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FE Online Desk 2018-02-05 00:00:00
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has warned that Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya people could spark regional conflict. “It is sometimes said t...
-- 2018-02-04 21:49:17
The Maldives’ Attorney General (AG) on Sunday warned the country’s Supreme Court against its ‘unconstitutional’ move to unseat the president. Attorney General Mohamed Anil sai...
-- 2018-02-04 20:53:11
China on Sunday has urged the US to drop its "Cold War mentality" after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. "The country that owns the world's largest nucl...
-- 2018-02-04 17:41:13
The Maldives have sealed off the country's parliament and arrested two opposition lawmakers amid a deepening crisis over President Abdulla Yameen's refusal to release jailed politicians. Top court of...
-- 2018-02-04 17:34:48
Singapore, the wealthy island-state, has a near-perfect record of keeping its shores free from terror. But it prepares to host defence ministers from around Southeast Asia this week, it appears to ha...
-- 2018-02-04 15:13:44
An oil tanker with 22 Indian sailors on board is reported missing off the coast of Benin, a West African country for last three days. It is suspected that the MT Marine Express carrying 13,500 tonne...
-- 2018-02-04 14:17:18
The joint North and South Korean ice hockey team is set to play its first match on Sunday, ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea. The match is an international friendly against Sweden, who...
-- 2018-02-04 13:03:08
The Supreme Court in the Maldives is trying to impeach President Abdulla Yameen, who has not obeyed its order to release opposition leaders arrested after unfair trials, the island nation’s atto...
-- 2018-02-04 12:56:46
The Afghan forces during military operation in the northern Faryab province, have killed at least five militants including their local commander on Saturday, a local official said. "Security and defe...
-- 2018-02-04 12:03:39
A crane used for construction of light rapid transport infrastructure has collapsed in Indonesia's capital on early Sunday, killing four workers, said an official. "The crane collapsed in East Jakart...
-- 2018-02-04 10:00:48
At least 11 soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in a suicide attack near an army base in northern Pakistan, officials said, in a region that was once controlled by a local faction of the Taliban. Att...
-- 2018-02-04 09:59:21
Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane on Saturday and killed its pilot on the ground after he ejected from the plane, Russia’s defense ministry and Syrian rebels said. The SU-25 came down...
-- 2018-02-04 00:00:00
Four people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in the country. According to Xinhua News Agency, the blast Saturday at the Jinshan Chemical Plant Co., in Linshu County in Shandong provinc...
-- 2018-02-03 16:26:39
Jordan will cut diplomatic ties with North Korea, the Official Gazette says. A royal decree was issued on Friday approving a decision by the cabinet to sever all diplomatic relations with North Korea...
-- 2018-02-03 15:22:51
The Ministry of Construction (MoC) of Myanmar will build the first elevated express road in the country’s Yangon in December, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday. Under...
-- 2018-02-03 15:21:20
A former Hawaii state worker who sent a false missile alert last month said on Friday he’s devastated about causing panic but was “100 per cent sure” at the time that the attack was...
-- 2018-02-03 14:37:03
One person has been killed and 161 houses have been wrecked after whirlwind struck Central Java province of western Indonesia, said a government official on Saturday. The natural disaster took place...
-- 2018-02-03 13:57:52
The Afghan government forces attacked Taliban positions in the northern Faryab province over the past 24 hours, killing a total of 25 militants, a police spokesman said Saturday. Four Taliban group c...
-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00
Myanmar's government has denied a report by The Associated Press documenting at least five mass graves containing Rohingya Muslim civilians killed by the military. It said that only "terrorists" were...
-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00
Pakistani provincial minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, who was found dead in his house along with his wife, first killed her and then committed suicide with the same weapon, police said on Friday. Bi...
-- 2018-02-03 00:00:00
The president of the Maldives fired a national police chief on Saturday for the second time in three days, as political unrest continued to grow in the Indian ocean archipelago after the Supreme Court...
-- 2018-02-02 11:47:09
A minivan plowed into pedestrians on a sidewalk in downtown Shanghai on Friday, sending 18 people to hospitals. Three people suffered serious injuries when the van veered onto a sidewalk and burst in...
-- 2018-02-02 10:48:08
Hundreds of tourists in New Zealand were left stranded on Friday after a strong storm damaged roads, uprooted trees and felled power lines. Former Tropical Cyclone Fehi this week has brought heavy ra...
-- 2018-02-02 09:48:13
A hospital built under 20m (60 feet) of rock in a rebel-held part of central Syria has been wrecked by a powerful air strike, medical sources say. They say the hospital in Hama province - regarded as...
-- 2018-02-02 00:00:00
Myanmar told the United Nations Security Council not to visit during February this year because it was "not the right time," Kuwait's UN Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al-Otaibi said on Thursday, adding tha...
-- 2018-02-01 15:24:47
A Cambodian court on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, following his arrest last year on charges of seeking to overthrow the government. Kem Sokha, head of th...
-- 2018-02-01 13:34:25
Thailand banned smoking and littering at 24 beachside locations that are popular with tourists over environmental concerns on Thursday, the ministry of natural resources and environment said. The Sou...
-- 2018-02-01 13:00:42
Turkey’s armed forces on Thursday said 49 Kurdish rebels were killed after Turkish warplanes struck 19 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq on Monday. Two airstrikes were carr...
-- 2018-02-01 10:19:34
Eleven people have been killed after a fierce fire gutted a low-rent residence in northern Japan that mainly housed elderly people on welfare, police said on Thursday Five people have been rescued....
-- 2018-02-01 00:00:00
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets. Noor Kadir finally recognized his friends only by the colors of their shorts. Kadir and 14 othe...
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