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-- 2022-12-23 16:02:25
Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the 1970s and 1980s, was released from a Nepal prison on Friday after nearly two decades behind bars. Sobh...
-- 2022-12-23 15:56:45
Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was freed from prison in Nepal on Friday after serving most of his sentence for the murders of American and Canadian backpackers. Sobhraj was driven out...
-- 2022-12-23 12:45:57
China has sanctioned two Americans in retaliation for US sanctions against two Chinese officials over human rights in Tibet earlier this month, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday, reports Reu...
REUTERS 2022-12-23 12:34:40
Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medi...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-23 12:32:30
Thailand hosted regional talks on Thursday to discuss the crisis in army-run Myanmar including rare international appearances by junta ministers, but several&n...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-23 10:24:40
India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said Thursday, citing an increase in cases in neighboring China. M...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-23 10:19:08
Three Cabinet ministers from Myanmar attended an informal regional meeting in Thailand's capital on Thursday to discuss efforts to restore peace in the military-run country, Thai officials said....
-- 2022-12-23 10:17:45
North Korea's foreign ministry denied a media report it supplied munitions to Russia, calling it "groundless," and denounced the United States for providing lethal weapons to Ukraine, the North's offi...
-- 2022-12-22 19:51:53
Dozens of women gathered outside Kabul University on Thursday to protest in the first major public demonstration in the capital since the Taliban's decision to close universities to female students....
-- 2022-12-22 17:50:09
China’s military sent 39 planes and three ships toward Taiwan in a 24-hour display of force directed at the island, Taiwan’s defence ministry said Thursday. China’s military harassm...
-- 2022-12-22 17:25:07
Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Thursday it had taken the head of a global drug trafficking syndicate, dubbed 'Asia's El Chapo', into custody after he was extradited from the Netherlands. The...
-- 2022-12-22 17:18:19
Fiji's military will help police maintain law and order, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said on Thursday, citing growing concerns of ethnic tension after an election last week resulted in a hung par...
-- 2022-12-22 16:39:56
The Philippines' defence ministry on Thursday ordered the military to strengthen its presence in the South China Sea after monitoring "Chinese activities" in disputed waters close to a strategic Phili...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-22 12:47:29
The United States imposed sanctions on Iranian officials on Wednesday, including the prosecutor general and key military officials, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests,...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-22 12:17:45
A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a "tragic battle" with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city's 25 million people to get infected by the end of the year while the virus sw...
-- 2022-12-22 10:44:24
Nepal's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release, due to his age, of Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as "the serpent" who police say is responsible for a string of murders in the...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-22 10:26:04
The UN Security Council adopted its first resolution on Myanmar in 74 years on Wednesday to demand an end to violence and urge the military junta to release all political prisoners, including ou...
-- 2022-12-21 21:36:44
Afghanistan's Taliban-run government on Tuesday suspended university access for female students, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and complicating efforts by the Taliban administration to...
-- 2022-12-21 20:45:11
Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first foreign coronav...
-- 2022-12-21 16:05:52
Hundreds of birds were culled in India's southern state of Kerala where a district has seen a surge in the number of bird flu or avian influenza cases, local health officials said. After an outbreak...
-- 2022-12-21 14:40:53
India's government has asked all states to step up surveillance for any new variants of the coronavirus, citing an increase in Covid-19 cases in China and elsewhere. India has reported the most Covid...
-- 2022-12-21 14:29:54
Pakistan's security forces killed 25 of 35 Islamist militants holed up in a counter-terrorism centre in the northwestern city of Bannu, while one hostage and two commandos died in the operation to ret...
REUTERS 2022-12-21 11:58:33
At least 100 ethnic Rohingya are stranded in a boat off India's Andaman Islands and as many as 16-20 may have have died of thirst, hunger or drowned, said two Myanmar Rohingya activist groups....
REUTERS 2022-12-21 10:47:32
Afghanistan's Taliban-run higher education ministry on Tuesday suspended access to universities by female students until further notice, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, Britain and...
-- 2022-12-20 19:44:17
Pakistani security forces retook a counter-terrorism interrogation centre in Bannu, a city in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, on Tuesday two days after it was seized by militants, se...
-- 2022-12-20 19:39:57
Pakistani security forces retook a counter-terrorism interrogation centre on Tuesday two days after it was seized by Islamist militants, security sources said, adding that all hostages, some slightly...
-- 2022-12-20 16:08:19
India's Rajasthan state, ruled by the main opposition Congress party, will halve the price of cooking gas for poor households from April as it seeks to cushion them from the pain of high inflation ahe...
-- 2022-12-20 12:59:15
Officials and global health experts outside China are anxiously watching a Covid-19 surge there, worried a nation of 1.4 billion people is inadequately vaccinated and may not have the healthcare tools...
REUTERS 2022-12-20 11:38:49
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Tuesday she will push China to lift trade sanctions and for consular access to two detained Australians during a trip to Beijing that's aimed at mending...
-- 2022-12-20 10:30:17
China reported five new Covid-19 deaths for December 19, compared with two the previous day, increasing the nation's fatalities to 5,242 the National Health Commission said on Tuesday. The country re...
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