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Alibaba's Jack Ma reappears in Hong Kong!

Alibaba's Jack Ma reappears in Hong Kong!

-- 2021-10-13 09:13:46

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, largely out of public view since a regulatory clampdown started on his business empire late last year, is currently in Hong Kong and has met business associates in...

28 killed after bus falls into gorge in Nepal

28 killed after bus falls into gorge in Nepal

-- 2021-10-12 21:53:12

At least 28 people died on Tuesday in western Nepal after the bus they were on skidded off a mountain road and fell hundreds of meters (yards) into a gorge, authorities said. The accident in the remo...

Kuwait allows women to join army

Kuwait allows women to join army

-- 2021-10-12 21:24:49

Kuwait has allowed women to register for military service, according to the Kuwait army. Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah issued on Tuesday a...

Ex-Myanmar president says army tried to force him to cede power hours before coup

Ex-Myanmar president says army tried to force him to cede power hours before coup

-- 2021-10-12 20:08:58

Myanmar's deposed president testified on Tuesday that the military tried to force him to relinquish power hours before its Feb. 1 coup, warning him he could be seriously harmed if he refused, accordin...

Kim says US, South Korea threaten peace

Kim says US, South Korea threaten peace

-- 2021-10-12 20:01:11

Standing beside North Korea's largest missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said his country's weapons development is necessary in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military buildup in...

India recommends homemade COVID-19 vaccine for kids

India recommends homemade COVID-19 vaccine for kids

-- 2021-10-12 18:03:52

India on Tuesday recommended emergency use of Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 shot in children below 12 years of age, making the vaccine maker the first in the country to get such an approval after a review...

Cyclone Kompasu leaves nine dead in Philippines

Cyclone Kompasu leaves nine dead in Philippines

-- 2021-10-12 13:16:53

Nine people have been killed in the Philippines and 11 were missing on Tuesday due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, the national disaster agency said. Komp...

Flanked by nuclear missile, North Korea’s Kim says US, S Korea threaten peace

Flanked by nuclear missile, North Korea’s Kim says US, S Korea threaten peace

-- 2021-10-12 11:16:48

Standing beside North Korea's largest missiles, leader Kim Jong Un said his country's weapons development is necessary in the face of hostile policies from the United States and a military buildup in...

Afghan minister appeals to world for good relations

Afghan minister appeals to world for good relations

-- 2021-10-12 10:59:51

Afghanistan's foreign minister appealed to the world for good relations on Monday but avoided making firm commitments on girls' education despite international demands to allow all Afghan children to...

New Zealand seeks to ramp up Covid vaccinations amid persistent cases

New Zealand seeks to ramp up Covid vaccinations amid persistent cases

-- 2021-10-12 10:38:42

New Zealand expects to administer a record 100,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses in a single day during a mass immunisation drive on October 16, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, as she seeks to accelerate...

India, China military talks to address border tensions fail

India, China military talks to address border tensions fail

-- 2021-10-11 18:35:49

Talks between Indian and Chinese army commanders to disengage troops from key friction areas along their border have ended in a stalemate, according to a report published by Al Jazeera on Monday. &ld...

Sydney reopens as Australia looks to live with Covid-19

Sydney reopens as Australia looks to live with Covid-19

-- 2021-10-11 12:52:07

Sydney's cafes, gyms and restaurants welcomed back fully vaccinated customers on Monday after nearly four months of lockdown, as Australia aims to begin living with the coronavirus and gradually reope...

India to grant no visas for tourists to travel by land

India to grant no visas for tourists to travel by land

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-11 12:14:00

No visas will be granted to foreigners to travel through land borders. They can enter India either through "water routes or by flights", states the new visa guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home A...

Migrants in Libya fearful, angry after crackdown, killings

Migrants in Libya fearful, angry after crackdown, killings

-- 2021-10-11 09:52:15

Hundreds of migrants and refugees waited outside a United Nations centre in Tripoli on Sunday to seek help in escaping Libya after what aid groups called a violent crackdown in which thousands were ar...

Malaysia lifts travel restrictions for fully vaccinated people

Malaysia lifts travel restrictions for fully vaccinated people

-- 2021-10-10 22:38:52

Malaysia on Sunday lifted interstate and international travel restrictions for residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as the country achieved its target of inoculating 90 per cent of its adult p...

Lebanon restores power supply after a complete blackout

Lebanon restores power supply after a complete blackout

-- 2021-10-10 21:52:05

Lebanon's power supplies were back to normal on Sunday after a blackout the previous day when the country's two biggest power stations shut down because of a fuel shortage. The closure piled further...

Taiwan won't be forced to bow to China, president says

Taiwan won't be forced to bow to China, president says

-- 2021-10-10 21:24:35

Taiwan will keep bolstering its defences to ensure nobody can force them to accept the path China has laid down that offers neither freedom nor democracy, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday, in a r...

‘Father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme’ Abdul Qadeer Khan dies

‘Father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme’ Abdul Qadeer Khan dies

-- 2021-10-10 19:26:51

Abdul Qadeer Khan, lionised at home as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, died on Sunday at age 85. The nuclear scientist was admitted to Khan Research Laboratories Hospital on Aug. 26...

Iraqis vote in general elections

Iraqis vote in general elections

-- 2021-10-10 11:37:51

Iraqis voted on Sunday in a general election many said they would boycott, having lost faith in the democratic system brought in by the US invasion of 2003, reports Reuters. The election is being hel...

China's Xi vows 'reunification' with Taiwan

China's Xi vows 'reunification' with Taiwan

-- 2021-10-10 10:58:07

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to achieve "peaceful reunification" with Taiwan, and did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island t...

Hundreds detained in security crackdown in Kashmir, police say

Hundreds detained in security crackdown in Kashmir, police say

-- 2021-10-10 10:54:52

Security forces in Indian Kashmir have detained more than 300 people for questioning in recent days as they try to stem a wave of targeted killings that has spread panic among minority groups, two pol...

Battle-hardened Taliban fighters enjoy a day off at amusement park

Battle-hardened Taliban fighters enjoy a day off at amusement park

-- 2021-10-09 19:51:45

Strolling casually with their machine guns in hand, Halimi and hundreds of fellow Taliban fighters enjoyed a rare day off with a visit to a popular waterside amusement park in Kabul. Friday's day tri...

Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris

Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr dies in Paris

-- 2021-10-09 17:36:55

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran's first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, died on Saturday aged 88. He died at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in P...

Chinese president vows peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan

Chinese president vows peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan

-- 2021-10-09 16:14:45

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realise peaceful "reunification" with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed islan...

Drone attacks in Saudi airport leave 10 injured, including three Bangladeshis

Drone attacks in Saudi airport leave 10 injured, including three Bangladeshis

-- 2021-10-09 11:15:49

Ten people were injured in two explosives-laden drone attacks at King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan late on Friday and early on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition said. The mili...

Hindus fearful in Indian Kashmir after wave of assassinations

Hindus fearful in Indian Kashmir after wave of assassinations

-- 2021-10-09 10:32:42

Small groups of militants armed with pistols have carried out a spate of targeted killings in Indian Kashmir, sowing fear among some minority communities, according to security officials and residents...

Suicide bomber kills at least 46, injures 140 at Afghan mosque

Suicide bomber kills at least 46, injures 140 at Afghan mosque

-- 2021-10-08 20:29:31

A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing 46 people and wounding more than 140 others. Video footage showed bodies surrounded by debris insid...

Call Taiwan a country, French senator says, angering China

Call Taiwan a country, French senator says, angering China

-- 2021-10-08 19:48:51

Taiwan should be called a country, a senior French senator said on Friday during a visit to Taipei, doubling down on earlier comments that have angered Beijing, which views the island as one of its pr...

Blast hits mosque in northeastern Afghanistan causing multiple deaths

Blast hits mosque in northeastern Afghanistan causing multiple deaths

-- 2021-10-08 18:42:12

A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunduz on Friday, a Taliban official said, causing multiple deaths. "This afternoon, an explosion took place in a mosque of our...

US electronics firm struck deal with Xinjiang authorities to transport, hire Uyghur workers

US electronics firm struck deal with Xinjiang authorities to transport, hire Uyghur workers

-- 2021-10-08 10:08:59

US remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc told Reuters it struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport hundreds of Uyghur workers to its plant in the southern Chinese city of Q...