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  • Israel extend science accords into West Bank settlements

    Oct 28, 2020

    Jerusalem, Oct 28: The United States and Israel amended a series of scientific cooperation agreements on Wednesday to include Israeli institutions in the West Bank, a step that further blurs the status of settlements widely considered illegal under international law.

  • Hong Kong bars Air India flights for fourth time as passengers test positive for COVID-19

    Oct 28, 2020

    New Delhi, Oct 28: Hong Kong has banned Air India flights from Mumbai till November 10 after a few passengers on its flight earlier this week tested positive for COVID-19 post-arrival, a senior government official said This is the fourth time that Air India flights from India have been banned by the Hong Kong government for bringing passengers who tested positive for the infection after arrival.

  • 7 killed, 70 injured in bomb blast at seminary in Pakistan

    Oct 27, 2020

    Peshawar Oct 27: A powerful bomb blast ripped through a seminary in northwest Pakistan's Peshawar city on Tuesday, killing at least seven children and wounding 70 others, senior police officials said. The blast occurred at the seminary in Dir Colony in interior Peshawar city after Fajr (morning) prayers.

  • Ant Group could raise nearly USD 35B in record share offering

    Oct 26, 2020

    Hong Kong, Oct 26: China's Ant Group will try to raise nearly USD 35 billion in its initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which would make it the largest share offering in history. Alibaba-affiliated Ant Group, which operates a suite of financial products including the widely-used Alipay digital wallet in China and one of the world's largest money market funds, will hold dual listings in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

  • Airstrike in northwestern Syria kills over 50 rebel fighters

    Oct 26, 2020

    Beirut, Oct 26: A Syrian opposition spokesman and a war monitor say an airstrike on a training camp in the last rebel enclave in northwestern Syria has killed over 50 fighters. Youssef Hammoud, a spokesman for the Turkey-backed Syrian opposition groups, said the airstrike on Monday is believed to have been carried out by Russia.

  • Armenia, Azerbaijan accuse each other of truce violations

    Oct 26, 2020

    Yerevan, Oct 26: Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of violating the new cease-fire announced the day before in a bid to halt the fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh that has killed hundreds, and possibly thousands, in just four weeks. The truce that took effect Monday morning was agreed upon on Sunday after talks facilitated by the United States.

  • At least 14 civilians killed by booby traps in Egypt's Sinai

    Oct 25, 2020

    El-Arish (Egypt): More than a dozen civilians, including women and children, were killed in Egypt's restive northern the Sinai Peninsula over the past two weeks from explosive devices laid down in their homes by militants, security and medical officials said. Islamic State militants in July attacked several villages in the town of Bir al-Abd, forcing people to flee their homes.

  • Afghanistan claims killing an al-Qaida leader wanted by FBI

    Oct 25, 2020

    Kabul: Afghanistan claimed that they killed a top al-Qaida propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the country's east, showing the militant group's continued presence there as US forces work to withdraw from America's longest-running war amid continued bloodshed there.

  • Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh goes on despite US mediation

    Oct 24, 2020

    Stepanakert: Rocket and artillery barrage hit residential areas after the United States hosted top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks on settling their decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The heavy shelling forced residents of Stepanakert, the regional capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, into shelters, as emergency teams rushed to extinguish fires.

  • Official: Roadside bomb killed 9 in eastern Afghanistan

    Oct 24, 2020

    Kabul, Oct 24: A roadside bomb killed nine people in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, after it struck a minivan full of civilians, a local official said. Ghazni province police spokesman Ahmad Khan Sirat said that a second roadside bomb killed two policemen after it struck their vehicle that was making its way to the victims of the first explosion.

  • China may not recognise British-issued Hong Kong passports

    Oct 23, 2020

    Beijing, Oct 23: China's foreign ministry said Friday it may decide not to recognise British-issued passports for Hong Kong residents in retaliation for London's moves to open a path to citizenship for those holding the documents. Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that Britain had violated its promises and played up the issue of the British National (Overseas) passports.

  • US officials link Iran to emails meant to intimidate voters

    Oct 22, 2020

    Washington, Oct 22: US officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of threatening but fake emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple battleground states in a late-stage efforts to sway public opinion and interfere in the presidential election. Purportedly from far-right, pro-Trump groups like the Proud Boys, the fake emails were apparently aimed at intimidating voters.

  • Pakistan warns of new lockdown as COVID-19 mortality rate increases by 140 per cent

    Oct 21, 2020

    Islamabad, Oct 21: Pakistan's top body, which oversees response to the coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday warned that strict measures, including lockdown, could be initiated to contain the infection if people don't stop violating government guidelines, as the country's COVID-19 mortality rate increased by 140 per cent compared to past few weeks. "The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) is closely monitoring the situation.

  • Powerful explosion rips through building in Pak; 5 killed

    Oct 21, 2020

    Islamabad/Karachi, Oct 21: A powerful explosion ripped through a four-storey building in Pakistan's Sindh province, killing at least five people and injuring 20 others, police said. At least two floors of the building near Maskan Chowrangi in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area in Karachi were severely damaged, leading authorities to fear that the toll may rise.

  • Pak fails to protect religious minorities from forced conversions: Parliamentary committee

    Oct 20, 2020

    Islamabad: A parliamentary committee in Pakistan has said that the country has not fulfilled its responsibility to protect religious minorities from forced conversions, according to a media report The parliamentary committee on forced religious conversions headed by Senator Anwarul Haq Kakar recently visited parts of Sindh where forced conversions of young Hindu girls have been reported.

  • Singapore researchers develop breath test to detect COVID-19

    Oct 20, 2020

    Singapore: Researchers in Singapore have developed a breath test to detect COVID-19 within a minute as authorities are working on a roadmap for the phase three of easing of safety measures in the country. A person would simply have to blow into a disposable mouthpiece connected to a high-precision breath sampler , according to the National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers.

  • Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam booked for holding anti-govt rally in Pak

    Oct 20, 2020

    Lahore: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter and Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's vice-president Maryam Nawaz was booked along with over 2,000 party members for holding an anti-government rally in Lahore where she called Prime Minister Imran Khan a "coward, selected and puppet" who hides behind the Army.

  • Muslim lawmaker arrested in Lanka

    Oct 19, 2020

    Colombo: A senior Muslim lawmaker in Sri Lanka was arrested after a six-day manhunt in connection with the alleged misuse of government funds to transport voters during the last year's presidential elections.

  • Pak invites Indian Sikhs for Guru Nanak's 551st birth anniversary

    Oct 19, 2020

    Islamabad, Oct 19: Pakistan has invited Indian Sikhs to attend the 551st birth anniversary celebrations of Sikh faith's founder, Guru Nanak Dev, an official said on Monday. The three-day celebrations, known as Guru Nanak Gurpurab, will begin on November 27 at Nankana Sahib.

  • Chinese soldier apprehended by Army in Demchok in Ladakh: to be returned

    Oct 19, 2020

    New Delhi, Oct 19: A Corporal of Chinese People's Liberation Army was apprehended in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh on Monday after he had strayed across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Army said. The Chinese soldier has been identified as Wang Ya Long and he has been provided with required medical assistance including oxygen, food and warm clothes, it said.

  • Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases passes 40 mn globally

    Oct 19, 2020

    London, Oct 19 :The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the planet has passed 40 million. The milestone was passed early Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University, which collates reporting from around the world. The actual figure is likely to be far higher, as testing has been variable, and many people have had no symptoms.

  • The Rockefeller Foundation Awards New Grants to Scale up COVID-19 Testing in India

    Oct 19, 2020

    New York, United States (NewsVoir) To support the expansion of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing across India, The Rockefeller Foundation announced two new grants to The Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms and PATH. The grants, totaling 5.5 million, will support domestic manufacturing of critical testing materials and the deployment of scalable testing programs, essential to mitigating the virus' spread.

  • Malaysian man of Indian origin escapes gallows on reduced drug charges

    Oct 19, 2020

    Singapore, Oct 19: A Malaysian man of Indian origin escaped the gallows for a second time on Monday after a court in Singapore found him guilty of a reduced charge of attempted drug importation, setting aside another court ruling of death sentence. Gobi Avedian, 32, was sentenced instead to 15 years in jail and 10 strokes of the cane, with the sentence backdated to the date of his remand, reported the Channel News Asia.

  • US envoy warns new violence threatens Afghan peace process

    Oct 19, 2020

    Kabul, Oct 19: The US special envoy to Afghanistan warned on Monday that distressingly high levels of violence threaten to derail the ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Zalmay Khalilzad's comments come as renewed fighting for days has plagued Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a longtime Taliban stronghold.

  • UK festival curator accuses UAE minister of sex assault

    Oct 19, 2020

    London, Oct 19: The chair of Britain's Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival's curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by the tolerance minister of the United Arab Emirates while working with him. Lawyers for the minister later denied her account.

  • Senior Indian, Chinese officials attend SCO cultural event, take part in Yoga

    Oct 18, 2020

    Beijing, Oct 18: Senior officials from India and China as well as diplomats from various countries on Sunday took part in a Yoga event organised by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which is also set to hold key meetings of the top leaders of the eight-member group. The SCO is comprised of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan.

  • Indian-origin builder who killed 3 men in self-defence freed in UK

    Oct 18, 2020

    London, Oct 18: An Indian-origin builder who was arrested in connection with the killing of three men, also of Indian origin, following a deadly knife fight on the streets of east London will not face any murder or manslaughter charges as the incident was deemed to be an act self-defence.

  • Car bombing in western Afghanistan kills 13, wounds 120

    Oct 18, 2020

    Kabul (Afghanistan), Oct 18: A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 120 others in Afghanistan's western Ghor province, officials said. The head of a hospital in Ghor, Mohammad Omer Lalzad, said emergency staff were treating dozens of people with both serious and light injuries from the bombing. He expected the death toll to rise.

  • New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

    Oct 17, 2020

    Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new cases. Difficult months are ahead of us, she said in her weekly video podcast. How winter will be, how our Christmas will be, that will all be decided in these coming days and weeks, and it will be decided by our behavior.

  • China passes amendments outlawing insulting national flag

    Oct 17, 2020

    Hong Kong: The Standing Committee of China's congress passed amendments to a law that will criminalise the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last year desecrated the Chinese flag.

  • UAE foreign minister reviews progress on construction of first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi

    Oct 17, 2020

    Dubai, Oct 17: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, has met with the representatives of a Hindu organisation building the community's first temple in Abu Dhabi and reviewed its progress. The foundation stone of the temple was laid in April last year and work started from December.

  • Scientists develop new method to block coronavirus replication

    Oct 17, 2020

    Houston, Oct 17: Scientists have laid out an approach to block a protein that the novel coronavirus uses to cut and disable crucial components of the immune system and to produce copies of itself, an advance that may lead to new drugs against COVID-19.

  • Punjab-born Irish man eyes Guinness record for walking the Earth

    Oct 17, 2020

    London: A 70-year-old man, born in Punjab and based in Ireland for over 40 years, has applied for a Guinness World Record after completing what he calls his Earth Walk covering over 40,075 kilometres or the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth in under 1,500 days without stepping out of his home city of Limerick. Vinod Bajaj began his journey in August 2016 with a humble goal of losing some weight and getting fitter.

  • India to deliver kilo class submarine to Myanmar

    Oct 15, 2020

    New Delhi: It will deliver a kilo class submarine to Myanmar's Navy, a move that comes in the backdrop of China's increasing efforts to expand its military influence in the region. It will be the first submarine of the Myanmarese Navy which has been ramping up cooperation with the Indian Navy in the last few years. "Cooperation in the maritime domain is a part of our diverse and enhanced engagement with Myanmar.

  • Two Sikh women allege online harassment in Pakistan's KPK

    Oct 15, 2020

    Peshawar, Oct 15: Two Sikh women in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have filed a court case against alleged threats and harassment on social media. In the complaint, filed under 22A of Pakistan Penal Code on Wednesday, the plaintiffs alleged Shah Alam Masih and Manmeet Kaur from Christian Colony Shoba Chowk in Peshawar were sending them intimidating messages on social media through fake accounts.

  • UK PM under pressure for circuit breaker full COVID-19 lockdown

    Oct 14, 2020

    London, Oct 14: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday faces mounting pressure for a temporary complete national lockdown to act as a circuit breaker for the continued rise in coronavirus infections, even as the new three-tier system COVID-19 restrictions came into force across England.

  • 2 Afghan military helicopters collide, 9 soldiers killed

    Oct 14, 2020

    Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), Oct 14: Two Afghan army helicopters collided while transporting wounded soldiers in the southern Helmand province, killing nine Afghan service members, the country's Defense Ministry and local officials said Wednesday. The two Soviet-era Mi-17 helicopters crashed due to technical problems while taking off in Nawa district, the Afghan Defense Ministry statement said.

  • Pakistan re-elected to UN rights body

    Oct 14, 2020

    Islamabad, Oct 14: Pakistan has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council despite opposition from activist groups over its abysmal human rights records. Among the five candidates from the Asia-Pacific region vying for four seats in the UN's premiere human rights body, Pakistan secured the highest number of votes, the Foreign Office said.

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