy snow in the northern and western parts of the country, Japan's two biggest airlines said. ANA Holdings had halted 77 fligh...

More than 30 killed, bodies burnt in Myanmar's Kayah state

More than 30 killed, bodies burnt in Myanmar's Kayah state

-- 2021-12-25 20:45:18

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar's conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human r...

Indians flood markets, tourist spots amid omicron concerns

Indians flood markets, tourist spots amid omicron concerns

-- 2021-12-25 12:56:26

Indians are crowding markets and taking packed flights to holiday destinations again despite calls from authorities urging restraint and caution amid rising cases of the rapidly-spreading omicron vari...

War games in Gulf were warning to Israel, says Iran

War games in Gulf were warning to Israel, says Iran

-- 2021-12-25 11:56:59

War games conducted this week by Iran in the Gulf were intended to send a warning to Israel, the country's top military commanders said on Friday, amid concerns over possible Israeli plans to target...

Road accidents leave six dead in Pakistan

Road accidents leave six dead in Pakistan

-- 2021-12-24 20:19:44

At least six people were killed in three separate road accidents in Pakistan during the last 24 hours, local media reported on Friday. Two people were killed when a car overran them in Kamoke area of...

Myanmar launches airstrike near Thai border, hundreds of villagers flee

Myanmar launches airstrike near Thai border, hundreds of villagers flee

-- 2021-12-24 19:27:17

Myanmar’s military unleashed airstrikes and heavy artillery on a small town controlled by ethnic guerrillas, sending hundreds of people fleeing across a river into Thailand, local officials and...

Thailand reports first omicron cluster, cancels some New Year events

Thailand reports first omicron cluster, cancels some New Year events

-- 2021-12-24 19:21:50

Thailand reported on Friday its first domestic cluster of coronavirus infections from the omicron variant in Kalasin province in northeastern Thailand, officials said. “From the Kalasin cluster...

India's UP govt announces night curfew amid omicron concerns

India's UP govt announces night curfew amid omicron concerns

-- 2021-12-24 19:09:35

The local government in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh announced that night curfew would be re-imposed across the state in wake of the omicron fears, local media reported Friday. The nigh...

Bhutan starts administering COVID-19 booster shots

Bhutan starts administering COVID-19 booster shots

-- 2021-12-24 18:51:40

Bhutan has started giving COVID-19 booster shots to senior citizens and priority groups as the Himalayan kingdom tries to stave off the omicron variant, health ministry officials said on Friday. Thos...