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Afghan women should not work alongside men: senior Taliban figure

Waheedullah Hashimi says shariah law does not allow men, women to sit together under one roof

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S’pore site critical of govt gets licence suspended as critics cry censorship

Human Rights Watch says authorities have long sought to shut down The Online Citizen ‘by hook or by crook’

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Facebook shields VIPs from some of its rules, says report

Double standard on content moderation would defy earlier assurances by platform on what is allowed

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Mass testing, school closures in southern China as Covid-19 hits kids

Fujian cluster’s suspected patient zero is a man who recently returned from Singapore and went on to infect 12-year-old son

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Prince Andrew to challenge US jurisdiction in sex assault suit

Lawyers say UK royal has also not been served legal papers in the case

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Blinken asks Pakistan to ‘line up’ in pressuring Taliban

Deny new Afghan govt legitimacy unless it meets international demands, world community told

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China’s foreign minister visits S’pore in pushback against US

Southeast Asia an increasingly important battleground for world’s two biggest economies

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Indonesia eases Covid-19 curbs in Bali

Borders will, however, be tightened, says minister

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Flood, storm surge warnings as Hurricane Nicholas heads for Texas

120kph winds, 460ml rain expected in Houston area, say weather officials

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British American Tobacco made dubious payments to Africa: watchdog

Multinational allegedly doled out more than US$600,000 between 2008 and 2013, says STOP

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Apple issues fix for flaw linked to Israeli Pegasus spyware

This comes after international probe claims software used to spy on activists, journalists, heads of state

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Suspected Jemaah Islamiyah leader Abu Rusdan held in Indonesia

Convicted militant known to be active among unlawful JI network’s leadership, say police

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England to offer Covid-19 vaccine to those 12-15 years old

This follows unanimous recommendation from all 4 chief medical officers in United Kingdom