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German parliament approves €9 public transport for summer

German parliament approves €9 public transport for summer

-- 2022-05-20 18:10:05

Germany’s parliament gave final clearance Friday to a plan that will allow people to use local transport across the country for just 9.0 euros ($9.50) per month this summer, a plan that has draw...

Elon Musk denies sexually harassing flight attendant

Elon Musk denies sexually harassing flight attendant

-- 2022-05-20 17:09:33

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce as "utterly untrue" claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016. Business Insi...

China 'quietly increases' purchases of low-priced Russian oil

China 'quietly increases' purchases of low-priced Russian oil

-- 2022-05-20 15:49:17

China is quietly ramping up purchases of oil from Russia at bargain prices, according to shipping data and oil traders who spoke to Reuters, filling the vacuum left by Western buyers backing away from...

Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero Covid'

Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero Covid'

-- 2022-05-20 14:52:28

Shanghai announced its first new Covid-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday, triggering stricter curbs and mass testing in one district but plans to end a prolonged city-wide lock...

North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health official emerges as face of Covid campaign

North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health official emerges as face of Covid campaign

-- 2022-05-20 13:12:10

At 9:30 am every day this week, a soft-spoken official has appeared on North Korean television to report the number of people with fever and new deaths, and to explain measures to stop North Korea's f...

The wild mushrooms killing India tea garden workers

The wild mushrooms killing India tea garden workers

BBC 2022-05-20 12:06:11

When Anjali Kharia sat down for dinner with her daughter on 8 April, she didn't know this would be their last meal together. After a long day of work at a tea garden in Assam's Chapatoli vill...

Sri Lanka's prime minister warns of food shortages

Sri Lanka's prime minister warns of food shortages

-- 2022-05-20 11:54:46

Sri Lanka's prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to...

US aims to arm Ukraine with advanced anti-ship missiles to fight Russian blockade

US aims to arm Ukraine with advanced anti-ship missiles to fight Russian blockade

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-20 11:23:20

The White House is working to put advanced anti-ship missiles in the hands of Ukrainian fighters to help defeat Russia's naval blockade, officials said, amid concerns more powerful weapons that could...

Taliban say female Afghan TV presenters must cover face on air

Taliban say female Afghan TV presenters must cover face on air

-- 2022-05-19 21:21:51

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters on local stations cover their faces when on air, an official said on Thursday. The move comes da...

Russian soldier asks for forgiveness in Ukraine war crimes trial

Russian soldier asks for forgiveness in Ukraine war crimes trial

-- 2022-05-19 21:02:26

A 21-year-old Russian soldier asked a Ukrainian widow to forgive him for the murder of her husband, as a court in Kyiv met for a second hearing on Thursday in the first war crimes trial arising from R...

Sri Lanka fuel shortage set to ease, police clash with protesters

Sri Lanka fuel shortage set to ease, police clash with protesters

-- 2022-05-19 18:14:03

Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said on Thursday, but police fired tear gas and water c...

Why monkeypox cases are rising in Europe

Why monkeypox cases are rising in Europe

-- 2022-05-19 18:00:23

A handful of cases of monkeypox have now been reported or are suspected in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain. The outbreaks are raising alarm because the disease mostly occurs in west and centra...

'I mean Ukraine': Former US president George Bush calls Iraq invasion 'unjustified'

'I mean Ukraine': Former US president George Bush calls Iraq invasion 'unjustified'

-- 2022-05-19 17:01:06

Former US President George W Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as "brutal" and "unjustified" before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bush made...

Russia claims more than 1,700 surrender in Mariupol

Russia claims more than 1,700 surrender in Mariupol

-- 2022-05-19 16:52:56

Moscow said on Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol over three days, including 771 in the past 24 hours, claiming a surrender on a far bigger scale than Kyiv has acknowle...

Erdogan links Sweden, Finland NATO bid to return of 'terrorists'

Erdogan links Sweden, Finland NATO bid to return of 'terrorists'

-- 2022-05-19 09:34:46

Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Sweden should not expect Turkey to approve its NATO bid without returning "terrorists", and Swedish and Finnish delegations should not come to Turkey to convince it to...

India aims to produce half of its arms at home due to ‘turbulent’ world order

India aims to produce half of its arms at home due to ‘turbulent’ world order

-- 2022-05-18 23:33:40

India is looking to domestic firms and eastern European nations for military gear and ammunition, as the world's biggest buyer of Russian arms seeks alternative suppliers at a time when Moscow is figh...

Russia says it uses new generation of laser weapons in Ukraine

Russia says it uses new generation of laser weapons in Ukraine

-- 2022-05-18 22:14:40

Russia on Wednesday said it was using a new generation of powerful laser weapons in Ukraine to burn up drones, deploying some of Moscow's secret weapons to counter a flood of Western arms supplied to...

India frees convict in Rajiv Gandhi murder case after three decades

India frees convict in Rajiv Gandhi murder case after three decades

-- 2022-05-18 21:17:34

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who was convicted of involvement in the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Gandhi was killed...

India’s Hindu groups file petitions to stop Muslims from entering Gyanvapsi mosque

India’s Hindu groups file petitions to stop Muslims from entering Gyanvapsi mosque

-- 2022-05-18 19:57:39

Members of hardline Hindu groups filed petitions in a court in northern India to stop Muslims from entering a historic mosque, until the court decides on an earlier plea seeking approval to look for a...

Russian soldier faces war crimes trial in Ukraine

Russian soldier faces war crimes trial in Ukraine

-- 2022-05-18 19:46:17

A Kyiv district court in Ukraine met on Wednesday to begin hearing its first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier who took part in ongoing war in Ukraine, a case of huge symbolic value for Ukrai...

Spain offers paid leave for women with painful period symptoms

Spain offers paid leave for women with painful period symptoms

-- 2022-05-18 18:20:04

Spain's leftist coalition government on Tuesday approved a draft bill to reinforce abortion rights and make Spain the first country in Europe to offer state-funded paid leave for women who suffer from...

Sri Lanka has no money to pay for fuel, its minister says

Sri Lanka has no money to pay for fuel, its minister says

-- 2022-05-18 17:41:18

Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds, while the energy minister said the country had run out o...

Finland, Sweden hand in application to join NATO

Finland, Sweden hand in application to join NATO

-- 2022-05-18 13:53:50

Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance on Wednesday at allied headquarters, a decision spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and setting in motion an accession process that i...

'Huge' pressure for Shanghai to stay Covid-free as end to lockdown looms

'Huge' pressure for Shanghai to stay Covid-free as end to lockdown looms

-- 2022-05-18 13:41:19

Health authorities in Shanghai faced "huge" pressure to keep China's most populous city free of COVID-19 as residents were counting down the days until June 1 and the end of their lockdown after almos...

Fears for Mariupol defenders after surrender to Russia

Fears for Mariupol defenders after surrender to Russia

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-18 13:08:03

Concerns grew on Wednesday for the welfare of more than 250 Ukrainian fighters who surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol after weeks of desperate resistance. The surren...

China Eastern crash probe eyes intentional action

China Eastern crash probe eyes intentional action

-- 2022-05-18 11:51:26

Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining whether it was due to intentional action on the flight deck, with no evidence found of a technical malfunction, two p...

5.5-magnitude quake hits 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan

5.5-magnitude quake hits 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan

-- 2022-05-17 21:56:24

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan at 13:17:51 GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 11.07 km, was initially determined...

Azovstal siege ends as 265 Ukrainian fighters surrender

Azovstal siege ends as 265 Ukrainian fighters surrender

-- 2022-05-17 21:32:47

Dozens of Ukrainian fighters, some apparently unwounded, surrendered on Tuesday after weeks holed up in the bunkers and tunnels below Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks as the most devastating siege of Ru...

Ukraine hails Mariupol defenders as heroes who changed course of war

Ukraine hails Mariupol defenders as heroes who changed course of war

-- 2022-05-17 21:07:02

Ukraine hailed the defenders of the strategic city of Mariupol on Tuesday as heroes who changed the course of the war with Russia by keeping Russian forces at bay for 82 days of siege and bombardment....

Taliban dissolve five key bodies of former US-backed government

Taliban dissolve five key bodies of former US-backed government

-- 2022-05-17 20:50:45

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission, deeming them unnecessary in the face of a financi...