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Xi expected to prioritise Taiwan issue in virtual meeting with Biden

Xi expected to prioritise Taiwan issue in virtual meeting with Biden

-- 2021-11-15 12:26:57

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to use his first virtual meeting with US President Joe Biden to warn the United States to "step back" on the Taiwan issue, according to Chinese state media edi...

Militant attack kills 20 in Burkina Faso

Militant attack kills 20 in Burkina Faso

-- 2021-11-15 11:39:13

An attack by insurgents killed 19 Burkina Faso military police and a civilian on Sunday in the tri-border northern region where the West African nation is battling Islamist militants, Security Ministe...

US to team up with Israel to combat ransomware attacks

US to team up with Israel to combat ransomware attacks

-- 2021-11-15 11:13:01

The US Treasury Department said on Sunday it will partner with Israel to combat ransomware, with the two countries launching a joint task force to address cybersecurity. The task force will develop a...

Australia revisit love affair with ICC tournaments

Australia revisit love affair with ICC tournaments

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-15 01:04:20

"This was not meant to happen. This could not happen. This is happening."  This was a very inspiring quote by Peter Drury in one of the most incredible of ties in the UCL. But this time it perfe...

Australia win the T20 World Cup 2021

Australia win the T20 World Cup 2021

Tanvir Ahmed 2021-11-14 23:22:49

Australia have won the Trans-Tasman battle to claim the seventh edition of the ICC T20 World Cup. A comprehensive 8 wickets victory has ensured Australia their first-ever T20 World Cup title. In resp...

Scintillating Williamson guide New Zealand past 170

Scintillating Williamson guide New Zealand past 170

Tanvir Ahmed 2021-11-14 21:41:52

New Zealand have set a target of 173 runs for Australia to claim the trophy of the seventh edition of the ICC T20 World Cup.  At the outset, having won the all-important toss at Dubai, Australia...

Indian police kill 26 Maoist ‘militants’

Indian police kill 26 Maoist ‘militants’

-- 2021-11-14 20:38:44

Police in India's western state of Maharashtra have killed at least 26 Maoist militants, including a top leader, in an ambush operation in dense forest, a top government official said on Sunday. The...

Australia win the toss and choose to field first

Australia win the toss and choose to field first

Tanvir Ahmed 2021-11-14 19:42:09

Australia have won the all-important toss at Dubai and as expected, elected to field first in the Grand Finale of the seventh edition of ICC T20 World Cup.  Australia have named the same squad w...

Indian police kill 26 Naxals in day-long gun battle

Indian police kill 26 Naxals in day-long gun battle

-- 2021-11-14 19:04:05

At least 26 armed rebels called Naxals were killed by the Indian police in Korchi forest of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra province, said a top police official late Saturday. "We have recovered t...

Sudanese security forces arrest Al Jazeera bureau chief

Sudanese security forces arrest Al Jazeera bureau chief

-- 2021-11-14 18:10:57

Qatar's Al Jazeera TV network said on Twitter on Sunday Sudanese security forces had raided the home of its Khartoum bureau chief, El Musalmi El Kabbashi, and arrested him. The network did not provid...

Smog chokes New Delhi as air pollution levels soar

Smog chokes New Delhi as air pollution levels soar

-- 2021-11-14 18:01:57

Sky obscured by thick, gray smog. Monuments and high-rise buildings swallowed by a blanket of haze. People struggling to breathe. In the Indian capital, it is that time of the year again. The New De...

Fire in COVID hospital kills three patients in Bulgaria

Fire in COVID hospital kills three patients in Bulgaria

-- 2021-11-14 17:36:14

A fire broke out on a ward for COVID-19 patients in Bulgaria early Sunday, killing three people, officials said. The fire in the southern Bulgarian town of Sliven broke out at about 2:40 am, the chie...

UN climate agreement clinched after drama over coal

UN climate agreement clinched after drama over coal

-- 2021-11-14 17:02:50

UN climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute objections. While the...

Sierra Leone tanker blast death toll rises to 144

Sierra Leone tanker blast death toll rises to 144

-- 2021-11-14 16:45:47

The death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in Sierra Leone's capital on Nov 5 has risen to 144 from a previous estimate of 115, health ministry data showed on Saturday. The tanker exploded following...

T20 World Cup 2021 combined XI

T20 World Cup 2021 combined XI

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-14 15:29:31

After 4 weeks of enthralling cricket in the deserts of the UAE, we are finally one game away to find out a new king of T20 cricket. The Tasmanian battle tonight will decide who will secure the throne....

World Cup on the line as aggression and calmness lock horns

World Cup on the line as aggression and calmness lock horns

Tanvir Ahmed 2021-11-14 15:01:51

The stage is set for the Trans-Tasman counterparts to battle it out for the crown of the shortest format of the game.  The Grand Finale of the seventh edition of the ICC T20 World Cup is schedul...

Popular Zambian-born author Wilbur Smith dies

Popular Zambian-born author Wilbur Smith dies

-- 2021-11-14 14:05:17

International best-selling author Wilbur Smith has died at his home in Cape Town at the age of 88, his publisher has announced. He passed away on Saturday afternoon with his wife, Niso, b...

Prison violence leaves at least 68 dead in Ecuador

Prison violence leaves at least 68 dead in Ecuador

-- 2021-11-14 10:56:41

 At least 68 prisoners were killed and more than two dozen injured in overnight violence at Ecuador's Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, the government said on Saturday, in what officials characte...

China warns US not to support Taiwan independence

China warns US not to support Taiwan independence

-- 2021-11-14 10:49:34

Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken not to "send wrong signals" to Taiwan pro-independence forces, China's foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday, Reute...

Hackers compromise FBI email system, send thousands of messages

Hackers compromise FBI email system, send thousands of messages

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-14 10:37:15

Hackers compromised a Federal Bureau of Investigation email system on Saturday and sent tens of thousands of messages warning of a possible cyberattack, according to the agency and security specialist...

Global Covid cases near 253m amid vaccination

Global Covid cases near 253m amid vaccination

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-14 10:08:28

The overall global number of Covid-19 cases is fast approaching 253 million amid the race to vaccinate people against the infectious disease. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total ca...

COP26 ends with global agreement aimed at averting climate catastrophe

COP26 ends with global agreement aimed at averting climate catastrophe

-- 2021-11-14 08:57:01

UN climate talks in Scotland ended with a global agreement that aimed at least to keep alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and so maintain some chance of saving the world f...

Blast hits Shia area of Afghan capital Kabul

Blast hits Shia area of Afghan capital Kabul

-- 2021-11-13 20:45:48

A magnetic bomb attached to a minivan exploded in a heavily Shia area of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, causing an unknown number of casualties, a Taliban official and local residents said, rep...

Khaleda readmitted to Evercare Hospital

Khaleda readmitted to Evercare Hospital

-- 2021-11-13 19:21:02

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was readmitted to Evercare on Saturday for follow-up treatment, nearly a week after she was discharged from the same hospital. It is for the third time, the BNP chief was...

Indian paramilitary officer, family among seven killed

Indian paramilitary officer, family among seven killed

-- 2021-11-13 19:18:08

An officer of Assam Rifles, a paramilitary force of the Indian Army, wife and son along with four other soldiers were killed in the Manipur state of India on Saturday when armed men ambushed their con...

Britain's army chief sees greater risk of war between West and Russia

Britain's army chief sees greater risk of war between West and Russia

-- 2021-11-13 18:31:27

There is a greater risk of an accidental war breaking out between the West and Russia than at any time since the Cold War, with many of the traditional diplomatic tools no longer available, Britain's...

Blinken gave US commitment to defend Japan

Blinken gave US commitment to defend Japan

-- 2021-11-13 12:10:16

Japan's new foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said on Saturday US Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured him in a phone call that the US commitment to defending Japan, including southern islets...

Netherlands imposes partial lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar

Netherlands imposes partial lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar

-- 2021-11-13 11:23:44

The Netherlands will return to a partial lockdown from Saturday after the government ordered restaurants and shops to close early and barred spectators from major sporting events in an effort to conta...

X-factors of the final who can change the game individually

X-factors of the final who can change the game individually

Aniruddha Bhowmik 2021-11-12 21:00:35

After 25 days of non-stop cricket and 45 matches, the cricket world has finally found its two finalists for this year’s ICC men’s T20 World Cup.  Two deserving finalists, New Zealand...

Europe becomes epicentre of Covid-19 pandemic again

Europe becomes epicentre of Covid-19 pandemic again

-- 2021-11-12 20:27:53

Europe has become the epicentre of the pandemic again, prompting some governments to consider re-imposing unpopular lockdowns in the run-up to Christmas and stirring debate over whether vaccines alone...