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-- 2020-08-15 16:50:54
India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 2.5 million with another biggest single-day spike of 65,002 in the past 24 hours, reports AP, UNB. India is behind the United States and Brazil...
-- 2020-08-15 16:03:41
A spike in new coronavirus cases in South Korea has prompted authorities to reimpose tighter social distancing curbs in Seoul, but that didn’t stop thousands of demonstrators from protesting aga...
-- 2020-08-15 15:07:20
A prominent women’s rights advocate and member of the Afghan team tasked with negotiating with the Taliban sustained minor injuries in an attack in Kabul by unknown gunmen, officials said on Sat...
Reuters 2020-08-15 12:40:34
India is ready to mass produce Covid-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, also launching a national project to r...
REUTERS 2020-08-15 09:33:04
The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a UN arms embargo on Iran as Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit of world leaders to avoid “confrontation” over a US threat...
-- 2020-08-14 18:20:08
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee is in a comatose state, but his vital parameters are stable, the Research and Referral (R&R) Hospital in India said on Thursday morning. Mukherjee’s...
-- 2020-08-14 17:53:10
Militants attacked a police team in Kashmir on Friday, killing two officers and wounding one despite tight security in the disputed Muslim-majority region ahead of India's Independence Day. A group o...
-- 2020-08-14 16:28:58
Vietnam has registered to buy a Russian COVID-19 vaccine, state television reported on Friday, as it fights a new outbreak after going several months with no local cases. Russia said on Wednesday tha...
-- 2020-08-14 14:45:48
India’s coronavirus death toll rose to 48,040 on Friday, currently the fourth-highest in the world. The country has overtaken the UK whose death tally stands at 46,791, according to the data by...
Reuters 2020-08-14 12:36:26
The Afghan government has begun releasing the last Taliban prisoners from a final batch of 400 who the militants want freed before they agree to start peace negotiations, a security agency spokesman s...
REUTERS 2020-08-14 12:05:16
Israel talked of “history” and Palestinians of “betrayal” after Thursday’s surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United...
Reuters 2020-08-14 10:42:47
Malaysia has decided to lift an earlier limit on the hiring of foreign workers meant to protect jobs for locals in most sectors, the Human Resources Ministry said late on Thursday. Last month, the mi...
REUTERS 2020-08-14 10:24:49
Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the P...
-- 2020-08-14 10:10:44
The SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), with support from the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), jointly launched the Training and Adult Education (TAE)...
-- 2020-08-13 11:43:37
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Thursday he was overwhelmed by the support he got after becoming the most high-profile person to be arrested under a new national security law and urged patien...
-- 2020-08-13 10:47:39
India reported another record daily rise in novel coronavirus infections on Thursday, while the death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 47,000. Infections grew by 66,999 on Thursday from a day earlier to...
-- 2020-08-12 20:08:10
A city in China's eastern Anhui province found the novel coronavirus on the packaging of shrimps from Ecuador in the latest instance of the virus being detected on imported products. The coronavirus...
-- 2020-08-12 18:21:24
Three people were killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru in India after violence erupted between police and protesters over a reported derogatory Facebook post about the Prophet Mohammad (SM)...
Reuters 2020-08-12 13:39:26
When the police knocked on the door as 15-year-old Muskaan prepared to head to the temple in their village in northern India, the bride-to-be was distraught. With a sick father and unemployed brother...
-- 2020-08-11 17:35:25
Pakistanis flocked to gyms, salons and restaurants that opened on Monday for the first time in five months after being shut to stop the spread of the coronavirus, reports Reuters. The South Asian co...
-- 2020-08-11 16:24:25
The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in t...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 15:48:01
Angry Lebanese said the government’s resignation on Monday did not come near to addressing the tragedy of last week’s Beirut explosion and demanded the removal of what they see as a corrup...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 14:37:23
Former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee was put on ventilator support after undergoing surgery having contracted Covid-19, local media reported on Tuesday, quoting unidentified sources at the militar...
-- 2020-08-11 12:35:09
Nepali has decided to extend suspension of domestic and international flights as well as public transport until August 31 amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision came on Monday as the Himalayan coun...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 11:59:58
Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could destroy the capital i...
Reuters 2020-08-11 11:30:23
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is pressing ahead with plans to lift lockdown measures in the Pacific nation this week, even as a recent sharp spike in coronavirus infections worries heal...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 10:57:00
The UN Security Council is preparing to vote this week on a US proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran, a move that some diplomats say is bound to fail and put the fate of a nuclear deal between Te...
-- 2020-08-11 10:47:45
Hong Kong’s Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to “fight on” in a...
REUTERS 2020-08-11 09:07:26
Lebanon’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, saying a huge explosion that devastated Beirut and triggered public outrage was the result of endemic corruption....
Reuters 2020-08-10 23:04:57
Lebanon's prime minister was set on Monday to announce the resignation of his government, the health minister said, after a devastating explosion in Beirut that has stirred public outrage and spurred...
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