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Former Goldman Malaysia boss found guilty in 1MDB case

Former Goldman Malaysia boss found guilty in 1MDB case

-- 2022-04-09 20:01:59

Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng was convicted by a US jury on Friday of corruption charges related to his role in helping loot hundreds of millions of dollars from Malaysia's 1MDB development fun...

Imran’s party challenges Pakistan court decision on no-trust motion

Imran’s party challenges Pakistan court decision on no-trust motion

-- 2022-04-09 19:33:17

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday sent to the Supreme Court (SC) a review petition challenging its recent decision to set aside the National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri's ruling to dismi...

Sri Lanka seeks $3.0b to stave off crisis

Sri Lanka seeks $3.0b to stave off crisis

-- 2022-04-09 17:50:58

Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance within the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items, including fuel and medicines, to manage a severe economic crisis, it...

YouTube blocks Russian parliament channel

YouTube blocks Russian parliament channel

-- 2022-04-09 17:40:39

YouTube has blocked Duma TV which broadcasts from Russia's lower house of parliament, drawing an angry response from officials who said the world's most popular streaming service could face restrictio...

Iran imposes sanctions on 15 US officials as nuclear talks stall

Iran imposes sanctions on 15 US officials as nuclear talks stall

-- 2022-04-09 16:46:44

Iran said on Saturday that it had imposed sanctions on 15 more US officials, including former Army Chief of Staff George Casey and former President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, as months of...

Pakistan parliament session on Imran's fate resumes after lengthy delay

Pakistan parliament session on Imran's fate resumes after lengthy delay

-- 2022-04-09 16:28:37

Pakistan’s National Assembly session to decide the fate of their Prime Minister Imran Khan has resumed after a lengthy delay. The session was started on Saturday morning to hold a vote on a no-...

Ukraine urges civilians to flee

Ukraine urges civilians to flee

-- 2022-04-09 15:39:08

Ukraine on Saturday called on civilians in the eastern Luhansk region to flee from Russian shelling after officials said more than 50 civilians trying to evacuate by rail from a neighbouring region we...

Pakistan vote on ousting PM Khan delayed, uncertainty continues

Pakistan vote on ousting PM Khan delayed, uncertainty continues

-- 2022-04-09 15:34:58

Pakistan's parliament abruptly adjourned before a planned vote on ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan and had not reconvened as scheduled on Saturday as political uncertainty continued to grip the nucle...

Pakistan parliament adjourns, to reconvene on vote to oust PM Khan

Pakistan parliament adjourns, to reconvene on vote to oust PM Khan

-- 2022-04-09 14:46:55

Pakistan's parliament abruptly adjourned before a planned vote on ousting Prime Minister Imran Khan, but the speaker said the assembly would reconvene later on Saturday as political uncertainty contin...

Pakistan parliament to try again on vote to oust PM Khan

Pakistan parliament to try again on vote to oust PM Khan

-- 2022-04-09 10:20:55

Pakistan's parliament will vote on Saturday whether to remove Imran Khan as prime minister, days after he blocked a similar attempt, potentially adding to political and economic uncertainty in the nuc...

Saudi Arabia expands Haj to 1 million pilgrims, easing COVID curbs

Saudi Arabia expands Haj to 1 million pilgrims, easing COVID curbs

-- 2022-04-09 09:40:47

Saudi Arabia will let up to 1 million people join the Haj pilgrimage this year, greatly expanding the key event to participants from outside the kingdom after two years of tight COVID restrictions, st...

I accept Supreme Court's verdict, says Imran Khan

I accept Supreme Court's verdict, says Imran Khan

-- 2022-04-08 23:12:57

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in an address to the nation on Friday said he accepts the Supreme Court's verdict issued a day ago, according to DAWN. "I am saddened by the verdict, but I accept i...

Russia expels 45 Polish embassy staff in retaliatory move

Russia expels 45 Polish embassy staff in retaliatory move

-- 2022-04-08 21:56:16

Russia has declared 45 Polish embassy and consulate staff "persona non grata" in retaliation for Warsaw's expulsion of 45 Russian diplomats from Poland. Moscow's foreign ministry gave the information...

50 killed in Russian rocket strike on Ukraine evacuation hub

50 killed in Russian rocket strike on Ukraine evacuation hub

-- 2022-04-08 21:40:55

Ukraine said as many as 50 people, including five children, were killed and many more were wounded and lost limbs in a rocket strike at a railway station packed with civilians fleeing the threat of a...

Pakistan parliament to decide Imran Khan's fate Saturday

Pakistan parliament to decide Imran Khan's fate Saturday

-- 2022-04-08 21:28:59

Pakistan's parliament will convene on Saturday to vote on removing Imran Khan as prime minister, an official notice said on Friday, potentially cutting short his term as leader. The country's top cou...

One in 13 Britons had Covid-19 last week

One in 13 Britons had Covid-19 last week

-- 2022-04-08 21:24:25

Roughly one in 13 people in England, Wales and Scotland had Covid-19 last week, a similar ratio to the previous week, official estimates showed on Friday, according to Reuters. In Northern Ireland, t...

Man jailed in London for killing British-Bangladeshi woman

Man jailed in London for killing British-Bangladeshi woman

-- 2022-04-08 19:45:07

A 36-year-old man, Koci Selamaj, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years by a court in London on Friday for the murder of a British-Bangladeshi woman, Sabina Nessa. Bangladeshi media outl...

No alternative to debt restructuring, sys Sri Lanka’s finance minister

No alternative to debt restructuring, sys Sri Lanka’s finance minister

-- 2022-04-08 19:14:28

Sri Lanka's finance minister on Friday said that the crisis-hit country must urgently restructure its debt and seek external help, while the main opposition threatened a no-confidence motion and busin...

Imran Khan may announce resignation soon, says Pakistani analyst

Imran Khan may announce resignation soon, says Pakistani analyst

-- 2022-04-08 18:12:48

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan may announce his resignation to address the nation on Friday evening ahead of a no-confidence vote, according to a political analyst of Pakistan. Following...

Over 39 evacuees killed in Russian rocket strike

Over 39 evacuees killed in Russian rocket strike

-- 2022-04-08 17:39:12

More than 39 people were killed and over 87 wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station packed with women, children and elderly evacuees in east Ukraine early on Friday, Ukrainian official...

Imran Khan’s minister says ‘judicial coup’ ends parliamentary supremacy in Pakistan

Imran Khan’s minister says ‘judicial coup’ ends parliamentary supremacy in Pakistan

-- 2022-04-08 17:27:32

A member of Pakistan's government denounced on Friday a Supreme Court decision to quash an attempt by Prime Minister Imran Khan to block a no-confidence vote against him, saying the court's ruling was...

EU adopts new sanctions against Russia including coal import ban

EU adopts new sanctions against Russia including coal import ban

-- 2022-04-08 17:19:46

The European Union on Friday formally adopted its fifth package of sanctions against Russia since the country's Feb 24 invasion of Ukraine, including bans on the import of coal, wood, chemicals and ot...

I am candidate for Pakistan’s next PM, says Shehbaz Sharif

I am candidate for Pakistan’s next PM, says Shehbaz Sharif

-- 2022-04-08 17:12:41

Pakistani opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said his allies have nominated him as the next prime minister if they are able to vote out Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday. Sharif was add...

UK sanctions Putin's daughters

UK sanctions Putin's daughters

-- 2022-04-08 16:48:39

Britain added Vladimir Putin's daughters to its sanctions list on Friday, mirroring moves by the United States, in what it said was an effort to target the lifestyles of those in the Russian preside...

Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov says he was attacked with red paint

Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov says he was attacked with red paint

-- 2022-04-08 15:49:19

The Russian co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, Dmitry Muratov, was attacked on a train with red paint on Thursday, he said, in an apparent protest at his newspaper's coverage of Russia's inva...

Sri Lanka opposition threatens no-confidence motion

Sri Lanka opposition threatens no-confidence motion

-- 2022-04-08 14:51:34

Sri Lanka's main opposition party on Friday asked the government to take effective action to resolve an economic crisis or face a no-confidence motion, as business leaders from garments, tea andother...

How the US plans to starve Russia's 'war machine'

How the US plans to starve Russia's 'war machine'

-- 2022-04-08 14:37:24

The United States is ramping up sanctions against Russia to deprive Moscow's "war machine" of money and components needed to sustain its invasion of Ukraine, but curbing a main source of funding, Russ...

Australia's government prepares to call election

Australia's government prepares to call election

-- 2022-04-08 13:23:22

Australia is expected to trigger a national election in the coming days, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison seeking to clear thorny political issues as his three-year term nears its end, reports Reute...

Europe agrees to ban Russian coal, but struggles on oil, gas

Europe agrees to ban Russian coal, but struggles on oil, gas

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-08 12:57:17

The European Union nations have agreed to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine, but it has underlined the 27 countries' inability to agree so fa...

China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities

China uses AI software to improve its surveillance capabilities

-- 2022-04-08 12:18:46

Dozens of Chinese firms have built software that uses artificial intelligence to sort data collected on residents, amid high demand from authorities seeking to upgrade their surveillance tools, a Reut...