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Israeli settlers have high hopes after Netanyahu election win

-- 2022-11-07 15:31:36

High atop a rocky hill in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers exhilarated by a resounding right-wing election triumph surveyed a landscape dotted with Palestinian villages, scouting new spots to...

Imran Khan welcomes probe into shooting

-- 2022-11-06 18:11:32

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday he welcomed the government's offer to launch a judicial commission to investigate the attack in which he was shot in the leg on Thursday. Kha...

Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania

-- 2022-11-06 16:59:46

A passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while attempting to land at an airport in Bukoba, state-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported. TBC said 15 people h...

Bahrain will build on partnership with Israel, says king's adviser

-- 2022-11-06 16:46:51

Bahrain will continue to build its relationship with Israel after former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies triumphed in Israel's general election, the diplomatic adviser to B...

Xi opposing nuclear weapons in Ukraine was reason enough to visit China, Scholz says

-- 2022-11-06 11:47:37

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was heavily criticised for a trip to Beijing this week, said on Saturday his and Chinese President Xi Jinping's joint statement opposing the use of nuclear weapons i...

Iran acknowledges sending drones to Russia for first time

-- 2022-11-05 16:21:45

Iran’s foreign minister on Saturday acknowledged for the first time that his country has supplied Russia with drones, insisting the transfer came before Moscow’s war on Ukraine that has se...

Malaysian leaders kick off election campaigns in tight race

-- 2022-11-05 14:59:01

Malaysian political leaders began their election campaigning on Saturday for what is set to be a close race, with incumbent Prime Minister Ismail Sabri facing off with veterans Anwar Ibrahim and Muhyi...

Myanmar fuel supply chain enabling military's air strikes: Amnesty

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-05 14:15:51

The international community must halt the shipment of aviation fuel to Myanmar's military, Amnesty International said in a report, blaming a global fuel supply chain for allowing the junta to...

Pakistan's Imran Khan vows to resume protest after recovery

-- 2022-11-05 11:55:12

ormer Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday he would resume his protest march to Islamabad after recovering from an assassination attempt, as his supporters staged nationwide protests tha...

Flood-hit Pakistan seeks loss and damage 'compensation' at COP27

-- 2022-11-04 19:49:49

Pakistan's climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, is heading to Egypt for the UN COP27 climate summit with one goal: finally getting the world to commit to helping countries like hers deal with the g...

Delhi shuts primary schools as air quality deteriorates

-- 2022-11-04 17:06:24

Primary schools in India's New Delhi will be shut from Saturday and restriction on road traffic will be considered, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday as the capital continued to be engulfe...

South Korea scrambles jets after detecting 180 North Korean warplanes north of border amid tensions

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-04 15:24:09

South Korea's military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean warplanes flying north of the military border over four hours on Friday, Reuters reports. The North...

Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan's party to hold protests after 'assassination attempt'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-04 13:26:35

The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt, said country-wide protests wo...

Xi tells Scholz China and Germany should work together during 'times of turmoil'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-04 11:25:06

Chinese President Xi Jinping touted the need for greater cooperation between China and Germany amid "times of change and turmoil" in his first meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Schol...

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan shot, out of danger: media

-- 2022-11-03 18:05:25

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was wounded on Thursday when his convoy was shot at in the country's east on Thursday, reports Reuters citing multiple local news channels. Khan was leading...

Delhi's air a 'crime against humanity'

-- 2022-11-03 13:08:22

Delhi's 20 million residents were effectively breathing smoke on Thursday as the air quality index (AQI) breached the "severe" and "hazardous" categories in nearly all monitoring stations of the India...

Hundreds march in crisis-hit Sri Lanka protesting tax hikes, crackdowns

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-03 10:56:21

Hundreds of people marched in Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo on Wednesday protesting against higher taxes, inflation and alleged state-led repression as the...

North Korea fires multiple ballistic missiles, residents in Japan told to shelter

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-03 10:52:56

North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Thursday, including one that triggered an alert for residents in parts of central and northern Japan to seek shelter, the latest in a record year...

Imran Khan compares his struggle with that of Bangabandhu

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-02 21:18:31

Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party, has compared his ‘struggle for real freedom’ with that of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib...

North Korea’s missile lands off South Korean coast first time since 1945

-- 2022-11-02 20:22:27

North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "...

Netanyahu says he is on brink of 'very big victory' in Israel election

-- 2022-11-02 15:25:44

Israel's former premier Benjamin Netanyahu appeared set to return to power on Wednesday, saying his right-wing camp was on the cusp of a great election win, after exit polls predicted his bloc gaining...

Blast in Kabul hits bus carrying Taliban admin. employees, injures seven

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-02 13:42:05

A blast hit a bus carrying Taliban administration employees in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning, police said, injuring seven people, Reuters reports. "Due to a blast on a mini bus from t...

Israelis vote again as political crisis grinds on

-- 2022-11-01 17:41:05

For the fifth time since 2019, Israelis were voting in national elections on Tuesday, hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralysed the country for the past three and a half years, accordi...

India's first fully solar village lights up the lives of poor residents

-- 2022-11-01 17:18:59

Kesa Bhai Prajapati beams with a smile as he moulds blocks of clay into jugs and vases on a potter's wheel. These days, Prajapati, 68, from the village of Modhera in western India's Gujarat state, ha...

Nepal prepares for national elections amid faltering economy

-- 2022-11-01 17:07:52

Nepal will hold national and provincial elections on Nov 20, in a contest that the country's ruling coalition, led by the centrist Nepali Congress party, hopes to win against a loose alliance of commu...

Pakistan's Sharif lands in Beijing to discuss economy, debt

-- 2022-11-01 16:53:11

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to meet Chinese leaders and discuss plans for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a $65 billion investment in the South...

Philippines storm death toll rises to 98

-- 2022-10-31 14:16:36

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr is set on Monday to fly over flood-submerged districts to inspect the damage after Tropical Storm Nalgae barrelled across the Southeast Asian country over the...

Death toll from India bridge collapse rises to 141

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-31 10:12:39

The death toll from the collapse of a British-era bridge in India's Gujrat has climbed to 141, according to local media. Several others are still missing while around 177 people have been rescu...

Suspension bridge collapse in India leaves 30 dead

-- 2022-10-30 21:44:26

At least 30 people were killed and dozens critically injured when a suspension bridge in India's western Gujarat state collapsed on Sunday, two government officials said. "We can confirm that 30 peop...

Students defy protest ultimatum despite crackdown across Iran

-- 2022-10-30 20:31:18

Iranian students defied warnings from the feared Revolutionary Guards that nationwide protests must end by Sunday and were met with tear gas, beatings and gunfire from riot police and militia, videos...