-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
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