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Afghanistan wants friendly relations with international community, said acting FM

Afghanistan wants friendly relations with international community, said acting FM

-- 2021-09-23 18:54:50

The acting foreign minister of the newly-formed administration of Afghanistan said Thursday that the country wants to have friendly relations with the international community, including the neighbouri...

Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest: UN expert

Myanmar junta abducting children of people targeted for arrest: UN expert

-- 2021-09-23 17:30:12

Myanmar’s military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including children as young as 20 weeks old, according the UN special rapporteur for the cou...

Myanmar town near India border sees exodus

Myanmar town near India border sees exodus

-- 2021-09-22 15:24:30

Most of the population of a Myanmar town near the Indian border have fled after buildings were set ablaze by artillery amid fighting between militia forces opposed to military...

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Melbourne, tremors jolt southeast Australia

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits Melbourne, tremors jolt southeast Australia

-- 2021-09-22 09:03:13

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second-largest cit...

Taliban names Afghan UN ambassador, asks to speak to world leaders

Taliban names Afghan UN ambassador, asks to speak to world leaders

-- 2021-09-22 08:57:35

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a let...

India to resume vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours next quarter

India to resume vaccine exports to COVAX, neighbours next quarter

-- 2021-09-20 18:47:21

India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines in the October to December quarter, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, the health...

Afghan activists protest outside shuttered women affairs ministry

Afghan activists protest outside shuttered women affairs ministry

-- 2021-09-19 23:13:30

About two dozen women activists protested outside Afghanistan's women's ministry on Sunday after it was closed by Taliban militants in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry for Promotion of Vi...

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

Taiwan threatens to take China to WTO in new spat over fruit

-- 2021-09-19 17:33:51

Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns, in the latest spat bet...

Former Malaysia PM Najib likely to seek re-election to parliament despite conviction

Former Malaysia PM Najib likely to seek re-election to parliament despite conviction

-- 2021-09-19 12:45:54

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, undeterred by a corruption conviction that w...

Yemen Houthi rebels execute nine over senior official’s killing

Yemen Houthi rebels execute nine over senior official’s killing

-- 2021-09-19 12:26:41

Yemen’s Houthi rebels executed on Saturday nine people they said were involved in the killing of a senior rebel official in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition more than three years ago. Th...

Israel forces capture last two escaped Palestinian militants

Israel forces capture last two escaped Palestinian militants

-- 2021-09-19 11:43:44

Israeli forces on Sunday caught the last two of six Palestinian militants who tunnelled out of a maximum security Israeli jail nearly two weeks ago, in an escape that embarrassed Israel's security est...

Some Afghan girls return to primary schools, others face anxious wait

Some Afghan girls return to primary schools, others face anxious wait

-- 2021-09-18 22:12:17

Some Afghan girls returned to primary schools with gender-segregated classes on Saturday, but older girls faced an anxious wait with no clarity over if and when they would be able to resume their stud...

Blasts target Taliban vehicles in Afghan city, three dead

Blasts target Taliban vehicles in Afghan city, three dead

-- 2021-09-18 21:42:35

At least three people were killed and about 20 were wounded in a series of blasts in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, two sources in the city said. The fatalities occurred during a s...

Punjab's chief minister quits ahead of Indian state elections

Punjab's chief minister quits ahead of Indian state elections

-- 2021-09-18 20:55:40

The chief minister of Punjab, an Indian state on its northwest border with Pakistan, resigned on Saturday, deepening a crisis within the main opposition Congress party ahead of state elections schedul...

Babul Supriyo joins Trinamool months after being dropped from Modi cabinet

Babul Supriyo joins Trinamool months after being dropped from Modi cabinet

-- 2021-09-18 19:10:56

Indian lawmaker from ruling BJP Babul Supriyo has joined West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped the celebrity singer-turned-politician fro...

Hundreds detained in Australian anti-lockdown protests

Hundreds detained in Australian anti-lockdown protests

-- 2021-09-18 18:55:41

Australia’s police have arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters, reports...

Abu Dhabi removes test rule for other emirates

Abu Dhabi removes test rule for other emirates

-- 2021-09-18 18:41:42

The capital of the United Arab Emirates has ended a policy requiring those coming in from other emirates to have a recent negative coronavirus test. Abu Dhabi made the announcement Saturday, saying t...

Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them

Taliban replace ministry for women with one restricting them

-- 2021-09-18 18:04:33

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the "propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank st...

Japan won't raise sales tax for a decade, PM contender Kishida says

Japan won't raise sales tax for a decade, PM contender Kishida says

-- 2021-09-18 14:44:34

Japan will not raise the sales tax for about a decade as imposing a higher levy on households at this time would cripple the pandemic-hit economy, Fumio Kishida, a key contender running in the ruling...

Vietnam approves Cuba's Abdala vaccine

Vietnam approves Cuba's Abdala vaccine

-- 2021-09-18 12:27:36

Vietnam has approved Cuba's Abdala vaccine for use against the new coronavirus, the government said on Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country is battling its worst outbreak....

Primary schools in Singapore to shift online as Covid cases surge

Primary schools in Singapore to shift online as Covid cases surge

-- 2021-09-18 11:33:27

Singapore's primary schools will shift to home-based learning for 10 days ahead of a key national examination, the education ministry said on Saturday, as the country reported 935 new COVID-19 cases t...

Drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, US says

Drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, US says

-- 2021-09-18 10:15:04

A drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, the US military said on Friday, apologising for what it called a "tragic mistake". The Pentagon had said t...

IMF chief in spotlight after China rigging report

IMF chief in spotlight after China rigging report

-- 2021-09-17 21:46:17

The International Monetary Fund's ethics committee and board need to look into a report alleging its chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to boost China's ranking in a flagship report while at t...

China formally applies to join Pacific trade pact to boost economic clout

China formally applies to join Pacific trade pact to boost economic clout

-- 2021-09-17 21:33:36

China formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with an aim to boost economic clout Japan, the CPTPP's chair this year, said it would...

Taliban say boys' schools to reopen, no mention of girls

Taliban say boys' schools to reopen, no mention of girls

-- 2021-09-17 21:16:34

Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes. More than a...

US, Australia call for inclusive dialogue in Myanmar

US, Australia call for inclusive dialogue in Myanmar

-- 2021-09-17 20:21:39

The US and Australia have called for a swift return to democracy, inclusive dialogue between all parties, and immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access in Myanmar. "The secretaries and ministers rema...

Singapore to ensure improved living conditions for migrant workers

Singapore to ensure improved living conditions for migrant workers

-- 2021-09-17 18:16:56

Singapore announced on Friday new standards for migrant worker dormitories, with the aim of reducing the risk of transmission of infectious diseases and improving living conditions after the facilitie...

India tells China that border troop pullback a must for better ties

India tells China that border troop pullback a must for better ties

-- 2021-09-17 14:49:13

India has told China that their bilateral relations will only develop when both countries pull their troops back from a confrontation on their disputed Himalayan border, the Indian foreign minister sa...

Hundreds of Iraqi women run for parliament

Hundreds of Iraqi women run for parliament

-- 2021-09-17 08:29:43

A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad, Reute...

China fumes over US nuclear sub pact with Britain, Australia

China fumes over US nuclear sub pact with Britain, Australia

REUTERS 2021-09-16 21:08:56

China on Thursday denounced a new Indo-Pacific security alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia, saying such partnerships should not target third countries and warning of an intensif...