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Russia sets new Mariupol ultimatum

Russia sets new Mariupol ultimatum

-- 2022-04-20 09:19:47

Russia was intensifying its attack on Ukraine's east on Tuesday as it seized a frontline city and sought a decisive victory in Mariupol, prompting Western governments to pledge more arms and sanctions...

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in

-- 2022-04-19 21:47:09

The Cabinet of Pakistan's newly-elected prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, was sworn in Tuesday during a brief ceremony. Acting President Sadiq Sanjrani administered the oath to the 34 ministers at the...

Sri Lankan police fire ammunition to scatter protesters, one killed

Sri Lankan police fire ammunition to scatter protesters, one killed

-- 2022-04-19 21:42:11

Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from the International Monetary...

India, Sri Lanka resume talks on linking electricity grids

India, Sri Lanka resume talks on linking electricity grids

-- 2022-04-19 19:45:40

India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi's goal of reducing China's influence on the island nation,...

Russia says it ‘methodically carrying out’ plans to ‘liberate’ Donetsk, Luhansk

Russia says it ‘methodically carrying out’ plans to ‘liberate’ Donetsk, Luhansk

-- 2022-04-19 19:20:50

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday said their forces are ‘methodically carrying out’ plans to ‘liberate’ two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Sergei Shoig...

Pakistan's new finance minister faces tight time frame to tackle crises

Pakistan's new finance minister faces tight time frame to tackle crises

-- 2022-04-19 19:12:40

Pakistan's new prime minister has appointed 57-year-old economist and businessman Miftah Ismail as the finance minister who will be tasked with quickly arresting a downward economic spiral and getting...

Russia launches assault to seize Donbas region, says Zelensky

Russia launches assault to seize Donbas region, says Zelensky

-- 2022-04-19 16:56:26

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region. Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video addr...

Blasts hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

Blasts hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

-- 2022-04-19 14:56:48

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials, Reuters reports. Many residents in the neighbourhood belo...

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in: state television

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in: state television

-- 2022-04-19 14:02:44

Pakistan's new cabinet took their oaths in a ceremony on Tuesday, state television reported, according to Reuters. The new cabinet, made up of allied political parties, was sworn in over a week after...

Explosions hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

Explosions hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

-- 2022-04-19 13:44:54

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials. Many residents in the neighbourhood belong to the Shia Ha...

US officials engaged with Israelis, Palestinians over tensions in Jerusalem

US officials engaged with Israelis, Palestinians over tensions in Jerusalem

-- 2022-04-19 13:26:04

A number of US officials engaged in phone calls with Israelis, Palestinians and Arab representatives in the region over the weekend to see to it that tensions in Jerusalem do not escalate, State Depar...

Fuel prices hit record high in Sri Lanka

Fuel prices hit record high in Sri Lanka

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-19 12:54:54

Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has increased its fuel prices from midnight Monday to a record high. With the latest price hike, the price of Octane 92 petrol rose by 33.1...

Israel shoots down Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer

Israel shoots down Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer

-- 2022-04-19 12:34:44

Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhet...

Sri Lankan president admits mistakes led to economic crisis

Sri Lankan president admits mistakes led to economic crisis

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-19 10:46:41

Sri Lanka's president acknowledged Monday that he made mistakes that led to the country's worst economic crisis in decades and pledged to correct them. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the admission...

Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

Six sentenced to death for lynching Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan

-- 2022-04-19 10:31:29

A court sentenced six men to death on Monday in a mass trial for the mob lynching of a clothes factory's Sri Lankan manager in eastern Pakistan last year, the case's public prosecutor said, Reuters re...

Military deployed in South Africa's flood-ravaged province

Military deployed in South Africa's flood-ravaged province

-- 2022-04-19 10:30:46

Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. A week after the...

Xi sticks with Covid stance despite public anger

Xi sticks with Covid stance despite public anger

-- 2022-04-19 10:25:58

For many leaders, mounting public anger and a rapidly worsening economic outlook would be cause for worry and a policy rethink. But Chinese President Xi Jinping, who doubtless would prefer smoother s...

US will no longer enforce mask mandate on aeroplanes, trains after court ruling

US will no longer enforce mask mandate on aeroplanes, trains after court ruling

-- 2022-04-19 10:14:05

The Biden administration will no longer enforce a US mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a...

Suu Kyi urges people to 'be united'

Suu Kyi urges people to 'be united'

-- 2022-04-19 09:11:09

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for unity among her people, according to a source familiar with her legal proceedings, in rare remarks since her overthrow in a military coup last y...

Man with knife arrested near British prime minister’s official residence

Man with knife arrested near British prime minister’s official residence

-- 2022-04-18 21:55:03

British police closed a road in central London near British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official residence on Monday. The police said they had arrested a man armed with a knife who had confronted...

Suu Kyi calls for unity in Myanmar a week before bribery case verdict

Suu Kyi calls for unity in Myanmar a week before bribery case verdict

-- 2022-04-18 21:34:41

Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for unity among her people, according to a source familiar with her legal proceedings, in rare remarks since her overthrow in a military coup last y...

China reports three Covid-19 deaths in Shanghai

China reports three Covid-19 deaths in Shanghai

-- 2022-04-18 19:37:30

China has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March. A release from the city health commission said the vict...

Russia hits targets across Ukraine, fighters cling on in Mariupol

Russia hits targets across Ukraine, fighters cling on in Mariupol

-- 2022-04-18 19:29:16

Russia said on Monday it had hit hundreds of military targets in Ukraine overnight, destroying command posts with air-launched missiles, while authorities in the western city of Lviv, which had escape...

Two captured British fighters appear on Russian state TV

Two captured British fighters appear on Russian state TV

-- 2022-04-18 19:14:19

Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday and asked to be exchanged for a pro-Russian politician who is being held by the Ukrainian authorities....

99pc residents of Indonesia’s Java island have Covid antibodies

99pc residents of Indonesia’s Java island have Covid antibodies

-- 2022-04-18 19:01:52

Almost all residents of Indonesia's most populous island of Java have antibodies against Covid-19, owing to a combination of prior infection and vaccination against the virus, a government-commissione...

Sri Lanka appoints 17 new ministers

Sri Lanka appoints 17 new ministers

-- 2022-04-18 16:47:53

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa expanded his cabinet with 17 new ministers on Monday, but they did not include members of his family who were dropped as protests erupted over the government's...

Missiles strike Lviv, bodies in streets of Mariupol

Missiles strike Lviv, bodies in streets of Mariupol

-- 2022-04-18 16:17:39

Ukrainian authorities said missiles struck Lviv early on Monday and explosions rocked other cities as Russian forces kept up their bombardments after claiming near full control of the strategic southe...

Raisi says Iran will target heart of Israel if it acts against Iranian nation

Raisi says Iran will target heart of Israel if it acts against Iranian nation

-- 2022-04-18 14:35:04

Iran's armed forces will target Israel's heart if it makes "the slightest move" against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade on Monday, amid stalled talks between Tehra...

India's daily Covid infections hit month-high

India's daily Covid infections hit month-high

-- 2022-04-18 12:57:29

India's tally of daily Covid-19 cases nearly doubled on Monday from the previous day to more than 2,000 for the first time in a month, government data showed, and the southern state of Kerala reported...

Tensions of lockdown expose divisions among Shanghai residents

Tensions of lockdown expose divisions among Shanghai residents

-- 2022-04-18 12:41:01

The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, Covid-negative against Covid-positive people. Shanghai's...