-- 2021-11-20 16:38:49
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has suspended a probe at Manila's request into suspected rights abuses during Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on drugs....
-- 2021-11-20 15:45:00
Saudi Arabia has instituted age limits for Muslims travelling from overseas for the Umrah pilgrimage. Those under 18 years of age and those over 50 will not be able to make the pilgrimage, reports&nb...
-- 2021-11-20 11:24:12
China's market regulator on Saturday said it was fining companies including Alibaba, Baidu and JD.com for failing to declare 43 deals that date as far back as 2012 to authorities, saying that they vio...
-- 2021-11-19 18:44:05
Qatar is not adequately investigating and reporting worker deaths including unexplained fatalities among seemingly healthy labourers, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said on Friday. The s...
-- 2021-11-19 18:10:37
Pakistan has removed a clause from a new criminal law that had allowed chemical castration as a possible punishment for serial rapists, a government official said on Friday, reports Reuters. "W...
-- 2021-11-19 16:28:04
Britain will proscribe Palestinian militant group Hamas as a terrorist organisation, according to British media reports on Friday. The Guardian said the organisation will be proscribed under the Terr...
-- 2021-11-19 15:40:42
The Philippines has approved a plan to allow entry soon to foreign tourists vaccinated against COVID-19, its tourism ministry said on Friday, following moves by other Southeast Asian countries to rela...
-- 2021-11-19 11:14:48
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday he had decided to repeal three controversial farm laws against which farmers have protested for more than a year, a significant climbdown by the gove...
-- 2021-11-18 19:24:09
The Philippines on Thursday condemned 'in strongest terms' the actions of three Chinese coast guard vessels that it said blocked and used water cannon on resupply boats headed towards a Philippine-occ...
-- 2021-11-18 19:12:29
A Chinese professor at the University of Copenhagen conducted genetic research with the Chinese military without disclosing the connection, the university told Reuters, in the latest example of how Ch...
-- 2021-11-18 16:50:41
A Hong Kong clothing chain popular with democracy supporters said on Thursday it will shut its stores by the end of 2022, citing landlords' reluctance to renew leases and complaints leading to investi...
-- 2021-11-18 14:16:41
In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, a justice min...
-- 2021-11-18 11:09:54
The UN envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday delivered a bleak assessment of the situation following the Taliban takeover, saying that an affiliate of the Islamic State group has grown and now appears pre...
-- 2021-11-18 10:30:26
Melbourne's pubs and cafes can have unlimited patrons from Thursday night, while stadiums can return to full capacity as authorities lifted nearly all remaining Covid-19 restrictions for the vaccinate...
-- 2021-11-17 21:19:19
Two explosions hit the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding at least six, including three women, Taliban officials and residents said. One car bomb blast in Das...
-- 2021-11-17 14:02:28
India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air pollution, according to an order from the federal environment ministry pa...
-- 2021-11-16 21:51:59
The West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution against the Centre's move to extend the BSF’s (Border Security Force) jurisdiction to 50 km from the international border in the state. T...
-- 2021-11-16 20:23:24
The son of late Philippines strongman Ferdinand Marcos has emerged as the person to beat in the 2022 presidential race, after President Rodrigo Duterte's popular daughter decided not to contest the...
-- 2021-11-16 12:14:20
Myanmar's military has told the BBC that authorities are not mistreating ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The 76-year-old former leader has not been seen in public since a February mil...
-- 2021-11-15 21:12:44
Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a group of expatriates including doctors, clerics and academics, becoming the second Gulf Arab state to introduce a formal naturalisation programme for foreigne...
-- 2021-11-15 21:09:55
Saudi Arabia has announced the establishment of the first non-profit city in the world named after its crown prince. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the announcement on Sun...
-- 2021-11-15 17:36:18
India's Supreme Court told authorities on Monday to shut offices in the capital and nearby cities, allowing millions to work from home as officials seek ways to reduce hazardous air pollution that led...
-- 2021-11-15 16:34:34
American journalist Danny Fenster is out of prison in Myanmar, his employer said on Monday, just three days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail for incitement and breaches of immigration and te...
-- 2021-11-15 14:30:18
China is battling the spread of its biggest COVID-19 outbreak caused by the Delta variant, according to numbers announced on Monday, with travellers from a city where infections have grown faster than...
-- 2021-11-15 13:09:11
Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military cooperation agency, Reuters...
-- 2021-11-15 12:26:57
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to use his first virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden to warn the United States to "step back" on the Taiwan issue, according to Chinese state media edi...
-- 2021-11-14 20:38:44
Police in India's western state of Maharashtra have killed at least 26 Maoist militants, including a top leader, in an ambush operation in dense forest, a top government official said on Sunday. The...
-- 2021-11-14 19:04:05
At least 26 armed rebels called Naxals were killed by the Indian police in Korchi forest of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra province, said a top police official late Saturday. "We have recovered t...
-- 2021-11-14 18:01:57
Sky obscured by thick, gray smog. Monuments and high-rise buildings swallowed by a blanket of haze. People struggling to breathe. In the Indian capital, it is that time of the year again. The New De...
-- 2021-11-14 10:49:34
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken not to "send wrong signals" to Taiwan pro-independence forces, China's foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, Reute...
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