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Beijing strongly denies accusations of abuse in Xinjiang, and has said the complexes it set up in the region provided vocational training to help stamp out Islamist extremism and separatism, and to teach new skills. (Representatinal image : AP/file photo)

Women detained in China's Xinjiang allegedly raped, sexually abused:...

The United States accuses China of committing genocide against Uighurs in Xinjiang

4 Feb 2021 7:49 AM GMT

A rickshaw driver checks his mobile phone in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, February 4, 2021. Myanmars new military government has blocked access to Facebook as resistance to Mondays coup surged amid calls for civil disobedience to protest the ousting of the elected civilian government and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP)

Myanmar blocks Facebook as resistance grows to coup

Service provider Telenor Myanmar confirmed that mobile operators and internet service providers had received a directive...

4 Feb 2021 7:00 AM GMT

Farmers raise slogans during their ongoing protest at Singhu Border, in New Delhi, Tuesday, February 2, 2021. (PTI/Ravi Choudhary)

Steps that would improve efficiency of India's markets welcome: US

US has said it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India's markets and attract greater private sector...

4 Feb 2021 5:08 AM GMT

IMF approves debt relief for 25 poor countries. (PTI Photo)

IMF sent Myanmar $350 million in emergency aid; no precedent for...

The State Department said it would review its foreign assistance to the southeast Asian country

3 Feb 2021 12:11 PM GMT

Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg. (AFP)

After Rihanna, Greta Thunberg extends support to farmers' protest

Thunberg tweeted soon after singer Rihanna shared a news article highlighting the Centre's crackdown on the farmers

3 Feb 2021 5:47 AM GMT

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny casting his vote at a polling station during to the Moscow city Duma election in Moscow. - Tests carried out on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny provide clear proof that he was poisoned by a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, September 2, 2020, demanding explanations from Moscow. (AFP File)

Moscow court confirms prison time for Kremlin critic Navalny

During Tuesday's hearing Navalny said the case was meant 'to intimidate a huge number of people'

3 Feb 2021 4:18 AM GMT

Myanmar soldiers stand guard on a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, February. 2, 2021. Hundreds of members of Myanmars Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the countrys capital on Tuesdayi. (AP)

Myanmar generals tighten grip on power as U.S. threatens sanctions

The crisis in Myanmar is one of the first major tests of Biden's pledge to collaborate more with allies on international...

2 Feb 2021 6:54 AM GMT

Picture used for representational purposes only (Image source: Pixabay)

Why is the military taking control in Myanmar?

In the capital, internet and phone access appeared to be blocked and barbed wire road blocks were set up across Yangon

1 Feb 2021 11:27 AM GMT

A group of Myanmar activists hold the portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest outside UN building in Tokyo on February 1, 2021 following a military coup in the country by a general after arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior officials. (Philip FONG / AFP)

Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi

It justified the coup by alleging 'huge irregularities' in the November polls that the election commission had failed to...

1 Feb 2021 5:54 AM GMT

In this May 29, 2020, file photo, a protester holds a Hong Kong colonial flag in a shopping mall during a protest against Chinas national security legislation for the city, in Hong Kong. Thousands of people from Hong Kong are fleeing their hometown since Beijing imposed a draconian national security law on the territory in the summer 2020. (AP/Kin Cheung, File)

Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown

Some are leaving because they fear punishment for supporting the pro-democracy protests that swept the former British...

1 Feb 2021 5:03 AM GMT

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Navalny, Thunberg among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

Other nominees include former U.S. President Donald Trump, NATO and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)

31 Jan 2021 5:55 PM GMT

A worker in protective overall disinfects a vehicle from the World Health Organization convoy while they were visiting the Baishazhou wholesale market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP)

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

WHO said on Twitter last Thursday that the team plans to visit Wuhan Institute of Virology and laboratories at...

31 Jan 2021 6:46 AM GMT