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-- 2021-03-10 17:25:18
A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned a decades-old government policy barring non-Muslim publications from using the word ‘Allah’ to refer to God, in a landmark ruling on an issue that...
-- 2021-03-10 16:56:48
Dubai’s Grand Mufti Shaikh Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz Al Haddad has said taking the COVID-19 vaccine will not break a Muslim’s fasting during Ramadan. “The vaccine does not break any fast...
-- 2021-03-10 16:18:36
An Israeli-Canadian lobbyist hired by Myanmar's junta will be paid $2 million to "assist in explaining the real situation" of the army's coup to the United States and other countries, documents filed...
-- 2021-03-10 13:27:30
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha left reporters stunned and amused on Tuesday when he interrupted his own news conference to spray them with hand sanitiser in a bid to dodge tough questions. Pra...
-- 2021-03-10 11:30:53
China summoned Britain’s ambassador in Beijing on Tuesday to lodge “stern representations” over an “inappropriate” article she wrote defending recent international media...
-- 2021-03-10 10:30:22
The UN Security Council failed to agree on Tuesday on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider “further measures...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 21:57:35
India's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had summoned the United Kingdom's high commissioner over what it called "unwarranted and tendentious discussion" of Indian agricultural reforms in the Briti...
-- 2021-03-09 18:50:21
Five media companies in Myanmar have been stripped of their licences, state television MRTV announced on Monday. The five independent companies were named as Mizzima, Myanmar Now, 7-Day, DVB and Khit...
-- 2021-03-09 11:01:28
Hundreds of young Myanmar protesters who had been trapped by security forces in a district of Yangon overnight have been able to get out, activists said on Tuesday, after calls from western powers and...
REUTERS 2021-03-09 10:30:11
Thais flocked to a cannabis exhibition as interest and demand in the plant surges after the government unlocked hemp use in food and cosmetics in the latest move to promote a new cash crop. The gover...
-- 2021-03-08 16:28:26
Australia has suspended its defence cooperation with Myanmar and is redirecting humanitarian aid in the country because of last month’s military takeover of the government and the ongoing detent...
-- 2021-03-08 15:20:02
China should aim to begin construction of a controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river within the year, a senior Tibetan Communist Party official said in comments published on Monday....
-- 2021-03-08 10:50:48
Iran has released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from house arrest at the end of her five-year prison sentence, but she has been summoned to court again on another charge, her la...
-- 2021-03-07 19:49:51
An official from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody in Myanmar overnight after being detained in a crackdown on anti-junta protesters, associates said, and a...
REUTERS 2021-03-07 18:33:15
Iran has freed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Iranian website Emtedad on Sunday, after her five-year prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the...
-- 2021-03-07 17:08:35
Indian actor Mithun Chakraborty ended all speculation as he reached Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a mega rally on Sunday afternoon. The actor joined th...
-- 2021-03-07 16:49:18
The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen said on Sunday that it destroyed 10 armed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, including at least five fired towards Saudi Arabia, state televi...
-- 2021-03-07 15:45:16
China is willing to engage with all parties to ease the crisis in neighbouring Myanmar and is not taking sides, the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang Yi, said on Sunday, r...
-- 2021-03-07 11:18:55
Tens of thousands of people came out on the streets in Myanmar on Sunday to demonstrate against last month’s coup despite overnight raids by security forces in the main city Yangon to crack down...
REUTERS 2021-03-07 09:27:18
Pope Francis walked down a narrow alleyway in the holy city of Najav to hold a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric and visited the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham on Saturday...
REUTERS 2021-03-07 09:16:53
An Israeli-Canadian lobbyist hired by Myanmar’s junta said on Saturday that the generals are keen to leave politics after their coup and seek to improve relations with the United States and dist...
-- 2021-03-06 19:24:56
Protesters in Myanmar have taken to stringing up women's clothing on lines across the streets to slow down police and soldiers because walking beneath them is traditionally considered bad luck for men...
REUTERS 2021-03-06 18:40:18
Guarded by police and soldiers, authorities in Myanmar disturbed the grave of a 19-year-old woman who became an icon of the anti-coup protest movement after she was shot dead wearing a T-shirt that...
WAM 2021-03-06 18:08:37
Indonesia has signed a formal framework agreement with the World Logistics Passport (WLP), a major initiative to increase trading opportunities between emerging markets. Having become the first South-...
REUTERS 2021-03-06 18:05:54
An already challenging life combining full-time work as a doctor with mothering two autistic sons was turned upside down for Meenakshi Mourya when the pandemic hit India. The country has the world&rs...
-- 2021-03-06 17:34:25
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence from parliament on Saturday in a session marked by an opposition boycott of the vote and clashes between government supporters and oppositi...
-- 2021-03-06 17:32:49
Saudi Arabia will end most coronavirus-related restrictions on Sunday, including resuming indoor dining, reopening cinemas and resuming entertainment activities and events, the state news agency SPA s...
REUTERS 2021-03-06 16:44:13
Authorities in Myanmar have asked India to return several police officers who sought refuge to avoid taking orders from a military junta that seized power in the Southeast Asian country last month, an...
-- 2021-03-06 14:00:09
Myanmar security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to break up a protest in Yangon on Saturday, just hours after a United Nations special envoy called on the Security Council to take action again...
-- 2021-03-06 13:25:13
Indian farmers began gathering on Saturday to block a six-lane expressway outside New Delhi to mark the 100th day of protests against deregulation of agriculture markets, to add pressure on Prime Mini...
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