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China says Australia, Britain, US to pay price for wrong acts

China says Australia, Britain, US to pay price for wrong acts

-- 2021-12-09 15:54:31

Australia, Britain and the United States will pay a price for their "mistaken acts" after deciding not to send government delegations to February's Winter Olympics in Beijing, China's foreign ministry...

New Zealand to ban cigarette sales for future generations

New Zealand to ban cigarette sales for future generations

-- 2021-12-09 15:29:59

New Zealand plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry, arguing that other efforts to extinguish smoking...

Indian vaccine makers push for boosters as demand crashes

Indian vaccine makers push for boosters as demand crashes

-- 2021-12-09 13:38:59

Indian Covid-19 vaccine makers are lobbying the government to authorise boosters as supplies have so outstripped demand that one drugmaker told Reuters it had suspended a plan to produce more than 100...

US, Israel to discuss possible military drills for Iran scenario

US, Israel to discuss possible military drills for Iran scenario

-- 2021-12-09 11:50:44

US and Israeli defence chiefs are expected on Thursday to discuss possible military exercises that would prepare for a worst-case scenario to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities should diplomacy&nb...

Japan's Covid cases defy Asia’s recovery, yet fears remain for winter wave

Japan's Covid cases defy Asia’s recovery, yet fears remain for winter wave

-- 2021-12-09 10:31:24

Japan's COVID-19 infections are falling in contrast with rebounds in other parts of Asia, baffling experts. New daily infections have slowed to fewer than one per million people, the least among majo...

India's chief of defence staff dies in chopper crash

India's chief of defence staff dies in chopper crash

-- 2021-12-08 19:11:03

India’s defence chief General Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 other people were killed after a military helicopter they were travelling in crashed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian A...

Myanmar soldiers accused of killing 11 after charred remains found

Myanmar soldiers accused of killing 11 after charred remains found

-- 2021-12-08 17:30:15

Myanmar soldiers have been accused of rounding up 11 people in a village in a central area of the strife-torn country before shooting them and setting fire to their bodies, according to residents in t...

Facebook to ban Myanmar army-linked businesses

Facebook to ban Myanmar army-linked businesses

-- 2021-12-08 17:17:55

Meta Platforms Inc, formerly known as Facebook, said on Wednesday it would ban all Myanmar-military-controlled businesses from having a presence on its platforms in an expansion of its earlier curbs o...

Indian Air Force helicopter crashes with defense chief on board

Indian Air Force helicopter crashes with defense chief on board

-- 2021-12-08 16:42:59

An army chopper carrying India’s Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 13 others has crashed in Tamil Nadu and casualties have been reported. Five bodies have been found from the crash site an...

Malaysia court upholds guilty verdict for former premier Najib

Malaysia court upholds guilty verdict for former premier Najib

-- 2021-12-08 14:15:50

A Malaysian court on Wednesday upheld former premier Najib Razak's conviction on corruption charges over a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), dealing a blow t...

France arrests Saudi Arabian citizen over Khashoggi murder

France arrests Saudi Arabian citizen over Khashoggi murder

-- 2021-12-07 22:51:31

One of the suspected killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested at Roissy airport near Paris on Tuesday as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, a police source told Reuters. The ar...

Motorcycle bomb kills four in Iraq, official blames Islamic State

Motorcycle bomb kills four in Iraq, official blames Islamic State

-- 2021-12-07 20:53:57

A bomb killed four people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the first such attack in years in a part of the country that has enjoyed relative stability, and a senior official said Islami...

China says US will 'pay the price' for diplomatic boycott of Olympics

China says US will 'pay the price' for diplomatic boycott of Olympics

-- 2021-12-07 20:13:46

The United States will have to "pay a price" for its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China said on Tuesday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two...

UAE to shift to Saturday-Sunday weekend in line with global markets

UAE to shift to Saturday-Sunday weekend in line with global markets

-- 2021-12-07 19:35:24

The United Arab Emirates will shift to a working week of four and half days with a Saturday-Sunday weekend from the start of next year to better align its economy with global markets, reports Reuters....

No one is above the law, Myanmar junta minister says of Suu Kyi verdict

No one is above the law, Myanmar junta minister says of Suu Kyi verdict

-- 2021-12-07 15:13:07

A senior Myanmar junta official said on Tuesday the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law and the army chief had commuted her sentence on "grounds of humanity", Reuters...

Cases of omicron variant rise to 21 in India

Cases of omicron variant rise to 21 in India

-- 2021-12-07 13:04:59

Cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have risen to 21 in India over the weekend and people must step up for vaccination, officials said on Monday. The western state of Rajasthan reported the most...

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over hate speech

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over hate speech

-- 2021-12-07 10:46:52

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate spee...

Putin and Modi discuss trade, humanitarian situation in Afghanistan

Putin and Modi discuss trade, humanitarian situation in Afghanistan

-- 2021-12-06 21:35:25

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi on Monday, with trade and the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan both on the agenda. Afghanistan's takeover b...

Indonesia volcanic eruption kills 22

Indonesia volcanic eruption kills 22

-- 2021-12-06 21:00:53

An Indonesian volcano was active again on Monday, spewing out hot clouds of ash, two days after a powerful eruption killed at least 22 people and left dozens missing. Mt Semeru, the tallest mountain...

Suu Kyi sentence reduced to two years

Suu Kyi sentence reduced to two years

-- 2021-12-06 20:58:32

Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced from four years to two years after a partial pardon by the head of the military-appointed government, the country's state televis...

27 still missing in Indonesia after volcanic eruption kills 15

27 still missing in Indonesia after volcanic eruption kills 15

-- 2021-12-06 19:26:47

Rescuers dug out the body of 13-year-old boy with their bare hands on Monday, as improved weather conditions allowed them to resume their search after the highest volcano on Indonesia's Java island er...

Nepal reports two cases of omicron variant for first time

Nepal reports two cases of omicron variant for first time

-- 2021-12-06 19:25:01

Nepalese authorities on Monday reported the first cases of the omicron variant in the Himalayan nation. A Health Ministry statement said a 66-year-old foreign national who arrived by air on Nov. 19 t...

UN rights boss denounces Suu Kyi conviction

UN rights boss denounces Suu Kyi conviction

-- 2021-12-06 18:23:51

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday denounced a four-year jail term handed down to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a "sham trial" and called for her immediate release. Th...

Seven more omicron cases detected in India

Seven more omicron cases detected in India

-- 2021-12-06 15:34:03

India's tally of reported cases of the heavily mutated omicron variant of the coronavirus rose to 12 on Sunday after the state of Maharashtra said it had detected seven new cases. Local media also sa...

Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi gets four-year jail term

Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi gets four-year jail term

-- 2021-12-06 12:54:52

Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a four-year jail term on Monday on charges of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters, a source familiar with the proceedings said, Re...

Myanmar court to deliver first rulings in Suu Kyi trial

Myanmar court to deliver first rulings in Suu Kyi trial

-- 2021-12-06 10:46:49

A court in Myanmar is due to deliver the first rulings on Monday in the trial of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular former leader ousted by the military in a coup 10 months ago,...

India detects seven more cases of omicron variant

India detects seven more cases of omicron variant

-- 2021-12-06 10:42:48

India's tally of reported cases of the heavily mutated omicron variant of the coronavirus rose to 12 on Sunday after the state of Maharashtra said it had detected seven new cases. Local media also sa...

Former Afghan officials facing ‘revenge killings’, Western countries say

Former Afghan officials facing ‘revenge killings’, Western countries say

-- 2021-12-05 21:40:09

The United States and a group of Western countries including Germany, France and Britain have expressed concern over reported killings and disappearances of former members of the Afghan security force...

Protesters attack Indian forces camp after 14 civilians mistakenly killed

Protesters attack Indian forces camp after 14 civilians mistakenly killed

-- 2021-12-05 19:52:31

Protesters threw stones and set fire to areas around a camp belonging to Indian forces in the remote northeast, a day after at least 14 people were mistakenly killed by defence forces, officials said....

Indonesia Semeru volcanic eruption kills 14; dozens injured

Indonesia Semeru volcanic eruption kills 14; dozens injured

-- 2021-12-05 18:04:37

The eruption of Indonesia's Semeru volcano has killed at least 14 people and injured dozens, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said on Sunday, as search teams looked for victims in a landscape cov...