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Haiti's PM calls for foreign help amid gang blockade

Haiti's PM calls for foreign help amid gang blockade

-- 2022-10-06 14:46:26

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Wednesday called on the international community to help the Caribbean nation, as a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal has created widespread shortages of goods...

Gunman in Thailand kills 34 people at day-care centre

Gunman in Thailand kills 34 people at day-care centre

-- 2022-10-06 14:31:51

A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself, reports Reuters. T...

মেক্মিকোতে টাউন হলে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে মেয়রসহ নিহত ১৮

মেক্মিকোতে টাউন হলে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে মেয়রসহ নিহত ১৮

-- 2022-10-06 14:16:41

মেক্সিকোর পশ্চিমাঞ্চলের ছোট একটি শহরে বন্দুকধারীদের গুলিতে সেখানকার মেয়র ও আরও অন্তত ১৭ জন নিহত হয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছেন কর্মকর্তারা। পুলিশ বলছে, সান মিগুয়েল টোটোলাপান শহরের টাউন হলে বুধবার স্থানীয় সময় দু...

California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says

California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says

-- 2022-10-06 13:54:58

Four members of a California family, including an 8-month-old girl, were found dead in a rural area on Wednesday after they were abducted in the city of Merced on Monday, authorities said, repor...

Eight drown, several missing during Durga Puja immersion ceremony in India’s West Bengal

Eight drown, several missing during Durga Puja immersion ceremony in India’s West Bengal

-- 2022-10-06 12:27:11

At least eight people have died and several others have gone missing after flash floods swept a group away during a Durga Puja idol immersion ceremony in the Mal River in India’s West Beng...

Myanmar court jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years

Myanmar court jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years

-- 2022-10-06 11:51:02

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has jailed a Japanese documentary filmmaker for 10 years for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Toru...

Kidnapped California family, including baby, found dead

Kidnapped California family, including baby, found dead

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-06 10:44:36

A baby girl, her parents and uncle who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their central California business two days ago were found dead Wednesday, the sheriff of Merced County said. “Our worst fe...

Ukraine recovers more territory in region

Ukraine recovers more territory in region

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-06 10:06:07

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of the partially Russian-occupied southern regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. With Russian fo...

Big question at new European club's first summit: what is it for?

Big question at new European club's first summit: what is it for?

-- 2022-10-06 09:55:58

Leaders of 44 European countries gather on Thursday for the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC), a grand show of solidarity for a continent mired in multiple crises, but...

At least 15 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek island Lesbos

At least 15 migrants dead in shipwreck off Greek island Lesbos

-- 2022-10-06 09:49:50

At least 15 people died when their vessel sank off the Greek island of Lesbos in the central Aegean Sea early on Thursday, in the second maritime disaster involving migrants since Wednesday, the c...

Schoolgirls heckle Iran paramilitary speaker

Schoolgirls heckle Iran paramilitary speaker

-- 2022-10-05 21:15:11

A new video posted online appears to show schoolgirls heckling a member of Iran's feared paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping the country spread to the classroom, reports...

Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif calls Imran Khan ‘biggest liar on earth’

Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif calls Imran Khan ‘biggest liar on earth’

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 19:33:40

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accused Imran Khan, a former premier of Pakistan, of being ‘the biggest liar on the face of the earth’. He also accused Imran Khan of injecting...

UAE rolls out new visa rules to attract skilled professionals

UAE rolls out new visa rules to attract skilled professionals

-- 2022-10-05 19:03:13

The United Arab Emirates has rolled out new visa rules, with the objective of attracting more skilled professionals to the country, as it seeks to bounce back from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...

‘US decision to send more military aid to Ukraine to increase risk of direct clash’

‘US decision to send more military aid to Ukraine to increase risk of direct clash’

-- 2022-10-05 17:41:50

The US's decision to send more military aid to Ukraine "increases the danger of a direct military clash" between Russia and the West, Moscow has warned. Russia's ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov...

Danish prime minister calls Nov 1 parliament election

Danish prime minister calls Nov 1 parliament election

-- 2022-10-05 17:31:34

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday called a general election to be held on Nov 1 as recent opinion polls suggest the outcome of the vote is too close to call, reports Reuters. "W...

Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production

Morocco issues first permits for cannabis production

-- 2022-10-05 17:27:31

A Moroccan state agency has issued the first 10 permits for the use of cannabis in industry and medicine and for export, it said, the result of a law passed last year. Farmers who organise into coope...

Swedish MEP cuts hair during speech in solidarity with Iranian women

Swedish MEP cuts hair during speech in solidarity with Iranian women

-- 2022-10-05 17:22:12

A Swedish member of the European Parliament lopped off her hair during a speech in the EU assembly in solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Iran ignited by the death in morality police cus...

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, at least 276 people injured

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, at least 276 people injured

-- 2022-10-05 16:35:36

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck north-western Iran on Wednesday, and state television said medical authorities in the area reported that at least 276 people had been injured, according to Reuters....

Three get Nobel Prize for development of click, bio-orthogonal chemistry

Three get Nobel Prize for development of click, bio-orthogonal chemistry

-- 2022-10-05 16:18:41

Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday "for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry". The prize was...

Pakistan is out of money to spend on flood recovery, says its minister

Pakistan is out of money to spend on flood recovery, says its minister

-- 2022-10-05 15:57:07

Pakistan is out of money to spend on recovery from devastating floods, its climate change minister said on Tuesday, urging prompt international help at the UN launch of an aid appeal as funds needed b...

Putin completes formal annexation of more than 15pc areas of Ukraine

Putin completes formal annexation of more than 15pc areas of Ukraine

-- 2022-10-05 15:31:44

Russian President Vladimir Putin completed the formal annexation of more than 15 per cent areas of Ukraine on Wednesday just as Russian forces battled to halt a Ukrainian counter-offensive across swat...

Brunei Sultan’s first state visit to Bangladesh carries special significance

Brunei Sultan’s first state visit to Bangladesh carries special significance

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 15:28:43

Brunei Darussalam Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah is scheduled for a state visit to Bangladesh from October 14 to 16. "This is going to be the first state visit by the Sultan of Br...

Lebanese lawmaker enters bank branch to demand frozen savings

Lebanese lawmaker enters bank branch to demand frozen savings

-- 2022-10-05 14:33:47

A Lebanese member of parliament entered a branch of Byblos Bank north of Beirut on Wednesday with a group of associates to demand access to her frozen savings to pay for surgery. Cynthia Zarazir, a...

Taiwan taking monthly energy, food inventories in case of China conflict

Taiwan taking monthly energy, food inventories in case of China conflict

REUTERS 2022-10-05 14:01:21

Taiwan has been taking monthly inventories of critical supplies like food and energy in case of a conflict with China, a government official said on Wednesday. China, which claims democraticall...

Turkey arrests five people over alleged stock market fraud

Turkey arrests five people over alleged stock market fraud

REUTERS 2022-10-05 12:57:40

A Turkish court ruled to formally arrest five of eight people detained at the weekend for alleged fraud in transactions of banking shares on the Istanbul stock market, state-owned Anadolu news agency...

Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments'

Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments'

REUTERS 2022-10-05 12:33:33

Iran's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran in reaction to "interventionist comments" from the British foreign ministry, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Wednesda...

25 killed as wedding party bus party falls into gorge in India's Uttarkhand

25 killed as wedding party bus party falls into gorge in India's Uttarkhand

bdnews24.com 2022-10-05 10:59:40

At least 25 people have been killed when a bus veered out of control and plunged into a gorge in India's Uttarakhand, Indian media report. The state's disaster response force and police rescued 2...

S Korea, US fire missiles into the sea to protest 'reckless' North Korea test

S Korea, US fire missiles into the sea to protest 'reckless' North Korea test

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 10:12:15

South Korea and the US military conducted missile drills in response to North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over Japan, as the United Nations Security Council prepares to meet over what was Py...

US national debt surpasses $31 trillion

US national debt surpasses $31 trillion

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 09:47:50

The nation’s gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a US Treasury report released Tuesday that logs America’s daily finances. Edging closer to the statutory ceiling...

At least four dead, dozens missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas

At least four dead, dozens missing after avalanche in Indian Himalayas

-- 2022-10-04 22:24:10

At least four people have been killed and dozens are missing after an avalanche struck a team of mountaineers high in the Indian Himalayas, reports BBC. The 34 trainees and seven instructors were pra...