-- 2022-06-09 20:47:10
More than a dozen shipowners have made payments of about $300,000 apiece to release vessels detained by the Indonesian navy, which said they were anchored illegally in Indonesian waters near Singapore...
-- 2022-06-09 14:31:31
Fourteen people died in an armed dispute between small-scale miners in a remote gold-mining town in southern Peru, authorities said Wednesday. The violence was the latest incidence of unrest in Peru'...
REUTERS 2022-06-09 13:41:04
India's biggest dairy group Amul has written to the government urging it to delay a planned ban on tiny plastic straws, saying the move will have a "negative impact" on farmers and milk consumption in...
-- 2022-06-09 13:30:30
Swathes of Sri Lanka were hit by electricity cuts on Thursday after a power sector union went on strike opposing new government regulations, compounding hardships as the country tackles a crippling ec...
-- 2022-06-09 12:52:56
People in Thailand can now grow cannabis plants at home and sell the crop after the nation removed marijuana from its banned narcotics list. The nation is the first to advance such a move...
-- 2022-06-09 12:04:22
The United States and China are expected to use Asia's top security meeting this week to trade blows over everything from Taiwan's sovereignty to the war in Ukraine, although both sides have indicated...
-- 2022-06-09 11:39:09
India reported 7,240 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, its highest number of daily cases since March 2. India's financial capital Mumbai, which ha...
-- 2022-06-09 11:01:14
Parts of Shanghai began imposing new lockdown restrictions on Thursday, with residents of sprawling Minhang district ordered to stay home for two days in a bid to control Covid-19 transmission risks....
-- 2022-06-08 21:03:02
At least 22 people were killed, including nine members of one family when a passenger van fell into deep ravine in southwest Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday. The accident happened apparently du...
-- 2022-06-08 19:15:05
Taliban authorities on Wednesday introduced new uniforms for its reconstituted Afghan police force, as the de facto government attempts to shift away from using its insurgent military forces to handle...
-- 2022-06-08 19:12:24
India tightened public security on Wednesday after the circulation of a letter warning of Islamist militant attacks to avenge derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad by an official of the ruling...
-- 2022-06-08 18:27:50
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday the onus was on Ukraine to solve the problem of resuming grain shipments by de-mining its ports. Lavrov said no action was required on the Russian...
-- 2022-06-08 14:27:08
It was the moment when two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka's politics for nearly 20 years finally went their separate ways. On May 9, when a crowd of ruling party supporters marched towards ac...
-- 2022-06-08 13:52:09
Police in northern India arrested a youth leader from the Hindu nationalist ruling party for posting anti-Muslim comments on social media after derogatory remarks by another party official about the P...
-- 2022-06-07 22:45:02
Following weeks of violence in different parts of Israel and the West Bank, Israeli nationalists have targeted the red, green, black and white Palestinian colours in an escalating "flag war" that unde...
-- 2022-06-07 19:04:40
Sri Lanka will need $5 billion over the next six months to ensure basic living standards, and is renegotiating the terms of a yuan-denominated swap worth $1.5 billion with China so as to fund essentia...
-- 2022-06-07 17:23:11
Ukraine will only be able to export a maximum 2.0 million tonnes of grains a month if Russia refuses to lift its blockade of the country's Black Sea ports, Taras Vysotskyi, Ukraine's first deputy mini...
-- 2022-06-07 15:29:13
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the international community to send Afghanistan's Taliban leadership the message that it is heading in the wrong direction. "Our influence on what...
-- 2022-06-07 15:00:12
Nearly a quarter of a million people are facing starvation in Somalia as drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs, United Nations agencies said on Monday. The agencies said a fo...
-- 2022-06-07 10:50:41
India's diplomatic nightmare over controversial comments made by two senior officials of the country's ruling party about the Prophet Muhammad is showing no signs of ending. The UAE, Oman, In...
-- 2022-06-07 10:31:07
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian troops were engaged in fierce street fighting with Russian soldiers in the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk, a pivotal battle in the Kremlin's attempt to...
-- 2022-06-07 10:26:26
A US court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under US measures imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, court records show...
-- 2022-06-07 10:23:58
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a confidence vote on Monday but a rebellion by 148 of his 359 Conservative Party lawmakers dealt a serious blow to his authority, Reuters reports. A majo...
-- 2022-06-06 23:17:03
Russia warned US news organisations on Monday they risked being stripped of their accreditation unless the treatment of Russian journalists in the United States improves, according to three sources wi...
-- 2022-06-06 21:45:48
Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin's eastern Ukraine offencive. Which side ha...
-- 2022-06-06 20:13:58
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia was cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to Lavrov’s aircraft. Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro had clo...
-- 2022-06-06 18:44:28
Russia should not close the US embassy despite the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine because the world's two biggest nuclear powers must continue to talk, the US ambassador to Moscow was quoted a...
-- 2022-06-06 18:30:38
Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just by 12 per cent of the population that has long bee...
-- 2022-06-06 17:10:16
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a confidence vote later on Monday, after a growing number of lawmakers in the governing Conservative Party questioned the British leader's flagging autho...
-- 2022-06-06 16:59:54
The death toll in the collapse of a building in southwestern Iran rose Monday to at least 41, state media reported, two weeks after the disaster struck, reports AP. Ehsun Abbaspour, the governor of t...
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