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Myanmar still unsafe for Rohingya return: UN

Myanmar still unsafe for Rohingya return: UN

-- 2018-01-26 12:00:00

It is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps in Bangladesh to begin returning to Myanmar, a senior United Nations official said on Thursday. While many...

Rape victim’s father claims credit of arresting ‘serial killer’

Rape victim’s father claims credit of arresting ‘serial killer’

FE Online Desk 2018-01-26 12:00:00

The father of eight-year-old Zainab who was murdered after rape in Pakistan has claimed that actually he and his relatives had nabbed the suspected serial killer and handed him over to police. Muhamm...

China plans for 'Polar Silk Road' across Arctic

China plans for 'Polar Silk Road' across Arctic

-- 2018-01-26 09:31:37

China on Friday outlined its ambitions to extend President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative to the Arctic by developing shipping lanes opened up by global warming. Releasing its...

Philippines prepares for three-month-long volcano emergency

Philippines prepares for three-month-long volcano emergency

-- 2018-01-26 08:49:55

The Philippines is bracing for a possible three-month-long emergency in areas around an erupting volcano. The volcano has already displaced more than 81,000 and led to overcrowded temporary shelters,...

How Suu Kyi sees Rohingya crisis

How Suu Kyi sees Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-01-26 04:20:38

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has overseen what is said to be the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh. Risking death by sea or on...

Myanmar’s international Rohingya panel a whitewash!

Myanmar’s international Rohingya panel a whitewash!

FE Online Desk 2018-01-25 12:00:00

A US diplomat has resigned from an international panel on Rohingya crisis terming it as "whitewash" and accused Aung San Suu Kyi of lacking "moral leadership". Veteran diplomat Bill Richardson on Th...

Myanmar to face EU pressure over Rohingya crisis

Myanmar to face EU pressure over Rohingya crisis

-- 2018-01-25 12:00:00

The European Union may impose more authentic pressure on Myanmar in February to enable it to create an environment for the sustainable return of Rohingyas from Bangladesh. "I'm sure there'll be new (...

China raises snowstorm alert level

China raises snowstorm alert level

-- 2018-01-25 01:35:20

China's national observatory upgraded its snowstorm warning to the second highest level Thursday, as heavy snow continues to hit areas in central and eastern China. The National Meteorological Cente...

Blast hits Afghan Save the Children office

Blast hits Afghan Save the Children office

-- 2018-01-24 12:00:00

A blast has gone off outside the office of the Save the Children aid agency in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, a provincial government spokesman said. “There was a blast and...

US-led coalition strikes kill 150 IS militants in Syria

US-led coalition strikes kill 150 IS militants in Syria

-- 2018-01-24 06:34:41

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State said it killed nearly 150 militants in strikes on Saturday in the Syrian middle Euphrates River Valley. The latest strikes come as the United States urged...

‘US drone’ attack in Pakistan kills two militants

‘US drone’ attack in Pakistan kills two militants

-- 2018-01-24 01:29:38

Two militants from the Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network have been killed in a suspected US drone attack on a house in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, said two Pakistani security officials. T...

Myanmar agrees ceasefire deal with two rebel groups

Myanmar agrees ceasefire deal with two rebel groups

-- 2018-01-24 01:07:23

Two armed ethnic groups in Myanmar have agreed to sign a ceasefire with the government, state media reported on Wednesday, as leader Aung San Suu Kyi seeks to revive a stuttering peace process to end...

Strong quake jolts Indonesia

Strong quake jolts Indonesia

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Tuesday, said Dedi Sugianto, an official of meteorology and geophysics agency. Previously the quake was measured at 6.4 o...

Zimbabwe family ends three-month stay at Bangkok airport

Zimbabwe family ends three-month stay at Bangkok airport

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

Retrospectively one might complain about being forced to sleep in an airport after a delay.   But consolation would ensue when he or she spares a thought for one Zimbabwean family who have...

China building fire claims four lives

China building fire claims four lives

-- 2018-01-23 11:37:21

Four people have been killed and 13 others injured after a fierce fire broke out at a rural apartment building in northwest China's Shaanxi Province on early Tuesday. Firefighters said the fire broke...

Volcano erupts in Japan, several wounded

Volcano erupts in Japan, several wounded

-- 2018-01-23 10:54:12

Rocks spat out by an erupting volcano rained down on skiers at a mountain resort in central Japan on Tuesday. One skier was missing following an avalanche that occurred shortly after the volcano expl...

Philippine volcano forces 56,000 people to flee

Philippine volcano forces 56,000 people to flee

FE Online Desk 2018-01-23 06:22:46

A huge column of ash shoots up to the sky during the eruption of Mayon volcano has seen around 340 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano erupte...

Sydney train hits buffer leaving 16 wounded

Sydney train hits buffer leaving 16 wounded

-- 2018-01-22 12:00:00

Sixteen people have been injured after a train hit a railway buffer on the outskirts of Australia’s Sydney, said police.   The accident happened at the end of a railway line in Richmond, i...

Thai market bomb blast takes three lives

Thai market bomb blast takes three lives

-- 2018-01-22 10:37:19

Three people have been killed and 18 others wounded after a motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, said a spokesman for the Internal Security Operat...

Vietnam jails ex-politburo official in graft case

Vietnam jails ex-politburo official in graft case

-- 2018-01-22 02:39:26

A court in Vietnam on Monday sentenced a former politburo official to 13 years in prison and another high-profile energy official to life imprisonment for embezzlement and violating state rules, in a...

Kabul hotel siege: Overnight battle kills over 30

Kabul hotel siege: Overnight battle kills over 30

-- 2018-01-22 01:31:05

Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although...

India, Japan to introduce robotics in defence

India, Japan to introduce robotics in defence

-- 2018-01-22 01:22:20

India and Japan will work together to introduce artificial intelligence and robotics in the defence sector, the next level of strategic cooperation between the two Asian partners. Kentaro Sonoura, Ja...

Govt troops clash with rebels in Philippines, five dead

Govt troops clash with rebels in Philippines, five dead

-- 2018-01-22 01:09:39

Five people have been killed after violent clashes erupted between the government troops and leftist rebels in the southern Philippines on early Monday, a military official said. The dead included fo...

17 die in Delhi firework factory blaze

17 die in Delhi firework factory blaze

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

A massive fire broke out at a firecracker factory on the northern outskirts of the Indian capital on Saturday, killing at least 17 workers, a fire official said. A dozen fire engines took three hours...

Several dead in Kabul hotel attack

Several dead in Kabul hotel attack

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Gunmen attacked Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday, seizing hostages and exchanging gunfire with security forces as the building in the Afghan capital caught fire and residents and staff...

Indian student shoots school principal dead

Indian student shoots school principal dead

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

A class 12 student reportedly shot dead his school’s principal inside her office with his father’s revolver in Indian state Haryana’s Yamunanagar on Saturday, days after he was warne...

Police arrest  Asia's biggest illegal wildlife trader

Police arrest Asia's biggest illegal wildlife trader

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Thai police have arrested a man alleged to be the head of Asia's biggest illegal wildlife trading networks. Boonchai Bach, a 40-year-old Thai of Vietnamese origin, was detained in a town on the borde...

New Zealand endangered-sea-life footage sparks debate

New Zealand endangered-sea-life footage sparks debate

-- 2018-01-21 04:32:31

New Zealand's fishing industry has found itself at odds with conservationists over whether or not the public should be allowed to see the realities of commercial fishing. In the waters around New Zea...

Philippines bans deployment of workers to Kuwait

Philippines bans deployment of workers to Kuwait

-- 2018-01-20 12:17:03

The Philippines has suspended sending workers to Kuwait, while it investigates the deaths of several Filipinos there. The ban comes a day after President Rodrigo Duterte claimed abusive employers in...

Bus accident kills seven in eastern India

Bus accident kills seven in eastern India

-- 2018-01-20 12:00:00

At least seven people have been killed and 20 others injured in a road accident in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal Saturday. "The accident occurred when a passenger bus veered off the road an...