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Total cases in India have gone past 14.5 million, second only to the United States which has reported more than 32 million infections [File: Amit Dave/Reuters]

‘Frightening’: Weekend shutdown in Delhi as COVID grips India

India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave with another record high of 234,692 new cases on Saturday.

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A woman reacts in front of a Palestinian house demolished by Israeli forces near Hebron [File: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

Why Joe Biden will not change Palestinian lives

Pledges by the Biden administration to change course in the Israel-Palestinian conflict are unlikely to materialise.

Blindfolded boys play the role of prisoners during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day [File: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

‘Lives gone’: Palestinians mark Prisoner’s Day

Investors, analysts and Cuban citizens will all be watching this weekend's congress closely — and seeing how many more of the country's so-called 'historic generation' actually depart, as Raul Castro (centre) has. That, experts say, will be crucial to knowing whether economic change is actually in the cards or whether business will continue as usual [File: Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]
EDITOR'S ANALYSIS

As Cuba turns page on Castro era, economic reform gains urgency

Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down with two missiles fired from an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp battery in January 2020 [File: AFP]

Iran rejects claim Ukraine’s plane shot down intentionally

Workers were protesting over unpaid wages, working hours and alleged discrimination [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]

At least 5 shot dead by police at Bangladesh power plant protests

Most of the detainees released on Saturday were jailed before the February 1 coup [Stringer/Reuters]

Myanmar frees thousands of prisoners but many dissidents excluded

Eritrea and Ethiopia blame the conflict on TPLF-orchestrated attacks on federal army camps in early November and describe it as a campaign to restore law and order [File: Baz Ratner/Reuters]

Eritrea confirms its troops are fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The targets of Israeli attacks reportedly included a 'training facility, an anti-aircraft missile launcher post, a concrete production plant & terror tunnel infrastructure' [File: AP Photo]

Israeli air strikes target Gaza again after rocket attack

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran's new nuclear achievements during the National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran on April 10, 2021 [Iranian Presidency Office/WANA via Reuters]

Iran says GCC trying to derail nuclear talks in Vienna


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A woman reacts in front of a Palestinian house demolished by Israeli forces near Hebron [File: Mussa Qawasma/Reuters]

Why Joe Biden will not change Palestinian lives

Blindfolded boys play the role of prisoners during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day [File: Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]

‘Lives gone’: Palestinians mark Prisoner’s Day

Investors, analysts and Cuban citizens will all be watching this weekend's congress closely — and seeing how many more of the country's so-called 'historic generation' actually depart, as Raul Castro (centre) has. That, experts say, will be crucial to knowing whether economic change is actually in the cards or whether business will continue as usual [File: Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]
EDITOR'S ANALYSIS

As Cuba turns page on Castro era, economic reform gains urgency

Ukraine International Airlines flight was shot down with two missiles fired from an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp battery in January 2020 [File: AFP]

Iran rejects claim Ukraine’s plane shot down intentionally

Workers were protesting over unpaid wages, working hours and alleged discrimination [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]

At least 5 shot dead by police at Bangladesh power plant protests

Most of the detainees released on Saturday were jailed before the February 1 coup [Stringer/Reuters]

Myanmar frees thousands of prisoners but many dissidents excluded

Eritrea and Ethiopia blame the conflict on TPLF-orchestrated attacks on federal army camps in early November and describe it as a campaign to restore law and order [File: Baz Ratner/Reuters]

Eritrea confirms its troops are fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The targets of Israeli attacks reportedly included a 'training facility, an anti-aircraft missile launcher post, a concrete production plant & terror tunnel infrastructure' [File: AP Photo]

Israeli air strikes target Gaza again after rocket attack

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran's new nuclear achievements during the National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran on April 10, 2021 [Iranian Presidency Office/WANA via Reuters]

Iran says GCC trying to derail nuclear talks in Vienna

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This satellite image released by NASA shows Tropical Cyclone Seroja bearing down on the coast of Western Australia [NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP]

Cyclone Seroja cuts power to thousands in Western Australia

Australia began its vaccination campaign in February, mostly using AstraZeneca but with some doses of the Pfizer BioNTech jab [File: Toby Zerna/Pool Photo via AP]

Australia drops vaccine goal after AstraZeneca advice change

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison [File: Issei Kato/Reuters]

Australia to end sexual harassment exemption for politicians

The UK set up its new tech firm regulator after concluding that Facebook and Google have significant market power in their respective sectors [File: Chris Jackson/Getty Images]

New UK watchdog set to curb Big Tech’s hold over news media

Though most Australian states have allowed quarantine-free visits from New Zealanders for months, New Zealand has continued mandatory quarantine from its neighbour, citing concern about small COVID-19 outbreaks there [Marty Melville/AFP]

Australia-New Zealand travel bubble to begin on April 19

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government on February 1 [Handout/ AFP]

Australian couple released from detention in Myanmar

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Workers were protesting over unpaid wages, working hours and alleged discrimination [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]

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Migrant people and workers leave Dhaka in speedboats before the countrywide lockdown, at Mawa ferry port in Munshiganj [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]

Bangladesh COVID shutdown triggers exodus from capital Dhaka

A few vehicles ply on a usually clogged street during a coronavirus lockdown in Dhaka last week [Al-emrun Garjon/AP]

Bangladesh to impose week-long air travel ban after COVID surge

Bangladeshi police make a rickshaw puller wear a mask as they enforce a lockdown in Dhaka [Al-emrun Garjon/AP]

Bangladesh protest over COVID curbs turns violent, three shot

Packed ferries at Dhaka's Sadarghat ferry terminal taking people home as Bangladesh imposes lockdown [Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

Bangladesh enforces weeklong lockdown amid spike in COVID cases

People work to put out a fire in a makeshift market near a Rohingya camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh [Shafiqur Rahman/AP Photo]

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Russian security service briefly detains Ukrainian diplomat

Russia says Sosoniuk was detained for reportedly trying to obtain classified information.

Tensions between Moscow and Kyiv have been rising amid a build-up of Russian troops along the border and clashes in eastern Ukraine between the army and pro-Moscow separatists [File: Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters]

Queen to bid farewell to Prince Philip in small funeral

The queen will lead just 30 mourners at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral that is restricted by COVID rules.

The ceremony, from behind the stately walls of Windsor Castle, west of London, will be watched by millions on television, with the public urged to stay away because of the pandemic [Phil Noble/Reuters]

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Ukraine may seek nuclear weapons if left out of NATO: Diplomat

Kyiv’s ambassador to Germany calls on the transatlantic security alliance to grant Ukraine long-sought membership.

Ukraine's years-long push for NATO membership has acquired renewed urgency as a result of heightened tensions with Russia [File: Serhiy Takhmazov/Reuters]

Biden, Suga commit to take on China’s challenges in the Pacific

COVID-19, climate, the Tokyo Olympics, North Korea, Xinjiang and Taiwan were topics in first White House meeting.

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, walks from the Oval Office to speak at a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]

Castro era in Cuba to end as Raul confirms his retirement

Move marks the first time in 62 years that Cuba will not have a leader that is named Castro.

Raul Castro led Cuba's army, then succeeded his brother Fidel as president of the country, then first secretary of the Communist Party [File: Alejandro Ernesto/Pool/Reuters]

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