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"The virus recognises no year-end or New Year holidays. I ask each minister to raise the level of their sense of urgency and thoroughly carry out counter measures," Suga told a meeting of the ... ( read original story ...)

Bangladesh will move a second group of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday, officials said, despite calls by rights groups to stop the relocation on safety grounds. ( read original story ...)

Activists say the island of Bhasan Char is not safe and that the refugees are being moved against their will ... ( read original story ...)

Bangladesh on Monday started moving a second group of Rohingya refugees to a controversial flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal despite opposition from rights activists. More than 1,600 of the ... ( read original story ...)

Ashraf and Rizwan discarded the dated and conservative batting strategy that prevailed before their partnership ... ( read original story ...)

New test captain Mohammad Rizwan made 71 and Faheem Ashraf 91 to help Pakistan weather a top-order collapse, then fight back on a day punctuated by lashing ... ( read original story ...)

Pakistan were all out for 239 in their first innings Monday to trail New Zealand by 192 at stumps on day three of the first Test in Mount Maunganui.More than half the runs were scored by Faheem Ashraf ... ( read original story ...)

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson reached his 23rd Test century on day two of the first Test against Pakistan. He resumed on 94 and reached three figures in the fifth over of the day from 261 balls ... ( read original story ...)

A military helicopter has crashed in mountainous northern Pakistan, killing four soldiers including the two pilots, the army said. The chopper crashed Saturday in the Gilgit-Baltistan region "due to ... ( read original story ...)

International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period to try to keep out a new potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus, its foreign minister Retno Marsudi ... ( read original story ...)