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South Korea remains on high alert over holidays despite fall in Covid cases

South Korea remains on high alert over holidays despite fall in Covid cases

-- 2020-09-29 11:17:23

South Korea appealed on Tuesday for strict social-distancing despite a slight fall in the number of its new coronavirus cases, with millions of people set to travel for a major holiday. The Korea Dis...

55 killed as Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh enters second day of clashes

55 killed as Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh enters second day of clashes

REUTERS 2020-09-29 11:04:17

Fighting escalated sharply on Monday between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at least 55 people were killed in a second day of heavy clashes. The two side...

Global coronavirus deaths top 1 million

Global coronavirus deaths top 1 million

Reuters 2020-09-29 10:16:43

More than 1 million people have died of Covid-19 around the world as of Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pace of fatalities picking up as infections again surge in several countries. D...

Turkey prepares second indictment of six Khashoggi murder suspects

Turkey prepares second indictment of six Khashoggi murder suspects

-- 2020-09-28 18:18:40

Turkish prosecutors have prepared a second indictment in connection with the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, naming six new Saudi nationals as suspects. Khashoggi, a crit...

Armenian, Azeri forces exchange fire for second day

Armenian, Azeri forces exchange fire for second day

Reuters 2020-09-28 14:18:48

Armenian and Azeri forces exchanged fierce fire for the second day on Monday morning, with both sides accusing each other of using heavy artillery. The outbreak of fighting over the territory of Nago...

Australian amusement park fined $2.5m over four deaths on faulty ride

Australian amusement park fined $2.5m over four deaths on faulty ride

-- 2020-09-28 14:05:29

The operator of Australia's Dreamworld theme park has been fined A$3.6m (£2m; $2.5m) over the deaths of four people on a malfunctioning water ride. Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozbeh Araghi...

UK mulls tougher restrictions for England as Covid cases keep rising

UK mulls tougher restrictions for England as Covid cases keep rising

Reuters 2020-09-28 13:05:55

The British government is mulling tougher restrictions in England to tackle a swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, possibly outlawing more inter-household socialising, a...

Trump paid no tax in 10 of 15 years: NY Times

Trump paid no tax in 10 of 15 years: NY Times

REUTERS 2020-09-28 13:01:22

President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, after years of reporting heavy losses from his business enterprises to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in in...

India's coronavirus cases cross six million

India's coronavirus cases cross six million

Reuters 2020-09-28 11:46:44

India’s coronavirus case tally topped 6 million after it reported 82,170 new infections in the last 24 hours, data from the health ministry showed on Monday. Deaths from Covid-19 rose by 1,039...

Nagorno-Karabakh loses territory, as Armenia, Azerbaijan erupt into fighting

Nagorno-Karabakh loses territory, as Armenia, Azerbaijan erupt into fighting

REUTERS 2020-09-28 11:23:45

At least 16 military members and several civilians were killed on Sunday in the heaviest clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan since 2016, reigniting concern about stability in the South Caucasus, a...

US students demand tuition cuts

US students demand tuition cuts

-- 2020-09-28 09:54:48

Full-time students at Chicago’s Columbia College spend $14,000 a year for professional, hands-on training in dance, film and music that the school normally offers in studios and classrooms scatt...

Afghan woman wins campaign for inclusion of mothers’ name on identity cards

Afghan woman wins campaign for inclusion of mothers’ name on identity cards

-- 2020-09-27 17:28:02

Afghan woman Laleh Osmany has been campaigning for years for a change to the age-old custom of officially identifying people by the names of their fathers, calling for mothers’ names to be inclu...

3,500 US companies sue over Trump-imposed Chinese tariffs

3,500 US companies sue over Trump-imposed Chinese tariffs

-- 2020-09-27 16:49:20

About 3,500 US companies, including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor, Target Corp, Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than...

Company which once owned India now owned by an Indian

Company which once owned India now owned by an Indian

-- 2020-09-26 21:59:34

The East India Company’s name has been synonymous with the colonial exploitation of South Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, since the 16th century. Today, in one of the great ironies of h...

Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help 'all humanity'

Modi pledges to use India vaccine-production capacity to help 'all humanity'

Reuters 2020-09-26 19:31:00

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged at the United Nations on Saturday that his country's vaccine production capacity would be made available globally to fight the COVID-19 crisis. "As the lar...

Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic

Nobel Prizes go ahead amid pandemic

Reuters 2020-09-26 19:08:31

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will miss out on a swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden’s glitterati, but 2020 will at least not be added to the war years when...

China aims to make 1.0b COVID-19 vaccine doses a year

China aims to make 1.0b COVID-19 vaccine doses a year

AP 2020-09-26 16:39:08

China’s annual production capacity for coronavirus vaccines will top 1 billion doses by 2021, following an aggressive government support program for construction of new factories, said a Chinese...

Iran readies for fresh coronavirus lockdowns as cases rise

Iran readies for fresh coronavirus lockdowns as cases rise

Reuters 2020-09-26 16:26:54

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday authorised the country’s provinces to impose lockdowns wherever necessary to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus cases. “We are forced to intensi...

Lebanese PM-designate quits, deals blow to French initiative

Lebanese PM-designate quits, deals blow to French initiative

REUTERS 2020-09-26 15:56:24

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet, failing despite French pressure on sectarian leaders to rally together to d...

Pakistan PM tells UN India 'sponsors Islamophobia'

Pakistan PM tells UN India 'sponsors Islamophobia'

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-26 14:39:45

In a speech to the United Nations, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called India’s Hindu-nationalist government a sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam, while denouncing its moves to...

Kashmiri voice Babar Qadri murdered

Kashmiri voice Babar Qadri murdered

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-26 14:04:23

On television and in the courtroom, the young lawyer could be a force. Babar Qadri stood as a rare, pugilistic voice arguing on behalf of his native Kashmir, the rocky region long torn between India a...

US election winner might not be named for months: Trump

US election winner might not be named for months: Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-26 12:21:51

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Americans might not know the winner of the November presidential election for months due to disputes over mail ballots, building on his criticism of a met...

Palestine leader calls for international conference next year for genuine peace

Palestine leader calls for international conference next year for genuine peace

-- 2020-09-26 10:51:15

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to convene an international conference early next year to launch “a genuine peace proce...

Thai democracy activists protest in front of king's German villa

Thai democracy activists protest in front of king's German villa

REUTERS 2020-09-26 10:50:46

Thai activists on Friday planted a symbolic plaque declaring Thailand belongs to the people in front of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s villa in Germany, as protests calling for reforms to his monarc...

Air force cadets among 22 die in Ukraine military plane crash

Air force cadets among 22 die in Ukraine military plane crash

-- 2020-09-26 10:12:01

A military transport plane carrying air force cadets crashed and burst into flames near a highway in northeastern Ukraine on Friday evening, killing at least 22 people on board, officials said. The A...

BSF involved in cattle smuggling, says report

BSF involved in cattle smuggling, says report

FE REPORT 2020-09-26 09:30:58

The Indian Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) has recently detected the alleged involvement of the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel of India in cattle smuggling through the India-Bangladesh bor...

Indian farmers block roads, railways as protests mount over farm bills

Indian farmers block roads, railways as protests mount over farm bills

-- 2020-09-25 19:37:22

Farmers in India blocked roads and railway tracks on Friday in a protest against new legislation that they say could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving...

North Korean leader offers rare apology for killing of South Korean

North Korean leader offers rare apology for killing of South Korean

-- 2020-09-25 17:53:15

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologised on Friday for the shooting death of a South Korean man to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said, as p...

India emphasises no unilateral change in Ladakh LAC with China

India emphasises no unilateral change in Ladakh LAC with China

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-09-25 14:38:18

Days after India and China agreed not to engage in escalatory behaviour along the Line of Actual Control, New Delhi said that the “way ahead” will be to refrain from making any attempts to...

Singapore population declines as foreigners depart

Singapore population declines as foreigners depart

-- 2020-09-25 13:26:23

Singapore’s population has fallen for the first time in 17 years as travel curbs and job losses brought about by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic have pushed foreign workers from the global b...