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-- 2022-07-13 10:33:13
Several Chinese cities broke new records for high temperatures on Tuesday as scorching heat and contrasting relentless rains wreaked havoc, with local forecasters expecting the weather extremes to lin...
-- 2022-07-13 10:02:57
The Rajapaksa dynasty dominated Sri Lankan politics until April when street protests against fuel and food shortages began to slip out of control. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early...
-- 2022-07-13 09:00:12
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, two sources told Reuters news agency, hours before he was due to step down amid widespread protests over his handling of a...
-- 2022-07-12 14:08:39
Sri Lankan immigration officials said on Tuesday they prevented the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country, as anger rises against the powerful...
-- 2022-07-12 11:27:49
Shanghai residents queued up in sweltering heat for compulsory mass testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday, as persistent small outbreaks fuelled anxiety in a city that is still recovering from the painful t...
-- 2022-07-12 10:01:44
Japan on Tuesday prepared to bid farewell to Shinzo Abe, a polarising figure who dominated Japanese politics for decades as the country's longest-serving premier, before being gunned down at a campaig...
-- 2022-07-12 09:53:17
In June, a few dozen activists started meeting regularly at a seaside tented camp in Colombo for hours-long sessions to think up ways to revive Sri Lanka's flagging protest movement. The group, which...
-- 2022-07-11 21:00:04
Sri Lanka's parliament will reconvene on July 15 and a new president will be elected on July 20, the parliamentary speaker said on Monday, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to resign on Wednesday...
-- 2022-07-11 15:59:08
Japanese police have admitted there were flaws in the security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot dead in the southern city of Nara on Friday. "It is undeniable that there we...
-- 2022-07-11 14:20:44
The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on Nov. 15, with India projected to surpass China as the most populous country in 2023, the United Nations (UN) said Monday, World Population Day....
-- 2022-07-11 12:43:48
TOKYO: Japan’s governing party and its coalition partner scored a major victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday imbued with meaning after the assassination of former Prime Minister Sh...
-- 2022-07-11 11:54:09
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will resign, the prime minister's office said on Monday, after tens of thousands of protesters stormed...
-- 2022-07-11 11:38:46
Myanmar's junta government is installing Chinese-built cameras with facial recognition capabilities in more cities across the country, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said, reports Re...
-- 2022-07-10 19:27:57
Iran announced Sunday that it has begun enriching uranium up to 20 per cent using sophisticated centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear plant, state TV reported, an escalation that comes amid a s...
-- 2022-07-10 17:33:11
Sri Lankans roamed through the ransacked presidential palace on Sunday as calm returned to Colombo a day after protesters stormed the building and forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to agree to resig...
-- 2022-07-10 10:32:26
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country's parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators sto...
-- 2022-07-10 10:07:33
These are extraordinary times for Sri Lanka - after a day of fury and violence, the country's two senior leaders have agreed to step down. The news triggered jubilation at the main protest si...
REUTERS 2022-07-10 09:37:58
Intense floods killed dozens of people and left hundreds homeless in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday, as heavy monsoon rains battered the country. In the southern province of Balochistan, 57 p...
-- 2022-07-10 09:01:15
Japanese voters went to the polls on Sunday for an upper house election in which the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) may receive a surge of support after the assassination of former Prime Minist...
-- 2022-07-09 20:39:24
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is willing to resign to make way for all-party government, his office said in a statement on Saturday, after thousands of protesters stormed the president...
-- 2022-07-09 18:50:23
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims threw pebbles on giant columns symbolising Satan on Saturday, part of annual Hajj rituals that mark the first day of Eid-ul-Azha feast celebrated by Muslims across th...
-- 2022-07-09 17:15:03
Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-co...
-- 2022-07-09 16:32:16
For Indonesian teachers Sutrisno and Sri Wahyuningsih, embarking on the once in a lifetime Hajj pilgrimage stirs bittersweet emotions. After waiting more than a decade, Sri's parents were supposed to...
-- 2022-07-09 11:51:32
Police in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend rally, as public discontent...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-09 11:02:56
Thirteen people were dead and at least three dozen were missing after a cloudburst triggered flash floods near the Himalayan Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in Indian Kashmir, an official said here on F...
-- 2022-07-08 20:45:48
Moments before he was fatally shot from behind on Friday, Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was doing what he'd done for decades in politics: getting up close to the crowds and stumping for a...
-- 2022-07-08 15:00:18
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died, according to Japan's national broadcaster, BBC reports. Abe, 67, who remains Japan's longest serving prime minister, was shot while givin...
-- 2022-07-08 13:44:29
Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, was in grave condition on Friday after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, with public broadcaster NHK saying a man with what...
-- 2022-07-08 11:23:25
Shanghai reopened most cinemas on Friday, sticking to a plan of gradual resumption of daily activities after it lifted a two-month Covid-19 lockdown in June, while also trying, like several other Chin...
REUTERS 2022-07-08 10:43:50
Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, a government spokesman said, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from b...
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