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A million set to throng India's Ganges for holy dip despite COVID-19

A million set to throng India's Ganges for holy dip despite COVID-19

-- 2022-01-11 18:08:30

Nearly one million Hindu worshippers are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges river this Friday and Saturday for a holy bathe despite galloping COVID-19 infections across the country, an offi...

Alikhan Smailov named Kazakhstan's prime minister

Alikhan Smailov named Kazakhstan's prime minister

-- 2022-01-11 17:35:37

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev nominated Alikhan Smailov for prime minister on Tuesday, and the lower house of parliament swiftly voted him in during a session broadcast live on state televisi...

Air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray kills at least 17

Air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray kills at least 17

-- 2022-01-11 17:06:45

An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray on Monday killed at least 17 people, mostly women, and wounded dozens in the town of Mai Tsebri, two aid workers told Reuters, citing local author...

Safety doors failed in NYC high-rise fire that killed 17

Safety doors failed in NYC high-rise fire that killed 17

-- 2022-01-11 16:26:17

Investigators sought answers Monday for why safety doors failed to close when fire broke out in a New York high-rise, allowing thick smoke to rise through the tower and kill 17 people, including eight...

US man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant

US man recovering after 'breakthrough' pig-heart transplant

-- 2022-01-11 15:46:13

A US man with terminal heart disease was implanted with a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind surgery, and three days later the patient is doing well, his doctors reported on Monday,...

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar hospitalised with Covid

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar hospitalised with Covid

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-11 15:23:54

Legendary Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, has been hospitalised in the western city of Mumbai after testing positive for Covid-19, reports UNB. The 92-year-old 'Queen of Melody' was rushed to...

India reports 168,063 new Covid-19 cases

India reports 168,063 new Covid-19 cases

-- 2022-01-11 12:32:29

India reported 168,063 new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, less than the figure of 179,723 the previous day, the health ministry said. Deaths rose by 277 to 484,213, while the tally of infections rea...

Protests from South Korea, Japan as North Korea test fires second missile in a week

Protests from South Korea, Japan as North Korea test fires second missile in a week

-- 2022-01-11 10:55:14

North Korea appeared to test fire a ballistic missile on Tuesday for the second time in less than a week, drawing condemnation from South Korea and Japan where officials said the repeated launches ris...

Global Covid cases top 310m

Global Covid cases top 310m

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-11 10:53:53

The overall number of Covid cases has now surpassed 310 million, with a spike in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across the globe. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the tot...

US reports 1.1m Covid-19 cases in a day, shattering global record

US reports 1.1m Covid-19 cases in a day, shattering global record

-- 2022-01-11 09:43:46

The United States reported at least 1.13 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, the highest daily total of any country in the world as the spread of the highly con...

US breaks Covid-19 hospitalisation record with 132,646 new patients

US breaks Covid-19 hospitalisation record with 132,646 new patients

-- 2022-01-11 09:38:19

Covid-19 hospitalisations in the United States reached a record high on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as a surge in infections caused by the highly contagious omicron variant strains health sy...

Israel's Netanyahu and Olmert face off in court in defamation case

Israel's Netanyahu and Olmert face off in court in defamation case

-- 2022-01-10 21:40:40

A judge on Monday proposed a compromise in a defamation case former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched against predecessor Ehud Olmert, a Netanyahu spokesman said. Netanyahu, now Isra...

Greenhouse gas levels hit high in 2021, EU scientists warn

Greenhouse gas levels hit high in 2021, EU scientists warn

-- 2022-01-10 19:24:00

Levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit record highs in 2021, which was one of the world's hottest years ever and underlined the need for change, the EU's Copernicus...

Putin claims victory in defending Kazakhstan from ‘terrorist uprising’

Putin claims victory in defending Kazakhstan from ‘terrorist uprising’

-- 2022-01-10 19:08:42

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in defending Kazakhstan from what he described as a foreign-backed terrorist uprising, and promised leaders of other ex-Soviet states that a Moscow...

UN rights envoy urges halt to attacks on Myanmar town as residents trapped

UN rights envoy urges halt to attacks on Myanmar town as residents trapped

-- 2022-01-10 17:34:09

Myanmar's military must halt attacks on the town of Loikaw and lift a blockade on those trying to flee, a UN human rights investigator said on Monday, as a shaken resident described constant shelling...

Average life expectancy in China to reach 78.3 years in 2025

Average life expectancy in China to reach 78.3 years in 2025

-- 2022-01-10 15:54:14

China's average life expectancy is expected to reach 78.3 years in 2025, up from 77.3 years in 2019, according to the country's 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) for public service. The total number of...

Suu Kyi sentenced to four more years in jail over walkie-talkies

Suu Kyi sentenced to four more years in jail over walkie-talkies

-- 2022-01-10 12:04:38

A court in Myanmar sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison on Monday after finding her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavir...

India logs 179,723 fresh Covid cases

India logs 179,723 fresh Covid cases

-- 2022-01-10 11:31:56

India reported 179,723 new Covid-19 infections on Monday, the most since late May, health ministry data showed, taking the total to 35.71 million, reports Reuters. Deaths rose by 146 to 483,936.

Nine children among 19 killed in New York City building fire

Nine children among 19 killed in New York City building fire

-- 2022-01-10 08:47:23

Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire, started by a malfunctioning space heater, spread smoke through a 19-floor building in The Bronx borough of Ne...

Kazakhstan says situation stabilised, president firmly in charge after unrest

Kazakhstan says situation stabilised, president firmly in charge after unrest

-- 2022-01-09 20:33:22

Kazakhstan authorities said on Sunday they had stabilised the situation across the country after the deadliest outbreak of violence in 30 years of independence, and troops from a Russian-led military...

India imposes restrictions to prevent Covid spread

India imposes restrictions to prevent Covid spread

-- 2022-01-09 16:41:44

India reported 159,632 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in the country, nudging several state governments to impose fresh restriction...

Saudi princess, daughter freed after three years in jail

Saudi princess, daughter freed after three years in jail

-- 2022-01-09 16:15:14

Saudi authorities have released a princess and her daughter who had been detained without charge for nearly three years, her legal advisor said on Saturday. Princess Basmah Bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al...

Former security chief arrested as Kazakhstan presses crackdown on unrest

Former security chief arrested as Kazakhstan presses crackdown on unrest

-- 2022-01-09 14:16:32

Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of treason, the state security agency said on Saturday, as the former Soviet republic cracks down on a wave of unrest and starts t...

Attacks in northwest Nigeria leave 200 dead

Attacks in northwest Nigeria leave 200 dead

-- 2022-01-09 11:42:33

An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideo...

Baby lost in Kabul airlift chaos returned to family after long ordeal

Baby lost in Kabul airlift chaos returned to family after long ordeal

-- 2022-01-09 09:21:59

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday...

Omicron surge pushes US Covid hospitalisations toward record high

Omicron surge pushes US Covid hospitalisations toward record high

-- 2022-01-08 21:48:30

Covid-19 hospitalisations in the United States are poised to hit a new high as early as Friday, according to a Reuters tally, surpassing the record set in January of last year as the highly contagious...

16 dead in road accident in Egypt's South Sinai

16 dead in road accident in Egypt's South Sinai

-- 2022-01-08 21:05:50

Sixteen people were killed and 18 injured in an accident involving a bus and a microbus on the road between Egypt's Suez and El-Tor, the Egyptian health ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Thir...

Cambodia to take 'different approaches' to Myanmar crisis as ASEAN chair

Cambodia to take 'different approaches' to Myanmar crisis as ASEAN chair

-- 2022-01-08 20:54:42

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen did not seek to meet former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit to the country this week and will take "different approaches" to the crisis there, Cambodi...

Ethiopia air strike in northwest Tigray killed 56 people

Ethiopia air strike in northwest Tigray killed 56 people

-- 2022-01-08 17:53:33

An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authoritie...

At least 21 dead as heavy snow traps drivers in their vehicles in Pakistan

At least 21 dead as heavy snow traps drivers in their vehicles in Pakistan

-- 2022-01-08 16:52:56

At least 21 people have died after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles in Pakistan. The military has been trying to clear roads and rescue people still trapped near the town of Murree located i...