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US ex-secretary of state Pompeo, sanctioned by China, to visit Taiwan

US ex-secretary of state Pompeo, sanctioned by China, to visit Taiwan

-- 2022-02-21 18:14:34

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, placed under sanctions by China when he left office at the end of the Trump presidency last year, will visit Taiwan next week and meet President Tsai Ing-wen,...

Jordan's prime minister contracts Covid-19 during official visit to Egypt

Jordan's prime minister contracts Covid-19 during official visit to Egypt

-- 2022-02-21 18:00:56

Jordan's Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh has contracted Covid-19 during an official visit to Egypt. Jordan News Agency (Petra) and Reuters gave the information on Monday, reports bdnews24.com Cov...

Japanese PM to join G7 summit over Ukraine tensions

Japanese PM to join G7 summit over Ukraine tensions

-- 2022-02-21 17:24:03

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will take part in an online meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) countries this week, the Japanese government said Monday. The talks will be aimed at measures to d...

Armed robbery suspects killed in Philippines

Armed robbery suspects killed in Philippines

-- 2022-02-21 17:18:40

Five suspects of "an attempted robbery" were killed in the southern Philippines over the weekend, the military said on Monday. Lieutenant General Alfredo Rosario, the commander of the Western Mindana...

US, Egypt launch group to prepare for COP27 climate summit

US, Egypt launch group to prepare for COP27 climate summit

-- 2022-02-21 16:56:19

The United States and Egypt on Monday launched a joint working group to prepare for the next climate change summit in November, the American envoy for climate issues said. Special Presidential Envoy...

Ukraine urges European Union to impose 'some sanctions' on Russia

Ukraine urges European Union to impose 'some sanctions' on Russia

-- 2022-02-21 16:00:39

The European Union must start imposing some sanctions on Russia now to show it is serious about wanting to prevent a war in Ukraine, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said as he arrived in Brus...

Ukraine urges European Union to impose sanctions on Russia

Ukraine urges European Union to impose sanctions on Russia

-- 2022-02-21 16:00:17

The European Union must start imposing some sanctions on Russia now to show it is serious about wanting to prevent a war in Ukraine, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said as he arrived in Brus...

Myanmar junta urges ASEAN envoy not to engage with 'terrorist' groups

Myanmar junta urges ASEAN envoy not to engage with 'terrorist' groups

-- 2022-02-21 15:10:29

Myanmar's military government has criticised calls for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' special envoy to the conflict-torn country to meet bodies that oppose last year's coup, which the jun...

UN court resumes hearing Rohingya genocide case

UN court resumes hearing Rohingya genocide case

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-21 14:48:54

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is beginning proceedings to hear Myanmar’s preliminary objections to a genocide case brought against it over a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military on...

Biden, Putin agree in principle to Ukraine summit

Biden, Putin agree in principle to Ukraine summit

-- 2022-02-21 08:54:21

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed in principle to a summit over Ukraine, US and French leaders said, offering a possible path out from one of the most dangerous E...

Trump's Truth Social app set for release in Apple App Store

Trump's Truth Social app set for release in Apple App Store

-- 2022-02-21 08:28:39

Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marki...

Russia, Belarus extending military drills to intensify pressure on Ukraine

Russia, Belarus extending military drills to intensify pressure on Ukraine

-- 2022-02-20 19:22:36

Russia and Belarus are extending military drills that were due to end on Sunday, the Belarus defence minister said, in a step that further intensifies pressure on Ukraine as Western leaders warn of an...

Queen Elizabeth contracts Covid

Queen Elizabeth contracts Covid

-- 2022-02-20 18:33:54

Queen Elizabeth, 95, has tested positive for COVID and is experiencing mild symptoms but expects to continue light duties this week, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday."The queen has today tested positi...

China would back Russia if it moved on Ukraine

China would back Russia if it moved on Ukraine

-- 2022-02-20 10:59:23

China would back Russia diplomatically and perhaps economically if it invades Ukraine, worsening Beijing's already strained relations with the West, but would stop short of providing military support,...

Half of India's MPs have criminal records, Singapore PM claims

Half of India's MPs have criminal records, Singapore PM claims

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-19 23:18:47

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has claimed that almost half of Indian parliamentarians have criminal records, including charges of rape and murder. Lee Hsien Loong made the remark i...

Canadian police use pepper spray, stun grenades to disperse protest

Canadian police use pepper spray, stun grenades to disperse protest

-- 2022-02-19 22:57:32

Canadian police on Saturday used pepper spray and stun grenades to try to restore normality to the capital after trucks and demonstrators occupied the downtown core of Ottawa for more than three weeks...

Putin launches exercises by strategic nuclear missile forces

Putin launches exercises by strategic nuclear missile forces

-- 2022-02-19 19:12:43

Russia's President Vladimir Putin launched exercises by strategic nuclear missile forces on Saturday and Washington said Russian troops massed near Ukraine's border were "poised to strike". As Wester...

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine declare full military mobilisation

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine declare full military mobilisation

-- 2022-02-19 15:53:42

Russian-backed separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine declared a full military mobilisation on Saturday, a day after ordering women and children to evacuate to southern Russia because of what they said...

Biden says he is 'convinced' Putin will invade Ukraine in days

Biden says he is 'convinced' Putin will invade Ukraine in days

-- 2022-02-19 11:55:06

Russia's Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine within days, US President Joe Biden said on Friday after separatists backed by Moscow told civilians to leave breakaway regions on buses, a move t...

US stops nearly $160m aid to Burkina Faso after finding military coup occurred

US stops nearly $160m aid to Burkina Faso after finding military coup occurred

-- 2022-02-19 11:00:34

The United States has halted nearly $160 million in US aid to Burkina Faso after determining the January ouster of President Roch Kabore constituted a military coup, triggering aid restrictions under...

South Korea's daily Covid cases eclipse 0.10m for first time

South Korea's daily Covid cases eclipse 0.10m for first time

-- 2022-02-18 20:44:25

South Korea's new daily Covid-19 cases topped 100,000 for the first time amid an omicron outbreak, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said on Friday, though deaths have remained relativel...

Canada police start arresting protesters to end Ottawa blockade

Canada police start arresting protesters to end Ottawa blockade

-- 2022-02-18 20:39:59

Canadian police on Friday started arresting protesters as part of an operation to end a three-week blockade of Ottawa by hundreds of truck drivers that crippled the capital and prompted Prime Minister...

Russia has massed up 190,000 troops in and near Ukraine, says US

Russia has massed up 190,000 troops in and near Ukraine, says US

-- 2022-02-18 19:47:10

Russia's build-up of military personnel threatening Ukraine probably totals up to 190,000, the US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said in a statement to an OSCE m...

Sydney beaches reopen after fatal shark attack

Sydney beaches reopen after fatal shark attack

-- 2022-02-18 19:43:38

Sydney has reopened its beaches two days after a British swimmer died in the city's first fatal shark attack in 59 years. Simon Nellist, 35, was mauled by a shark in the waters off east Sydney on Wed...

Six African countries to get mRNA vaccine technology under WHO project

Six African countries to get mRNA vaccine technology under WHO project

-- 2022-02-18 19:41:51

The World Health Organization said on Friday six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to...

Netherlands apologise for violence in Indonesian War of Independence

Netherlands apologise for violence in Indonesian War of Independence

-- 2022-02-18 18:26:16

The Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday offered a full apology to Indonesia after a historical review found the Dutch had used "excessive violence" in a vain attempt to regain control o...

ASEAN Myanmar envoy urged to meet Suu Kyi

ASEAN Myanmar envoy urged to meet Suu Kyi

-- 2022-02-18 17:58:10

Asian Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) Chair Charles Santiago has said Prak Sokhonn, as ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar, must now ensure that he meets with all stakeholders, including the Natio...

WHO calls for strengthened role as US proposes new pandemic fund

WHO calls for strengthened role as US proposes new pandemic fund

-- 2022-02-18 17:54:23

Efforts to strengthen global health security will only succeed if the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is enhanced, the agency's head said on Thursday, as its biggest donor, Washington, pro...

Hundreds rescued as Greece-Italy ferry catches fire in Ionian Sea

Hundreds rescued as Greece-Italy ferry catches fire in Ionian Sea

-- 2022-02-18 15:32:31

Hundreds of people were rescued from a ferry that caught fire between Greece and Italy in the early hours of Friday, the Greek coastguard said. A video uploaded on Greek news website Proto Thema show...

Indian court sentences 38 to death for 2008 serial bombings

Indian court sentences 38 to death for 2008 serial bombings

-- 2022-02-18 15:16:59

An Indian court on Friday sentenced 38 Muslim men to death and ordered life in prison for 11 others for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 in the city of Ahmedabad that killed more than 50 people, lawyer...