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REUTERS 2021-03-01 10:46:03
Protesters marched in Myanmar on Monday in defiance of a crackdown by security forces that killed at least 18 people a day earlier, as calls grew for a more united international response after the wor...
-- 2021-03-01 10:16:46
Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty is a red line, Saudi columnists said on Sunday, ramping up rhetoric in defence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a US intelligence report implicated him in the...
REUTERS 2021-03-01 10:15:18
Israel approved plans on Sunday to offer Covid-19 vaccines to Palestinians with Israeli work permits, a step a rights group said did not go far enough to safeguard Palestinians in occupied territory....
Reuters 2021-02-28 22:52:25
Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the UN human rights office s...
Reuters 2021-02-28 19:33:08
Myanmar police fired on protesters on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 11 people were killed and several wounded, political and medical sourc...
-- 2021-02-28 19:13:04
Arab countries and organisations expressed their support for Saudi Arabia following a US intelligence report that found Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of journalist Ja...
-- 2021-02-28 18:48:44
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York has vowed to fight after the junta fired him for urging countries to use 'any means necessary' to reverse a February 1 coup that ousted the...
-- 2021-02-28 17:27:36
President Rodrigo Duterte attended a ceremony to mark the arrival of the initial 600,000 doses of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac, which were delivered by a Chinese military aircraft. The Philippin...
Reuters 2021-02-28 17:08:55
Myanmar police fired on protesters on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least seven people were killed and several wounded, political and medical so...
-- 2021-02-28 09:33:40
Thailand kicked off its Covid-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday, with cabinet ministers, health officials and medical professionals among the first in the queue to receive vaccinations. The first dos...
AP 2021-02-27 20:20:16
Militant attacks are on the rise in Pakistan amid a growing religiosity that has brought greater intolerance, prompting one expert to voice concern the country could be overwhelmed by religious extrem...
Reuters 2021-02-27 18:51:40
Police launched their most sweeping crackdown in three weeks of protests against military rule on Saturday in towns and cities across Myanmar, and one woman was shot and wounded and dozens of people w...
-- 2021-02-27 16:08:20
Three media outlets of Myanmar have said a woman was shot and killed in the central town of Monwya in Myanmar on Saturday as police cracked down on protests against military rule. Myanmar has been in...
-- 2021-02-27 14:32:28
At least five protesters were killed and more than 175 people injured on Friday in clashes between demonstrators and security forces in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, a Reuters witness and othe...
Reuters 2021-02-27 12:57:29
Myanmar police moved decisively on Saturday in a bid to prevent opponents of military rule gathering throughout the country after Myanmar’s UN envoy urged the United Nations to use “any me...
Reuters 2021-02-27 10:54:53
More than 200,000 Buddhist devotees gathered via Zoom video link on Friday to attend an annual prayer and lantern ritual held in Thailand to mark Makha Bucha Day, one of the religion’s holiest h...
Reuters 2021-02-27 09:03:25
A landslide 20 kilometres west of Nanda Devi, India’s second-highest peak, resulted in a flash flood on Feb. 7 that left more than 200 dead, and swept away two state hydro-electric projects, acc...
REUTERS 2021-02-26 22:47:34
An envoy for Myanmar’s ousted government called on the United Nations to use “any means necessary” to stop a military coup on Friday, as police cracked down on anti-junta protesters...
Reuters 2021-02-26 20:49:19
India's coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Muslim Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, and were repairing the vessel so that it can return safely to Banglades...
-- 2021-02-26 14:08:08
A group of Russian diplomats and their families made an unusual exit out of North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to strict Covid measures. The eight people travelled by train and bus before...
REUTERS 2021-02-26 14:04:02
India's coast guard found 81 survivors and eight dead on a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees adrift in the Andaman Sea, an Indian foreign ministry official said on Friday, adding the survivors would...
-- 2021-02-26 10:13:17
Papua New Guinea (PNG)'s first Prime Minister Michael Somare has died at the age of 84, local newspaper Post Courier reported on Friday. The founding father of PNG, who led the country to independenc...
REUTERS 2021-02-26 10:07:12
India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate content on social media, making Facebook, WhatsApp and others more accountable to legal requests for swift removal of posts and sharing details on the...
Reuters 2021-02-26 09:43:03
Australia’s aviation regulator said on Friday it would lift a near two-year ban on flights to and from the country that use the Boeing Co 737 MAX aircraft, making it the first nation in the Asia...
REUTERS 2021-02-26 09:33:14
Myanmar police launched a crackdown overnight in a Yangon district after breaking up a protest to oppose a military appointed local official, as the World Bank halted payments to projects in the count...
Reuters 2021-02-25 21:04:25
Supporters of Myanmar's military, some armed with knives and clubs, others firing catapults and throwing stones, attacked opponents of the Feb. 1 coup on Thursday, as protests against the new junta co...
AP 2021-02-25 18:14:38
India on Thursday rolled out new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites to make them more accountable for the online content shared on their platforms, giving the govern...
-- 2021-02-25 14:01:26
India and Pakistan’s militaries said on Thursday that they agreed to stop firing on the disputed border in Kashmir where such exchange of gunfire has been frequent in recent months. The militar...
Reuters 2021-02-25 12:31:15
UN aid chief Mark Lowcock urged Gulf states to step up next Monday when the world body seeks to avert a large-scale “man-made” famine in Yemen by raising $3.85 billion for humanitarian ope...
Reuters 2021-02-25 11:56:51
Students and doctors in Myanmar plan to hold new protests on Thursday against military rule, as the United States expressed concern about Malaysia’s deportation of about 1,100 Myanmar nationals...
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