Indonesia hunts for missing after mine collapse kills six
AFP, Jakarta :Rescuers hunted for at least one person still missing on Thursday after an illegal gold mine collapse in Indonesia killed six people.A landslide...
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Facebook bans Myanmar military from its platforms
Reuters, Singapore :Facebook on Thursday said it had banned the Myanmar military from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms with immediate effect, as pro-democracy demonstrators...
US report on Khashoggi death expected to single out Saudi crown prince
Reuters :A declassified version of a US intelligence report expected to be released on Thursday finds that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the...
Nuclear issue key as Iran readies for Rouhani
AFP :Iran will vote in June for a successor to President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate-reformist government, but politics in the country is dominated by...
India’s health workers balk at taking homegrown Covid-19 vaccine
Reuters :India is struggling to convince its health and front-line workers to take a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine controversially approved without late-stage efficacy data, government data...
Pfizer vaccine found 94 percent effective in real world
Reuters, Jerusalem :The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing Covid-19, in...
China court orders man to pay wife for housework in landmark case
BBC :A Beijing divorce court has ordered a man to compensate his wife for the housework she did during their marriage, in a landmark ruling.The...
Ghana to receive world’s first doses of free Covax vaccines
AFP :Ghana is to receive Wednesday the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free to...
75 inmates dead, President declares state of emergency
AFP :At least 75 inmates died Tuesday and several were injured in riots blamed on gang rivalry at three jails in Ecuador’s overcrowded prison system,...
2019 Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka
AFP :Sri Lanka’s ex-president and his intelligence chiefs should be prosecuted for failing to prevent suicide bombings two years ago on Easter Sunday that killed...
India, China complete troop pullout from lake area
Reuters :Indian and Chinese troops have completed a pullout from a lake area on their disputed border in the western Himalayas, setting the scene for...
Trump offers Kim ‘ride on Air Force One’
AFP :Donald Trump offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a ride home on Air Force One after a summit in Hanoi two years ago,...