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Inflation drives Britain’s record Christmas grocery sales

Inflation drives Britain’s record Christmas grocery sales

-- 2023-01-04 16:00:27

British grocery sales rose 9.4 per cent to a record 12.8 billion pounds ($15.3 billion) in the four weeks to Dec 25, though growth was driven by price inflation rather than increased purchasing, marke...

FDA finalises rule expanding availability of abortion pills

FDA finalises rule expanding availability of abortion pills

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 15:36:32

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized a rule change that broadens availability of abortion pills to many more pharmacies, including large chains and mail-order companies, reports UNB....

Myanmar junta to free more than 7,000 prisoners under amnesty

Myanmar junta to free more than 7,000 prisoners under amnesty

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 15:24:06

Myanmar's military government will release 7,012 prisoners under an amnesty to mark the country's independence day, state broadcaster MRTV reported on Wednesday, as the junta chief praised some...

Biden, Japan's Kishida to meet at White House on Jan 13

Biden, Japan's Kishida to meet at White House on Jan 13

-- 2023-01-04 15:00:01

US President Joe Biden will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House on Jan. 13 covering North Korea, Ukraine, China's tensions with Taiwan, and a "free and open Indo-P...

Russia blames its soldiers' mobile phone use for deadly missile strike

Russia blames its soldiers' mobile phone use for deadly missile strike

-- 2023-01-04 14:53:10

Russia's defence ministry on Wednesday blamed the illegal use of mobile phones by its soldiers for a deadly Ukrainian missile strike that it said killed 89 servicemen, raising the reported death toll...

Canada grants record permanent residency permits in 2022

Canada grants record permanent residency permits in 2022

REUTERS 2023-01-04 14:01:39

Canada set an immigration record last year by granting more than 437,000 foreigners permanent residency, the government said on Tuesday, as it ramps up immigration to fight a tight labor market. The...

Taiwan to give cash payouts to citizens in 'New Year blessing'

Taiwan to give cash payouts to citizens in 'New Year blessing'

REUTERS 2023-01-04 12:45:24

Taiwan plans to give cash payouts of nearly $200 to every citizen this year, Premier Su Tseng-chang announced on Wednesday, saying the island's economic growth will be shared by everyone. The export-...

Myanmar junta hits out at critics, thanks neighbours for help

Myanmar junta hits out at critics, thanks neighbours for help

REUTERS 2023-01-04 12:30:14

Myanmar's junta chief on Wednesday lashed out at countries for intervening in his country's affairs while thanking others for "positively" cooperating, noting how it was working closely with neighbour...

China urges 'final victory' over COVID as global concern mounts over spread

China urges 'final victory' over COVID as global concern mounts over spread

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 11:44:40

Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China's raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the government's mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for...

UN Security Council welcomes new members

UN Security Council welcomes new members

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-04 11:28:19

Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland got a formal welcome into the UN Security Council on Tuesday, taking the two-year seats they won unopposed in June. In a tradition that Kazakhstan st...

Myanmar's military regime must end its violence: US

Myanmar's military regime must end its violence: US

-- 2023-01-03 21:48:56

The United States has said the military regime in Myanmar must end its violence, release those unjustly detained and allow unhindered humanitarian access. The military regime must recognise the desir...

Young woman's horrific death shocks India

Young woman's horrific death shocks India

-- 2023-01-03 18:41:11

The gruesome death of a 20-year-old woman in India's capital Delhi on January 01 has shocked the country. News reports say the woman, who was an event manager, was returning from work in the early ho...

Myanmar seizes 1.35 tonnes of caffeine in Shan state

Myanmar seizes 1.35 tonnes of caffeine in Shan state

-- 2023-01-03 18:18:23

Myanmar authorities seized 1.35 tonnes of caffeine in eastern Shan state, the state media reported Tuesday citing a police source. Acting on a tip-off, the anti-narcotics police confiscated the caffe...

Pakistan shuts markets in evenings under energy conservation plan

Pakistan shuts markets in evenings under energy conservation plan

-- 2023-01-03 17:07:09

Pakistan's government has ordered all malls and markets to close by 8:30pm among other measures in a new energy conservation plan, the defence minister said on Tuesday, as the country grapples with an...

Philippines' Marcos heads to Beijing, talks with Xi to include South China Sea

Philippines' Marcos heads to Beijing, talks with Xi to include South China Sea

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 15:26:56

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr will fly to Beijing on Tuesday for a three-day visit, during which he is expected to discuss, among other things, Beijing's activities in the...

Japan's 'anti-Russian course' makes treaty talks impossible: TASS

Japan's 'anti-Russian course' makes treaty talks impossible: TASS

REUTERS 2023-01-03 14:07:37

Japan's "anti-Russian course" makes peace treaty talks impossible, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said in comments published by the state TASS news agency on Tuesday. Russia and Japan...

Pilot, two British visitors among four killed in Australia crash

Pilot, two British visitors among four killed in Australia crash

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 13:55:09

A pilot, two British visitors and a Sydney woman have been identified as the four people killed in a collision of two helicopters over the waterfront at an Australian tourist hotspot. Authorities say...

Transgender Missouri inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday

Transgender Missouri inmate scheduled to be executed Tuesday

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 12:18:47

Nearly 1,600 death row inmates have been put to death in the US since 1977, but an execution scheduled for Tuesday in Missouri would be the first of an openly transgender woman. Amber McLaughlin, 49,...

Britain to proscribe Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terror group: Telegraph

Britain to proscribe Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terror group: Telegraph

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 12:08:13

Britain will officially declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which has arrested seven people with links to the United Kingdom over anti-government protests, as a terrorist group, the Telegraph re...

Global Covid cases surpass 665m

Global Covid cases surpass 665m

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 11:11:25

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has now crossed 665 million. According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 665,546,183 while the death toll from the virus reached 6...

China state media plays down severity of COVID wave before WHO meeting

China state media plays down severity of COVID wave before WHO meeting

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 11:03:53

China's state media played down the severity on Tuesday of the COVID-19 wave surging over the country, with its scientists expected to give a briefing to the World Health Organization on the evo...

Mexico’s Supreme Court elects 1st female chief justice

Mexico’s Supreme Court elects 1st female chief justice

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 11:02:54

Mexico’s Supreme Court elected the first female chief justice in its history Monday. Justice Norma Lucía Piña was sworn in for her four-year term at the head of the 11-member cour...

Russia says 63 soldiers killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region

Russia says 63 soldiers killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region

-- 2023-01-03 10:03:34

Russia said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on their quarters, triggering furious criticism of the military leadership from lawmakers and pro-wa...

South Korea says talks under way over US nuclear operations planning

South Korea says talks under way over US nuclear operations planning

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-03 09:54:30

South Korea and the United States are discussing joint planning and implementation of US nuclear operations to counter North Korea, Seoul's presidential office said on Tuesday, although US Presi...

Death toll rises to 19 from prison attack in Mexican border town

Death toll rises to 19 from prison attack in Mexican border town

REUTERS 2023-01-03 09:18:20

An attack on a prison in the Mexican border town of Juarez left 19 dead and allowed a cartel kingpin to escape along with two dozen other prisoners, authorities said Monday. An armed group, traveling...

Two lawmakers in Senegal jailed for assaulting pregnant colleague

Two lawmakers in Senegal jailed for assaulting pregnant colleague

-- 2023-01-02 21:41:14

A court in Senegal sentenced two lawmakers on Monday to six months in jail for assaulting a pregnant colleague during an acrimonious parliamentary session last month that degenerated into a full-blown...

Anger in Russia as scores of troops killed in one of war's deadliest strikes

Anger in Russia as scores of troops killed in one of war's deadliest strikes

-- 2023-01-02 21:29:32

Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war's deadliest strikes, drawing demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing s...

IS claims responsibility for attack on Taliban

IS claims responsibility for attack on Taliban

-- 2023-01-02 21:26:37

Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on Taliban forces in Kabul. The militant group said on Telegram that the attack on Sunday had killed 20 people and wounded 30, according t...

Dozens of Russian recruits killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region

Dozens of Russian recruits killed by Ukrainian strike in Donetsk region

-- 2023-01-02 18:49:58

Dozens of Russian recruits were killed in a Ukrainian New Year's Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's Donetsk province, a source close to the Russian-appointed lead...

Two kids among six civilians killed in Kashmir village attack

Two kids among six civilians killed in Kashmir village attack

-- 2023-01-02 18:47:33

Two children were killed and five other civilians wounded in a blast in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, a day after assailants sprayed bullets toward a row of homes, leaving at least...