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Indonesia rattled by 7.6 magnitude quake, tsunami warning lifted

Indonesia rattled by 7.6 magnitude quake, tsunami warning lifted

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 11:45:28

Indonesia was struck by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday off the Tanimbar islands, prompting panicked residents in the area to flee their homes, although a tsunami warning was lifted a...

COVID wave past its peak in many parts of China

COVID wave past its peak in many parts of China

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 11:36:25

Many parts of China are already past their peak of COVID-19 infections, state media reported on Tuesday, with officials further downpl...

Australia lays out plan to make biggest polluters slash emissions

Australia lays out plan to make biggest polluters slash emissions

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-10 10:39:31

Australia's Labour government on Tuesday proposed to make the country's biggest polluters slash their emissions by at least 30 per cent over the next seven years, with some leewa...

Saudi Arabia will impose no restrictions for 2023 Hajj season

Saudi Arabia will impose no restrictions for 2023 Hajj season

-- 2023-01-09 23:20:07

Saudi Arabia will host a number of pilgrims for the 2023 Hajj season similar to what it took in prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reported citing state media of the kingdom on Monday. Riyadh wi...

Iran sentences three more protesters to death

Iran sentences three more protesters to death

-- 2023-01-09 21:19:34

Iran's judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of "waging war on God", its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over...

Israel orders removal of Palestinian flags from public spaces

Israel orders removal of Palestinian flags from public spaces

-- 2023-01-09 17:49:00

Israel's new far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Sunday that he instructed police to remove Palestinian flags from public spaces. Israeli law does not outlaw Palestinian flag...

UN chief calls for ‘massive investments’ for Pakistan recovery

UN chief calls for ‘massive investments’ for Pakistan recovery

-- 2023-01-09 17:01:55

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for massive support to help Pakistan with a $16 billion rebuilding effort following devastating floods, saying the country had been the victim of...

Chinese rush to renew passports as Covid border curbs lifted

Chinese rush to renew passports as Covid border curbs lifted

-- 2023-01-09 15:24:33

People joined long queues outside immigration offices in Beijing on Monday, eager to renew their passports after China dropped Covid border controls that had largely prevented its 1.4 billion resident...

Taiwan condemns China for latest combat drills near island

Taiwan condemns China for latest combat drills near island

Reuters 2023-01-09 14:33:44

Taiwan condemned China on Monday for holding its second military combat drills around the island in less than a month, with the defence ministry saying it had detected 57 Chinese aircraft. China view...

Delhi fog delays flights, cold wave closes schools

Delhi fog delays flights, cold wave closes schools

Reuters 2023-01-09 12:54:59

Heavy fog in Delhi on Monday delayed flights, and a cold wave forced authorities to defer school reopenings a week, as visibility fell and cars drove with their hazard lights on. The Indira Gandhi In...

Boat with 185 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia's Aceh region

Boat with 185 Rohingya refugees land in Indonesia's Aceh region

-- 2023-01-08 17:33:36

A boat with 185 Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday, a local disaster agency official said, following hundreds who arrived late last year fleeing desperate co...

Iran hangs two men accused of killing security agent

Iran hangs two men accused of killing security agent

Reuters 2023-01-08 12:04:49

Iran hanged two men on Saturday (January 7) for allegedly killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests that stemmed from the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September. Video...

17 dead in China crash as holiday travel rush gets underway

17 dead in China crash as holiday travel rush gets underway

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-08 11:18:30

 A traffic accident in southern China killed 17 people and injured 22 others early Sunday as the annual Lunar New Year holiday travel rush got underway, authorities said. The accident occurred o...

China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID

China reopens borders in final farewell to zero-COVID

Reuters 2023-01-08 09:19:47

Travellers began streaming across land and sea crossings from Hong Kong to mainland China on Sunday, many eager for long-awaited reunions, as Beijing opened borders that have been all but shut since t...

China's 'great migration' kicks-off under shadow of COVID

China's 'great migration' kicks-off under shadow of COVID

-- 2023-01-07 16:05:35

China on Saturday marked the first day of "chun yun", the 40-day period of Lunar New Year travel known pre-pandemic as the world's largest annual migration of people, bracing for a huge increase in tr...

Nearly 200 people in Himalayan town evacuated after homes develop cracks

Nearly 200 people in Himalayan town evacuated after homes develop cracks

-- 2023-01-07 14:51:40

Indian authorities have moved nearly 200 people from their homes in the Himalayan town of Joshimath, an official said on Saturday, after hundreds of buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tou...

Iran hangs two men accused of killing security official during protests

Iran hangs two men accused of killing security official during protests

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-07 14:47:58

Iran hanged two men on Saturday for allegedly killing a security official during nationwide protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini on Sept 16, Reuters...

China suspends social media accounts of COVID policy critics

China suspends social media accounts of COVID policy critics

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-07 12:05:19

China has suspended or closed the social media accounts of more than 1,000 critics of the government’s policies on the COVID-19 outbreak, as the country moves to further open up. The popular Si...

Taliban to sign oil extraction deal with Chinese company

Taliban to sign oil extraction deal with Chinese company

-- 2023-01-06 17:50:36

Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country's north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday. The...

Afghan hospitals filled with children suffering from pneumonia

Afghan hospitals filled with children suffering from pneumonia

REUTERS 2023-01-06 15:36:01

In a bitterly cold bedroom at the start of winter in Kabul, 22-year Maryam sat with her baby son bundled up in a red jumper as he coughed days after being discharged for the third time from a hospital...

Pakistan security forces kill 11 militants to foil 'major terrorist activity'

Pakistan security forces kill 11 militants to foil 'major terrorist activity'

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-06 15:27:20

Eleven militants of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed by security forces after the banned outfit threatened a campaign against two of the main political parties heading the country&rsq...

Panic in India's Uttarakhand town over large cracks in homes

Panic in India's Uttarakhand town over large cracks in homes

BBC 2023-01-06 14:37:08

Residents of Joshimath town in Uttarakhand state in India are demanding evacuation and rehabilitation after large cracks appeared in their homes. On Thursday, officials stopped several co...

New Arab allies face quandary as Israel shifts hard-right

New Arab allies face quandary as Israel shifts hard-right

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-06 13:27:11

Israel's sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard-right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal with ultra-nationalists while trying...

As Covid-hit China reopens to the world, countries put up travel barriers

As Covid-hit China reopens to the world, countries put up travel barriers

-- 2023-01-06 13:07:30

With China days away from dropping border controls that have effectively shut it off from the rest of the world for three years, countries are lining up to impose curbs on travellers from China to con...

India approves $2.3b to develop green hydrogen

India approves $2.3b to develop green hydrogen

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-06 11:06:10

The government has approved $2.3 billion to support production, use and exports of green hydrogen, aiming to make India a global hub for the nascent industry. The funding, announced late Wednesday, i...

US warship sails through sensitive Taiwan Strait; China angered

US warship sails through sensitive Taiwan Strait; China angered

-- 2023-01-06 10:32:59

A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, part of what the US military calls routine activity but which has riled China. In recent years, US warships, and on occasion those...

Former minister, writer among Myanmar prisoners freed in amnesty

Former minister, writer among Myanmar prisoners freed in amnesty

-- 2023-01-05 17:07:59

Myanmar's junta has freed a former minister in the ousted government of Aung Sang Suu Kyi and a well-known writer among political detainees given amnesty to mark the country's independence day, accord...

India finds 11 omicron subvariants in international travellers

India finds 11 omicron subvariants in international travellers

-- 2023-01-05 17:03:02

India detected a total of 11 subvariants of Covid-19 in international travellers who arrived in the country during Dec 24 to Jan 3, health ministry sources said on Thursday, adding they were a mix of...

UN Security Council to meet on Taliban ban on female aid workers

UN Security Council to meet on Taliban ban on female aid workers

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-05 15:04:41

The United Nations Security Council is due to meet privately next week to discuss a decision by Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration to ban female humanitarian aid workers, diplomats said We...

China to open border with Hong Kong on Sunday

China to open border with Hong Kong on Sunday

-- 2023-01-05 12:18:31

China will reopen the border with its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Sunday for the first time in three years, as it accelerates the unwinding of stringent Covid rules that have battere...