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Biden revives initiative to lower cancer death rate by 50pc in 25 years

Biden revives initiative to lower cancer death rate by 50pc in 25 years

-- 2022-02-02 17:21:21

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday will announce plans to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 per cent over the next 25 years, part of an effort to revive the "Cancer Moonshot" initiativ...

Afghan universities reopen with women attendance

Afghan universities reopen with women attendance

-- 2022-02-02 16:04:42

Afghanistan's public universities on Wednesday opened for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus....

Myanmar's shadow government of Suu Kyi's people drops objections to ICJ's Rohingya genocide case

Myanmar's shadow government of Suu Kyi's people drops objections to ICJ's Rohingya genocide case

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-02 11:25:30

Myanmar's shadow government, set up after last year's military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocid...

Failed Guinea-Bissau coup bid may have been linked to drugs: President

Failed Guinea-Bissau coup bid may have been linked to drugs: President

-- 2022-02-02 10:34:41

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived an attempted coup on Tuesday but said many members of the security forces had been killed repelling an attack on democracy that may have been li...

US trying to lure Russia into war: Putin

US trying to lure Russia into war: Putin

-- 2022-02-02 10:29:13

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia's security concerns over Ukraine, Reuters reports. In...

Donald Trump directly involved in plans to seize voting machines!

Donald Trump directly involved in plans to seize voting machines!

-- 2022-02-02 09:24:12

Then-President Donald Trump was directly involved in efforts to use national security agencies to seize voting machines after his 2020 election loss, pressing his lawyer to make queries as advisers dr...

More US Black colleges, universities receive bomb threats

More US Black colleges, universities receive bomb threats

-- 2022-02-02 09:15:18

At least a dozen historically Black colleges and universities in the United States received bomb threats and put their campuses on lockdown on Tuesday, a day after a rash of similar threats forced sev...

Spyware use raises legal questions, Israeli police admits

Spyware use raises legal questions, Israeli police admits

-- 2022-02-02 09:03:12

Israel's police force, accused by rights groups of improperly using powerful hacking spyware, said on Tuesday it had found "anomalies" in its electronic surveillance that meant the legality of some of...

Ukraine crisis: Pull back troops if you don’t intend invasion, Blinken tells Russia

Ukraine crisis: Pull back troops if you don’t intend invasion, Blinken tells Russia

-- 2022-02-02 00:10:29

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a call on Tuesday that now would be the time to pull back Russian troops from the border with Ukraine if Moscow is no...

Myanmar: Opponents of military rule hold ‘silent strikes’

Myanmar: Opponents of military rule hold ‘silent strikes’

-- 2022-02-01 23:20:30

Streets in some of Myanmar's main cities were nearly deserted on Tuesday as opponents of military rule held "silent strikes", making the first anniversary of a coup that led to deadly chaos and snuffe...

Instability increases narcotics production in Myanmar, UN official says

Instability increases narcotics production in Myanmar, UN official says

-- 2022-02-01 20:29:55

Increased instability in Myanmar since a military coup a year ago has seen a surge in narcotics production there and trafficking into Southeast Asia and beyond, a senior official from the UN Office on...

Israel enforcing 'apartheid' on Palestinians, Amnesty says

Israel enforcing 'apartheid' on Palestinians, Amnesty says

-- 2022-02-01 20:04:20

Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of "segregation, dispossession and exclusion" that it said amounted to crimes ag...

David Attenborough, WHO, Tsikhanouskaya nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

David Attenborough, WHO, Tsikhanouskaya nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

-- 2022-02-01 17:49:16

British nature broadcaster David Attenborough, the World Health Organization and Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya are among the nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize after being back...

Ukraine president signs decree to augment armed forces; says war not on cards

Ukraine president signs decree to augment armed forces; says war not on cards

-- 2022-02-01 17:21:27

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree on Tuesday to increase the size of Ukraine's armed forces by 100,000 troops over three years and raise soldiers' salaries, but said it did not mean war wi...

Myanmar death toll exceeds 1,500 with nearly 8,800 in custody

Myanmar death toll exceeds 1,500 with nearly 8,800 in custody

-- 2022-02-01 17:02:30

At least 1,500 people are known to have been killed in year-long protests against the coup in Myanmar, with thousands more possibly killed in the armed conflict, the United Nations human rights office...

Canada PM Trudeau tests positive for Covid-19

Canada PM Trudeau tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-02-01 16:13:25

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday he had tested positive for Covid-19 but was feeling fine and would continue to work remotely while following public health guidelines. Trudeau we...

Johnson apologises for lockdown-breaking gatherings

Johnson apologises for lockdown-breaking gatherings

-- 2022-02-01 08:07:24

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised and vowed to "fix it" after a report on Monday into lockdown parties held at his Downing Street residence criticised serious failures at the heart of go...

Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on Twitter

Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on Twitter

-- 2022-01-31 21:28:45

Chief Minister of India’s West Bengal State Mamata Banerjee has blocked the state's top constitutional figure, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, her micro-blogging platform Twitter's handle. Describin...

Myanmar junta to start election fraud trial of Suu Kyi on February 14

Myanmar junta to start election fraud trial of Suu Kyi on February 14

-- 2022-01-31 17:38:19

A court in army-ruled Myanmar will start an election fraud trial of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb 14, a source familiar with the proceedings said on Monday, after she was accused of influenci...

Europe's energy security the concern amid NATO standoff with Russia

Europe's energy security the concern amid NATO standoff with Russia

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 10:29:35

Europe's energy security the concern amid NATO standoff with Russia Europe needs to diversify its energy supplies, the head of NATO said on Sunday, as Britain warned it was "highly likely" that Russi...

North Korea tests biggest missile since 2017, as US calls for talks

North Korea tests biggest missile since 2017, as US calls for talks

-- 2022-01-31 10:06:45

North Korea on Monday confirmed it had launched a Hwasong-12 ballistic missile, the same weapon it once threatened to target the US territory of Guam with "enveloping fire," sparking fears the nuclear...

US Senators about to ready deal on Russia sanctions bill

US Senators about to ready deal on Russia sanctions bill

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 09:53:45

US senators are very close to reaching a deal on legislation to sanction Russia over its actions on Ukraine, including some measures that may take effect before any invasion, two leading senators said...

India's ruling party revives Hindu-Muslim dispute ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls

India's ruling party revives Hindu-Muslim dispute ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 09:49:18

In the streets around a revered religious site in the Indian city of Mathura where a temple and mosque stand side-by-side, the handful of Muslim restaurants that remain are mostly empty or shuttered....

Oil spill threatens corals in eastern Thailand

Oil spill threatens corals in eastern Thailand

-- 2022-01-30 20:26:21

Authorities are rushing to prevent an oil spill in eastern Thailand from damaging fragile corals, after officials said on Sunday the leak that began last week was drifting towards more coastal areas....

Isaac Herzog visits UAE, first-ever state visit by any Israeli president

Isaac Herzog visits UAE, first-ever state visit by any Israeli president

-- 2022-01-30 20:09:29

Israeli president Isaac Herzog arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday for a historically first visit to strengthen bilateral ties. "This morning I am embarking on a historic trip to the...

Russia to challenge NATO on security pledge

Russia to challenge NATO on security pledge

-- 2022-01-30 19:51:09

Russia will ask NATO to clarify whether it intends to implement key security commitments, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday, after Moscow said the alliance's response to its demands did no...

Britain mulls major NATO deployment amid Ukraine crisis

Britain mulls major NATO deployment amid Ukraine crisis

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-30 12:10:56

Britain is considering making a major NATO deployment as part of a plan to strengthen Europe's borders in response to Russia massing troops on the border with Ukraine, the government said on Saturday....

28-year-old elected German Greens leader to build on youth vote

28-year-old elected German Greens leader to build on youth vote

-- 2022-01-30 10:25:43

Germany's Greens on Saturday elected their youngest ever leader, building on their success in a national election last year that revealed their popularity among young voters, Reuters reports. Ricarda...

Thai pig farmers angered by suspected swine fever havoc

Thai pig farmers angered by suspected swine fever havoc

-- 2022-01-30 10:17:35

Business began unravelling for Thai pig farmer Jintana Jamjumrus two years ago, after dozens of her animals got feverish and died within days of a mysterious illness she suspected of being a viral dis...

Putin orders apparent new system for banning 'toxic' internet content

Putin orders apparent new system for banning 'toxic' internet content

-- 2022-01-29 22:14:36

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his administration to consider an apparent new system to ban "toxic" internet content, although details were not released. The new system, contained in a...