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Taliban bars government employees without beards from work

Taliban bars government employees without beards from work

-- 2022-03-28 18:12:26

Afghanistan's Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told Reuters, the latest of several new restrictions imposed...

BBC's local language services in Afghanistan banned

BBC's local language services in Afghanistan banned

-- 2022-03-28 17:31:18

The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from being broadcast, the British news organisation said. A spokesman for the Taliban administration's Ministry of C...

Russia warns media not to report interview with Ukrainian president

Russia warns media not to report interview with Ukrainian president

-- 2022-03-28 13:48:06

Russia's communications watchdog told Russian media on Sunday to refrain from reporting an interview done with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and said it had started a probe into the outlets...

Russian forces have left Chernobyl workers' town,  mayor says

Russian forces have left Chernobyl workers' town, mayor says

-- 2022-03-28 10:57:23

Russian forces have left the Ukrainian town of Slavutych, home to workers at the defunct nuclear plant of Chernobyl, after completing their task of surveying it, the mayor said early on Monday. On Sa...

Sri Lanka to host 5th BIMSTEC summit 

Sri Lanka to host 5th BIMSTEC summit 

-- 2022-03-27 22:16:52

Sri Lanka will host the fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit from Monday to Wednesday.  The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said on S...

Shanghai to lock down as Covid cases spike

Shanghai to lock down as Covid cases spike

-- 2022-03-27 21:52:32

China's financial hub of Shanghai said on Sunday it would lock down the city in two stages to carry out Covid-19 testing over a nine-day period, after it reported a new daily record for asymptomatic i...

Russian-backed Ukrainian rebel region may vote to join Russia

Russian-backed Ukrainian rebel region may vote to join Russia

-- 2022-03-27 21:25:10

The Russian-backed eastern Ukrainian rebel region of Luhansk said on Sunday it may hold a referendum on joining Russia, drawing a warning from Kyiv that any such vote would have no legal basis and tri...

1,119 civilians so far killed in Ukraine since February 24, says UN

1,119 civilians so far killed in Ukraine since February 24, says UN

-- 2022-03-27 21:19:03

The United Nations human rights office said on Sunday that 1,119 civilians had so far been killed and 1,790 wounded in Ukraine from February 24 to March 26 in conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Som...

India resumes regular international flights after two years 

India resumes regular international flights after two years 

-- 2022-03-27 18:26:39

After a two-year hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, India has resumed regular international flights.  Indian carriers have prepared for a return to their pre-pandemic schedule from Sunday,...

Ukrainian traders export first grain by train to Europe

Ukrainian traders export first grain by train to Europe

-- 2022-03-27 13:15:26

Traders have exported the first supplies of Ukrainian corn to Europe by train as the country's sea ports remain blocked due to the Russian invasion, APK-Inform agriculture consultancy said on Sunday....

Myanmar junta chief vows no talks with opposition 'terrorists'

Myanmar junta chief vows no talks with opposition 'terrorists'

-- 2022-03-27 12:56:35

Myanmar's junta chief on Sunday said the military would not negotiate with "terrorist" opposition forces, vowing to annihilate them during a speech on Armed Forces Day, as opponents of last year's cou...

Houthis halt strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days

Houthis halt strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days

-- 2022-03-27 10:23:32

Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday it was suspending missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days, in a peace initiative it said could be a lasting commitment if the Saudi-led coaliti...

All passengers on board China Eastern plane died, authorities say

All passengers on board China Eastern plane died, authorities say

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-27 10:18:54

China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the southwestern city of Kunming...

Rockets strike western Ukraine as Biden visits Poland, decries Putin

Rockets strike western Ukraine as Biden visits Poland, decries Putin

-- 2022-03-27 09:18:20

Rockets struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, signalling a potential new front in Moscow's invasion as US President Joe Biden decried Russian President Vladimir Putin's power and soug...

Zelenskiy demands Western nations provide arms, asks if they're afraid of Russia

Zelenskiy demands Western nations provide arms, asks if they're afraid of Russia

-- 2022-03-27 08:38:01

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visibly irritated, on Saturday demanded Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stock piles and asked whether they were afraid of...

Putin cannot remain in power, Biden says in speech on Ukraine war

Putin cannot remain in power, Biden says in speech on Ukraine war

-- 2022-03-27 08:33:08

US President Joe Biden said that Russia's leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" in Poland Saturday, remarks a White House official said later were meant to prepare the world's democracies for...

Ukrainian president urges energy producing countries to hike output

Ukrainian president urges energy producing countries to hike output

-- 2022-03-26 22:04:09

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on energy producing countries on Saturday to increase output so that Russia cannot use its oil and gas wealth to "blackmail" other nations. Addressing th...

Turkey deactivates a mine discovered in Bosphorus strait

Turkey deactivates a mine discovered in Bosphorus strait

-- 2022-03-26 21:53:29

Turkey's military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of them had washed away from U...

Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights 

Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights 

-- 2022-03-26 21:23:26

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said...

Iran, world powers close to agreement on reviving nuclear deal: EU diplomat

Iran, world powers close to agreement on reviving nuclear deal: EU diplomat

-- 2022-03-26 19:49:17

Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell said on Saturday Iran and world powers were "very close" to agreement on reviving their 2015 nuclear deal, which would curb Tehran's nuclear programme in exchange for lif...

Russian forces take control of Chernobyl workers’ town

Russian forces take control of Chernobyl workers’ town

-- 2022-03-26 17:36:19

Russian forces have taken control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of the Kyiv region said on Saturday, and fighting was reported in the streets of the...

Possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia increasingly real, says Japan

Possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia increasingly real, says Japan

-- 2022-03-26 16:58:22

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was "increasingly real", welcoming a visit by the US ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffe...

Global Coronavirus cases top 479 million 

Global Coronavirus cases top 479 million 

-- 2022-03-26 16:06:52

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 479 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.  According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 479,000,75...

War has killed 136 children so far, Ukraine says

War has killed 136 children so far, Ukraine says

-- 2022-03-26 13:23:28

The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine's office of the prosecutor general said on Saturday in a message on the Telegram app. Of the...

US urges China and Russia to send strong message to North Korea after missile test

US urges China and Russia to send strong message to North Korea after missile test

-- 2022-03-26 11:38:16

China and Russia should tell North Korea to avoid more "provocations" after it resumed intercontinental ballistic missile testing this week, US State Department spokesperson Jalina Porter said on Frid...

US sees Russia prioritising eastern Ukraine, senior US defence official says

US sees Russia prioritising eastern Ukraine, senior US defence official says

-- 2022-03-26 11:19:56

The United States assesses that Russia is prioritising eastern Ukraine's Donbass, as opposed to Kyiv, in what could be an effort to build leverage in negotiations and cut off Ukrainian forces in the e...

Saudi Aramco petroleum storage site hit by Houthi attack, fire erupts

Saudi Aramco petroleum storage site hit by Houthi attack, fire erupts

-- 2022-03-26 11:13:30

Yemen's Houthis said they launched attacks on Saudi energy facilities on Friday and the Saudi-led coalition said oil giant Aramco's petroleum products distribution station in Jeddah was hit, causing a...

US issues sanctions on alleged arms dealers for Myanmar military

US issues sanctions on alleged arms dealers for Myanmar military

-- 2022-03-26 08:45:03

The United States imposed new sanctions on Friday targeting alleged arms dealers and companies it said were involved in procuring weapons for Myanmar's junta, the US Treasury Department said. Canada...

Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton for 'attempt to rig' 2016 election

Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton for 'attempt to rig' 2016 election

-- 2022-03-25 19:21:56

Former US president Donald Trump on Thursday sued his rival in the 2016 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton, and several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig that election by tying h...

Ukrainian forces advance east of Kyiv as Russians fall back

Ukrainian forces advance east of Kyiv as Russians fall back

-- 2022-03-25 17:31:29

Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said on Friday, one of the strong...