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Russia to donate Lebanon thousands of tonnes of fuel, wheat

-- 2022-11-01 17:51:21

Russia will donate 25,000 tonnes of wheat to crisis-hit Lebanon, the public works minister has said. Russia would also donate 10,000 tonnes of fuel oil to Beirut, minister Ali Hamie said o...

Israelis vote again as political crisis grinds on

-- 2022-11-01 17:41:05

For the fifth time since 2019, Israelis were voting in national elections on Tuesday, hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the country for the past three and a half years, accordi...

India's first fully solar village lights up the lives of poor residents

-- 2022-11-01 17:18:59

Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he moulds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter's wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India's Gujarat state, ha...

Nepal prepares for national elections amid faltering economy

-- 2022-11-01 17:07:52

Nepal will hold national and provincial elections on Nov 20, in a contest that the country's ruling coalition, led by the centrist Nepali Congress party, hopes to win against a loose alliance of commu...

Pakistan's Sharif lands in Beijing to discuss economy, debt

-- 2022-11-01 16:53:11

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to meet Chinese leaders and discuss plans for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $65 billion investment in the South...

More grain ships leave Ukraine ports despite Russian suspension

-- 2022-11-01 16:37:43

Three outbound vessels had left Ukrainian ports by midday on Tuesday under the Black Sea grain export deal, the United Nations-led coordination centre said, the second day of sailings after Russia sus...

Putin says power grid strikes were in response to Crimea drone attack

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-01 10:15:51

President Vladimir Putin said Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and a decision to freeze participation in a Black Sea grain export programme were responses to a drone attack on Moscow'...

Russia fires dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy facilities

-- 2022-10-31 19:53:47

Russia fired dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy facilities including hydroelectric power stations on Monday, causing widespread blackouts, mobile phone outages and reductions in water supplies. E...

Militants kill 15 in attack on Burkina Faso military supply mission

-- 2022-10-31 14:23:57

Islamist militants killed 15 Burkinabe soldiers and volunteer militiamen on Saturday as they returned from a supply mission in eastern Burkina Faso, the army said on Sunday. A further four soldiers w...

Philippines storm death toll rises to 98

-- 2022-10-31 14:16:36

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr is set on Monday to fly over flood-submerged districts to inspect the damage after Tropical Storm Nalgae barrelled across the Southeast Asian country over the...

Death toll from India bridge collapse rises to 141

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-31 10:12:39

The death toll from the collapse of a British-era bridge in India's Gujrat has climbed to 141, according to local media. Several others are still missing while around 177 people have been rescu...

Lula narrowly defeats Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidency again

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-31 08:26:28

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday narrowly defeated President Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election that marked a stunning comeback for the leftist former president and the end of Brazil's most...

Suspension bridge collapse in India leaves 30 dead

-- 2022-10-30 21:44:26

At least 30 people were killed and dozens critically injured when a suspension bridge in India's western Gujarat state collapsed on Sunday, two government officials said. "We can confirm that 30 peop...

Students defy protest ultimatum despite crackdown across Iran

-- 2022-10-30 20:31:18

Iranian students defied warnings from the feared Revolutionary Guards that nationwide protests must end by Sunday and were met with tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police and militia, videos...

Lebanese president leaves office triggering power vacuum amid crisis

-- 2022-10-30 20:15:51

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term endin...

Overcrowded stadium crush kills 11 people in Congolese capital

-- 2022-10-30 19:21:36

Eleven people were killed on Saturday, including two police officers, in a crush at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer Fally Ipupa, the interior minister said. T...

How Halloween parties turned deadly in popular Seoul district

-- 2022-10-30 16:36:18

Young people flocking to Seoul's popular Itaewon district on Saturday for the first virtually unrestricted Halloween festivities in three years instead found themselves caught up in a deadly crush tha...

China passes new women's protection law, revamped for first time in decades

-- 2022-10-30 15:20:25

China passed legislation on Sunday aimed at giving women more protection against gender discrimination and sexual harassment, days after the bill was submitted to the country's top legislature after a...

Brazil votes in heated Bolsonaro vs. Lula presidential runoff

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-30 13:04:48

Brazilian voters go to the polls on Sunday in a tense election to choose between re-electing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro or returning leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to...

Somalia president: at least 100 people killed in car bombs

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-30 10:34:06

At least 100 people were killed and 300 injured in two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, the country's president said in a statem...

Halloween stampede in South Korea leaves at least 149 dead

-- 2022-10-30 09:52:43

At least 149 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital...

Russia suspends participation in Ukraine grain exports deal

-- 2022-10-29 22:41:31

Russia has suspended participation in a UN-brokered deal to export agricultural produce from Ukrainian ports after attacks on ships in Crimea, Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday, dealing a blo...

Pakistani citizen returns home from Guantanamo prison camp after 18 years

-- 2022-10-29 20:28:46

A Pakistani national held by the United States for 18 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without trial on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda returned home to Pakistan on Saturday, Pakistan and the Un...

Car bombs explode at Somalia’s education ministry

-- 2022-10-29 19:05:17

Two car bomb explosions at Somalia's education ministry rocked the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and blew out windows of nearby buildings, witnesses and the emergency services said. Islamist group al...

Russia says British navy personnel blew up Nord Stream gas pipelines

-- 2022-10-29 18:29:32

Russia's defence ministry on Saturday said that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, directly accusing a leading NATO member of sabotaging critical Russian infrastr...

Ivanka Trump accepts Czech state award on behalf of late mother Ivana

-- 2022-10-29 18:09:10

Former US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has accepted a Czech state award honouring her late mother Ivana who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s but kept close ties to her nat...

Rishi Sunak may freeze Britain’s foreign aid budget for two more years

-- 2022-10-29 16:53:21

New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering freezing the country's foreign aid budget for an additional two years. Britain's spending on foreign aid is set at 0.5 per cent of national incom...

Russia declares end of Ukraine mobilisation campaign, US sending more arms

-- 2022-10-29 16:45:04

Russia said on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them already to the battlefield afte...

In Babylon, ancient building techniques heal climate wounds

-- 2022-10-29 15:47:25

At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of Babylon, from salt seeping...

Italy's first woman PM wants to be 'Mr President'

-- 2022-10-29 15:42:24

Italy's first woman prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, wants to be called 'mister', a government circular showed on Friday. The right-wing Meloni, who took office last weekend after victory at a Sept 25...