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-- 2021-09-23 18:54:50
The acting foreign minister of the newly-formed administration of Afghanistan said Thursday that the country wants to have friendly relations with the international community, including the neighbouri...
-- 2021-09-23 17:30:12
Myanmar’s military junta is systematically abducting the relatives of people it is seeking to arrest, including children as young as 20 weeks old, according the UN special rapporteur for the cou...
-- 2021-09-22 15:24:30
Most of the population of a Myanmar town near the Indian border have fled after buildings were set ablaze by artillery amid fighting between militia forces opposed to military...
-- 2021-09-22 09:03:13
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second-largest cit...
-- 2021-09-22 08:57:35
The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's UN ambassador, according to a let...
-- 2021-09-20 18:47:21
India will resume exports of COVID-19 vaccines in the October to December quarter, prioritising the global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX and neighbouring countries first as supplies rise, the health...
-- 2021-09-19 23:13:30
About two dozen women activists protested outside Afghanistan's women's ministry on Sunday after it was closed by Taliban militants in power in Kabul and replaced by their Ministry for Promotion of Vi...
-- 2021-09-19 17:33:51
Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns, in the latest spat bet...
-- 2021-09-19 12:45:54
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has not ruled out seeking re-election to parliament within the next two years, he told Reuters in an interview, undeterred by a corruption conviction that w...
-- 2021-09-19 12:26:41
Yemen’s Houthi rebels executed on Saturday nine people they said were involved in the killing of a senior rebel official in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition more than three years ago. Th...
-- 2021-09-19 11:43:44
Israeli forces on Sunday caught the last two of six Palestinian militants who tunnelled out of a maximum security Israeli jail nearly two weeks ago, in an escape that embarrassed Israel's security est...
-- 2021-09-18 22:12:17
Some Afghan girls returned to primary schools with gender-segregated classes on Saturday, but older girls faced an anxious wait with no clarity over if and when they would be able to resume their stud...
-- 2021-09-18 21:42:35
At least three people were killed and about 20 were wounded in a series of blasts in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Saturday, two sources in the city said. The fatalities occurred during a s...
-- 2021-09-18 20:55:40
The chief minister of Punjab, an Indian state on its northwest border with Pakistan, resigned on Saturday, deepening a crisis within the main opposition Congress party ahead of state elections schedul...
-- 2021-09-18 19:10:56
Indian lawmaker from ruling BJP Babul Supriyo has joined West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped the celebrity singer-turned-politician fro...
-- 2021-09-18 18:55:41
Australia’s police have arrested 235 people in Melbourne and 32 in Sydney at unsanctioned anti-lockdown rallies and several police officers have been injured in clashes with protesters, reports...
-- 2021-09-18 18:41:42
The capital of the United Arab Emirates has ended a policy requiring those coming in from other emirates to have a recent negative coronavirus test. Abu Dhabi made the announcement Saturday, saying t...
-- 2021-09-18 18:04:33
Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the "propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice" in the building that once housed the Women's Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank st...
-- 2021-09-18 14:44:34
Japan will not raise the sales tax for about a decade as imposing a higher levy on households at this time would cripple the pandemic-hit economy, Fumio Kishida, a key contender running in the ruling...
-- 2021-09-18 12:27:36
Vietnam has approved Cuba's Abdala vaccine for use against the new coronavirus, the government said on Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country is battling its worst outbreak....
-- 2021-09-18 11:33:27
Singapore's primary schools will shift to home-based learning for 10 days ahead of a key national examination, the education ministry said on Saturday, as the country reported 935 new COVID-19 cases t...
-- 2021-09-18 10:15:04
A drone strike in Kabul last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children, the US military said on Friday, apologising for what it called a "tragic mistake". The Pentagon had said t...
-- 2021-09-17 21:46:17
The International Monetary Fund's ethics committee and board need to look into a report alleging its chief Kristalina Georgieva pressured staff to boost China's ranking in a flagship report while at t...
-- 2021-09-17 21:33:36
China formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) with an aim to boost economic clout Japan, the CPTPP's chair this year, said it would...
-- 2021-09-17 21:16:34
Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes. More than a...
-- 2021-09-17 20:21:39
The US and Australia have called for a swift return to democracy, inclusive dialogue between all parties, and immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access in Myanmar. "The secretaries and ministers rema...
-- 2021-09-17 18:16:56
Singapore announced on Friday new standards for migrant worker dormitories, with the aim of reducing the risk of transmission of infectious diseases and improving living conditions after the facilitie...
-- 2021-09-17 14:49:13
India has told China that their bilateral relations will only develop when both countries pull their troops back from a confrontation on their disputed Himalayan border, the Indian foreign minister sa...
-- 2021-09-17 08:29:43
A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad, Reute...
REUTERS 2021-09-16 21:08:56
China on Thursday denounced a new Indo-Pacific security alliance between the United States, Britain and Australia, saying such partnerships should not target third countries and warning of an intensif...
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