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Gunmen attack in Kabul hotel with Chinese nationals

-- 2022-12-12 19:38:30

Armed men opened fire on Monday inside a hotel in central Kabul popular with Chinese nationals, two Taliban sources told Reuters, in the latest violence in Afghanistan as it tries to stabilise after t...

Iran carries out second execution linked to anti-government protests

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-12 13:16:17

The Islamic Republic hanged a man in public on Monday who had been convicted of killing two members of security forces, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported, the second execution linked to...

Bali governor says new Indonesia laws pose no risk to tourists

REUTERS 2022-12-12 13:02:30

Visitors to Bali will not be put at risk by Indonesia's newly ratified criminal code, the island's governor said, dismissing concerns that revised laws which include articles criminalising sex outside...

Saudi foreign minister: 'All bets off' if Iran gets nuclear weapon

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-12 10:55:44

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Sunday that Iran's Gulf Arab neighbours would act to shore up their security if Tehran were to obtain nuclear weapons, Reuters reports. Indirect US-Irani...

Six Pakistanis, one Afghan soldier killed in cross-border clash

REUTERS 2022-12-12 09:46:13

Six Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in cross border shelling and gunfire, according to officials on both sides of the frontier. The Pakistan army said Afghan border f...

Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai jailed over five years on fraud charge

-- 2022-12-11 17:12:11

Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced on Saturday to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, convicted of violating a lease contract for the headquarters of a liberal newspaper he used to r...

Japan lawmaker in Taiwan says China threat needs more military spending

REUTERS 2022-12-11 12:39:45

Japan needs to increase its military spending in the face of the "grim reality" of the threat from China and North Korea, a senior member of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said on Sunday duri...

Australia's Wong to visit Pacific in bipartisan effort to boost ties

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-11 12:34:17

Australia's foreign minister will be part of a bipartisan group of Australian politicians set to travel to Vanuatu, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau this week in a bid to bolster reg...

China expanding hospitals, ICUs to face COVID surge

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-11 12:06:12

Facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as Beijing rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to th...

Iranian currency slides to new low amid unrest, isolation

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-11 09:42:56

Iran's troubled currency fell to a new low against the US dollar on Saturday amid continued unrest and the country's increasing isolation in the face...

China's healthcare system put to the test as COVID curbs fade

REUTERS 2022-12-11 09:38:05

When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding in northern China, he braced for a five-day quarantine at a makeshift local hospital as part of the country's strict pandemic controls. Inst...

Cyclone Mandous hits southern India, kills at least four people

-- 2022-12-10 20:30:46

A cyclonic storm killed at least four people in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, the top state official said, as heavy rain and strong winds buffeted several districts damaging pro...

Xi calls for fostering closer China-Arab community with shared future

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 15:10:51

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on China and Arab states to carry forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship, and foster a closer China-Arab community with a shared future, while addressing the f...

China tackles medical supply snags, price gouging amid COVID fears

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 15:07:32

China said on Saturday it would stop checking truck drivers and ship crew transporting goods domestically for COVID-19, removing a key bottleneck from its supply chain network as a dismantling of the...

Iran's Raisi promises to pursue crackdown on protesters; cleric critical of execution

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 10:24:00

A prominent dissenting Sunni cleric on Friday said the death sentence of an Iranian protester involved in anti-government unrest violated sharia law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press...

1.6m Indians renounced citizenship since 2011

-- 2022-12-09 20:54:26

A total of 183,741 Indians have renounced their citizenship this year, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan told this at the Lok Sabha today (Friday). Responding to a question from...

Vietnam vessel saves 154 Rohingya from sinking boat, transfers to Myanmar navy

-- 2022-12-09 16:48:34

A Vietnamese oil service vessel rescued 154 people from a sinking boat in the Andaman Sea and has transferred them to Myanmar's navy, state media reported, a group confirmed by activists as minority R...

Sri Lanka shuts schools as cyclonic storm raises pollution

-- 2022-12-09 16:27:59

Schools were closed across Sri Lanka on Friday due to high air pollution levels as a cyclonic storm passed by its coast, raising strong winds and rain, with forecasts that it will make landfall on Ind...

Saudi Arabia signs Huawei deal, deepening China ties on Xi visit

REUTERS 2022-12-09 09:20:58

Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the...

Saudi lays on lavish welcome as China's Xi heralds 'new era' in relations

-- 2022-12-08 18:17:37

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received President Xi Jinping on Thursday as the Chinese leader heralded "a new era" in Arab relations, with a lavish welcome signalling Riyadh's interest in dee...

Monk militia: The Buddhist clergy backing Myanmar's junta

REUTERS 2022-12-08 17:07:40

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: "What's our spirit like?" "The spirit of iron!" shout a group of rifle-bearing men, loyalists of the milit...

Iran executes protester for injuring guard with knife

-- 2022-12-08 15:15:53

Iran executed a protester on Thursday who was convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and closing off a street in the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, part o...

Android phones in Iran get false quake alerts amid protests

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 11:56:46

False earthquake alerts went off Wednesday on Android smartphones in Iran as the country continues to grapple with nationwide protests. Authorities offered conflicting accounts as to why the incident...

India sees 907 deaths from lightning strikes in 2022

-- 2022-12-08 10:37:09

India saw a big jump in extreme weather events such as heatwaves and lightning strikes this year and related deaths rose to their highest in three years, government data showed on Wednesday, with scie...

Indiana sues TikTok, citing safety and security concerns

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 10:35:25

Indiana's attorney general on Wednesday sued Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, claiming the video-sharing platform misleads its users, particularly children, about the level of inappropriate cont...

Taliban publicly execute man accused of murder

-- 2022-12-07 19:48:47

The Taliban administration on Wednesday put to death a man accused of murder in western Afghanistan, its spokesperson said, in the first officially confirmed public execution since the group took over...

150 Rohingya stranded on leaking boat off Thai coast

-- 2022-12-07 19:25:57

At least 150 ethnic Rohingya are stranded at sea off Thailand after their boat broke down, activists said on Wednesday, adding that several may have died and urging authorities to rescue the survivors...

Ruling Nepali Congress party wins most seats, Deuba likely to remain PM

-- 2022-12-07 17:04:22

The ruling Nepali Congress party emerged as the single largest party in Nepal's general election last month, winning 89 seats in the 275-member parliament, and its leader Sher Bahadur Deuba is likely...

South Korea to order more truckers back to work on Thursday

-- 2022-12-07 14:52:25

The South Korean government is expected to order truckers serving the petrochemical and steel sectors to return to work this week as a national strike by truckers entered its 14th day on Wednesday, me...

G7 makes new $15b offer to Vietnam to cut coal use

-- 2022-12-07 14:51:14

The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations has made a new $15 billion offer to Vietnam to agree during a summit next week on funding to speed up its transition away from coal, three people familia...