Pandemic threatens Asia-Pacific’s progress on global dev goals: ADB
Reuters :The coronavirus pandemic may have pushed as many as 80 million people in developing Asia into extreme poverty last year, threatening to derail progress...
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Afghanistan media braces for uncertainty under Taliban rule
AFP :Scores of journalists are among the tens of thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, fearful of violent reprisals from...
India logs 25,467 new COVID-19 cases
PTI, NEWDELHI : India added 25,467 new COVID-19 cases, while the active cases declined to 3,19,551, comprising 0.98 per cent of the total infections, the...
Booster Covid-19 shots should be delayed : WHO
Reuters :WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that Covid-19 booster shots should be delayed as priority should be given to raising vaccination rates...
Tensions flare up again at Assam-Mizoram border
Scroll.in :Tensions along the Assam-Mizoram border arose again on Sunday over the construction of a bridge, PTI reported. The Mizoram police filed a case against...
Vietnam deploys troops to enforce lockdown in largest city
Reuters :Vietnam deployed soldiers to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Monday to help enforce a strict lockdown in the country’s biggest urban...
China reports no new local Covid-19 cases for first time since July
Reuters :China’s health authority reported on Monday that there were no new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 for the first time since July, offering more...
People evacuated as new wildfire hits Greek island
AFP :Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece’s Evia island,...
UK will leave Afghanistan when US does: Defence minister
Reuters :UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said the UK will leave Kabul airport at the same time as US forces.Speaking to media on Monday,...
21 dead in flooding in US state of Tennessee
AFP :Devastating floods in the southern US state of Tennessee have left at least 21 people dead and dozens missing, local officials said Sunday in...
Taliban flags proliferate as Afghan tricolour becomes resistance symbol
AFP :After two decades out of power, the Taliban are swiftly moving to stamp their authority on Afghanistan using every tool at their disposal —...
Jeanine Anez ‘stable’ after suicide attempt in jail:Bolivia
Al Jazeera :Jailed former Bolivian President Jeanine Anez is in “stable” condition after she tried to take her own life after prosecutors charged her with...