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After Russia-Ukraine plan, Musk offers proposal to resolve China-Taiwan tensions

After Russia-Ukraine plan, Musk offers proposal to resolve China-Taiwan tensions

-- 2022-10-08 18:27:49

Billionaire Elon Musk, days after floating a possible deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine that drew condemnation in Ukraine, suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolv...

Mukesh Ambani 'setting up family office in Singapore'

Mukesh Ambani 'setting up family office in Singapore'

-- 2022-10-08 16:33:33

India's billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani is reportedly setting up a family office in Singapore, joining the rush of the world's ultra-rich opening such entities in the Asian city-state to manage...

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in the West Bank

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian teens in the West Bank

-- 2022-10-08 15:03:52

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian teens in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. One teen, 14, was shot in the city of Qalqilya in the n...

US, allies to coordinate response to Iran's 'bloody crackdown'

US, allies to coordinate response to Iran's 'bloody crackdown'

-- 2022-10-08 11:29:53

The US State Department said on Friday that it would continue to coordinate with its allies and partners on how to respond to Iran's "bloody crackdown" on protesters and its "state-sponsored vio...

11 die as bus catches fire in India's Nashik

11 die as bus catches fire in India's Nashik

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-08 10:22:40

As many as 11 people were killed and 38 others injured after a bus caught fire following a collision with a truck in the western Indian state of Maharashtra early on Saturday morning. The accident oc...

Hong Kong offers 500,000 free air tickets for tourists

Hong Kong offers 500,000 free air tickets for tourists

-- 2022-10-07 20:21:06

Hong Kong says it will give away 500,000 airline tickets, worth HK$2bn ($254.8m; £224.3m), as it tries to boost its Covid-19-hit tourism industry. The city rolled back several of its coronaviru...

Thailand killer was stressed by job loss, money and family troubles: Police

Thailand killer was stressed by job loss, money and family troubles: Police

-- 2022-10-07 20:11:47

The ex-policeman who went on a killing spree at a Thai daycare centre had risen quickly through the ranks of the police force in the capital, before a transfer to the provinces led to his use of drugs...

Mahsa Amini’s death result of underlying illness, not blows to her body: Iran

Mahsa Amini’s death result of underlying illness, not blows to her body: Iran

-- 2022-10-07 20:01:58

An Iranian coroner's report into the death of Mahsa Amini said she did not die due to blows to the head and limbs but from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia. Iran’s Forensic Org...

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16

Death toll in avalanche in Indian Himalayas rises to 16

-- 2022-10-07 16:35:05

Rescuers in northern India recovered 12 bodies of trainee mountaineers on Thursday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 from an avalanche in the Himalayas, the state-run Nehru Institute of Mountai...

Sri Lanka top court allows proceedings against former President Rajapaksa, others

Sri Lanka top court allows proceedings against former President Rajapaksa, others

-- 2022-10-07 13:51:25

Sri Lanka's top court has granted permission for proceedings against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the rights group which filed the case against him said in a statement on Friday, Reuters...

Putin and North Korea's Kim forge closer ties amid shared isolation

Putin and North Korea's Kim forge closer ties amid shared isolation

REUTERS 2022-10-07 12:57:16

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a birthday greeting to Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, congratulating him for "crushing the challenges and threats of the United States", the latest si...

As China party congress looms, signals sought on easing COVID policy

As China party congress looms, signals sought on easing COVID policy

-- 2022-10-07 11:01:43

The mounting economic toll of China's zero-COVID policy is raising investor hopes that Beijing may finally begin laying the groundwork for the tricky epidemiological and political task of shifti...

Thailand mourns after over 34 die in daycare centre attack targeting children

Thailand mourns after over 34 die in daycare centre attack targeting children

-- 2022-10-07 10:20:28

Thai government buildings flew flags at half mast on Friday to mourn the death of more than 30 people, including 23 children, after an ex-policeman burst into a daycare centre in a knife and gun...

UN body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in blow to West

UN body rejects debate on China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in blow to West

REUTERS 2022-10-07 10:16:30

The UN rights council on Thursday voted down a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses by China against Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang in a victory for Beijing as...

India tests samples of cough syrup linked to deaths of children in Gambia

India tests samples of cough syrup linked to deaths of children in Gambia

-- 2022-10-06 21:14:45

India is testing samples of cough syrups produced by Maiden Pharmaceuticals for exports after the World Health Organization said its products were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia,...

UN rights body renews accountability mandate for Sri Lanka

UN rights body renews accountability mandate for Sri Lanka

-- 2022-10-06 20:56:13

The UN rights body on Thursday agreed to renew a resolution on Sri Lanka that mandates monitors to collect evidence and develop accountability strategies on gross human rights violations despite...

Nika Shakarami: Iran protester's family forced to lie about death   

Nika Shakarami: Iran protester's family forced to lie about death  

-- 2022-10-06 18:38:31

Relatives of a girl who died during protests in Iran have been forced into making false statements, a source close to the family has told BBC Persian, reports BBC. Nika Shakarami, 16, went missing in...

Sydney records wettest year since 1858

Sydney records wettest year since 1858

-- 2022-10-06 17:10:43

Sydney recorded its wettest year in 164 years as authorities braced for major floods in Australia's east on Thursday, with more heavy downpours expected to fall over the next three days. With almost...

S Korea’s new gov't seeks to abolish gender equality ministry

S Korea’s new gov't seeks to abolish gender equality ministry

-- 2022-10-06 15:57:42

South Korea's new conservative government said Thursday it will push to abolish a ministry on gender equality and create a new agency tasked with broader responsibilities, one of President Yoon Suk Ye...

Gunman in Thailand kills 34 people at day-care centre

Gunman in Thailand kills 34 people at day-care centre

-- 2022-10-06 14:31:51

A former policeman killed 34 people on Thursday in a mass shooting at a children's day-care centre in Thailand, with media reporting the gunman later shot and killed himself, reports Reuters. T...

Eight drown, several missing during Durga Puja immersion ceremony in India’s West Bengal

Eight drown, several missing during Durga Puja immersion ceremony in India’s West Bengal

-- 2022-10-06 12:27:11

At least eight people have died and several others have gone missing after flash floods swept a group away during a Durga Puja idol immersion ceremony in the Mal River in India’s West Beng...

Myanmar court jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years

Myanmar court jails Japanese filmmaker for 10 years

-- 2022-10-06 11:51:02

A court in military-ruled Myanmar has jailed a Japanese documentary filmmaker for 10 years for violating sedition and communications laws, a Japanese foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Toru...

Schoolgirls heckle Iran paramilitary speaker

Schoolgirls heckle Iran paramilitary speaker

-- 2022-10-05 21:15:11

A new video posted online appears to show schoolgirls heckling a member of Iran's feared paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping the country spread to the classroom, reports...

Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif calls Imran Khan ‘biggest liar on earth’

Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif calls Imran Khan ‘biggest liar on earth’

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-05 19:33:40

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accused Imran Khan, a former premier of Pakistan, of being ‘the biggest liar on the face of the earth’. He also accused Imran Khan of injecting...

UAE rolls out new visa rules to attract skilled professionals

UAE rolls out new visa rules to attract skilled professionals

-- 2022-10-05 19:03:13

The United Arab Emirates has rolled out new visa rules, with the objective of attracting more skilled professionals to the country, as it seeks to bounce back from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, at least 276 people injured

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Iran, at least 276 people injured

-- 2022-10-05 16:35:36

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck north-western Iran on Wednesday, and state television said medical authorities in the area reported that at least 276 people had been injured, according to Reuters....

Pakistan is out of money to spend on flood recovery, says its minister

Pakistan is out of money to spend on flood recovery, says its minister

-- 2022-10-05 15:57:07

Pakistan is out of money to spend on recovery from devastating floods, its climate change minister said on Tuesday, urging prompt international help at the UN launch of an aid appeal as funds needed b...

Lebanese lawmaker enters bank branch to demand frozen savings

Lebanese lawmaker enters bank branch to demand frozen savings

-- 2022-10-05 14:33:47

A Lebanese member of parliament entered a branch of Byblos Bank north of Beirut on Wednesday with a group of associates to demand access to her frozen savings to pay for surgery. Cynthia Zarazir, a...

Taiwan taking monthly energy, food inventories in case of China conflict

Taiwan taking monthly energy, food inventories in case of China conflict

REUTERS 2022-10-05 14:01:21

Taiwan has been taking monthly inventories of critical supplies like food and energy in case of a conflict with China, a government official said on Wednesday. China, which claims democraticall...

Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments'

Iran summons British ambassador after 'interventionist comments'

REUTERS 2022-10-05 12:33:33

Iran's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador in Tehran in reaction to "interventionist comments" from the British foreign ministry, the semi-official news agency Tasnim reported on Wednesda...