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Sri Lanka is open to buying Russian oil, PM says

-- 2022-06-12 16:49:49

Sri Lanka may be compelled to buy more oil from Russia as the nation faces shortages amid an unprecedented economic crisis, its prime minister told the Associated Press. Prime Minister Ranil Wickreme...

New Zealand says Pacific islands can make own decisions on China ties

-- 2022-06-12 15:46:16

New Zealand Minister of Defence Peeni Henare said on Saturday that Pacific island nations have the freedom to make their own decisions about cooperation with China, as Beijing seeks closer military ti...

Indian police step up arrests to stop religious unrest over anti-Islam remarks

-- 2022-06-12 15:34:03

Police in India's Kashmir arrested a youth for posting a video threatening to behead a former spokesperson of India's ruling party who had made derogatory remarks about Islam's religious leader Prophe...

Vkusno & tochka: McDonald's restaurants reopen in Russia under new name

-- 2022-06-12 15:26:37

McDonald's restaurants flung open their doors in Moscow once again on Sunday under new Russian ownership and a new name: Vkusno & tochka, which translates as "Tasty and that's it". The new dawn f...

Climate change, Asia's biggest security threat, Fiji says

-- 2022-06-12 15:21:48

Fiji's defence minister said on Sunday that climate change posed the biggest security threat in the Asia-Pacific region, a shift in tone at a defence summit that has been dominated by the war in Ukrai...

South Korea to boost defence capacity to counter North Korean threat

-- 2022-06-12 15:16:28

South Korean Defence Minister Lee Jong-sup said on Sunday that his country would enhance its defence capabilities and work closely with the United States and Japan to counter North Korea's nuclear and...

Pakistan finance minister to seek deferred payments for Qatari LNG

-- 2022-06-12 14:11:34

Pakistan will seek a deferred payment plan for liquefied natural gas bought under long term deals with Qatar, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Saturday, as Islamabad faces a balance of payments...

French go to polls to give Macron working majority or not

-- 2022-06-12 12:35:41

French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first of two rounds that will decide whether President Emmanuel Macron gets a working majority in parliament or ends up without the support needed to dri...

Taiwan says it's willing to engage with China, doesn't want to close door

-- 2022-06-12 12:35:07

Taiwan does not want to close the door to China and is willing to engage in the spirit of goodwill, but on an equal basis and without political preconditions, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Sunday, Re...

Spanish fan-sellers doing good business as temperature hits 20-year high

-- 2022-06-11 23:18:02

Fan-sellers were doing good business in the southern city of Seville on Saturday as Spain sizzled in the hottest pre-summer heatwave for at least 20 years. Carriage drivers dampened down horses who t...

Residents of two Ukrainian cities getting Russian passports

-- 2022-06-11 23:10:53

The Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine say they have started handing out Russian passports to locals in two cities - Kherson and Melitopol. Ukraine condemns the creation of Russian ci...

Taiwan threatens WTO action after China stops fish imports

-- 2022-06-11 21:06:04

Taiwan's government threatened to take Beijing to the World Trade Organization on Saturday after China suspended the import of grouper fish from the island saying it had detected banned chemicals, the...

Beijing may face an ‘explosive’ Covid-19 outbreak

-- 2022-06-11 20:04:27

China's capital Beijing is facing an ‘explosive’ Covid-19 outbreak connected to a bar, a government spokesman warned on Saturday, as the commercial hub of Shanghai began mass testing to co...

Five people killed in Italy helicopter crash 

-- 2022-06-11 18:32:19

Five people were killed after a helicopter crash in Italy, a regional governor said on Saturday, and two passengers were still missing two days after the aircraft vanished from radar screens, reports...

Zelensky says stopping Russian invasion crucial for whole world

-- 2022-06-11 18:12:51

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking remotely at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, said the outcome of the war in his country affected not just Ukraine, but the future of internationa...

300,000 tonnes of grain in Ukraine’s destroyed warehouses by 'Russian shelling'

-- 2022-06-11 18:08:39

Up to 300,000 tonnes of grain may have been stored in warehouses that Kyiv says were destroyed by Russian shelling last weekend, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskyi said on Saturday. Speaking...

Iran, Venezuela sign 20-year cooperation plan

-- 2022-06-11 17:38:55

Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year cooperation plan in Tehran on Saturday as the two countries, among the world's top oil producers, grapple with US sanctions that are crippling their exports. The s...

China becoming more 'coercive and aggressive': US defence chief

-- 2022-06-11 13:49:06

The United States will do its part to manage tensions with China and prevent conflict even though Beijing is becoming increasingly aggressive in the Asian region, including near Taiwan, US Defense Sec...

2 die as protests flare across India over anti-Muslim comments

-- 2022-06-11 13:07:54

At least two people have died and 10 others injured in India's Jharkhand as agitated crowds clashed with police during protests over derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad made by two former me...

Protests erupt across South Asia over Prophet remarks by suspended BJP officials

-- 2022-06-10 23:39:12

Thousands of Muslims have rallied across the South Asia nations of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan over derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by two officials from India’s ruling party th...

US drops Covid-19 testing requirements for incoming travellers

-- 2022-06-10 22:23:37

The United States will drop pre-departure COVID-19 international air testing requirements effective Sunday at 12:01 am after heavy lobbying from airlines and the travel industry. The Biden administra...

25 shot dead in Nigeria’s Borno state

-- 2022-06-10 21:07:34

Suspected militants killed 25 people on Thursday in a village in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, two residents and a military source said on Friday. An insurgency by Boko Haram and Islamic State...

Pakistan probes Hindu temple's desecration, India protests

-- 2022-06-10 19:50:04

Pakistan's foreign ministry on Friday said authorities were trying to trace and arrest suspects who this week desecrated a Hindu temple located at a home in the country's port city of Karachi, drawing...

Sri Lanka tycoon Dhammika Perera to replace president's brother in parliament

-- 2022-06-10 18:52:10

One of Sri Lanka's richest businessmen will replace the president's brother in parliament, a ruling party official said on Friday, as the cash-strapped country moves forward on talks for a bailout pla...

South Africa road crash leaves 15 dead

-- 2022-06-10 18:00:11

At least 15 people have been killed in a horrific head-on collision that occurred between a truck and a bus on the M17 metropolitan route in Patryshoek, north of Tshwane, said Thabo Charles Mabaso, sp...

Russia gets higher energy revenue now than before Ukraine war: US official

-- 2022-06-10 17:33:55

Russia may be getting more revenue from its fossil fuels now than shortly before its invasion of Ukraine, as global price increases offset the impact of Western efforts to restrict its sales, US energ...

Migration pact to cap Americas summit buffeted by discord

-- 2022-06-10 15:10:25

US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Americas are set to pitch a plan designed to stem illegal migration and manage record migrant numbers as a regional summit roiled by diplomatic squabbl...

Hailing Peter the Great, Putin draws parallel with mission to 'return' Russian lands

-- 2022-06-10 12:17:13

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute on Thursday to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to w...

US Capitol riot hearing shows Trump allies, daughter rejected fraud claims

-- 2022-06-10 12:14:23

A congressional hearing into the US Capitol attack by Donald Trump's supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat presented testimony on Thursday showing that close allies - even his daughte...

After veto on North Korea, China says 'let's see' on UN action over a nuclear test

-- 2022-06-10 11:56:44

China's UN envoy said on Thursday that Beijing does not want to see North Korea carry out a new nuclear test, which is partly why China vetoed a US-led bid to impose new UN sanctions on Pyongyang over...