Reuters 2021-06-14 10:53:26
Benjamin Netanyahu’s record 12-year run as Israel’s prime minister ended on Sunday with parliament approving a new “government of change” led by nationalist Naftali Bennett, an...
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Group of Seven leaders on Sunday scolded China over human rights in Xinjiang, called for Hong Kong to keep a high degree of autonomy and demanded a full and thorough investigation of the origins of th...
Reuters 2021-06-13 17:07:32
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's record 12-year hold on power was set to end on Sunday when parliament votes on a new government, ushering in an administration that has pledged to heal a na...
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said his country will provide $200 million in aid through next year for equitable access of COVID-19 vaccines in lower-income countries. President Moon, during...
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will donate at least 100 million surplus coronavirus vaccine doses within the next year, including 5.0 million beginning in the coming we...
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At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources and Turkey's government said. The first at...
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Myanmar's junta on Saturday accused some of the country's two dozen ethnic armed groups of providing training to its opponents to carry out a wave of bombings that it said had targeted public building...
REUTERS 2021-06-13 09:03:54
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italy's Prime Mi...
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Saudi Arabia says this year's hajj pilgrimage will be limited to no more than 60,000 people, all of them from within the kingdom, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reports AP. The kingdom mad...
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Indian villagers have erected a shrine to "goddess corona" and are offering her prayers in the hope that divine intervention can banish the deadly virus. Devotees in Shuklapur village, in the norther...
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A commercial lobsterman has described a highly unusual encounter, saying he thought he was going to die when he was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on Fri...
Reuters 2021-06-12 13:46:41
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with NBC News ahead of his meeting with US President Joe Biden next week, said US-Russia relations are at their lowest point in years. Putin and Bide...
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday of that violence in Myanmar is intensifying and condemned the army's "outrageous" use of heavy weapons, while urging a wider diplom...
Reuters 2021-06-12 13:06:09
As India rushes to vaccinate its people against the coronavirus, medical workers often have to trek to perilous heights and across treacherous terrain to reach those in remote areas. In the northern...
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A bus crammed with pilgrims coming back from a religious festival crashed in southwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 20 and leaving 10 others critically injured, officials and a hospital doctor...
Reuters 2021-06-11 14:00:58
New Zealand Muslims objected on Friday to a plan for a film about the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in which a gunman killed 51 people, saying the attack was still too raw for grieving families a...
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The US Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s nomination of Zahid Quraishi, a magistrate judge in New Jersey, to the federal bench, making him the first Muslim federal judge in US history. T...
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Amid the emergence of new variants and efforts to achieve vaccine equality, the global Covid-19 caseload has crossed the 174-million mark. The global case count and fatalities stand at 174,766,343 an...
REUTERS 2021-06-11 09:09:41
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson expects the Group of Seven to agree to donate 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries during its summit starting on Friday, and help inoculate the wor...
REUTERS 2021-06-10 19:07:22
Police in rural India have made some citizens, who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, wear signs with a skull and crossbones, the universal symbol for danger, stoking anger in a country...
REUTERS 2021-06-10 18:59:37
Thousands of people fleeing the junta's crackdown in Myanmar have crossed into India's far-flung eastern states, leading to worries among officials there that the region could become a staging post fo...
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The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has voiced grave concern about the decision of the British government to reduce funding to the agency. "We depend on these resources to sustain our humanitarian and de...
Reuters 2021-06-10 14:04:40
Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said it was subjected to continual hacking attempts over recent days but the cyber attack on Qatar's flagship broadcaster had been fended off. Al Jazeera's websi...
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Eighteen people were killed in a road crash involving two commercial buses in Nigeria's northern state of Jigawa on Wednesday, the police said. Eighteen people were killed on the spot as the two buse...
Reuters 2021-06-10 12:50:12
Police in China arrested over 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent crackdown, the Ministry of Public Security said...
-- 2021-06-10 12:29:58
A military plane crashed in Myanmar's Mandalay region due to severe weather on Thursday morning, a military spokesperson said. With 14 people on board, the military plane travelling from the capital...
Reuters 2021-06-10 11:43:34
India reported on Thursday the highest single-day death toll from Covid-19 in the world, at 6,148, after a big eastern state revised its figures to account for people who succumbed to the disease at h...
-- 2021-06-10 11:23:45
New corruption cases have been opened against Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other former officials from her government, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar said on Thursday. The...
REUTERS 2021-06-10 11:21:54
President Joe Biden on Wednesday began his first trip abroad since taking office by hailing America's unwavering commitment to the NATO alliance and warning Russia it faced "robust and meaningful" con...
-- 2021-06-10 09:16:26
Eleven people were killed and at least seven others were injured after a double-storey residential building collapsed on another structure at a slum in Mumbai's Malad late on Wednesday night, bdnews24...
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