Malaysia reported 172 new coronavirus cases on Monday, most of them foreigners held at immigration depots, and taking the total number of infections in the country to 7,417. The Ministry of Health …
Myanmar Submits First Report to ICJ on Steps Taken to Prevent Genocide of Rohingya Muslims
Buddhist Myanmar must take ‘all measures within its power’ to stop the alleged genocide of the minority group, and that it must report to the court at regular intervals.
Second Fuel Tanker From Iran Arrives in Venezuela
A second tanker dispatched by Iran was welcomed Monday by Venezuela, a lifeline for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro that reflects the closer ties being forged between Tehran and U.S. adversaries …
Oil-Starved Venezuela Celebrates Arrival of Tankers From Iran
Venezuela needs gasoline and has gold. Iran has oil but needs cash. U. S. officials claim that Venezuela is paying Iran in gold. Both Venezuela and Iran are eager to punch back at …
Coronavirus In Japan: Prime Minister Abe Lifts State Of Emergency As New Cases Decline
The recent decline in new coronavirus infections has prompted Japanese officials to completely lift the country’s state of emergency lockdown.
Asia Pacific stocks set to trade higher on vaccine hopes; Japan lifts state of emergency
American biotech firm Novavax said Monday it started the first human study of its experimental coronavirus vaccine.
Pakistan crash: ‘There were cries and people prayed. Then the plane hit’
As the ground reared up towards the aircraft in those final seconds, Muhammad Zubair remembers the screams and desperate prayers of the passengers around him. “The plane was shaking violently. There …
Karachi air crash: Airbus technical team leaves for Pakistan
The team of renowned plane manufacturing company, Airbus, has left for Pakistan to investigate the recent crash of one of its own manufactured aircraft in Karachi.The team of technical advisers left …
Watch: Swarms of locusts fill the skies of central and northern India
Crops across much of India have been devastated by swarms of locusts. Numbers of the insects are at their highest for a quarter of a century, and swarms have also struck in the Middle East and east …
India’s draconian lockdown gives way to a sudden easing
I went last week to pick up my daughter’s bright red winter coat from the dry cleaners, where I’d left it in late March, days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered 1.4bn Indians into one of the …