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NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street ended the week with new records after Fed chairman Jerome Powell signalled the central

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TAIPEI • Taiwan’s foreign minister accused China yesterday of wanting to “emulate” the Taleban, saying the island that Beijing claims

WASHINGTON • US President Joe Biden has nominated Mr Nicholas Burns, a veteran foreign service officer and a former envoy

SEOUL • Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong walked out of prison visibly thinner and with more white hair. He had reportedly

Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong has re-emerged in public a week after his release on parole, only to attend a trial

ATHENS • Ms April DeMuth and her partner, Mr Warren Watson, had just finished what they described as the perfect

BENGALURU • India’s drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Zydus Cadila’s vaccine, the world’s first DNA shot against

HANOI • Vietnam’s plan to prohibit residents of Ho Chi Minh City from leaving their homes starting tomorrow has triggered

SHANGHAI • The authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh Covid-19 outbreak

WELLINGTON • New Zealand recorded 21 new cases of Covid-19 yesterday, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warning that the number

MELBOURNE • Australian police arrested yesterday hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney, with seven officers hospitalised as a

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to enable the federal government to cancel state and university deals with foreign governments

Kremlin critic’s condition improves BERLIN • The Berlin hospital treating leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said there was some

NEW YORK • The National Basketball Association announced a plan to convert some of its arenas into polling places for

KENOSHA (Wisconsin) • Days after a Kenosha police officer shot Mr Jacob Blake, a black man, outside an apartment building,

LONDONDERRY (New Hampshire) • Fresh from accepting the Republican nomination, US President Donald Trump had harsh words for anti-racism protesters

Activist lawyer Arnon Nampa sang a medley of folk songs at a Bangkok police station on Friday. Holding a cordless

TOKYO • United States President Donald Trump has paid his “highest respect” to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who resigned

The race to succeed outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is intensifying, with a flurry of brokering and manoeuvring in

KUALA LUMPUR • Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin called off last night’s highly anticipated launch of his Perikatan Nasional (PN) in

Malaysia’s largest ruling party Umno scored a thumping victory with 85 per cent of the votes in yesterday’s by-election in

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Manufacturing activity in the United States contracted less than expected in March, but disruptions caused by the

SINGAPORE – SPH Reit (real estate investment trust) will be extending its relief scheme for tenants affected by the Covid-19

SINGAPORE – British technology giant Dyson has appointed a new chief executive officer, it announced on Wednesday (April 1). Mr