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Pakistan opposition leaders defy ban, hold 5th power show in Multan city

The rally in the city of Multan was held a day after police, on orders from the government, carried out the arrests and banned the gathering, defending the move as necessary to combat the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan.

30 Nov 2020

Indian wins $1m Global Teacher Award

Disale teaches at the Zilla Parishad Primary School, Paritewadi, Solapur, in Maharashtra and has been credited for transforming the lives of young girls.

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Pakistan's former prime minister Jamali passes away at 76

Jamali, the country's first and only elected prime minister from Balochistan in 2004 and he was replaced by Shaukat Aziz. The 76-year-old Jamali died in the city of Rawalpindi outside Islamabad on Wednesday after suffered a hearth attack recently.

2 hours ago

Bangladesh begins transfer of Rohingya to controversial island

Almost a million Rohingya — most of whom fled a military offensive in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017 — live in a vast network of squalid camps in south-eastern Bangladesh.

5 hours ago

Five dead as flash floods hit southern Thailand

Authorities reported the deaths all took place in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, where television footage showed staff of a hospital piling up sandbags outside an emergency room to fend off water gushing in from the street.

5 hours ago

Angry Indian farmers besiege capital in trucks

Their convoy of trucks, trailers and tractors stretches for at least three kilometers (1.8 miles). Inside, they have hunkered down, supplied with enough food and fuel to last weeks.

7 hours ago

Manila health chief slams plan allowing minors to go to malls

Francisco Duque was reacting to the statement of Interior Secretary Ano that minors may soon be allowed to leave their homes and visit shopping malls as long as they are accompanied by their parents or guardians.

7 hours ago

Southeast Turkey shaken by 5.0 magnitude quake

The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, or AFAD, said on Thursday there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake that hit at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles) at 8:45am (0545 GMT).

7 hours ago

India’s coronavirus infections below 40,000 for fourth day in a row

India’s daily rate has fallen since the south Asian nation reported the world’s highest such tallies through most of August and September, despite a busy festival season last month that experts had warned could trigger a spike in infections.

7 hours ago

Ivanka Trump deposed as part of inauguration fund lawsuit

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine's office disclosed in a court filing on Tuesday that the deposition had taken place that day.

8 hours ago

Ex-French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing dies of coronavirus at age 94

Giscard’s foundation said he passed away in his family home in the Loir-et-Cher region of central France. He had been admitted to hospital in September with respiratory complications, and was hospitalised again in mid-November.

8 hours ago

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai denied bail on fraud charge

Jimmy Lai of Next Digital, which publishes the Apple Daily newspaper, was among 10 people arrested Aug.10 on what police said was suspicion of violating a national security law and collusion with a foreign country.

9 hours ago

Nearly 100 world leaders to speak at UN session on coronavirus

Assembly President Volkan Bozkir said when he took the reins of the 193-member world body in September that it would have been better to hold the high-level meeting in June. Nonetheless, he said on Wednesday

9 hours ago

Britain, one of first countries to start vaccinating its population, approves shots from 'next week'

The department of health said in a statement, “The government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for use."

23 hours ago

Man paraded naked for Facebook post 'punishment' in India

Police said that the 38-year-old victim was kidnapped on Tuesday by the brothers, assaulted and made to walk for 45 minutes around the western town of Khambhaliya with no clothes on.


02 Dec 2020

Israel sends Palestinians over $1 billion in withheld funds: Minister

"The #Israeli government transfers all financial dues of the clearance to the account of the #Palestinian Authority, amounting to three billion and 768 million shekels," Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh wrote on Twitter

02 Dec 2020

UK urges Hong Kong and China to stop stifling opposition

“Prosecution decisions must be fair and impartial, and the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong must be upheld,” said Britain's foreign minister Dominic Raab.

02 Dec 2020

Japan protests against Russian missile deployment on disputed islands

A territorial row over the islands, which the Soviets seized at the end of World War Two, has prevented the two countries from signing a formal peace treaty. Japan calls the islands the Northern Territories and Russia calls them the Kurils.

02 Dec 2020

Taiwan says COVID ‘passports’ would be a good idea

Global aviation body IATA said last month it is developing a set of mobile apps to help passengers navigate COVID-19 travel restrictions and securely share test and vaccine certificates with airlines and governments.

02 Dec 2020

Chinese probe lands on Moon to retrieve lunar rocks

The one-sentence report gave no more details but according to the government announcement the probe launched to return lunar rocks to Earth landed on the Moon on Tuesday.

02 Dec 2020

Japan residents to get free COVID-19 vaccine

The bill, which says the government will cover all vaccine costs for Japan’s 126 million residents, was approved by the upper house of parliament, having cleared the powerful lower house.

02 Dec 2020

Vietnam says recent typhoons caused 192 deaths, $1.3m damages

Vietnam’s central region has had a tough year, with its important tourism industry crippled by the coronavirus pandemic long before the arrival of nine typhoons that wiped out crops and damaged homes of hundreds of thousands people.

02 Dec 2020

California boat captain indicted in fire that killed 34

Boylan and four other crew members, who had all been sleeping, escaped from the flaming boat after he made a breathless mayday call. All 33 passengers and one crew member perished in the bunkroom.

02 Dec 2020

Trump threatens defence veto over social media protection

On Twitter on Tuesday night, Trump took aim at Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which protects companies that can host trillions of messages from being sued into oblivion by anyone who feels wronged by someone else

02 Dec 2020

New Zealand symbolically declares climate emergency

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government usually declares emergencies only for things like natural disasters, but that if it doesn't address climate change, such disasters will continue to happen.

02 Dec 2020

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