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Donald Trump’s company to be sentenced for 15-year tax fraud

Donald Trump’s company to be sentenced for 15-year tax fraud

-- 2023-01-13 18:00:56

Former US president Donald Trump on Friday will learn how the company that bears the former US president's name will be punished after being found guilty of scheming to defraud tax authorities for 15...

Malaysia may stop palm oil exports to European Union

Malaysia may stop palm oil exports to European Union

-- 2023-01-13 17:38:39

Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, on Thursday said it might stop palm exports to the European Union after the bloc imposed additional import restrictions on the edible oil due to...

Putin’s ally suggests seizing property of Russian war critics

Putin’s ally suggests seizing property of Russian war critics

-- 2023-01-13 17:21:50

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday confiscating the property of Russians who have left the country and who "insult" the state and its armed forces from abroad. The proposal...

Covid cases in China touch 900 million: study

Covid cases in China touch 900 million: study

-- 2023-01-13 16:56:32

Some 900 million people in China have been infected with the coronavirus as of 11 January, according to a study by Peking University. The report estimates that 64 per cent of the country's population...

Black Lives Matter founder's cousin dies after Los Angeles police arrest

Black Lives Matter founder's cousin dies after Los Angeles police arrest

-- 2023-01-13 14:15:08

A cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors died hours after he was repeatedly Tasered and restrained in the street by Los Angeles police. Keenan Anderson, 31, a teacher an...

Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe

Suspect charged with murder in assassination of Japan's Abe

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 14:05:38

Japanese prosecutors formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder, sending him to stand trial, a Japanese court said Friday. Tetsuya Yamagami...

Sri Lanka to slash military by a third to cut costs

Sri Lanka to slash military by a third to cut costs

-- 2023-01-13 13:29:25

Sri Lanka will slash its army by a third to 135,000 by next year and to 100,000 by 2030, the defence minister said on Friday, as the country facing its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades...

Kazakhstan strips ex-president's family of legal immunity

Kazakhstan strips ex-president's family of legal immunity

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 12:48:47

Kazakhstan's parliament on Friday repealed a law that gave former president Nursultan Nazarbayev's immediate family immunity from prosecution, and took away his status as a leader of the nation,...

China Covid peak to last two-three months, hit rural areas next

China Covid peak to last two-three months, hit rural areas next

-- 2023-01-13 12:33:10

The peak of China's Covid-19 wave is expected to last two to three months, and will soon swell over the vast countryside where medical resources are relatively scarce, a top Chinese epidemiologist has...

Thousands march in Peru capital demanding president step down

Thousands march in Peru capital demanding president step down

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 11:02:12

Thousands took to the streets of Peru's capital Lima on Thursday in a peaceful protest against the new government and president, after weeks of bloody clashes triggered by the ousting of former...

Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from Brazilian security forces after rampage

Lula to purge Bolsonaro loyalists from Brazilian security forces after rampage

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 10:35:51

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that security force members were complicit in letting an anti-government mob ransack the seat of power in Brasilia, and promised to w...

Why the US needs Japan's help on China chips restrictions

Why the US needs Japan's help on China chips restrictions

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 10:24:42

When the Biden administration unveiled aggressive export controls in October aimed at blocking China from becoming a global leader in advanced semiconductors it was missing a key ingredient: a...

Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east

Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-13 10:05:56

Russia said Thursday that its forces are edging closer to capturing a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine, which would mark an elusive victory for the Kremlin but come at the cost of heavy Russian cas...

UN research finds world's dams to lose a quarter of storage capacity by 2050

UN research finds world's dams to lose a quarter of storage capacity by 2050

-- 2023-01-12 19:21:49

Nearly 50,000 large dams worldwide could lose more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050 as a result of sedimentation build-ups, eroding global water and energy security, according to Unite...

China border situation is 'unpredictable', says Indian army chief

China border situation is 'unpredictable', says Indian army chief

-- 2023-01-12 19:15:46

India’s army chief said on Thursday the border situation with China is stable but unpredictable after a nearly two-and-a-half-year standoff between tens of thousands of soldiers from both countr...

IS claims responsibility for Kabul attack that killed five

IS claims responsibility for Kabul attack that killed five

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-12 15:39:04

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital the previous day. The bombing was the sec...

Pakistan PM to seek fresh economic package from UAE

Pakistan PM to seek fresh economic package from UAE

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-12 15:31:47

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will seek a fresh economic package for his country from the United Arab Emirates during his two-day visit there, broadcaster ARY News reported on Thursday, citin...

UAE names ADNOC chief Jaber as COP28 climate conference president

UAE names ADNOC chief Jaber as COP28 climate conference president

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-12 13:41:58

The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday that Sultan al-Jaber, the head of state oil giant ADNOC, would act as president of the COP28 climate conference it is hosting this year, Reuters repor...

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

REUTERS 2023-01-12 11:22:56

For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot. Asha plans to r...

Russia appoints Gerasimov to oversee Ukraine campaign

Russia appoints Gerasimov to oversee Ukraine campaign

-- 2023-01-12 10:49:12

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov on Wednesday to oversee the military campaign in Ukraine, in the latest shake-up of Moscow's military lea...

US flights gradually resuming departures following system outage

US flights gradually resuming departures following system outage

-- 2023-01-11 22:29:27

US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to...

Ganga Vilas ready for maiden trip of 3,200km from India’s Varanasi to Assam via Dhaka

Ganga Vilas ready for maiden trip of 3,200km from India’s Varanasi to Assam via Dhaka

-- 2023-01-11 22:22:00

Ganga Vilas, featuring the world’s longest river cruise, is set for its maiden voyage across 3,200km from Varanasi in India’s Uttar Pradesh to Assam via Dhaka. Indian Prime Minister Naren...

WHO says China still underreports Covid-19 deaths despite providing more data

WHO says China still underreports Covid-19 deaths despite providing more data

-- 2023-01-11 22:10:18

China is still heavily underreporting deaths although it is providing more information on its COVID-19 outbreak, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "There are some...

Pakistan to take fiscal measures set by IMF to meet budgetary targets

Pakistan to take fiscal measures set by IMF to meet budgetary targets

-- 2023-01-11 20:29:55

Pakistan will take fiscal measures set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to meet its budgetary targets for the 2022-23 financial year, finance minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday. The measure...

Zelensky says Ukraine must ‘be ready’ at Belarus border

Zelensky says Ukraine must ‘be ready’ at Belarus border

-- 2023-01-11 19:44:59

Ukraine must "be ready" at its border with Russian ally Belarus even though it sees only "powerful statements" coming from its neighbour, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday...

US aviation system faces outage, leading to delays in flights

US aviation system faces outage, leading to delays in flights

-- 2023-01-11 19:02:37

US flights were delayed and airports told passengers to check with their airlines for updates on Wednesday as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage. The FAA said...

Tigray forces begin handing over heavy weapons to Ethiopian army

Tigray forces begin handing over heavy weapons to Ethiopian army

-- 2023-01-11 17:22:35

Tigray forces, who fought a two-year war against Ethiopia's federal government, began handing over heavy weaponry to the national army as part of an African Union-led peace process on Tuesday. The de...

Man with knife wounds six people at a rail station in Paris

Man with knife wounds six people at a rail station in Paris

-- 2023-01-11 17:09:36

A man with a knife attacked six people at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris on Wednesday morning, leaving one with major injuries, a police spokesperson said. The attacker was shot several time...

Russian force claims to capture Soledar

Russian force claims to capture Soledar

-- 2023-01-11 16:35:05

Russian mercenary group Wagner claimed to have taken control of the salt-mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine - a stepping stone in Moscow's push to capture the entire Donbas region - but fightin...

Myanmar junta chief family assets found in Thai drug raid

Myanmar junta chief family assets found in Thai drug raid

-- 2023-01-11 16:16:30

Thai officials found assets belonging to adult children of Myanmar's junta leader during a raid on the Bangkok apartment of a Myanmar tycoon charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, accordi...