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Revellers throng to New Year’s parties after Covid hiatus   

Revellers throng to New Year’s parties after Covid hiatus  

-- 2022-12-31 18:33:49

With countdowns and fireworks, revellers in major city centres across the Asia-Pacific region were ushering in the first new year without Covid-19 restrictions since the pandemic began in 2020. While...

Palestinians welcome UN vote on Israel's occupation as 'a victory'

Palestinians welcome UN vote on Israel's occupation as 'a victory'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 15:46:54

The Palestinians on Saturday welcomed a vote by the United Nations General Assembly requesting that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) provide an opinion on the...

Australia to ring in 2023 with no COVID restrictions

Australia to ring in 2023 with no COVID restrictions

REUTERS 2022-12-31 12:18:29

Australia is gearing up to celebrate its first restriction-free New Year's Eve after two years of COVID disruptions, with more than a million revellers expected to flock to Sydney's harbourfront and w...

Nine killed, 28 hurt as bus collides with SUV in India

Nine killed, 28 hurt as bus collides with SUV in India

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 10:49:17

At least nine people have been killed and 28 injured after a sports utility vehicle (SUV) collided head-on with a bus in India’s Gujarat, Indian broadcaster NDTV reported. The driver of the bus...

NDTV founders resign from board after India's Adani takes control

NDTV founders resign from board after India's Adani takes control

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-31 10:30:53

India's New Delhi Television Ltd said on Friday its founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy had resigned as directors after billionaire Gautam Adani's conglomerate took majority control of the...

WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on Covid situation

WHO urges China to share specific data regularly on Covid situation

-- 2022-12-31 10:17:29

The World Health Organization on Friday once again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the Covid-19 situation in the country, as it continues to ass...

China appoints Qin Gang as new foreign minister

China appoints Qin Gang as new foreign minister

-- 2022-12-30 19:16:30

China has appointed Qin Gang, a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, as its new foreign minister, state radio reported on Friday. Qin, 56, and currently China's ambassador to the United States, repl...

Indian PM Modi’s mother dies

Indian PM Modi’s mother dies

-- 2022-12-30 17:46:40

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi was cremated after she died in the early hours of the morning. She was 99 years old, and had been in hospital in western Gujarat state - whe...

10 oil field workers killed in attack on bus in Syria

10 oil field workers killed in attack on bus in Syria

-- 2022-12-30 16:30:08

A militant rocket attack in eastern Syria on Friday targeted a bus with oil industry employees, killing at least 10, the government said. To the north, Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced they arrest...

Will Netanyahu clip the wings of his new cabinet hawks?

Will Netanyahu clip the wings of his new cabinet hawks?

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 15:32:29

One is a pistol-packing ex-member of an outlawed Jewish militant group. The other is a religious fundamentalist who once called himself a "proud homophobe". Both are West Bank settle...

Israel's Netanyahu must manage right-wing firebrands on return to power

Israel's Netanyahu must manage right-wing firebrands on return to power

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 13:56:53

Benjamin Netanyahu will need all his experience as Israel's longest-serving prime minister as he returns at head one of the most right-wing governments in the country's history,...

Chinese jet came within 10 feet of US military aircraft, US says

Chinese jet came within 10 feet of US military aircraft, US says

-- 2022-12-30 12:50:56

A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a US air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive manoeuvres to avoid a collision in internati...

Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi for 7 more years as secretive trials end

Myanmar court jails Suu Kyi for 7 more years as secretive trials end

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-30 12:39:15

A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday convicted deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five counts of corruption and jailed her for a combined seven years, a source familiar with her trial said, wra...

Indonesia issues emergency regulation to replace controversial job creation law

Indonesia issues emergency regulation to replace controversial job creation law

REUTERS 2022-12-30 11:23:16

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has signed an emergency regulation to replace the controversial job creation law, his chief economics minister said on Friday, a law that the Constitutional Court had...

Lack of info on China’s Covid-19 surge stirs global concern

Lack of info on China’s Covid-19 surge stirs global concern

-- 2022-12-29 22:32:24

Moves by several countries to mandate Covid-19 tests for passengers arriving from China reflect global concern that new variants could emerge in its ongoing explosive outbreak - and that the governmen...

Indian maker of syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production

Indian maker of syrup linked to Uzbekistan deaths halts production

-- 2022-12-29 19:59:56

India's drug regulator said on Thursday that it had inspected a facility that made a cough syrup linked to deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan and promised more action based on its findings. A legal...

Five killed in South Korea road tunnel fire

Five killed in South Korea road tunnel fire

-- 2022-12-29 17:05:29

A large fire on a South Korean expressway on Thursday killed at least five people and injured nearly 40 caught in heavy traffic, emergency officials and media said. Video images on social media showe...

Cambodia border casino fire kills 7, injures 53

Cambodia border casino fire kills 7, injures 53

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-29 14:23:45

A fire at a casino complex at Cambodia's border with Thailand has killed at least seven people, with 53 wounded and eight people missing, provincial authorities in neighbouring Thailand said on...

India begins inspecting drug factories following cough syrup deaths in Gambia

India begins inspecting drug factories following cough syrup deaths in Gambia

-- 2022-12-27 20:00:27

India's pharmaceuticals regulator has begun inspecting some drug factories across the country, the health ministry said on Tuesday, as it tries to ensure high standards after an Indian company's cough...

UNHCR urges countries to help Rohingya refugees stranded at sea

UNHCR urges countries to help Rohingya refugees stranded at sea

-- 2022-12-27 19:22:21

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) urged countries on Tuesday to help Rohingya Muslims stranded at sea as at least 20 reportedly died and hundreds more landed in Indonesia after weeks adrift in...

UN agency probes origin of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia

UN agency probes origin of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia

-- 2022-12-27 18:39:21

A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more. A...

Companies welcome end to China quarantines for visitors   

Companies welcome end to China quarantines for visitors  

-- 2022-12-27 18:32:25

Foreign companies welcomed China's decision to end quarantines for travellers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity while Japan on Tuesday joined India in announcing re...

S Korea’s president calls for stealth drones to monitor North

S Korea’s president calls for stealth drones to monitor North

-- 2022-12-27 17:38:23

South Korea's president on Tuesday called for stronger air defences and high-tech stealth drones while the military apologised for failing to shoot down North Korean drones that crossed the border for...

India makes inroads into Sri Lanka under China's long shadow

India makes inroads into Sri Lanka under China's long shadow

REUTERS 2022-12-27 15:33:24

When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped i...

China to scrap Covid quarantine rule for inbound travellers

China to scrap Covid quarantine rule for inbound travellers

-- 2022-12-27 13:57:49

China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine starting from January 8, the National Health Commission said on Monday in a major step towards easing curbs on its borders, which hav...

At least 20 reported dead as Rohingya boats land in Indonesia

At least 20 reported dead as Rohingya boats land in Indonesia

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-27 13:17:26

At least 20 Rohingya have died at sea in recent weeks, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as boats carrying hundreds of the persecuted Muslims landed in Indonesia while others were believe...

Myanmar court to deliver final verdicts this week in Suu Kyi trials

Myanmar court to deliver final verdicts this week in Suu Kyi trials

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-27 12:33:40

A court in military-ruled Myanmar will deliver its final verdicts in cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, said a s...

South Korea's Yoon slams response to North drones, vows to create drone unit

South Korea's Yoon slams response to North drones, vows to create drone unit

REUTERS 2022-12-27 12:33:10

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday he would advance the creation of a military unit specialising in drones, criticising the military response to a border intrusion by North Korean dr...

China's Covid cases overwhelm hospitals

China's Covid cases overwhelm hospitals

-- 2022-12-27 12:23:34

In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; a...

More Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia after weeks at sea

More Rohingya refugees reach Indonesia after weeks at sea

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-27 10:37:20

A second group in two days of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officials said. At least 185 men,...