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Russia grants tax amnesty to encourage its troops fighting in Ukraine

Russia grants tax amnesty to encourage its troops fighting in Ukraine

-- 2022-12-31 18:52:52

Russian authorities have announced that soldiers and state employees deployed to fight in Ukraine will be exempt from income tax. According to Al Jazeera, this announcement is Moscow’s latest e...

Revellers throng to New Year’s parties after Covid hiatus   

Revellers throng to New Year’s parties after Covid hiatus  

-- 2022-12-31 18:33:49

With countdowns and fireworks, revellers in major city centres across the Asia-Pacific region were ushering in the first new year without Covid-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. While...

Former Pope Benedict dies aged 95

Former Pope Benedict dies aged 95

-- 2022-12-31 16:18:10

Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, died on Saturday aged 95 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since his resignation,...

Palestinians welcome UN vote on Israel's occupation as 'a victory'

Palestinians welcome UN vote on Israel's occupation as 'a victory'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 15:46:54

The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed a vote by the United Nations General Assembly requesting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) provide an opinion on the...

Venezuela opposition removes interim President Guaido

Venezuela opposition removes interim President Guaido

REUTERS 2022-12-31 14:43:47

Venezuela's opposition national assembly voted on Friday to remove interim President Juan Guaido, dissolve his government and appoint a commission to govern the country's foreign assets, as lawmakers...

Criminal justice postgrad charged with murdering 4 Idaho university students

Criminal justice postgrad charged with murdering 4 Idaho university students

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 12:48:25

A grad student seeking a criminal justice degree from Washington State University has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idah...

Australia to ring in 2023 with no COVID restrictions

Australia to ring in 2023 with no COVID restrictions

REUTERS 2022-12-31 12:18:29

Australia is gearing up to celebrate its first restriction-free New Year's Eve after two years of COVID disruptions, with more than a million revellers expected to flock to Sydney's harbourfront and w...

Nine killed, 28 hurt as bus collides with SUV in India

Nine killed, 28 hurt as bus collides with SUV in India

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 10:49:17

At least nine people have been killed and 28 injured after a sports utility vehicle (SUV) collided head-on with a bus in India’s Gujarat, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported. The driver of the bus...

NDTV founders resign from board after India's Adani takes control

NDTV founders resign from board after India's Adani takes control

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 10:30:53

India's New Delhi Television Ltd said on Friday its founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy had resigned as directors after billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate took majority control of the...

WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on Covid situation

WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on Covid situation

-- 2022-12-31 10:17:29

The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the Covid-19 situation in the country, as it continues to ass...

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

Brazil will have first Indigenous woman chief for key post

-- 2022-12-30 22:23:47

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sonia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demar...

US House committee releases six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns

US House committee releases six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns

-- 2022-12-30 21:26:28

A Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives committee released six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to the public on Friday in an extraordinary move days before Republicans...

Putin wants to strengthen military cooperation with China

Putin wants to strengthen military cooperation with China

-- 2022-12-30 19:49:28

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he was expecting Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a state visit early next year, in what would be a public show of solidarity from Beijing amid Russ...

China appoints Qin Gang as new foreign minister

China appoints Qin Gang as new foreign minister

-- 2022-12-30 19:16:30

China has appointed Qin Gang, a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, as its new foreign minister, state radio reported on Friday. Qin, 56, and currently China's ambassador to the United States, repl...

Indian PM Modi’s mother dies

Indian PM Modi’s mother dies

-- 2022-12-30 17:46:40

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi was cremated after she died in the early hours of the morning. She was 99 years old, and had been in hospital in western Gujarat state - whe...

10 oil field workers killed in attack on bus in Syria

10 oil field workers killed in attack on bus in Syria

-- 2022-12-30 16:30:08

A militant rocket attack in eastern Syria on Friday targeted a bus with oil industry employees, killing at least 10, the government said. To the north, Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced they arrest...

Belarus protests to Ukraine after downing stray air defence missile

Belarus protests to Ukraine after downing stray air defence missile

-- 2022-12-30 16:22:39

Belarus protested to Ukraine's ambassador on Thursday after saying it had downed a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile in a field, during one of Russia's heaviest aerial onslaughts against Ukraine sin...

Kyiv residents urged to shelter as sirens wail across city

Kyiv residents urged to shelter as sirens wail across city

-- 2022-12-30 15:47:05

Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it sta...

Will Netanyahu clip the wings of his new cabinet hawks?

Will Netanyahu clip the wings of his new cabinet hawks?

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 15:32:29

One is a pistol-packing ex-member of an outlawed Jewish militant group. The other is a religious fundamentalist who once called himself a "proud homophobe". Both are West Bank settle...

Israel's Netanyahu must manage right-wing firebrands on return to power

Israel's Netanyahu must manage right-wing firebrands on return to power

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 13:56:53

Benjamin Netanyahu will need all his experience as Israel's longest-serving prime minister as he returns at head one of the most right-wing governments in the country's history,...

US considers airline wastewater testing as COVID surges in China

US considers airline wastewater testing as COVID surges in China

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 13:22:12

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging ne...

Chinese jet came within 10 feet of US military aircraft, US says

Chinese jet came within 10 feet of US military aircraft, US says

-- 2022-12-30 12:50:56

A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a US air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive manoeuvres to avoid a collision in internati...

Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi for 7 more years as secretive trials end

Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi for 7 more years as secretive trials end

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 12:39:15

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday convicted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five counts of corruption and jailed her for a combined seven years, a source familiar with her trial said, wra...

Indonesia issues emergency regulation to replace controversial job creation law

Indonesia issues emergency regulation to replace controversial job creation law

REUTERS 2022-12-30 11:23:16

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace the controversial job creation law, his chief economics minister said on Friday, a law that the Constitutional Court had...

Romania detains ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate in human trafficking case

Romania detains ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate in human trafficking case

-- 2022-12-30 11:12:42

Romanian prosecutors said on Thursday they have detained divisive internet personality and former professional kickboxer Andrew Tate on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised cr...

Chinese intercept could have caused air collision,  says US

Chinese intercept could have caused air collision, says US

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 10:20:20

The US military says a Chinese navy fighter jet flew dangerously close to an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea earlier this month, forcing the American pilot to maneuver to avoid...

Russia hits key infrastructure with missiles across Ukraine

Russia hits key infrastructure with missiles across Ukraine

-- 2022-12-29 22:38:21

Russian missiles hit Ukraine Thursday in the biggest wave of strikes in weeks, damaging power stations and other critical infrastructure during freezing winter weather, according to AP. Russia fired...

Lack of info on China’s Covid-19 surge stirs global concern

Lack of info on China’s Covid-19 surge stirs global concern

-- 2022-12-29 22:32:24

Moves by several countries to mandate Covid-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak - and that the governmen...

Indian maker of syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production

Indian maker of syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production

-- 2022-12-29 19:59:56

India's drug regulator said on Thursday that it had inspected a facility that made a cough syrup linked to deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan and promised more action based on its findings. A legal...

Five killed in South Korea road tunnel fire

Five killed in South Korea road tunnel fire

-- 2022-12-29 17:05:29

A large fire on a South Korean expressway on Thursday killed at least five people and injured nearly 40 caught in heavy traffic, emergency officials and media said. Video images on social media showe...