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REUTERS 2021-08-02 09:24:04
Australian officials on Monday extended a snap three-day lockdown in the city of Brisbane and some neighbouring regions while hundreds of army personnel began patrolling Sydney to help enforce Covid-1...
BBC 2021-08-01 22:47:13
Israel's PM has said he knows "with certainty" Iran was involved in a deadly tanker attack off Oman, accusations Tehran called "baseless". Two crew members died when the MV Mercer Street, operated by...
-- 2021-08-01 18:54:13
Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has taken on the role of prime minister in a newly-formed caretaker government, state media reported on Sunday, six months after the army seized power from a c...
REUTERS 2021-08-01 15:21:03
Taliban fighters struck Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan with at least three rockets overnight, the insurgent group's spokesman said on Sunday, adding that the aim was to thwart air strikes co...
-- 2021-08-01 10:20:13
Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has again promised new multi-party elections and said his government is ready to work with any special envoy named by the Association of Southeast Asian Nation...
REUTERS 2021-07-31 19:28:05
The Olympics host city Tokyo, as well as Thailand and Malaysia, announced record COVID-19 infections on Saturday, mostly driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant of the disease. Cases surged...
-- 2021-07-31 10:55:46
"Anti-government elements" in Afghanistan attacked the main UN compound in the capital of the western province of Herat on Friday and at least one security guard was killed, the UN Assistance Mission...
REUTERS 2021-07-31 10:54:22
The Serum Institute of India (SII) said on Friday it had partnered with an industry body to expand the reach of Covid-19 shots in India's countryside as it had "plenty of supply" of the AstraZeneca dr...
REUTERS 2021-07-30 19:30:00
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has urged Russia to deploy its forces along the length of Armenia's border with Azerbaijan after a rise in tensions between Yerevan and Baku. Armenia and Azerb...
-- 2021-07-30 16:44:24
New Zealand introduced on Friday legislation that proposes up to five years in prison for practices intended to change a person's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, known as LG...
-- 2021-07-30 15:41:03
Saudi Arabia will reopen its borders to tourists on Sunday for the first time in 18 months after imposing restrictions at the start of the pandemic to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reports AP.&n...
-- 2021-07-30 15:14:58
The first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law will face nine years in prison for terrorist activities and inciting secession, judges said on Friday, in a watershed ruling with lon...
REUTERS 2021-07-30 13:57:36
India reported 44,230 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, the most in three weeks, the latest evidence of a worrying trend of rising cases that has forced one state to lock down amid fears of another wave o...
-- 2021-07-30 09:27:13
Millions in Sydney began their harshest lockdown since the pandemic began on Friday as COVID-19 cases spiked to record levels in Australia's largest city with state and national leaders set to meet to...
-- 2021-07-29 12:29:25
A prominent Chinese billionaire has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, the latest in a string of punishments against outspoken corporate bosses. Sun Dawu runs one of the country's largest priv...
Reuters 2021-07-29 12:05:54
The Covid-19 Delta outbreak in Australia's biggest city Sydney grew by 239 cases on Thursday, the highest daily rise since the pandemic started, forcing authorities to increase police powers to shut d...
-- 2021-07-29 10:50:44
China's Ministry of Education said on Wednesday that it had begun implementing a campaign to stop paid after-school tutoring services provided by teachers working for public primary and middle schools...
Reuters 2021-07-29 10:47:54
More than 70 per cent of people in eight of India's large states are estimated to have Covid-19 antibodies, a government survey showed on Wednesday, suggesting that a second surge in infections affect...
-- 2021-07-28 19:13:46
Thai volunteers on Wednesday turned a cargo warehouse at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport into a 1,800-bed field hospital for COVID-19 patients with less severe symptoms, as the country deals with its bi...
-- 2021-07-28 17:25:25
Bhutan has set a new record for its nationwide coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination drive, managing to inoculate 90 per cent of its entire population with both doses of the anti-Covid shot in a...
REUTERS 2021-07-28 16:07:57
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said, a move that is likely to pr...
-- 2021-07-28 15:27:23
North and South Korea are in talks to reopen a joint liaison office that Pyongyang demolished last year and hold a summit as part of efforts to restore relations, three South Korean government sources...
Reuters 2021-07-28 13:59:02
Myanmar's military ruler is looking for greater cooperation with the international community to contain the coronavirus, state media reported on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country struggles wit...
-- 2021-07-28 13:21:17
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed 195 million as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to devastate several countries even with mass inoculations underway. The total caseload and...
-- 2021-07-28 13:18:29
South Korea on Wednesday reported 1,896 new Covid-19 cases for Tuesday, its highest-ever daily increase, as the country struggles to subdue a fourth wave of outbreaks fanned by the more contagious Del...
-- 2021-07-28 12:27:17
At least 18 people were killed after a parked bus rolled into a group of migrant workers sleeping by a roadside in Uttar Pradesh state of India after being hit by a speeding truck from behind on Wedne...
-- 2021-07-28 11:25:32
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90 per cent of its eligible adult population within just seven days, its health ministry said Tuesday. The tiny country, wedged between India and...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 22:08:43
A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a Sudanese journalist to four years in prison for social media posts critical of the kingdom, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Ahmed Ali Abdelkader, a 31-year-old m...
-- 2021-07-27 21:00:40
Saudi Arabia will impose a three-year travel ban on citizens travelling to countries on the kingdom's 'red list' under efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus and its new variants, state news agency...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 19:49:29
India will meet its target of supplying more than half a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to states by the end of this month, the health ministry said on Tuesday, but added not all doses may be administ...
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