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Mass protests have erupted in Nepal over restrictions on women traveling abroad. Thousands of people took part in the protest in Kathmandu. By imposing restrictions on women’s travel abroad, a new law was recently enacted in...

A blast at a fireworks factory in India has killed at least 19 people and injured at least a dozen others. Authorities said on Saturday. The blast in the Birudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu on Friday...

The Netherlands is suspending all adoptions from abroad with immediate effect, after an official inquiry found many abuses. The investigation focused on the adoption of children from Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka from 1967...

A glacier landslide near the Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district in India has swept away vast areas downstream. It is feared that one hundred to one hundred and fifty people may be killed. Prime...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Saturday to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite a blockade on the internet by the junta....

Bangladesh is set to witness the launching of a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign tomorrow as inoculates reached designated government medical warehouses up to the Upazila level. “Everything is set to launch it (campaign) tomorrow,” health services...

POTUS Joe Biden met Monday with a group of Republican senators who are pushing an alternative to his massive Covid-19 relief plan, but no agreement was reached, reports BSS. Biden, who campaigned on restoring bipartisanship in...

Israel says it is transferring 5,000 doses of Covid vaccine to immunise frontline Palestinian health workers. Israel has one of the most advanced vaccination programmes in the world but Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and...

Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party...

American talk show legend Larry King has passed away. He was 87. He died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles after losing his fight with coronavirus. A statement posted online by his Ora Media...