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AP 2021-07-27 17:06:58
Tokyo reported its highest number of new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, days after the Olympics began. The Japanese capital reported 2,848 new COVID-19 cases, exceeding the earlier record of 2,52...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 16:30:15
The first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law was found guilty on Tuesday of terrorism and inciting secession in a landmark case with long-term implications for how the legislation...
-- 2021-07-27 11:10:47
Australia’s Victoria state said on Tuesday it will lift a strict lockdown after curtailing the spread of COVID-19, while neighbouring New South Wales faces an extension of restrictions after dai...
-- 2021-07-27 10:42:07
The ruling party of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has won a majority of seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's regional assembly, the head of the election commission announced on Monday. Ana...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 10:12:49
South and North Korea have restored their once-severed hotlines as part of efforts by the two countries' leaders to rebuild strained ties, Seoul's presidential Blue House said on Tuesday. South Korea...
Reuters 2021-07-27 08:55:21
At least 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the central Mediterranean, the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) sai...
REUTERS 2021-07-27 08:38:15
US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi have sealed an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021. The Democratic president is completing US...
-- 2021-07-26 20:21:17
Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced the resumption of Umrah service for pilgrims abroad from August 10 following a successful Hajj season. Umrah for Saudis and expatriate residents in the Kingdom restar...
-- 2021-07-26 19:43:24
Rescue teams in India were digging through thick sludge and debris on Monday to find over 60 people trapped in landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains that have so far claimed more than 160 live...
Reuters 2021-07-26 15:07:23
Thailand reported a record number of coronavirus cases on Monday, while Malaysia has notched up more than 1 million infections, as the virulent Delta variant carves a deadly path through Southeast Asi...
Reuters 2021-07-26 13:30:34
Nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians were killed or injured in May and June as fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan security forces escalated, the highest number for those two months since records...
Reuters 2021-07-26 10:34:56
China’s private education firms are bracing for a “material” hit to their operations after Beijing announced new rules barring for-profit tutoring in core school subjects to ease fin...
-- 2021-07-26 10:13:37
China accused the United States of creating an "imaginary enemy", adding that it was unqualified to level criticism on human rights at a meeting on Monday with the second-ranking US diplomat. The Uni...
-- 2021-07-26 09:54:27
At least nine people were killed by a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday as boulders fell and hit the vehicle they were travelling in, news agency ANI reported. The...
REUTERS 2021-07-25 19:28:51
Two Israeli carriers on Sunday launched nonstop commercial flights to Marrakesh from Tel Aviv following the upgrading of diplomatic relations last year between Morocco and Israel. Israel and Morocco...
-- 2021-07-25 15:40:21
Typhoon In-fa hit China’s east coast south of Shanghai on Sunday, after airline flights and trains were cancelled and the public was ordered to stay indoors. The typhoon made landfall in Zhoush...
-- 2021-07-25 12:20:00
Sydney will get 50,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week to battle its worsening COVID outbreak, Canberra said on Saturday, reversing a rebuff by the Australian government and other states th...
-- 2021-07-25 10:44:27
The Afghan government imposed a curfew across almost all of the country on Saturday in an attempt to stop the Taliban from invading cities, BBC News reports. Aside from the capital Kabul and two ot...
-- 2021-07-24 12:23:01
Indonesia is suffering a devastating wave of coronavirus infections, driven by the Delta variant, but the government is already talking about relaxing social curbs enacted earlier this month - a move...
REUTERS 2021-07-24 11:37:04
US President Joe Biden on Friday authorised up to $100 million from an emergency fund to meet "unexpected urgent" refugee needs stemming from the situation in Afghanistan, including for Afghan special...
REUTERS 2021-07-23 17:55:11
At least 67 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said on Friday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds...
Reuters 2021-07-23 14:51:40
At least 18 people have died in the western Indian state of Maharashtra after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooding that submerged low lying areas and cut off hundreds of villages, a...
-- 2021-07-23 13:15:11
Pakistan has confirmed 1,425 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, leading the country's tally to cross the 1-million mark, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said Friday morning....
Reuters 2021-07-23 11:14:09
India reported on Friday 35,342 new Covid-19 cases, the federal health ministry said. The country's tally of infections now stands at 31.26 million, health ministry data showed.
-- 2021-07-23 10:35:51
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surged past the grim milestone of 192 million as the highly contagious Delta variant is spreading like wildfire in several countries even with mass inoculations un...
REUTERS 2021-07-22 20:10:52
British supermarkets said on Thursday that some products were in short supply and petrol stations had been forced to close after the official health app told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolat...
Reuters 2021-07-22 15:01:59
Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to assess growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, Israeli sources said on Wednesday. One so...
-- 2021-07-22 13:18:54
China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a...
Reuters 2021-07-22 11:36:56
Taliban insurgents control about half of Afghanistan's district centres, the senior US general said on Wednesday, indicating a rapidly deteriorating security situation. Insecurity has been growing in...
-- 2021-07-22 09:52:19
Indian farmers, protesting over three new farm laws they say threaten their livelihoods, will start a sit-in near parliament in the centre of the capital New Delhi in a renewed push to pressure the go...
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