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Coronavirus: Japan declares virus emergency in Tokyo as Olympics near
Japan has announced emergency Covid measures in Tokyo and three other areas in a bid to curb rising infections, just...
India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
India has suspended mobile internet services in three areas around the capital, Delhi, where farmers are staging a hunger strike...
Coronavirus vaccine: India begins world’s biggest drive
A sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation...
National security law: Hong Kong rounds up 53 pro-democracy activists
More than 50 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists and politicians have been arrested in the biggest crackdown since...
Wall Street to kick out Chinese telecom giants
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it will delist three Chinese telecommunications firms based on claimed links with its...
Hong Kong democracy activists caught at sea go on trial in China
Ten of 12 Hong Kong democracy activists arrested at sea as they tried to flee to Taiwan by speedboat have...
A scene in The Pianist changed Arson Fahim’s life
Arson Fahim was five years old when he first saw Roman Polanski's World War Two film The Pianist. Fahim was...
Japan ‘Twitter killer’ Takahiro Shiraishi sentenced to death
A man who murdered nine people after contacting them on Twitter has been sentenced to death, in a high-profile case...
China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission probe touches down
China has successfully put another probe on the Moon. Its robotic Chang'e-5 mission touched down a short while ago with the aim...
Pig guts fly as Taiwan lawmakers brawl over US pork imports
Taiwan's opposition legislators have thrown pig guts and exchanged blows in parliament amid a heated row over the easing of...
German Constitutional Court upholds ban on anti-lockdown protest
An anti-lockdown group had filed an urgent court appeal hoping to allow 20,000 people to gather in Bremen. Despite the...
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