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India PM Modi’s home state Gujarat votes in key local polls

India PM Modi’s home state Gujarat votes in key local polls

AP 2022-12-01 13:48:02

Voters in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat cast ballots Thursday in crucial local elections, a vote that is seen as a barometer of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s p...

China softens tone on COVID severity after protests

China softens tone on COVID severity after protests

REUTERS 2022-12-01 11:19:06

China is softening its tone on the severity of COVID-19 and easing some coronavirus restrictions even as its daily case toll hovers near records, after anger over the world's toughest curbs morphed in...

At least 15 killed in Afghanistan school bombing, says official

At least 15 killed in Afghanistan school bombing, says official

-- 2022-11-30 19:01:39

At least 15 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a religious school in northern Afghanistan’s Samangan province, according to a local official. Provincial spokesman Emdadullah Muhajir add...

Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage but voices rights concern

Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage but voices rights concern

-- 2022-11-30 18:17:44

A Tokyo court upheld a ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday but said a lack of legal protection for same-sex families violated their human rights, a comment welcomed by plaintiffs as a step towards a...

Suicide bomber attacks Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team, kills four

Suicide bomber attacks Pakistan police guarding polio vaccination team, kills four

-- 2022-11-30 18:08:17

A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a police escort for a polio vaccination team in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four people and wounding more than 30, police said, just two days...

South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

South Korea scrambles jets as China, Russia warplanes enter air defence zone

-- 2022-11-30 17:46:50

South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets as two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defence zone on Wednesday. The two Chinese H-6 bombers repeatedly entered and left the K...

Some football fans in Iran celebrate US win over the country's national team in World Cup

Some football fans in Iran celebrate US win over the country's national team in World Cup

-- 2022-11-30 17:14:27

Soccer fans in Iran's Kurdish region set off fireworks and honked car horns early Wednesday to celebrate the U.S. win over the Iranian national team in a politically charged World Cup match that divid...

Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

Former President Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s rise, dies

-- 2022-11-30 17:09:40

Former President Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive...

Pakistan suicide blast targeting police kills 3, wounds 28

Pakistan suicide blast targeting police kills 3, wounds 28

REUTERS 2022-11-30 12:06:44

A suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta targeted a police patrol on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 28, police said. The explosion, claimed by the Pakistani Taliba...

Pakistan FM meets Taliban amid border concerns

Pakistan FM meets Taliban amid border concerns

-- 2022-11-29 19:10:08

Pakistan's minister of state for foreign affairs met Afghanistan's acting foreign minister in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest international minister to visit the country whose Taliban rulers are not form...

Myanmar’s Rohingya IDs deny citizenship

Myanmar’s Rohingya IDs deny citizenship

-- 2022-11-29 18:30:34

Zaw Win's grandparents had the same identity card as everyone else in Myanmar, but a generation later his parents were given a separate ID for minority Rohingyas. Today, Zaw Win is classed as an illeg...

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

-- 2022-11-29 15:10:43

Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces early Tuesday morning in two separate incidents in the Israeli occuppied West Bank, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli military did not confirm the...

Police in India's Kerala step up security after clashes over Adani port

Police in India's Kerala step up security after clashes over Adani port

-- 2022-11-29 14:20:54

Police in southern India on Tuesday ramped up security around Vizhinjam port being built by billionaire Gautam Adani's group after scores of people were injured during clashes with protesters from a f...

China protests highlight Xi's COVID policy dilemma - to walk it back or no

China protests highlight Xi's COVID policy dilemma - to walk it back or no

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-29 09:58:26

The rare street protests that erupted in cities across China over the weekend were a referendum against President Xi Jinping's zero-COVID policy and the strong...

About 36 Indian police hurt in clashes with Adani port protesters

About 36 Indian police hurt in clashes with Adani port protesters

REUTERS 2022-11-28 12:17:51

As many as 36 police were injured in clashes with protesters in India's southern state of Kerala who were demanding the release of a person arrested during a demonstration against a $900-million port...

China Covid cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests

China Covid cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests

-- 2022-11-28 10:11:42

China posted another record high Covid-19 infections on Monday, after an extraordinary weekend of protests across the country over restrictive coronavirus curbs, in scenes unprecedented since Presiden...

Clashes in Shanghai as COVID protests flare across China

Clashes in Shanghai as COVID protests flare across China

REUTERS 2022-11-28 09:12:35

Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China's stringent COVID restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in the wake of a dead...

Indian paramilitary member shoots two colleagues dead

Indian paramilitary member shoots two colleagues dead

-- 2022-11-27 16:59:53

Two personnel of an Indian paramilitary security force have been shot dead by one of their colleagues during a fight that broke out while they were off duty near Porbandar in Gujarat, according to Ind...

Kim Jong Un says North Korea aims to have the world's strongest nuclear force

Kim Jong Un says North Korea aims to have the world's strongest nuclear force

REUTERS 2022-11-27 14:19:34

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country's intends to have the world's most powerful nuclear force as he promoted dozens of military officers involved in the recent launch of a new ballistic m...

Malaysia PM Anwar eyes targeted subsidies for low-income groups

Malaysia PM Anwar eyes targeted subsidies for low-income groups

REUTERS 2022-11-27 12:34:11

Malaysia is reviewing its government subsidies programme, aiming to direct money toward low-income groups, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Sunday, prioritising the rising cost of living as he tak...

Taiwan president resigns as party leader after election loss

Taiwan president resigns as party leader after election loss

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-27 11:22:12

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party following local election losses on Saturday in which voters chose the opposition Nationalist party in several...

Taiwan president resigns after poor election results

Taiwan president resigns after poor election results

-- 2022-11-26 19:56:10

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as chairwoman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party on Saturday, saying she took responsibility for its poor showing at local elections, reports Reuters.&nb...

Taliban's treatment of women may be crime against humanity, UN experts say

Taliban's treatment of women may be crime against humanity, UN experts say

-- 2022-11-26 19:03:44

The Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls, including their exclusion from parks, gyms, schools and universities, may amount to a crime against humanity, a group of UN experts said on...

Singapore's Wong cements prospect of becoming PM

Singapore's Wong cements prospect of becoming PM

-- 2022-11-26 18:38:25

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong received a top post in the ruling party on Saturday, cementing his position to become the city-state's next prime minister. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Lo...

Khamenei praises Basij forces for confronting 'rioters'

Khamenei praises Basij forces for confronting 'rioters'

-- 2022-11-26 17:19:48

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that Basij militia forces have sacrificed their lives in what he called riots, the wave of protests sparked by the death in custody of a...

Thousands of Australians strip for cancer awareness photo shoot

Thousands of Australians strip for cancer awareness photo shoot

-- 2022-11-26 15:59:24

Some 2,500 people took off their clothes on Saturday to pose for US photographic artist Spencer Tunick at Sydney's Bondi Beach in an effort to raise awareness about skin cancer. Tunick, known for sta...

Huge COVID protests erupt in China's Xinjiang after deadly fire

Huge COVID protests erupt in China's Xinjiang after deadly fire

REUTERS 2022-11-26 14:12:09

Rare protests broke out in China’s far western Xinjiang region, with crowds shouting at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger over their prolonged COVID-19 lockdown as nationw...

Taiwan votes in local elections amid tensions with China

Taiwan votes in local elections amid tensions with China

REUTERS 2022-11-26 11:53:17

Polls opened in Taiwan on Saturday in local elections that President Tsai Ing-wen has framed as being about sending a message to the world about the island's determination to defend its democracy in t...

Pakistan interior minister asks Imran Khan to postpone march

Pakistan interior minister asks Imran Khan to postpone march

-- 2022-11-25 20:08:18

Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Friday that former prime minister Imran Khan should postpone the resumption of his protest march to Islamabad from Rawalpindi, stating that there had...

Gains for Malaysia's Islamist party a challenge for new PM

Gains for Malaysia's Islamist party a challenge for new PM

-- 2022-11-25 16:53:41

Malaysia's new prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, will be contending in parliament with a strengthened Islamist party that espouses a stricter interpretation of sharia Islamic law, a challenge to Anwar's...