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China property sector default woes deepen amid Evergrande uncertainty
Worries about rising debt defaults by Chinese property developers sapped investor sentiment on Tuesday amid fresh credit rating downgrades and uncertainty about ...Afghanistan to start issuing passports again after months of delays
Afghanistan will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday after months of delays, a senior official said. Alam Gul Haqqani, ...Thailand joins Asian nations in rush to buy Merck’s COVID-19 pill
Thailand’s government is in talks with Merck & Co to buy 200,000 courses of its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 treatment, the ...China mounts largest incursion yet near Taiwan, blames U.S. for tensions
China blamed the United States on Monday for increased tensions over Taiwan, as the island fingered Beijing as the “chief culprit” after ...Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down in global outage
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as ...Prophet Mohammed cartoonist dies in car crash
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who lived under police protection after his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Mohammed prompted death threats, died Sunday ...Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth
A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organisations on Sunday (Oct 3) that allegedly tie world leaders ...Russia test fires submarine-launched hypersonic Tsirkon missile for first time
Russia said on Monday it had successfully test launched a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine for the first time, ...Two Koreas reopen hotlines as North urges South to mend ties
The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with Pyongyang urging Seoul to step up efforts ...Covid-19 antiviral pill could be a game changer
An experimental antiviral pill developed by Merck & Co could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalized for those most at ...