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Britain sanctions Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin

Britain sanctions Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin

-- 2022-06-29 18:36:04

Britain on Wednesday announced sanctions on oligarch Vladimir Potanin, described by London as Russia's second-richest man and who has been buying assets from firms exiting Russia over the invasion of...

Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support

Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support

-- 2022-06-29 16:56:31

Russian forces struck at targets in the Mykolaiv area of southern Ukraine on Wednesday and intensified attacks on fronts across the country as NATO members met in Madrid to plan a course of action aga...

Prison riot fire in Colombia leaves 51 dead

Prison riot fire in Colombia leaves 51 dead

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-29 12:15:18

At least 51 prisoners died after a fire started during a prison riot in the southwestern Colombian city of Tulua, the head of the national prisons agency said on Tuesday, one of the worst incidents of...

Trump wanted to join Capitol riot, tried to grab limo steering wheel

Trump wanted to join Capitol riot, tried to grab limo steering wheel

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-29 11:37:32

Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on Jan 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the US Capitol where his supporters were rioting, a former...

Bulgaria expels 70 Russian diplomatic staff

Bulgaria expels 70 Russian diplomatic staff

-- 2022-06-29 11:03:34

Bulgaria said on Tuesday it was expelling 70 Russian diplomatic staff over espionage concerns and had set a cap on the size of Moscow's representation as tensions between two countries that were once...

Hindu man killed in India, Muslim man arrested after claiming responsibility

Hindu man killed in India, Muslim man arrested after claiming responsibility

-- 2022-06-28 22:48:09

A Hindu man was killed in his tailoring shop in a northwestern Indian town on Tuesday, and two machete-wielding Muslim men in a video claimed responsibility for it, raising tension in the area. Polic...

Gunmen open fire on vaccination team in Pakistan, kill three

Gunmen open fire on vaccination team in Pakistan, kill three

-- 2022-06-28 22:33:04

Unidentified militants opened fire on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing one of those handing out doses and two policemen, while a child was injured, officials said, but there wa...

European Union received 648,000 asylum applications in 2021

European Union received 648,000 asylum applications in 2021

-- 2022-06-28 20:01:33

The European Union received 648,000 applications last year for international protection, a third more than in 2020, its asylum agency EUAA said on Tuesday, with Syrians and Afghans the main groups of...

Sri Lanka rushes to find fuel as shortages hit schools, workers

Sri Lanka rushes to find fuel as shortages hit schools, workers

-- 2022-06-28 19:44:48

A Sri Lankan government minister was in Qatar on Tuesday and another will travel to Russia at the weekend in search of energy deals to alleviate a severe fuel shortage that is crippling the economy of...

1.5pc of Syria's population killed in war: UN

1.5pc of Syria's population killed in war: UN

-- 2022-06-28 19:12:40

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 per cent of its pre-war population, in what it said was...

10 killed after residential building collapses in Mumbai

10 killed after residential building collapses in Mumbai

-- 2022-06-28 18:08:16

A four-storey residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai overnight, killing at least 11 people, with more feared trapped under the rubble, officials said on Tuesday. Part o...

Iran applies to join BRICS group

Iran applies to join BRICS group

-- 2022-06-28 17:37:25

Iran, which holds the world's second largest gas reserves, has applied to join the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that Beijing and Moscow cast as a powerful emerging mark...

Africa's dream of feeding China hits hard reality

Africa's dream of feeding China hits hard reality

REUTERS 2022-06-28 15:02:15

Watching workers poke avocados from the treetops in an orchard owned by Kenyan agriculture firm Kakuzi, managing director Chris Flowers revels in the thought some might soon go to the crown jewel of e...

Non-essential petrol sales halted for two weeks in Sri Lanka

Non-essential petrol sales halted for two weeks in Sri Lanka

-- 2022-06-28 10:40:55

Sri Lanka has suspended sales of fuel for non-essential vehicles as it faces its worst economic crisis in decades. For the next two weeks only buses, trains, and vehicles used for medical ser...

Three dead in Amtrak train crash and derailment in Missouri

Three dead in Amtrak train crash and derailment in Missouri

-- 2022-06-28 10:20:20

An Amtrak train carrying more than 200 passengers derailed in northern Missouri on Monday after hitting a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing, killing two aboard and a person in the truck, and inju...

46 migrants found dead in Texas

46 migrants found dead in Texas

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-28 10:04:50

Authorities found 46 migrants dead inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, the city's fire department said, in what appears to be one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smu...

More funds, care needed to save world's oceans: UN chief

More funds, care needed to save world's oceans: UN chief

-- 2022-06-27 19:25:40

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to governments and companies on Monday to join the fight to save the world's dying oceans, by committing more funds to help create a sustainable e...

Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel

Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel

-- 2022-06-27 18:22:30

Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queuing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo an...

Thousands protest in Madrid against NATO summit

Thousands protest in Madrid against NATO summit

-- 2022-06-27 17:29:32

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Madrid on Sunday to call for peace and protest against a NATO summit to be held there this week. Social, antimilitarist and pacifist movements from around the wo...

Pledge to hasten deal on new pact to conserve biodiversity

Pledge to hasten deal on new pact to conserve biodiversity

-- 2022-06-27 17:14:24

The fourth meeting of the open-ended working group on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework has ended in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, with a pledge to fast-track agreement on a new decades-long...

Political crisis worsens in India's richest state

Political crisis worsens in India's richest state

-- 2022-06-27 13:50:15

The ongoing political crisis in India's richest state, Maharashtra, is showing no signs of ending soon as rebel lawmakers jostle to take control of the governing party. Around 40 lawmakers fr...

Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather

Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-27 11:33:55

Russian missiles struck an apartment block and close to a kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes US President Joe Biden condemned as "barbarism" as world leaders gathered in...

Japan urges 37 million people to switch off lights

Japan urges 37 million people to switch off lights

-- 2022-06-27 11:26:58

Japan's government has urged people in Tokyo and its surrounding area to use less electricity on Monday, as it warned that supplies will be strained as the country faces a heatwave. The Minis...

Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war

Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war

-- 2022-06-27 11:07:27

Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since ord...

Ecuador cuts gasoline prices in latest concession to protesters

Ecuador cuts gasoline prices in latest concession to protesters

-- 2022-06-27 10:58:13

Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Sunday he would cut prices for gasoline and diesel by 10 cents a gallon, the latest concession to try to end nearly two weeks of anti-government protests i...

Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine war

Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine war

-- 2022-06-26 21:57:11

Vladimir Putin will visit two former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since war in Uk...

Bangkok's market fire kills at least 2

Bangkok's market fire kills at least 2

-- 2022-06-26 20:31:46

A huge blaze in Bangkok torched buildings and cars in a market community near the city's Chinatown district on Sunday, killing at least two, with nine others suffering smoke inhalation, reports Reuter...

Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies: minister

Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies: minister

-- 2022-06-26 19:04:19

Sri Lanka is struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, a top government minister said on Sunday, as the crisis-hit country of 22 million people is down to just 15,000 tonnes of petrol and diesel to ke...

Health official warns of disease outbreak among Afghan earthquake survivors

Health official warns of disease outbreak among Afghan earthquake survivors

-- 2022-06-26 17:33:46

Thousands affected by a deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan are in need of clean water and food and are at risk of disease, an Afghan health ministry official said on Sunday, days after a UN agen...

Zelensky says Ukraine will win back lost cities

Zelensky says Ukraine will win back lost cities

-- 2022-06-26 17:29:09

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said Ukraine would win back all the cities it had lost to Russia, including Sievierodonetsk, and admitted the war was becoming tough to handle emotio...