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Canada stabbings: One suspect found dead

Canada stabbings: One suspect found dead

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-06 13:19:54

Canadian police have found the body of one of two brothers wanted for a mass stabbing attack that left 10 people dead and 18 injured in the province of Saskatchewan on Sunday. An officer said Damien...

China drills improved Taiwan's combat abilities, President Tsai says

China drills improved Taiwan's combat abilities, President Tsai says

REUTERS 2022-09-06 13:05:55

The combat skills of Taiwan's military are now "more mature" and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during their recent drills, President Tsai...

Power cuts, traffic snarls as India's tech hub endures second day of floods

Power cuts, traffic snarls as India's tech hub endures second day of floods

-- 2022-09-06 12:22:40

Many parts of India's tech hub of Bengaluru were under water for a second day on Tuesday as more rain fell in an unusually wet monsoon season, bringing traffic chaos, power cuts and flooded properties...

65 die as earthquake hits southwest China

65 die as earthquake hits southwest China

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-06 11:22:01

The powerful earthquake that set off landslides and shook buildings in southwestern China killed at least 65 people and injured hundreds, state media said Tuesday. At least 16 other people are missin...

Russia is buying artillery ammunition from North Korea: Report

Russia is buying artillery ammunition from North Korea: Report

REUTERS 2022-09-06 11:19:47

US intelligence has assessed that Moscow is buying artillery ammunition from North Korea, the New York Times reported, on the heels of reports that the Russian military has begun using Iranian-made dr...

Russian court sentences former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason

Russian court sentences former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason

-- 2022-09-05 21:46:17

A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason after prosecutors said he disclosed state secrets, a ruling his supporters said was an unduly harsh punishment...

Sri Lanka not to accept any international human rights investigation

Sri Lanka not to accept any international human rights investigation

-- 2022-09-05 21:26:15

Sri Lanka will not accept any international investigation imposed by the UN Human Rights Council into alleged rights abuses during the country's long civil war, an official said Monday. Foreign Minis...

Liz Truss vows to deal with energy crisis as next British PM

Liz Truss vows to deal with energy crisis as next British PM

-- 2022-09-05 21:19:59

Britain’s Liz Truss has promised to take action to deal with surging energy costs after winning the Tory leadership contest to become the next PM. In a poll of party members, the foreign secret...

China earthquake death toll climbs to 30

China earthquake death toll climbs to 30

-- 2022-09-05 20:50:23

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing more than 30 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more dis...

Novaya Gazeta, one of last independent news outlets in Russia, banned by court

Novaya Gazeta, one of last independent news outlets in Russia, banned by court

-- 2022-09-05 20:42:34

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating. Russia's media watchdog Rozkomnadzor had accused the pu...

Israel says Al Jazeera reporter was likely killed unintentionally by its forces

Israel says Al Jazeera reporter was likely killed unintentionally by its forces

-- 2022-09-05 20:17:51

Israeli investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May concluded that she was likely to have been unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier but was not deliberately...

Death toll in China from earthquake reaches 21

Death toll in China from earthquake reaches 21

-- 2022-09-05 18:40:09

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing at least 21 people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more dist...

Liz Truss named as Britain's next prime minister

Liz Truss named as Britain's next prime minister

-- 2022-09-05 17:53:00

Liz Truss was named as Britain's next prime minister on Monday, winning a leadership race for the governing Conservative party at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis, industrial unre...

Afghanistan earthquake kills eight, more casualties feared

Afghanistan earthquake kills eight, more casualties feared

-- 2022-09-05 17:38:41

An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed at least eight people early on Monday, and the toll could rise, the state news agency quoted a regional official as saying. The quake of magnitude 5.3...

Earthquake in China kills seven

Earthquake in China kills seven

-- 2022-09-05 16:44:16

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province on Monday, the strongest to hit the region since 2017, killing at least seven people and shaking the provincial capital of Chengdu and more d...

Death toll from Sudan flood reaches 112

Death toll from Sudan flood reaches 112

-- 2022-09-05 16:22:00

Flash floods in Sudan have killed 12 more people died over the past week, a Sudanese official said Monday, bringing the death toll since the start of the rainy season in May to 112. Brig. Gen. Abdul-...

Famine in parts of Somalia 'at the door', says UN humanitarian chief

Famine in parts of Somalia 'at the door', says UN humanitarian chief

REUTERS 2022-09-05 15:32:42

Famine will occur in parts of Somalia between October and December, the United Nations warned on Monday, as a drought worsens and global food prices hover near record highs. "Famine is at the door,"...

Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib seeks royal pardon

Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib seeks royal pardon

-- 2022-09-05 15:22:28

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has applied for a royal pardon, the speaker of parliament said on Monday, less than two weeks after he was sent to jail for 12 years for corruption, R...

Canada hunts suspects in stabbing spree that killed 10, wounded 15

Canada hunts suspects in stabbing spree that killed 10, wounded 15

-- 2022-09-05 12:53:41

Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated indigenous community early Sunday. The stabbings across...

India's Bengaluru hit by flooding, traffic snarls after heavy rain

India's Bengaluru hit by flooding, traffic snarls after heavy rain

REUTERS 2022-09-05 12:43:35

Large parts of India's tech capital Bengaluru were under water on Monday after torrential rains lashed the city, causing crippling traffic disruptions and prompting offices to issue work-from-home ord...

South Korea braces for 'very strong' typhoon, businesses curb operations

South Korea braces for 'very strong' typhoon, businesses curb operations

REUTERS 2022-09-05 10:43:57

Typhoon Hinnamnor neared South Korea on Monday, forcing flight cancellations, suspensions of some business operations and closures of schools, as the country raised its typhoon-alert level to its high...

Ukraine's Zelensky warns of hard winter, reports war progress

Ukraine's Zelensky warns of hard winter, reports war progress

-- 2022-09-05 10:32:07

European leaders on Sunday sought to ease the impact of high energy prices across the continent, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a difficult winter, even as he reported pr...

Britain's Liz Truss expected to be named new prime minister

Britain's Liz Truss expected to be named new prime minister

-- 2022-09-05 10:11:09

Liz Truss is expected to be named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain's next prime minister on Monday, poised to take power at a time when the country faces a cost of living crisis,...

Ukraine nuclear plant loses power line as Moscow, West energy row escalates

Ukraine nuclear plant loses power line as Moscow, West energy row escalates

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-04 10:54:57

A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said on Saturday, heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up in...

Pilot threatens to crash small plane into Mississippi Walmart

Pilot threatens to crash small plane into Mississippi Walmart

-- 2022-09-03 21:00:11

The pilot of a small plane has threatened to intentionally crash into a Walmart in Mississippi, local police said on Saturday, leading to an evacuation of the store. The police department in Tupelo,...

Thousands of Russians bid farewell to last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

Thousands of Russians bid farewell to last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

-- 2022-09-03 19:31:27

Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on Saturday with many saying they wanted to honour his memory as "a peacemaker" who dismantl...

57 more die in Pakistan flood including 25 children

57 more die in Pakistan flood including 25 children

-- 2022-09-03 19:01:11

The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of nearly unprecedented...

How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war

How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war

REUTERS 2022-09-03 15:11:02

When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who proved once again h...

Gunmen kill more than 40 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region

Gunmen kill more than 40 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region

REUTERS 2022-09-03 14:20:38

Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday, the latest killings in the country's most populous region where...

FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Trump's Florida home

FBI found more than 11,000 government records at Trump's Florida home

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-03 13:28:42

The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its Aug 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labelled as "classified,"...