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Iran warns EU not to list Revolutionary Guards as terrorist entity

Iran warns EU not to list Revolutionary Guards as terrorist entity

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-19 13:48:32

Iran warned on Thursday that the European Union would "shoot itself in the foot" by listing the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told the...

Jacinda Ardern to step down as New Zealand prime minister

Jacinda Ardern to step down as New Zealand prime minister

-- 2023-01-19 11:38:59

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday made a shock announcement she had "no more in the tank" to continue leading the country and would step down no later than early February and not s...

Freezing weather claims 25 lives in Afghanistan

Freezing weather claims 25 lives in Afghanistan

-- 2023-01-18 20:11:58

Heavy snowfall and freezing weather have claimed 25 lives including children and women in Afghanistan's northern Jawzjan and neighbouring Sari Pul provinces over the past few days, officials said Wedn...

Magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sulawesi island

Magnitude 7.0 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sulawesi island

-- 2023-01-18 16:51:00

A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island on Wednesday, prompting panicked residents in some towns nearest to the epicentre to flee buildings and with the tremor felt in the neig...

Imran Khan dissolves provincial govts to push for early Pakistan election

Imran Khan dissolves provincial govts to push for early Pakistan election

-- 2023-01-18 16:42:04

Seeking to force Pakistan to hold an early national election, the opposition party led by former prime minister Imran Khan dissolved its provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, three...

Taliban publicly cut off hands of four men suspected of theft

Taliban publicly cut off hands of four men suspected of theft

bdnews24.com 2023-01-18 11:56:04

The Taliban have reportedly cut off the hands of four people in front of spectators in a football stadium in Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Shabnam Nasimi, former policy advisor to the minister for Afg...

Iran's 'death committee' president unyielding in defence of clerical rule

Iran's 'death committee' president unyielding in defence of clerical rule

Reuters 2023-01-18 09:15:51

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say. Now president three de...

Nepal finds all but one missing person following deadly plane crash

Nepal finds all but one missing person following deadly plane crash

-- 2023-01-17 19:38:26

Rescuers used drones and abseiled down a deep gorge on Tuesday looking for the last missing person from Nepal's worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small childre...

Aid groups resume some Afghan operations with female staff

Aid groups resume some Afghan operations with female staff

-- 2023-01-17 19:32:27

Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban-run authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictio...

Singapore expects full tourism recovery by 2024

Singapore expects full tourism recovery by 2024

-- 2023-01-17 17:36:45

Singapore's international arrivals beat forecasts in 2022, paving the way for its tourism sector to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, its tourism authority said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.&nbsp...

Families mourn Nepal plane victims, data box sent to France

Families mourn Nepal plane victims, data box sent to France

-- 2023-01-17 17:15:48

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and were sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused...

Vietnam’s president resigns

Vietnam’s president resigns

-- 2023-01-17 16:02:20

Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has submitted his resignation after the ruling Communist Party found him responsible for violations and wrongdoing of numerous officials under him, the country's o...

Pakistan PM Sharif offers talks with arch-rival India

Pakistan PM Sharif offers talks with arch-rival India

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-17 14:47:04

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered his Indian counterpart talks over all outstanding issues, including disputed Kashmir, which he believes could be facilitated by the United Arab...

Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for foreign pilgrims by 63pc

Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for foreign pilgrims by 63pc

UNB 2023-01-17 13:54:30

The Saudi government has announced that the cost of the comprehensive insurance for foreign Umrah performers has been reduced by 63 per cent. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of KSA has cut the cost fr...

Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers

Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers

Reuters 2023-01-17 12:16:38

Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal on Tuesday to search for two passengers still unaccounted for after the country's deadliest plane crash in 30...

China’s population falls for first time since 1961, highlights demographic crisis

China’s population falls for first time since 1961, highlights demographic crisis

Reuters 2023-01-17 10:00:05

China's population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications fo...

Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter to seek Thai premiership

Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter to seek Thai premiership

-- 2023-01-16 20:25:42

The daughter of Thailand's self-exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra has declared her readiness to run for prime minister in an election this year, as the main opposition seeks to regain power afte...

Human rights activist shot dead in Pakistan

Human rights activist shot dead in Pakistan

-- 2023-01-16 18:26:31

A prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist known as a vocal critic of both the military and Islamist militants was shot dead on Monday at a court in the northwestern city of Peshawar, poli...

Bangladesh, some other countries keen on rupee trade with India

Bangladesh, some other countries keen on rupee trade with India

-- 2023-01-16 18:17:58

Russia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Bangladesh are some of the countries that are keen on rupee trade with India, an Indian trade ministry official said on Monday. Satya Srinivas, a secretary at the tra...

Nepal plane crash: Pilot didn’t report anything untoward, official says

Nepal plane crash: Pilot didn’t report anything untoward, official says

-- 2023-01-16 17:36:11

The pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report "anything untoward" as the plane approached the airport, a spokesman said. Anup Joshi said that the "mountains were clear and visibility w...

Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash

Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash

-- 2023-01-16 15:56:51

Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 yea...

Last moments of Nepal plane crash captured on Facebook Live

Last moments of Nepal plane crash captured on Facebook Live

-- 2023-01-16 15:50:08

A mobile phone recovered from the wreckage of the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday, has apparently captured the final disturbing moments of the doomed flight, reports bdnews24.com c...

Jailed Iranian American appeals to Biden, starts hunger strike

Jailed Iranian American appeals to Biden, starts hunger strike

-- 2023-01-16 15:23:56

An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless appealed to US President Joe Biden on Monday to bring him home and said he...

Violence at Indonesia nickel smelter protest kills two

Violence at Indonesia nickel smelter protest kills two

-- 2023-01-16 15:18:21

Two workers were killed in clashes and rioting at an Indonesian nickel smelting facility at the weekend, officials said on Monday, after violence erupted during a protest by a labour group demanding b...

China braces for COVID holiday surge as people leave megacities for hometowns

China braces for COVID holiday surge as people leave megacities for hometowns

Reuters 2023-01-16 14:00:50

Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a COVID-19 outbreak that has claim...

Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul

Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul

Reuters 2023-01-16 12:07:50

A former female member of Afghanistan's parliament has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said. Mursal Nabizada and her guard were shot dead and her brother was injured in Sun...

Search resumes for four people missing in Nepal after deadly plane crash

Search resumes for four people missing in Nepal after deadly plane crash

-- 2023-01-16 12:04:22

Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. Rescuers had recovered 68 bodies out...

Why Japan is seeking military ties beyond its US ally

Why Japan is seeking military ties beyond its US ally

REUTERS 2023-01-15 19:15:14

Before meeting President Joe Biden in Washington DC, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Italy, France, Britain and Canada, in part to forge security ties that could help it fend off China,...

60 confirmed dead after Nepal plane crashes during landing

60 confirmed dead after Nepal plane crashes during landing

-- 2023-01-15 17:32:40

An official in Nepal said 60 people have been confirmed dead after a regional passenger plane with 72 aboard crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara,...

Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous Nepal

Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous Nepal

REUTERS 2023-01-15 17:25:44

Mountainous Nepal, where at least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a plane crashed in the tourist town of Pokhara, has a history of deadly air crashes. Here are details of plane and helicopter cr...