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Trains halted, scores injured as Japan cleans up after strong quake

Published On: February 14, 2021 08:54 AM NPT By: Reuters

IWAKI, Feb 14: More than 100 people were injured and trains halted over a wide swathe of northeastern Japan on Sunday after the region was jolted by a major earthquake in the same area as the 2001 Fukushima quake that set off a tsunami nearly 10 years ago.

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Myanmar army hunts protest backers over social media comments

Published On: February 13, 2021 09:27 PM NPT By: Reuters

MYANMAR, Feb 13: Myanmar’s army on Saturday ordered the arrest of seven well-known backers of protests against this month’s coup, including Min Ko Naing, who has been a leading pro-democracy activist since bloodily supressed protests in 1988.

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China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says

Published On: February 13, 2021 05:29 PM NPT By: Reuters

SHANGHAI, Feb 13: China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.

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India, pharmacy of the world, falls behind on vaccinations at home

Published On: February 12, 2021 05:35 PM NPT By: Reuters

NEW DELHI, Feb 12: India has won plaudits for gifting and selling COVID-19 vaccines around the world, but it will have to crank up the pace of immunisations at home to meet its targets.

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Three wounded as hundreds of thousands of protesters defy Myanmar junta

Published On: February 12, 2021 04:42 PM NPT By: Reuters

MYANMAR, Feb 12: Supporters of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi clashed with police on Friday as hundreds of thousands joined nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations in defiance of the junta’s call to halt mass gatherings.

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Eight overseas players in highest bracket for IPL auction

Published On: February 12, 2021 03:18 PM NPT By: Reuters

MUMBAI, Feb 12: Eight overseas players and two Indian players have chosen to be slotted in the highest bracket of the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction with a base price of two crore rupees ($275,000), India’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Thursday.

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BBC World News barred in mainland China, dropped by HK public broadcaster

Published On: February 12, 2021 01:59 PM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, Feb 12: China barred Britain’s BBC World News from airing on Friday and Hong Kong’s public broadcaster said it was dropping the channel, a week after Britain’s media regulator revoked Chinese state television’s UK broadcast licence.

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Biden says Trump 'did not do his job' on coronavirus vaccination program, urges patience

Published On: February 12, 2021 08:35 AM NPT By: Reuters

BETHESDA, Md., Feb 12: U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said the coronavirus vaccination program he inherited from Donald Trump was in “much worse shape” than he had expected, while urging patience and also announcing the government has bought 200 million more doses.

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Tokyo Olympics chief set to quit over sexist remarks in another blow to the Games

Published On: February 12, 2021 08:15 AM NPT By: Reuters

TOKYO, Feb 12: Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori is expected to resign on Friday over his sexist comments, with the mayor of the Olympic village Saburo Kawabuchi saying Mori had asked him to take over.

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Six die in icy Texas pileup as frigid weather blankets much of U.S

Published On: February 12, 2021 08:11 AM NPT By: Reuters

USA, Feb 12: Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an Arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas, where six people died in a multi-vehicle pileup.

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If Senate does not convict Trump, 'he can do this again,' Democrats warn

Published On: February 12, 2021 07:55 AM NPT By: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 12: Democratic prosecutors making the case that Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection by encouraging his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol warned the Senate on Thursday that if it fails to convict the former president, “he can do this again.”

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If Senate does not convict Trump, 'he can do this again,' Democrats warn

Published On: February 12, 2021 07:12 AM NPT By: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Feb 12: - Democratic prosecutors making the case that Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection by encouraging his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol warned the Senate on Thursday that if it fails to convict the former president, “he can do this again.”

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Suu Kyi aide, electoral officials arrested in Myanmar, Biden approves sanctions

Published On: February 11, 2021 04:16 PM NPT By: Reuters

MYANMAR, Feb 11: A close aide to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in a new wave of arrests following last week’s military coup, a party official said on Thursday, as Washington moved a step closer to imposing sanctions on the junta.

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Presidents Biden and Xi hold first phone call amid tense U.S.-China relations

Published On: February 11, 2021 12:03 PM NPT By: Reuters

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Feb 11: U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held their first telephone call as leaders, with Biden saying a free and open Indo-Pacific was a priority and Xi warning confrontation would be a ‘disaster’ for both nations.

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India says reached accord with China for troop pull back on disputed border

Published On: February 11, 2021 11:52 AM NPT By: Reuters

NEW DELHI, Feb 11: India and China have agreed to disengage troops from a bitterly contested lake area in the western Himalayas, the Indian defence minister said on Thursday, in a breakthrough after a months-long standoff on the disputed border.

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Biden approves order for sanctions on Myanmar generals, businesses

Published On: February 11, 2021 08:09 AM NPT By: Reuters

NEW YORK, Feb 11: U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he had approved an executive order for new sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in Myanmar and he repeated demands for the generals to give up power and free civilian leaders.

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Yemen's Houthis say they carried out drone attack on Saudi airport

Published On: February 10, 2021 07:51 PM NPT By: Reuters

DUBAI, Feb 10: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it carried out a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Wednesday which the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces in Yemen said caused a fire in a civilian aircraft.

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Twenty U.N. peacekeepers injured in central Mali attack

Published On: February 10, 2021 06:15 PM NPT By: Reuters

BAMAKO, Feb 10: Twenty United Nations peacekeepers were injured, including several seriously, in central Mali on Wednesday when their base came under fire, a U.N. mission spokesman said.

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In Indian Himalayas, drones draw blank in search for workers missing in flooded tunnel

Published On: February 10, 2021 05:58 PM NPT By: Reuters

TAPOVAN, India, Feb 10: Rescuers in northern India made a vain attempt on Wednesday to find signs of life using a drone to search for 35 construction workers missing inside a tunnel days after a flash flood swept down a mountain valley destroying dams and bridges.

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Protests rock Myanmar for fifth day, West condemns security response

Published On: February 10, 2021 05:50 PM NPT By: Reuters

MYANMAR, Feb 10: Protesters took to the streets of Myanmar for a fifth day on Wednesday, vowing to keep up demonstrations against last week’s military coup even after a woman was shot and critically wounded during clashes the previous day.

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