MYANMAR'S MILITARY IS CHARGING FAMILIES $85 TO RETRIEVE BO...
April 12 ,2021
Myanmar's military is charging families $85 to retrieve the bodies of relatives killed by security forces in a bloody crackdown on Frid...
CONFLICTS LEAVE 65 DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN: MONITOR AGENCY
April 12 ,2021
At least 65 people were killed in direct clashes and terrorist attacks in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, an independent war monito...
CAAB SUSPENDS ALL INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC FLIGHTS FROM...
April 12 ,2021
Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) has suspended all international flights for a week from 14 April.
President of CAAB Air Vi...
IRAN ATOMIC AGENCY SAYS NUCLEAR FACILITY HIT BY ACT OF ‘TE...
April 12 ,2021
Iran’s atomic energy organisation said Sunday the Natanz nuclear facility was hit by a terrorist act, hours after it said an &ldq...
BANGLADESH GOVT OUTLINES FRESH CURBS
April 12 ,2021
All public, private and autonomous offices will remain closed for a week from April 14, says a Cabinet Division proposal aimed at curbi...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 APRIL
April 12 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKHAN YUNIS, PALESTINE
A shopkeeper displays lanterns and other decorative items before the holy month of Ram...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 12 APRIL
April 12 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKHAN YUNIS, PALESTINE
A shopkeeper displays lanterns and other decorative items before the holy month of Ramadan. Th...
Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collec...
April 12 ,2021
Sultan Ali Adil Shah Hunting a Tiger, c 1660, is in the Howard Hodgkin collection. Photograph: Collection of Howard Hodgkin
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Whichever side heals itself first will win the US-China Co...
April 12 ,2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, speaks while facing Yang Jiechi, left, China's director of the Central Foreign Af...
North Korea completes building new 3,000-ton submarine: re...
April 12 ,2021
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stands on the conning tower of a submarine during his inspection of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Na...
Queen says Prince Philip’s death has left ‘a huge void’
April 12 ,2021
The Queen has described the death of the Duke of Edinburgh as leaving “a huge void” in her life, Prince Andrew has revealed...
Malaysia in talks to double palm oil shipments to Afghanis...
April 12 ,2021
Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest palm oil producer, is in talks to boost exports of the tropical oil to Afghanistan, accordin...
Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane attends ‘Army Chiefs’ Co...
April 12 ,2021
Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane on Sunday attended the Army Chiefs’ Conclave held here on the sidelines of a multinational mili...
Covid-19 threat looms large, as Bhutanese become complacen...
April 12 ,2021
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India bans exports of Remdesivir drug as new Covid-19 case...
April 12 ,2021
India on Sunday (April 11) banned the export of anti-viral drug Remdesivir and its active pharmaceutical ingredients as demand rocketed...
Resistance forces kill at least 18 Myanmar soldiers in Sag...
April 12 ,2021
A roadblock set up by anti-regime protesters in Tamu, Sagaing Region. / Khampat Times
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Pakistan, China hold consultations on UN affairs
April 12 ,2021
Director-General of the Department of International Organisations and Conferences of the Foreign Ministry of China Yang Tao and Directo...
‘It’s not about charity, it’s all about business and geopo...
April 12 ,2021
Md Shahidul Haque, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh, is now senior fellow at North South University’s South Asian Institute...
After fresh allegations on Rafale deal, what next for Indi...
April 12 ,2021
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Putin offers ‘blank cheque’ to Pakistan
April 12 ,2021
When Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Islamabad last week after a gap of nine years, he had delivered an "important" mess...
No joint statement from latest China-India military talks...
April 12 ,2021
Nearly two months after the last round of corps commander-level talks, the Chinese and Indian militaries held the 11th round of the mee...
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