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Hong Kong identifies 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine as virus cases surge

Hong Kong identifies 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine as virus cases surge

-- 2022-02-18 13:56:36

Hong Kong has identified more than 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine accommodation, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as property developers piled in to show support as the global financial hub battle...

Australia's biggest cities ease more Covid restrictions ahead of border reopening

Australia's biggest cities ease more Covid restrictions ahead of border reopening

-- 2022-02-18 11:54:08

Singing and dancing will resume in nightclubs in Sydney and Melbourne from Friday, while most mandatory check-ins have been scrapped as officials lifted nearly all COVID-19 curbs in Australia's bigges...

Shelling in Ukraine renews western fears of invasion as Russia expels US diplomat

Shelling in Ukraine renews western fears of invasion as Russia expels US diplomat

-- 2022-02-18 09:10:11

Shelling in Ukraine on Thursday renewed Western fears of an imminent Russian invasion as US President Joe Biden said Moscow is preparing a pretext to justify a possible attack and the Kremlin expelled...

Moscow says troop pullback takes time, in rebuff of US scepticism

Moscow says troop pullback takes time, in rebuff of US scepticism

-- 2022-02-17 19:57:56

The Kremlin on Thursday rejected what it called "unfounded accusations" by the United States and NATO that it was not withdrawing its forces from near Russia's border with Ukraine, saying it takes tim...

Beijing Olympics get political with Taiwan, Uyghur questions

Beijing Olympics get political with Taiwan, Uyghur questions

-- 2022-02-17 17:06:07

For two weeks and more, China's stance on questions about its politics and policies has been straightforward: It's the Olympics, and we're not talking about these things. That changed Thursday at the...

France to begin military withdrawal from Mali, prepare new plan to fight militants

France to begin military withdrawal from Mali, prepare new plan to fight militants

-- 2022-02-17 15:18:48

France and its European partners fighting Islamist militants in Mali will start their military withdrawal from the country and will put together by June a plan on how they will continue their operatio...

China expresses serious concerns regarding India’s ban of Chinese apps

China expresses serious concerns regarding India’s ban of Chinese apps

-- 2022-02-17 14:22:37

China on Thursday expressed serious concerns regarding India's ban of Chinese apps over security reasons, adding that it hopes India would treat all foreign investors, including Chinese firms, in a tr...

Russian military activity near Ukraine remains heightened: US satellite firm

Russian military activity near Ukraine remains heightened: US satellite firm

-- 2022-02-17 14:16:42

Satellite images show Russia has pulled back some military equipment from near Ukraine, but that other hardware has arrived and that Russia still has a lot of forces and equipment near its ex-Soviet n...

13 die as wedding celebrations turn tragic in India’s Uttar Pradesh

13 die as wedding celebrations turn tragic in India’s Uttar Pradesh

-- 2022-02-17 12:17:30

At least 13 people, including seven women and six girls, have died after accidentally falling into a well during wedding celebrations at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district. The women we...

Job ad for 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia attracts 28,000 applicants

Job ad for 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia attracts 28,000 applicants

-- 2022-02-17 11:13:56

A job advert to recruit 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia has attracted 28,000 applicants, highlighting the scale of pent up demand as the conservative kingdom opens up more opportunities to wom...

Heavy rains, flooding kill at least 94 in Brazil

Heavy rains, flooding kill at least 94 in Brazil

-- 2022-02-17 11:11:33

At least 94 people died in the historic Brazilian mountain town of Petropolis, local government officials said on Wednesday, after heavy rains caused mudslides that buried homes, flooded the streets a...

Beaches in Sydney close after first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years

Beaches in Sydney close after first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years

-- 2022-02-17 10:57:43

Several beaches in Sydney, including the iconic Bondi and Bronte, were shut down on Thursday after a swimmer was killed in a shark attack, the first such fatality at the city's beaches in nearly 60 ye...

Decision on Iran nuclear deal just days away, France says

Decision on Iran nuclear deal just days away, France says

-- 2022-02-17 10:46:48

France on Wednesday said a decision on salvaging Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers was just days away and that it was now up to Tehran to make the political choice while Tehran called on West...

West warns Russia's military build-up near Ukraine is growing, not shrinking

West warns Russia's military build-up near Ukraine is growing, not shrinking

-- 2022-02-17 08:56:20

There is a growing Russian military presence at Ukraine's borders, Western countries warned on Wednesday, as Estonia said battle groups were moving ahead of a likely attack to occupy "key terrain," co...

Lithuania’s banks face threats of cyber-attacks amid geopolitical tension

Lithuania’s banks face threats of cyber-attacks amid geopolitical tension

-- 2022-02-16 19:31:41

Lithuania's central bank has told the country's banks to prepare for power cuts and cyberattacks as Russia's standoff with Ukraine risks spilling over into a military conflict, according to a document...

Heavy rain leaves at least 34 dead in mountainous region of Brazil

Heavy rain leaves at least 34 dead in mountainous region of Brazil

-- 2022-02-16 19:14:25

At least 34 people died after heavy rain hit Petropolis, a city in the mountainous region of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, the local government said on Wednesday. City streets were flooded by downpo...

Singapore streamlines border measures for all travellers

Singapore streamlines border measures for all travellers

-- 2022-02-16 18:47:51

Singapore will expand quarantine-free travel to Hong Kong, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this month, its health ministry of the country said on Wednesday, resuming border reopening...

"We fear no one:" Ukrainians raise flags to defy Russia invasion fear

"We fear no one:" Ukrainians raise flags to defy Russia invasion fear

-- 2022-02-16 17:28:31

Ukrainians raised national flags and played the country's anthem on Wednesday to show unity against fears of a Russian invasion that Western powers have said could be imminent.The yellow and blue bann...

Schools reopen in India's Karnataka amid hijab row

Schools reopen in India's Karnataka amid hijab row

-- 2022-02-16 13:25:09

Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head coveri...

Biden urges Putin to step back from the brink of war with Ukraine

Biden urges Putin to step back from the brink of war with Ukraine

-- 2022-02-16 11:05:38

US President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the "needless death and destruction" Mo...

Pakistan to allow India to send wheat, medicine to Afghanistan by road

Pakistan to allow India to send wheat, medicine to Afghanistan by road

-- 2022-02-15 21:36:39

Pakistan will allow India to use its territory to transport 50,000 tonnes of wheat and medicine to Afghanistan, beginning this month, Pakistani customs officials said on Tuesday. The permission of su...

India bans 54 Chinese apps over security concerns

India bans 54 Chinese apps over security concerns

-- 2022-02-15 18:38:48

India has blocked access to 54 mobile apps, mainly Chinese but also including Singapore-based Sea Ltd's Free Fire game, over security concerns, government sources said on Tuesday, a day after Sea shar...

India asks its citizens to leave Ukraine as tensions flare

India asks its citizens to leave Ukraine as tensions flare

-- 2022-02-15 17:30:27

Amid heightened tensions over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, India has urged its nationals in that country to consider leaving. "In view of uncertainties of the current situation in Ukraine,...

Markets rise in Russia's partial pullback from Ukraine border

Markets rise in Russia's partial pullback from Ukraine border

-- 2022-02-15 16:51:52

Russian financial markets rose strongly on Tuesday on a report that Russia was pulling back some troops from near the Ukrainian border, as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew into Moscow for Kremlin ta...

Russia sends back some troops to base near Ukraine

Russia sends back some troops to base near Ukraine

-- 2022-02-15 16:28:38

Some troops in Russia's military districts adjacent to Ukraine are returning to their bases after completing drills, Russia's defence ministry was quoted as saying on Tuesday, according to Reuters. R...

India's hijab dispute now reaches Uttar Pradesh

India's hijab dispute now reaches Uttar Pradesh

-- 2022-02-15 14:31:01

A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a...

US moving Ukraine embassy from Kyiv to Lviv

US moving Ukraine embassy from Kyiv to Lviv

-- 2022-02-15 12:40:47

The United States is relocating its Ukraine embassy operations from the capital Kyiv to the western city of Lviv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday, citing a "dramatic acceleration in t...

Israeli PM lands in Bahrain in first visit

Israeli PM lands in Bahrain in first visit

-- 2022-02-15 09:32:05

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in Bahrain's capital Manama on Monday in the highest-level visit since the countries established relations under a 2020 US-sponsored deal based in part o...

Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests

Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests

-- 2022-02-15 09:17:27

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he will activate rarely used emergency powers, including cutting off financing, to end protests that have shut some border crossings and paralysed...

Prince Charles’ wife Camilla tested positive for Covid-19

Prince Charles’ wife Camilla tested positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-02-14 21:25:27

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall has tested positive for Covid-19 four days after her husband Prince Charles was confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, the couple’s office said Monday. Clar...