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Cyclone Bulbul kills nine in India

Cyclone Bulbul kills nine in India

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-11 12:03:13

At least nine people were killed in the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha on Sunday before veering off towards Bangladesh. The toll could rise further, India media reported citing officials. T...

Bolivia's Morales resigns after protests over disputed election

Bolivia's Morales resigns after protests over disputed election

Reuters 2019-11-11 10:53:11

Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday (local time) he was resigning to ease violence that has gripped the South American nation since a disputed election, but he stoked fears of more unrest by...

Malaysian court tells ex-PM Najib to defend himself in 1MDB-linked case

Malaysian court tells ex-PM Najib to defend himself in 1MDB-linked case

-- 2019-11-11 10:46:52

A Malaysian court on Monday ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to present his defence against seven counts of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power in a case linked to a...

Congo army kills leader of splinter Hutu militia group

Congo army kills leader of splinter Hutu militia group

-- 2019-11-10 20:42:36

Congolese forces have killed the leader of an offshoot of a Hutu militia in the restive east of the country, the army said on Sunday, two months after killing the leader of the main faction, according...

Murder of Indonesia palm oil activists shows growing threat, rights groups say

Murder of Indonesia palm oil activists shows growing threat, rights groups say

-- 2019-11-10 20:14:41

The murder of two Indonesian activists, which police say was ordered by a palm oil businessman, highlights the escalating violence and threats faced by environmentalists who challenge the industry, ri...

Spanish voter turnout at 38pc at 2 pm, down from April election

Spanish voter turnout at 38pc at 2 pm, down from April election

-- 2019-11-10 19:59:54

Turnout in Spain’s repeat parliamentary election stood at 37.9 per cent at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Sunday, according to the interior ministry, a drop from the 41.5 per cent recorded at the same tim...

Morales to call new election after OAS report

Morales to call new election after OAS report

-- 2019-11-10 19:28:01

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has said he will call a new election after international monitors questioned the validity of his victory last month. The Organisation of American States (OAS), w...

Israeli farmers lament the end of Jordan land deal

Israeli farmers lament the end of Jordan land deal

-- 2019-11-10 19:27:34

It has been a bitter harvest for some Israeli farmers on the border with Jordan. On Sunday, a 25-year-old deal between the two countries that has allowed them to cultivate land there formally expires,...

Libya deports about 200 illegal immigrants

Libya deports about 200 illegal immigrants

-- 2019-11-10 19:06:15

Libya’s Immigration Control Department in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday announced the deportation of almost 200 illegal immigrants to Egypt. The Illegal Immigration Control Departmen...

US man accused of groping woman, arrested after plane makes early landing

US man accused of groping woman, arrested after plane makes early landing

-- 2019-11-10 18:44:25

The man seated next to her started by touching the woman’s arm not long after takeoff, a criminal complaint says. She pushed him away, according to NDTV. Then the woman’s fellow passenger...

HK protesters vandalise subway station

HK protesters vandalise subway station

-- 2019-11-10 18:13:44

Protesters smashed windows in a subway station and a shopping mall Sunday and police made arrests in areas across Hong Kong amid anger over a demonstrator’s death and the arrest of pro-democracy...

Iran discovers oil field with 53b barrels of crude

Iran discovers oil field with 53b barrels of crude

-- 2019-11-10 18:04:25

A new oil field that would increase Iran’s proven reserves by about a third has been discovered, President Hassan Rouhani has said. The field, in the south-western province of Khuzestan and abo...

Russian professor kills lover during argument

Russian professor kills lover during argument

-- 2019-11-10 17:28:20

A well-known Russian historian has confessed to murdering his lover - a former student - his lawyer says, after he was found in a river with a backpack containing a woman’s arms. Oleg Sokolov,...

Imperial couple of Japan rides through Tokyo in grand enthronement parade

Imperial couple of Japan rides through Tokyo in grand enthronement parade

-- 2019-11-10 17:10:09

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako rode through central Tokyo on Sunday in a motorcade to mark this year’s imperial succession as well-wishers waved national flags and held up mobile p...

Indian Muslims won’t seek Ayodhya verdict review

Indian Muslims won’t seek Ayodhya verdict review

-- 2019-11-10 17:05:05

The group of Muslims involved in the case over a disputed religious site at Ayodhya in India has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict favouring a Hindu temple on the land.  The UP Sunni Waqf Board...

United States ‘very actively’ asking North Korea to return to talks: South Korea

United States ‘very actively’ asking North Korea to return to talks: South Korea

-- 2019-11-10 16:57:34

The United States is “very actively” trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations, South Korea’s national security adviser said on Sunday, as a year-end North Korean d...

Iran rejects reports of IAEA finding traces of uranium at unnamed site

Iran rejects reports of IAEA finding traces of uranium at unnamed site

-- 2019-11-10 16:24:28

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian sit...

Maid flooded with job offers after her business card goes viral

Maid flooded with job offers after her business card goes viral

-- 2019-11-10 16:12:49

Geeta Kale, a domestic help in Pune, has been flooded with job offers from all corners of India. The reason - a business card that one of her employers, Dhanashree Shinde, designed for her, according...

Row over UK Labour polls spending plans   

Row over UK Labour polls spending plans  

-- 2019-11-10 16:07:36

A spending row has broken out after the Conservative Party published what it claims would be the cost of a Labour government over five years. The report, compiled by the party and not the Treasury,...

Airplane makes emergency landing in Manila as engine fails

Airplane makes emergency landing in Manila as engine fails

-- 2019-11-10 16:06:13

An airplane operated by South Korea’s Asiana Airlines bound for Singapore made an emergency landing in Manila late on Saturday due to an engine problem, a company spokesman said, according to ND...

Ayodhya verdict: India detains dozens over social media posts, celebrations

Ayodhya verdict: India detains dozens over social media posts, celebrations

-- 2019-11-10 15:22:50

LUCKNOW/AYODHYA, Nov 10 (Reuters): Dozens of people in India have been detained on suspicion of publishing inflammatory social media posts and setting off celebratory firecrackers after the Supreme Co...

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest

-- 2019-11-10 14:16:10

Cambodia has freed opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest more than two years after he was arrested and charged with treason, but he remains banned from politics and from leaving the country, a...

Australia bushfires kill three, force thousands from homes

Australia bushfires kill three, force thousands from homes

-- 2019-11-10 13:34:37

At least three people are dead and thousands have been displaced by a weekend of bushfires in Australia, reports BBC. On Sunday, the fire emergency’s third day, more than 100 blazes were stil...

Australian firefighters battle blazes, brace for more

Australian firefighters battle blazes, brace for more

-- 2019-11-10 13:02:39

MELBOURNE, Nov 10 (Reuters): Australian firefighters raced on Sunday to contain widespread bushfires that have left three people dead, and braced for worse conditions in coming days as they warned the...

India pilgrims in historic visit to Pakistan temple

India pilgrims in historic visit to Pakistan temple

-- 2019-11-10 12:29:44

  A historic corridor to one of Sikhism's holiest shrines is now open, allowing Indian pilgrims rare visa-free access to the site in Pakistan, reports BBC. The Kartarpur corridor leads from the...

Two die as cyclone Bulbul hits Bangladesh, India

Two die as cyclone Bulbul hits Bangladesh, India

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-10 10:31:23

Two people have died as Cyclone Bulbul struck India and southern Bangladesh on Saturday. One of them was killed by an uprooted tree in West Bengal's Kolkata, and another by a wall collapse during the...

Xi stresses building world-class air force

Xi stresses building world-class air force

-- 2019-11-09 17:33:57

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for efforts to fully build the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force into a world-class air force. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party o...

Xi's pledges manifestation of China's commitment to further opening up: Experts

Xi's pledges manifestation of China's commitment to further opening up: Experts

Xinhua 2019-11-09 17:30:52

The pledges made by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the ongoing second China International Import Expo (CIIE) to promote higher-level opening up are a clear manifestation of China's commitment to hold...

‘Bulbul’ triggers heavy rainfall, uproots trees in Odisha

‘Bulbul’ triggers heavy rainfall, uproots trees in Odisha

-- 2019-11-09 15:34:38

Heavy rain accompanied by high-velocity winds, trigerred by very severe cyclonic storm 'Bulbul', lashed several parts of coastal Odisha on Saturday, uprooting trees and snapping road links. While no...

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

-- 2019-11-09 14:07:32

Two people have died, five are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW...