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A pro-democracy protester (C) waves a British colonial flag during a \Lunch With You\ rally at a shopping mall in the Central district in Hong Kong. (AFP)World
Tensions simmer in Hong Kong as controversial anthem law back up for...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam accuse foreign governments on Tuesday of 'double standards' in their reaction to Beijing's...

3 Jun 2020 10:36 AM IST

Japan allows saliva-based tests to boost coronavirus detection. (AFP Photo)World
Japan allows saliva-based tests to boost coronavirus detection

The saliva-based PCR tests can be given to those who have had symptoms for up to nine days, Japan's health ministry said

2 Jun 2020 12:50 PM IST

Armenias Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. (AFP)World
Armenian PM Pashinyan tests positive for coronavirus

Armenia has registered 9,402 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of Monday and 139 deaths

1 Jun 2020 2:08 PM IST

A picture made available on May 30, 2020, by a friend of Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz shows him (left) with Portugals Prime Minister Antonio Costa in the capital Lisbon in 2017. (AFP)West Asia
Saudi's Game Of Thrones: Pressure grows to release jailed prince

The detention of Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz and his father since January 2018 is part of a clampdown under the current...

1 Jun 2020 12:12 PM IST

A Palestinian woman argues with a member of Israeli security forces, as she takes part in a protest at the Damascus Gate of the old city of Jerusalem. (AFP)West Asia
Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian shot by Israeli police

The 32-year old man was suspected of carrying a weapon and shot at, but was later found to have been unarmed

1 Jun 2020 11:43 AM IST

Protesters hold signs against the Israeli police after they shoot dead an unarmed autistic Palestinian man Iyad Halak in Jerusalems Old City on Saturday after saying they suspected he was carrying a weapon. (AP)West Asia
Israeli forces kill unarmed autistic Palestinian man

The incident drew broad condemnations in the context of uprising over death of George Floyd in US

31 May 2020 3:13 PM IST

Pro-China supporters hold the effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese national flag outside the U.S. Consulate during a protest, in Hong Kong, Saturday, May 30, 2020.(AP)World
China says US action on Hong Kong doomed to fail'

Small groups of Beijing supporters marched to the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong on Saturday carrying Chinese flags and...

31 May 2020 11:07 AM IST

An Afghan security personnel investigates a damaged vehicle carrying employees of Khurshid TV along a roadside, at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul on May 30,2020. (AFP)West Asia
Islamic State kills Afghan journalist, technician in bus blast

Taliban and other Islamist insurgents have repeatedly targeted Afghan journalists, killing 15 in 2018, the worst year...

31 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

Israeli soldiers patrol roads. (AP)West Asia
Israel police kill Palestinian mistaken for carrying weapons

There has been an uptick in violence in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent days

30 May 2020 3:03 PM IST

Ali Erbas, the head of Turkeys highest religious authority prays in front of worshippers wearing protective facemasks maintaining the required social distance during the Friday prayer in The Fatih Mosque in Istanbul. (AFP)West Asia
Turkish mosques reopen for mass prayers

President Erdogan said many other sites like restaurants and cafes as well as libraries, parks and beaches will reopen...

30 May 2020 11:55 AM IST

Ethiopian Jewish immigrants making their Aliyah (Immigration to Israel) in protective gear amid the COVID-19 pandemic, wave Israeli flags as they step off a plane at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, east of Tel Aviv. (AFP)West Asia
Israel looks to export its coronavirus coping skills

Covid-19 patients equipped with -"oximeters-" are contacted twice daily by medical teams who ask them to report their...

29 May 2020 3:32 PM IST

Hong Kong students and Taiwanese supporters hold slogan reading \ Evil Law Under the Pressure of the Border, Work Hand in Hand \ and The asylum mechanism is clearly in place during a protest against Beijings national security legislation in Taipei, Taiwan. (AP)World
China looks at Taiwan after Hong Kong

Top China general says China will attack Taiwan if there is no other way of stopping it from becoming independent

29 May 2020 12:30 PM IST

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