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Families sue Indonesian govt after children die of kidney disease

Families sue Indonesian govt after children die of kidney disease

-- 2022-12-02 16:07:22

Over a dozen parents are suing Indonesia's drug regulator and health ministry for allowing into the country medications linked to acute kidney injury that killed their children or damaged their organs...

US saw over 1m firearm fatalities over past 30 years: Study

US saw over 1m firearm fatalities over past 30 years: Study

-- 2022-12-02 15:55:02

The United States has seen over 1.0 million firearm fatalities over the past 30 years, according to a new study. There were roughly 1,110,000 deaths related to firearms -- nearly 86 per cent of them...

Chinese cities ease COVID curbs as virus keeps spreading

Chinese cities ease COVID curbs as virus keeps spreading

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-02 14:27:29

Some communities in Chinese cities where COVID-19 is still spreading are easing off on testing requirements and quarantine rules ahead of an expected shift in virus policies nationwide after widesprea...

Indonesia set to penalise sex outside marriage

Indonesia set to penalise sex outside marriage

-- 2022-12-02 14:26:58

Indonesia's parliament is expected to pass a new criminal code this month that will penalise sex outside marriage with a punishment of up to one year in jail, officials have confirmed. The legislativ...

Biden, Macron vow unity against Russia, discuss trade row

Biden, Macron vow unity against Russia, discuss trade row

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-02 09:50:16

Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron vowed to maintain a united front against Russia on Thursday amid growing worries about waning support for Ukraine’s war effort in the U.S. and Europe. Bi...

Islamic State names new leader after Quraishi blew himself up

Islamic State names new leader after Quraishi blew himself up

-- 2022-12-01 21:11:57

The Islamic State (IS) militant group has appointed a previously unknown figure as its head after its leader blew himself up in October while being besieged by former anti-government rebels in souther...

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of protests

China set to loosen COVID curbs after week of protests

-- 2022-12-01 18:56:52

China is set to announce an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols in the coming days and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after anger over the world's...

UN tell Taliban to investigate reports of extrajudicial killings

UN tell Taliban to investigate reports of extrajudicial killings

-- 2022-12-01 17:39:59

The United Nations' mission to Afghanistan said on Thursday they had asked the Taliban to hold a 'credible investigation' into reports of extrajudicial killings, including of children, in northern Dai...

2,000 dead fighting junta, says Myanmar democracy leader

2,000 dead fighting junta, says Myanmar democracy leader

-- 2022-12-01 17:30:08

At least 2,000 pro-democracy fighters have been killed in Myanmar battling a military junta that seized power last year, the head of a parallel civilian government said in an interview aired on Thursd...

UN seeks record $51.5b aid 'lifeline' next year

UN seeks record $51.5b aid 'lifeline' next year

-- 2022-12-01 16:15:22

The United Nations and partners on Thursday launched an appeal for a record $51.5 billion in aid money for 2023, with tens of millions of additional people expected to need humanitarian assistance. T...

India PM Modi’s home state Gujarat votes in key local polls

India PM Modi’s home state Gujarat votes in key local polls

AP 2022-12-01 13:48:02

Voters in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat cast ballots Thursday in crucial local elections, a vote that is seen as a barometer of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s p...

China softens tone on COVID severity after protests

China softens tone on COVID severity after protests

REUTERS 2022-12-01 11:19:06

China is softening its tone on the severity of COVID-19 and easing some coronavirus restrictions even as its daily case toll hovers near records, after anger over the world's toughest curbs morphed in...

Heaviest Ukraine fighting rages in east, NATO seeks to sustain support against Russia

Heaviest Ukraine fighting rages in east, NATO seeks to sustain support against Russia

REUTERS 2022-12-01 11:16:13

Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as Western allies sought to buttress Ukraine and it...

At least 15 killed in Afghanistan school bombing, says official

At least 15 killed in Afghanistan school bombing, says official

-- 2022-11-30 19:01:39

At least 15 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a religious school in northern Afghanistan’s Samangan province, according to a local official. Provincial spokesman Emdadullah Muhajir add...

Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage but voices rights concern

Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage but voices rights concern

-- 2022-11-30 18:17:44

A Tokyo court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday but said a lack of legal protection for same-sex families violated their human rights, a comment welcomed by plaintiffs as a step towards a...

Suicide bomber attacks Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team, kills four

Suicide bomber attacks Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team, kills four

-- 2022-11-30 18:08:17

A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding more than 30, police said, just two days...

South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

-- 2022-11-30 17:46:50

South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone on Wednesday. The two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the K...

Some football fans in Iran celebrate US win over the country's national team in World Cup

Some football fans in Iran celebrate US win over the country's national team in World Cup

-- 2022-11-30 17:14:27

Soccer fans in Iran's Kurdish region set off fireworks and honked car horns early Wednesday to celebrate the U.S. win over the Iranian national team in a politically charged World Cup match that divid...

Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

-- 2022-11-30 17:09:40

Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive...

NATO vows more help for Ukraine

NATO vows more help for Ukraine

-- 2022-11-30 12:09:10

NATO allies promised more arms for Ukraine and equipment to help restore power supplies cut by Russian strikes, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his forces were defending against attempted Russia...

Pakistan suicide blast targeting police kills 3, wounds 28

Pakistan suicide blast targeting police kills 3, wounds 28

REUTERS 2022-11-30 12:06:44

A suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta targeted a police patrol on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 28, police said. The explosion, claimed by the Pakistani Taliba...

Mistakes at UK Covid testing lab may have led to deaths of 20 people

Mistakes at UK Covid testing lab may have led to deaths of 20 people

-- 2022-11-29 22:22:02

England's government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory resulted in tens of thousands of positive Covid-19 cases reported as negative...

Air raid sirens blare in Ukraine as NATO meets to promise aid

Air raid sirens blare in Ukraine as NATO meets to promise aid

-- 2022-11-29 20:22:26

Air raid sirens wailed across Ukraine on Tuesday for the first time this week, as the United States and NATO allies unveiled new pledges of money and equipment to help restore power and heat knocked o...

Pakistan FM meets Taliban amid border concerns

Pakistan FM meets Taliban amid border concerns

-- 2022-11-29 19:10:08

Pakistan's minister of state for foreign affairs met Afghanistan's acting foreign minister in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest international minister to visit the country whose Taliban rulers are not form...

Alliance won't back down on Ukraine aid, says NATO chief

Alliance won't back down on Ukraine aid, says NATO chief

-- 2022-11-29 18:46:33

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance would not pull back in its support for Ukraine, calling on partners to pledge more winter aid for Kyiv as it braced itself for more cold and da...

Myanmar’s Rohingya IDs deny citizenship

Myanmar’s Rohingya IDs deny citizenship

-- 2022-11-29 18:30:34

Zaw Win's grandparents had the same identity card as everyone else in Myanmar, but a generation later his parents were given a separate ID for minority Rohingyas. Today, Zaw Win is classed as an illeg...

Britain summons China's ambassador over treatment of BBC journalist

Britain summons China's ambassador over treatment of BBC journalist

-- 2022-11-29 18:23:51

Britain summoned China's ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shan...

Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation

Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation

-- 2022-11-29 17:38:41

When a dozen Russian soldiers stormed into Dmytro Bilyi's home in August, the 24-year-old police officer said they gave him a chilling choice: Hand in his pistol or his mother and brother would disapp...

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

-- 2022-11-29 15:10:43

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces early Tuesday morning in two separate incidents in the Israeli occuppied West Bank, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military did not confirm the...

Police in India's Kerala step up security after clashes over Adani port

Police in India's Kerala step up security after clashes over Adani port

-- 2022-11-29 14:20:54

Police in southern India on Tuesday ramped up security around Vizhinjam port being built by billionaire Gautam Adani's group after scores of people were injured during clashes with protesters from a f...