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Haze wraps New Delhi again as air quality plummets

Haze wraps New Delhi again as air quality plummets

-- 2019-11-11 14:13:35

Haze shrouded India’s capital city again on Monday, with residents braving dangerous air quality to return to work after a weekend of clearer air and better weather. The air quality index of th...

Cyclone Bulbul kills nine in India

Cyclone Bulbul kills nine in India

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-11 12:03:13

At least nine people were killed in the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha on Sunday before veering off towards Bangladesh. The toll could rise further, India media reported citing officials. T...

Malaysian court tells ex-PM Najib to defend himself in 1MDB-linked case

Malaysian court tells ex-PM Najib to defend himself in 1MDB-linked case

-- 2019-11-11 10:46:52

A Malaysian court on Monday ordered former Prime Minister Najib Razak to present his defence against seven counts of criminal breach of trust, money laundering and abuse of power in a case linked to a...

Murder of Indonesia palm oil activists shows growing threat, rights groups say

Murder of Indonesia palm oil activists shows growing threat, rights groups say

-- 2019-11-10 20:14:41

The murder of two Indonesian activists, which police say was ordered by a palm oil businessman, highlights the escalating violence and threats faced by environmentalists who challenge the industry, ri...

Israeli farmers lament the end of Jordan land deal

Israeli farmers lament the end of Jordan land deal

-- 2019-11-10 19:27:34

It has been a bitter harvest for some Israeli farmers on the border with Jordan. On Sunday, a 25-year-old deal between the two countries that has allowed them to cultivate land there formally expires,...

Libya deports about 200 illegal immigrants

Libya deports about 200 illegal immigrants

-- 2019-11-10 19:06:15

Libya’s Immigration Control Department in the eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday announced the deportation of almost 200 illegal immigrants to Egypt. The Illegal Immigration Control Departmen...

HK protesters vandalise subway station

HK protesters vandalise subway station

-- 2019-11-10 18:13:44

Protesters smashed windows in a subway station and a shopping mall Sunday and police made arrests in areas across Hong Kong amid anger over a demonstrator’s death and the arrest of pro-democracy...

Iran discovers oil field with 53b barrels of crude

Iran discovers oil field with 53b barrels of crude

-- 2019-11-10 18:04:25

A new oil field that would increase Iran’s proven reserves by about a third has been discovered, President Hassan Rouhani has said. The field, in the south-western province of Khuzestan and abo...

Russian professor kills lover during argument

Russian professor kills lover during argument

-- 2019-11-10 17:28:20

A well-known Russian historian has confessed to murdering his lover - a former student - his lawyer says, after he was found in a river with a backpack containing a woman’s arms. Oleg Sokolov,...

Imperial couple of Japan rides through Tokyo in grand enthronement parade

Imperial couple of Japan rides through Tokyo in grand enthronement parade

-- 2019-11-10 17:10:09

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako rode through central Tokyo on Sunday in a motorcade to mark this year’s imperial succession as well-wishers waved national flags and held up mobile p...

Indian Muslims won’t seek Ayodhya verdict review

Indian Muslims won’t seek Ayodhya verdict review

-- 2019-11-10 17:05:05

The group of Muslims involved in the case over a disputed religious site at Ayodhya in India has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict favouring a Hindu temple on the land.  The UP Sunni Waqf Board...

Iran rejects reports of IAEA finding traces of uranium at unnamed site

Iran rejects reports of IAEA finding traces of uranium at unnamed site

-- 2019-11-10 16:24:28

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected as a “trap” reports that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, found traces of uranium at an Iranian sit...

Maid flooded with job offers after her business card goes viral

Maid flooded with job offers after her business card goes viral

-- 2019-11-10 16:12:49

Geeta Kale, a domestic help in Pune, has been flooded with job offers from all corners of India. The reason - a business card that one of her employers, Dhanashree Shinde, designed for her, according...

Airplane makes emergency landing in Manila as engine fails

Airplane makes emergency landing in Manila as engine fails

-- 2019-11-10 16:06:13

An airplane operated by South Korea’s Asiana Airlines bound for Singapore made an emergency landing in Manila late on Saturday due to an engine problem, a company spokesman said, according to ND...

Ayodhya verdict: India detains dozens over social media posts, celebrations

Ayodhya verdict: India detains dozens over social media posts, celebrations

-- 2019-11-10 15:22:50

LUCKNOW/AYODHYA, Nov 10 (Reuters): Dozens of people in India have been detained on suspicion of publishing inflammatory social media posts and setting off celebratory firecrackers after the Supreme Co...

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha freed from house arrest

-- 2019-11-10 14:16:10

Cambodia has freed opposition leader Kem Sokha from house arrest more than two years after he was arrested and charged with treason, but he remains banned from politics and from leaving the country, a...

Australia bushfires kill three, force thousands from homes

Australia bushfires kill three, force thousands from homes

-- 2019-11-10 13:34:37

At least three people are dead and thousands have been displaced by a weekend of bushfires in Australia, reports BBC. On Sunday, the fire emergency’s third day, more than 100 blazes were stil...

Australian firefighters battle blazes, brace for more

Australian firefighters battle blazes, brace for more

-- 2019-11-10 13:02:39

MELBOURNE, Nov 10 (Reuters): Australian firefighters raced on Sunday to contain widespread bushfires that have left three people dead, and braced for worse conditions in coming days as they warned the...

India pilgrims in historic visit to Pakistan temple

India pilgrims in historic visit to Pakistan temple

-- 2019-11-10 12:29:44

  A historic corridor to one of Sikhism's holiest shrines is now open, allowing Indian pilgrims rare visa-free access to the site in Pakistan, reports BBC. The Kartarpur corridor leads from the...

Two die as cyclone Bulbul hits Bangladesh, India

Two die as cyclone Bulbul hits Bangladesh, India

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-10 10:31:23

Two people have died as Cyclone Bulbul struck India and southern Bangladesh on Saturday. One of them was killed by an uprooted tree in West Bengal's Kolkata, and another by a wall collapse during the...

Xi stresses building world-class air force

Xi stresses building world-class air force

-- 2019-11-09 17:33:57

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday called for efforts to fully build the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force into a world-class air force. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party o...

Xi's pledges manifestation of China's commitment to further opening up: Experts

Xi's pledges manifestation of China's commitment to further opening up: Experts

Xinhua 2019-11-09 17:30:52

The pledges made by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the ongoing second China International Import Expo (CIIE) to promote higher-level opening up are a clear manifestation of China's commitment to hold...

‘Bulbul’ triggers heavy rainfall, uproots trees in Odisha

‘Bulbul’ triggers heavy rainfall, uproots trees in Odisha

-- 2019-11-09 15:34:38

Heavy rain accompanied by high-velocity winds, trigerred by very severe cyclonic storm 'Bulbul', lashed several parts of coastal Odisha on Saturday, uprooting trees and snapping road links. While no...

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

Australian bushfires kill two, 150 homes destroyed

-- 2019-11-09 14:07:32

Two people have died, five are missing and at least 150 homes have been destroyed as bushfires rage across eastern Australia, authorities said on Saturday. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW...

India's top court gives disputed Ayodhya site to Hindus

India's top court gives disputed Ayodhya site to Hindus

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-11-09 12:01:45

India's Supreme Court has ordered an alternate land for Muslims, decreeing a disputed religious site to Hindus in the northern town of Ayodhya. A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by the...

India tightens security ahead of Ayodhya verdict

India tightens security ahead of Ayodhya verdict

-- 2019-11-09 10:47:10

India's top court is set to deliver a ruling on Saturday on a disputed religious site that has been fiercely contested by majority Hindus and Muslims for decades, lawyers said, as it beefed up securit...

China provides $300,000 cash assistance for Myanmar's ceasefire monitoring work

China provides $300,000 cash assistance for Myanmar's ceasefire monitoring work

Xinhua 2019-11-08 17:07:15

China provided financial assistance of $300,000 for ceasefire monitoring work being carried out by Myanmar authorities on Friday morning. The cash assistance was presented by the Special Envoy for As...

China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-7 satellite

China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-7 satellite

Global Times 2019-11-08 16:57:46

China has successfully tracked and received data from the newly launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-7, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The China Remote Sensing Satellite G...

Magnitude 5.9 quake kills five in Iran, injures 300

Magnitude 5.9 quake kills five in Iran, injures 300

-- 2019-11-08 11:18:32

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eastern Azerbaija...

Rejecting RCEP won’t make India a winner

Rejecting RCEP won’t make India a winner

Global Times 2019-11-06 19:30:37

After India decided not to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), some officials and scholars inside the country claimed it is "a win for all those protecting national interests....