Philippines evacuates nearly 1 million as world’s strongest 2020 typhoon approaches
Officials have evacuated almost a million residents in the southern part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon as a category 5 storm – the...
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Muslims have ‘right to punish’ French, says Malaysia’s Mahathir
Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past” but...
Renewed shelling claims lives in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of killing civilians by shelling cities in and around Nagorno-Karabakh on Wednesday, in an escalation of a month-long conflict over the...
‘Very Nice!’ – Kazakhstan taps new Borat movie to woo tourists
Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, the ex-Soviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borat’s...
Blast at Pakistani religious school kills seven, wounds more than 80 (update)
A bomb blast at a religious seminary in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80,...
Armenian leader sees no quick diplomatic solution in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia‘s prime minister said on Wednesday he saw no possibility of a diplomatic solution at this stage in the conflict with Azerbaijan over the mountain...
Afghans jostling for visas sparks stampede, killing at least 15
At least 15 people were killed in stampede among thousands of Afghans gathered near Pakistan’s consulate on Tuesday as jostling broke out between people applying for...
Japan will take steps to guard against Olympics cyberattacks
Japan said on Tuesday it would take countermeasures to ensure next year’s Tokyo Olympics are not derailed by cyberattacks after Britain and the United States...
Reports of shelling, missile fire jeopardise Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire
A new ceasefire in the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh was in jeopardy on Monday with Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces reporting shelling and heavy fighting...
China passes biosecurity law to prevent infectious diseases
China’s top legislative body passed a new biosecurity law aimed at preventing and managing infectious diseases, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Saturday. The...
Frozen food package with living virus could cause infection, China’s CDC says
China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. The conclusion came as...
Turkey’s Erdogan says Minsk group stalling on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the co-chairs of the Minsk group were stalling in dealing with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and repeated that...
Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire strained by recriminations, fighting (Update)
Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces accused each other on Monday of launching new attacks in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, increasing strains on a two-day-old humanitarian ceasefire...
India’s financial capital Mumbai hit by massive power outage
A major grid failure caused a widespread power outage in India’s financial capital Mumbai and surrounding areas on Monday, the first such blackout in more...
Japan coast guard says Chinese vessels sail near disputed East China Sea islands
Japan’s Coast Guard said on Sunday that two Chinese vessels entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea....
Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of violating Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire (Updated)
Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of swiftly violating the terms of a ceasefire in Nagorno–Karabakh on Saturday, raising questions about how meaningful the truce, brokered by...
Azeris and ethnic Armenians fight before planned talks with Russia
Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces fought new clashes on Friday as Russia prepared to host talks with the warring sides’ foreign ministers on ending the...
Valuable stolen Mao scroll found cut in half in Hong Kong
A stolen Chinese calligraphy scroll written by Chairman Mao Zedong and estimated to be worth millions of dollars has been found in Hong Kong, police said on...
Kyrgyzstan on edge of chaos after opposition storms government buildings
Opposition groups took control of most of Kyrgyzstan’s government apparatus on Tuesday after storming buildings during post-election protests, but the president clung to power as...
Assad accuses Turkey’s Erdogan of igniting Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan of being the main instigator in the deadliest fighting between Armenian and Azeri forces for more...
