FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-21 13:49:53
UNICEF urgently requires $164 million to procure oxygen and testing supplies, medical equipment, personal protective equipment and infection prevention and control material to help save lives amid a d...
-- 2021-05-21 10:46:48
Covid-19 continues its onslaught across the world, even with mass inoculations underway. The overall number of corona cases has now topped 165 million. The total cases and fatalities reached 165,253,...
REUTERS 2021-05-21 09:11:00
An Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and Hamas began on Friday, but Hamas warned it still had its "hands on the trigger" and demanded Israel end the violence in Jerusalem and address the damages...
Reuters 2021-05-20 17:46:14
Diplomatic moves towards a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gathered pace on Thursday after US President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation, but Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza a...
Reuters 2021-05-20 13:03:46
People displaced by an upsurge of fighting in Myanmar's Chin State voiced concerns over shelter and supplies, as more flee the conflict between the army and insurgents opposed to the junta that seized...
-- 2021-05-20 12:23:36
A senior Hamas official has said that he expects Israel and Gaza militants to reach a ceasefire "within a day or two" as cross-border attacks continue. But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on W...
Reuters 2021-05-20 11:29:53
Naval vessels and aircraft scoured the waters off India's west coast late on Wednesday after the most powerful cyclone in more than two decades battered the region, sinking an oilfield accommodation b...
-- 2021-05-19 20:56:34
Kuwait’s cabinet said on Tuesday that direct commercial flights for Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka are limited to departing flights only, while cargo flights will continue, unt...
-- 2021-05-19 19:22:44
More than 52,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed or badly damaged nearly 450 buildings in the Gaza Strip, the UN aid agency said on Tuesday. In a separate s...
-- 2021-05-19 16:45:00
Bharat Biotech is set to begin the phase II and III clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin in children in the age group of 2 to 18 years in the next 10-12 days, reports The Economics Times citin...
-- 2021-05-19 11:39:53
India's COVID-19 tally reached 25,496,330 on Wednesday, with 267,334 new cases registered in the past 24 hours, confirmed by the health ministry. The death toll rose to 283,248 with 4,529 more deaths...
REUTERS 2021-05-19 11:17:59
The Indian Navy mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission on Tuesday for 79 oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone that tore up the west coast killing at l...
Reuters 2021-05-19 11:03:27
Taiwan will get 400,000 more AstraZeneca Covid-19 doses on Wednesday from the COVAX global sharing programme, the government said, as it faces a dwindling supply of shots during a spike in domestic in...
-- 2021-05-19 10:51:26
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit the Lamjung district in northern-central Nepal on Wednesday, leaving at least three people injured, a local official said. With the epicenter in Bhulbhule of...
REUTERS 2021-05-19 10:31:44
In the months before the Myanmar military’s Feb 1 coup, the country’s telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdro...
Reuters 2021-05-19 09:59:54
Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants kept up cross-border rocket fire, with no firm sign on Wednesday of any imminent ceasefire despite international calls to end more than...
Reuters 2021-05-18 19:08:28
The Indian Navy mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission on Tuesday for 81 missing oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone that tore up the west coast of t...
REUTERS 2021-05-18 17:27:44
Singapore has authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for those aged 12 to 15 years old in a bid to extend protection to more groups as the country tackles a recent increase of infe...
REUTERS 2021-05-18 14:37:48
India is unlikely to resume major exports of Covid-19 vaccines until at least October as it diverts shots for domestic use, three government sources said, a longer-than-expected delay set to worsen su...
-- 2021-05-18 11:53:24
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned his US counterpart Joe Biden for approval of arms sales to Israel. The US president was "writing history with bloody hands in this incident where...
Reuters 2021-05-18 11:42:03
More than 800 people have been killed by Myanmar's security forces since a wave of protests broke out across the country after the military seized power in a coup in February, an activist group said....
Reuters 2021-05-18 10:19:40
India's total coronavirus cases surged past the 25 million mark on Tuesday, boosted by 263,533 new infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by a record 4,329. India becomes...
Reuters 2021-05-18 09:59:21
Some 90,000 Indian doctors armed with medical degrees from Russia, China and Ukraine are urging the government to put them to work in the battle against Covid-19 instead of standing idly by, waiting f...
-- 2021-05-18 09:36:34
More than a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas showed few signs of abating on Tuesday despite intense US and global diplomacy to stop the region's fiercest hostilities in years. The Israeli mi...
Reuters 2021-05-17 18:45:02
Nearly 150,000 people were moved from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat to safety on Monday and authorities closed ports and a main airport as the most intense cyclone in more than two decade...
REUTERS 2021-05-17 17:50:09
China will tread carefully in relaxing its birth policies for fear of harming social stability, even as the latest census highlights the urgency to address the country's declining birth trends and age...
-- 2021-05-17 17:29:20
Indian police have seized over 150 vials of Remdesivir drugs smuggled from Bangladesh and arrested seven people for their involvement in the smuggling of the drugs. The accused were identified as S V...
Reuters 2021-05-17 17:18:39
Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in Gaza on Monday in air strikes which it said also targeted underground tunnels used by Hamas, and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Isra...
AP 2021-05-17 16:58:39
Vaccinated Saudis will be allowed to leave the kingdom for the first time in more than a year on Monday as the country eases a ban on international travel aimed at containing the spread of the coronav...
-- 2021-05-17 13:42:18
India on Monday reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases though daily deaths remained above 4,000 and experts warned that the count was unreliable due to a lack of testing in rural areas, w...
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