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Israel’s Netanyahu faces final curtain after record run

REUTERS 2021-06-01 17:57:17

Long the familiar face of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has held on as prime minister for more than a decade, clinging to power through a criminal indictment and four elections in the past two years alon...

ASEAN leaders plan Myanmar visit amid divisions on how to respond coup

REUTERS 2021-06-01 17:41:46

The chair and secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plan to travel to Myanmar this week even as the 10-nation bloc remains divided on how to respond to the military c...

Myanmar army fails to quell protests four months after coup

-- 2021-06-01 14:51:28

Myanmar pro-democracy supporters took to the streets on Tuesday in several districts, as fighting between the army and anti-junta militias raged in border areas, four months after the military ousted...

Chinese blogger jailed for 'slandering' soldiers who died in border clash

-- 2021-06-01 13:40:30

A blogger who made comments about Chinese soldiers who died in a Himalayan border clash with Indian troops last year has been sentenced to eight months in jail. Qiu Ziming, (38), was found guilty...

Saudi Arabia's mosques asked to reduce volume of loudspeakers

-- 2021-06-01 12:01:57

Saudi Arabia's Islamic Affairs minister on Monday defended an order to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers, saying families had been complaining that competing speakers were keeping their children...

First human case of H10N3 bird flu reported in China

-- 2021-06-01 11:59:41

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, China's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tue...

Opponents resist Covid vaccine patent waiver despite US backing

Reuters 2021-06-01 11:38:05

A deal on an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was no closer to acceptance on Monday despite Washington's backing, due to expected scepticism abo...

China ends strict two-child policy amid concerns over population decline

-- 2021-05-31 14:07:48

China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy. According to state media outlet Xinhua, the change was approved by P...

North Korea slams end to US guidelines limiting South Korea missile range

REUTERS 2021-05-31 12:49:03

North Korea's state media on Monday criticised the recent termination of a pact between the United States and South Korea that capped the development of South Korea's ballistic missiles, calling it a...

Turkey kills 1,162 PKK terrorist in 2021

-- 2021-05-31 12:04:40

Turkish security forces have killed 1,162 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in 181 operations within the country and outside its borders in 2021, the defense ministry said Sunday....

Gunmen kidnap students from Islamic school in Niger state

-- 2021-05-31 11:49:26

Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria - the latest in a series of such attacks on schools. Authorities in Niger state confirmed to the BBC t...

India's Serum to raise AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine output

Reuters 2021-05-31 11:09:37

The Serum institute of India will raise production of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to about 90 million doses in June from about 65 million a month now, a company spokesman told Reuters on Monday.

US security agency spied on Merkel

REUTERS 2021-05-31 10:42:18

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has used a partnership with Denmark's foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a...

Global coronavirus cases cross 170 million mark

-- 2021-05-31 10:22:00

With the new variants of Covid-19 spreading faster than ever before in several nations, the global corona cases have now topped 170 million. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total cas...

Egyptian court postpones hearing in Suez container ship compensation case

Reuters 2021-05-31 09:49:17

An Egyptian court on Saturday postponed a hearing in a compensation case filed by the Suez Canal authority against the owners of a container ship that blocked the canal for six days in March, giving t...

First blind Chinese mountaineer climbs world’s tallest peak

-- 2021-05-30 15:02:24

The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has scaled the tallest peak in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. "No matter if...

UK PM Johnson marries fiancee in wedding secret ceremony, reports say

-- 2021-05-30 10:10:54

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral, it has been reported. The wedding was held in front of close friends and family...

Roadside bomb kills three university teachers in Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-05-29 22:33:13

A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying university staff in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three teachers and wounding 15 others, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Charikar, t...

More than 200 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

AP 2021-05-29 22:22:33

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada's largest Indigenous residential school - one of the institutions that held chil...

Malaysia reports record coronavirus cases, deaths

REUTERS 2021-05-29 19:55:15

Malaysia reported 9,020 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic and the fifth straight day of record new infections. The health ministry also reporte...

Russia approves new route for Air France flights to Moscow

REUTERS 2021-05-29 18:51:03

Russia has approved a new route for Air France flights between Paris and Moscow avoiding Belarusian airspace, initially just for this weekend, a spokesman for the French airline said on Saturday. The...

Vietnam detects new coronavirus variant - a hybrid of Indian and UK ones

Reuters 2021-05-29 12:05:05

Vietnam health minister Nguyen Thanh Long said on Saturday the country has detected a new variant of the coronavirus, a mix of the Indian and UK Covid-19 variants that spreads quickly by air, online n...

Erdogan inaugurates controversial Taksim Square mosque in Istanbul

-- 2021-05-29 11:37:51

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inaugurated a mosque in Taksim Square, Istanbul - the plans for which sparked a wave of protests in 2013. Thousands attended the ceremony, with some pra...

UN agrees to launch probe into alleged crimes during Israel-Palestine conflict

REUTERS 2021-05-28 17:19:08

The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Thursday to launch an international investigation into alleged crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas...

Nine Southeast Asian countries do not want arms embargo on Myanmar

REUTERS 2021-05-28 16:53:55

Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar. A Benar News report, by the affiliate of the US-funded Radio Free Asia, quoted a Liechte...

Two Bengaluru rape suspects shot in escape bid

-- 2021-05-28 16:04:11

Two of the six people arrested in the Bengaluru rape and assault case were shot in the leg on Friday when they allegedly tried to escape from the crime scene. Police took the suspects to the spot at...

South Asia surpasses 30 million Covid cases

Reuters 2021-05-28 14:58:24

Coronavirus infections in the South Asia region surpassed 30 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, led by India which is struggling with a second Covid-19 wave and a vaccin...

Bill and Melinda Gates explore changes in structure of foundation

Reuters 2021-05-28 11:35:47

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are discussing changes to the structure of their foundation to add more governance and independence, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people fam...

Biden's defence budget seeks greater China deterrence

Reuters 2021-05-28 10:33:08

US President Joe Biden's $715 billion Department of Defense budget will shift funding from old systems to help modernise the nuclear arsenal to deter China, while also developing future warfare capabi...

Nine Southeast Asian countries oppose arms embargo on Myanmar

Reuters 2021-05-28 09:54:49

Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar, according to a report from Benar News. The report by the affiliate of the US-funded Radi...