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Global Covid cases top 626m

Global Covid cases top 626m

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-08 11:23:50

The overall number of global Covid cases has now crossed 626 million. According to the latest global data, the total case count mounted to 626,084,363 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,55...

11 die as bus catches fire in India's Nashik

11 die as bus catches fire in India's Nashik

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-08 10:22:40

As many as 11 people were killed and 38 others injured after a bus caught fire following a collision with a truck in the western Indian state of Maharashtra early on Saturday morning. The accident oc...

Putin orders seizure of Exxon-led Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project

Putin orders seizure of Exxon-led Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project

REUTERS 2022-10-08 09:04:13

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree that creates a new operator for the Exxon Mobil Corp-led Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East. Putin's move affecting Exxon's...

Hong Kong offers 500,000 free air tickets for tourists

Hong Kong offers 500,000 free air tickets for tourists

-- 2022-10-07 20:21:06

Hong Kong says it will give away 500,000 airline tickets, worth HK$2bn ($254.8m; £224.3m), as it tries to boost its Covid-19-hit tourism industry. The city rolled back several of its coronaviru...

Thailand killer was stressed by job loss, money and family troubles: Police

Thailand killer was stressed by job loss, money and family troubles: Police

-- 2022-10-07 20:11:47

The ex-policeman who went on a killing spree at a Thai daycare centre had risen quickly through the ranks of the police force in the capital, before a transfer to the provinces led to his use of drugs...

Mahsa Amini’s death result of underlying illness, not blows to her body: Iran

Mahsa Amini’s death result of underlying illness, not blows to her body: Iran

-- 2022-10-07 20:01:58

An Iranian coroner's report into the death of Mahsa Amini said she did not die due to blows to the head and limbs but from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia. Iran’s Forensic Org...

US adds 31 Chinese entities to export control list

US adds 31 Chinese entities to export control list

-- 2022-10-07 19:40:34

The United States on Friday added 31 Chinese companies, including memory chip maker YMTC Yangtze Memory Technologies Co, to a list of entities that US officials could not inspect to verify they can be...

Recap of the 2022 Nobel Prizes awarded so far

Recap of the 2022 Nobel Prizes awarded so far

-- 2022-10-07 19:02:42

All but one of the 2022 Nobel Prizes have now been announced. Here's a look at which prizes have been announced so far, which is coming up and what's next for the winners, according to AP. PEACE Thi...

Ukrainian forces shell bus in Russian-controlled Kherson region, five killed

Ukrainian forces shell bus in Russian-controlled Kherson region, five killed

-- 2022-10-07 18:04:00

At least five people were killed and as many injured after Ukrainian forces shelled a bus in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Fri...

Biden says Putin's nuclear threat brings world closer to highest risk since 1962

Biden says Putin's nuclear threat brings world closer to highest risk since 1962

-- 2022-10-07 17:58:44

The risk of a nuclear "Armageddon" is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, US President Joe Biden has said. Mr Biden said Russia's President Vladimir Putin was "not joking" when...

UN experts alarmed by restrictions on civil society ahead of climate summit

UN experts alarmed by restrictions on civil society ahead of climate summit

-- 2022-10-07 17:01:30

Egypt must ensure the safety and full participation of all parts of civil society at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP27) in November, UN human rights e...

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16

-- 2022-10-07 16:35:05

Rescuers in northern India recovered 12 bodies of trainee mountaineers on Thursday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 from an avalanche in the Himalayas, the state-run Nehru Institute of Mountai...

Human rights activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace Prize

Human rights activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace Prize

-- 2022-10-07 15:51:57

Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian organisation Memorial and Ukrainian group Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, highlighting the significance of civi...

UK not asking people to use less energy, minister says

UK not asking people to use less energy, minister says

REUTERS 2022-10-07 15:03:35

Britain is not asking people to use less energy, climate minister Graham Stuart said on Friday, despite a warning from the National Grid that homes and businesses could face three-hour planned blackou...

Sri Lanka top court allows proceedings against former President Rajapaksa, others

Sri Lanka top court allows proceedings against former President Rajapaksa, others

-- 2022-10-07 13:51:25

Sri Lanka's top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday, Reuters...

Putin and North Korea's Kim forge closer ties amid shared isolation

Putin and North Korea's Kim forge closer ties amid shared isolation

REUTERS 2022-10-07 12:57:16

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a birthday greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, congratulating him for "crushing the challenges and threats of the United States", the latest si...

As China party congress looms, signals sought on easing COVID policy

As China party congress looms, signals sought on easing COVID policy

-- 2022-10-07 11:01:43

The mounting economic toll of China's zero-COVID policy is raising investor hopes that Beijing may finally begin laying the groundwork for the tricky epidemiological and political task of shifti...

Thailand mourns after over 34 die in daycare centre attack targeting children

Thailand mourns after over 34 die in daycare centre attack targeting children

-- 2022-10-07 10:20:28

Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday to mourn the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst into a daycare centre in a knife and gun...

UN body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in blow to West

UN body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in blow to West

REUTERS 2022-10-07 10:16:30

The UN rights council on Thursday voted down a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses by China against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang in a victory for Beijing as...

COVID wave looms in Europe as booster campaign makes slow start

COVID wave looms in Europe as booster campaign makes slow start

REUTERS 2022-10-07 09:52:59

A new COVID-19 wave appears to be brewing in Europe as cooler weather arrives, with public health experts warning that vaccine fatigue and confusion over types of available vaccines will likely limit...

India tests samples of cough syrup linked to deaths of children in Gambia

India tests samples of cough syrup linked to deaths of children in Gambia

-- 2022-10-06 21:14:45

India is testing samples of cough syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals for exports after the World Health Organization said its products were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia,...

UN rights body renews accountability mandate for Sri Lanka

UN rights body renews accountability mandate for Sri Lanka

-- 2022-10-06 20:56:13

The UN rights body on Thursday agreed to renew a resolution on Sri Lanka that mandates monitors to collect evidence and develop accountability strategies on gross human rights violations despite...

Russia submits objections to Ukraine genocide case in World Court

Russia submits objections to Ukraine genocide case in World Court

-- 2022-10-06 20:13:12

Russia has submitted preliminary objections to a genocide case against Moscow brought by Ukraine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Thursday. At the ICJ, the United Nations highest court...

Britain’s National Grid warns of forced power cuts in winter

Britain’s National Grid warns of forced power cuts in winter

-- 2022-10-06 20:04:15

Britain could face planned power cuts to homes and businesses this winter if it is unable to import electricity from Europe and it struggles to attract enough gas imports to fuel its gas-fired power p...

Nika Shakarami: Iran protester's family forced to lie about death   

Nika Shakarami: Iran protester's family forced to lie about death  

-- 2022-10-06 18:38:31

Relatives of a girl who died during protests in Iran have been forced into making false statements, a source close to the family has told BBC Persian, reports BBC. Nika Shakarami, 16, went missing in...

French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature

French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature

-- 2022-10-06 17:29:20

French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory", t...

Sydney records wettest year since 1858

Sydney records wettest year since 1858

-- 2022-10-06 17:10:43

Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost...

S Korea’s new gov't seeks to abolish gender equality ministry

S Korea’s new gov't seeks to abolish gender equality ministry

-- 2022-10-06 15:57:42

South Korea's new conservative government said Thursday it will push to abolish a ministry on gender equality and create a new agency tasked with broader responsibilities, one of President Yoon Suk Ye...

Biden to mark IBM investment with Democrats in tough races

Biden to mark IBM investment with Democrats in tough races

-- 2022-10-06 15:46:22

President Joe Biden is ready to celebrate a new $20 billion investment by IBM in New York's Hudson River Valley with two House Democrats running in competitive races in next month's critical midterm e...

Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant

Russian rockets slam into Ukrainian city near nuclear plant

-- 2022-10-06 15:39:00

Seven Russian rockets slammed into residential buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia before dawn Thursday, killing one person and trapping at least five in the city close to Europe'...