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Shanghai Cooperation Organisation calls for ‘balance’ in climate approach

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation calls for ‘balance’ in climate approach

-- 2022-09-17 17:14:22

Leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation called for a "balance" between reducing carbon emissions and allowing poorer states to catch up with economically developed countries in a joint statem...

UNGA returns in person after two-year hiatus due to Covid-19 pandemic

UNGA returns in person after two-year hiatus due to Covid-19 pandemic

-- 2022-09-17 17:06:03

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) is back in person after two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Reuters, world leaders were allowed to submit video statements during the UNGA for the past...

Turkey to pay 25pc Russian gas bill in roubles

Turkey to pay 25pc Russian gas bill in roubles

-- 2022-09-17 16:35:45

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that 25 per cent of Russian gas supplies to Turkey would be paid for in roubles, and that an agreement on this would come into force soon. Speaking dur...

Britain urges people not to travel to join queen's queue

Britain urges people not to travel to join queen's queue

-- 2022-09-17 16:03:29

The British government urged people on Saturday not to travel to join the queue to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth as the huge demand means people are having to stand in line for at least 24 h...

Nepal landslide kills 14

Nepal landslide kills 14

-- 2022-09-17 13:49:39

A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed at least 14 people and injured seven in western Nepal, officials said on Saturday, as rescue workers searched the disaster site to try to find a further 10...

India's Modi assails Putin over Ukraine war

India's Modi assails Putin over Ukraine war

-- 2022-09-17 13:13:41

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that now was not a time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-mont...

Japan warns powerful typhoon to hit southern region on Sunday

Japan warns powerful typhoon to hit southern region on Sunday

-- 2022-09-17 12:39:55

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned on Saturday of a large and powerful typhoon expected to reach landfall on the southern island of Kyushu on Sunday. The agency said it may issue a "special warni...

UN rights office calls for urgent halt to arms sales to Myanmar

UN rights office calls for urgent halt to arms sales to Myanmar

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-17 12:00:23

Countries should do more to prevent revenues and arms from reaching a military in Myanmar that is ruling by repressing and terrorising its people, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday...

Mainland China reports first imported monkeypox case

Mainland China reports first imported monkeypox case

REUTERS 2022-09-17 11:21:10

The Chinese city of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in an individual who arrived from abroad, marking mainland China's first known monkeypox infection amid the r...

Kyrgyzstan reports heavy fighting with Tajikistan, 24 people killed

Kyrgyzstan reports heavy fighting with Tajikistan, 24 people killed

-- 2022-09-17 10:34:19

Kyrgyzstan reported "intense battles" with Central Asian neighbour Tajikistan on Friday and said 24 people had been killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union. Both of t...

Massive fire engulfs a high-rise building in southern Chinese city

Massive fire engulfs a high-rise building in southern Chinese city

-- 2022-09-16 21:45:07

A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of China's southern province of Hunan, on Friday afternoon. Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall (656-fo...

Saudi Arabia discovers new gold, copper ore in Madinah

Saudi Arabia discovers new gold, copper ore in Madinah

-- 2022-09-16 21:40:48

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced the discovery of new sites for gold and copper ore deposits in the Madinah region. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Saudi Geological Su...

Joe Biden announces new $600m arms package for Ukraine

Joe Biden announces new $600m arms package for Ukraine

-- 2022-09-16 16:48:40

US President Joe Biden announced a new $600 million arms package to help the Ukrainian military battle Russia, according to a White House memo sent to the State Department on Thursday. Biden authoris...

Children, women suffer from water-borne diseases in Pakistan as floods recede

Children, women suffer from water-borne diseases in Pakistan as floods recede

-- 2022-09-16 16:31:48

Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan, government data showed and UNICEF said on Friday,...

Xi Jinping skips dinner with Putin, allies due to ‘Covid-19 precaution’

Xi Jinping skips dinner with Putin, allies due to ‘Covid-19 precaution’

-- 2022-09-16 16:24:30

Chinese leader Xi Jinping stayed away from a dinner attended by 11 heads of states at a regional security summit in line with his delegation's COVID-19 policy, a source in the Uzbek government said on...

Six arrested in northern India over alleged rape and murder of teens

Six arrested in northern India over alleged rape and murder of teens

-- 2022-09-16 15:56:34

Police in northern India have arrested six people in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two girls from a lower-caste community who were found hanging from a tree, local officials said on T...

Disease spreads in Pakistan as flooding toll surpasses 1,500

Disease spreads in Pakistan as flooding toll surpasses 1,500

-- 2022-09-16 15:19:06

Over 90,000 people were treated for infectious and water-borne diseases in a day in southern Pakistan's flood-hit areas, government data showed on Friday, as the total death toll from the inunda...

Germany takes control of Russian-owned refinery amid energy crisis

Germany takes control of Russian-owned refinery amid energy crisis

-- 2022-09-16 14:33:24

The German subsidiary of Russian oil giant Rosneft was placed under trusteeship on Friday, giving Germany's federal regulator control of the PCK refinery in Schwedt, a key source of fuel for the city...

Nine dead after wall collapse in northern India

Nine dead after wall collapse in northern India

-- 2022-09-16 12:12:47

At least nine people, including three children, have died after a wall collapsed following heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the state's Deputy Chief Minister said on F...

UN warns up to 345m people marching toward starvation

UN warns up to 345m people marching toward starvation

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-16 11:22:13

The UN food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude,” with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation — and 70 million...

Sri Lanka's crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink

Sri Lanka's crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink

-- 2022-09-16 11:08:55

Under a blazing sun, a 44-year-old Tamil labourer tended his rented patch of peanut field in Sri Lanka, striking his spade against the earth in a daily struggle to beat inflation that has put many nec...

Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500

Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500

-- 2022-09-15 19:38:50

Unprecedented floods that have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities said hundreds of thousands of people were still sleeping in t...

Putin praises Xi over Ukraine, scolds US 'provocations' on Taiwan

Putin praises Xi over Ukraine, scolds US 'provocations' on Taiwan

-- 2022-09-15 19:10:13

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised China's Xi Jinping for his "balanced" position on the conflict in Ukraine and scolded the United States for what the Kremlin chief said were provoc...

India plans no more funding for Sri Lanka as IMF talks progress

India plans no more funding for Sri Lanka as IMF talks progress

-- 2022-09-15 16:55:17

India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island's battered economy starts to stab...

France respects India keeping Russia ties, foreign minister says

France respects India keeping Russia ties, foreign minister says

-- 2022-09-15 12:55:35

France is aware of and respects India's energy and other relations with Russia, its foreign minister told the India Today news channel on Thursday during a visit to the country, Reuters reports....

Japan logs record Aug trade deficit on weak yen, costly oil

Japan logs record Aug trade deficit on weak yen, costly oil

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-15 10:42:33

Japan posted a record trade deficit in August as costs for imports of oil and gas soared, the government reported Thursday. The 2.82 trillion yen ($19.6 billion) deficit, the 13th in a row, was tripl...

Queen's coffin begins last journey from Buckingham Palace

Queen's coffin begins last journey from Buckingham Palace

-- 2022-09-14 21:13:40

King Charles, his sons Princes William and Harry and other senior royals joined a solemn procession to take Queen Elizabeth's coffin from Buckingham Palace to parliament on Wednesday as artillery guns...

Solemn procession begins to take Queen Elizabeth’s coffin from Buckingham Palace

Solemn procession begins to take Queen Elizabeth’s coffin from Buckingham Palace

-- 2022-09-14 20:47:35

Britain’s King Charles, his sons Princes William and Harry and other senior royals joined a solemn procession to take Queen Elizabeth's coffin from Buckingham Palace to parliament on Wednesday a...

Syria’s bloody conflict at risk of further escalation, says UN report

Syria’s bloody conflict at risk of further escalation, says UN report

-- 2022-09-14 17:55:00

Syria's bloody conflict is at risk of further escalation after several frontlines across the country flared up in recent months, the United Nations warned on Wednesday in a new report. "Syria cannot...

Some people arrested in Britain for expressing anti-monarchy views

Some people arrested in Britain for expressing anti-monarchy views

-- 2022-09-14 16:48:14

In a country famed for irreverence, some worry a new code of silence has taken hold. Since the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a handful of people in Britain have been detained by police for expressing...