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Massive fire engulfs a high-rise building in southern Chinese city

Massive fire engulfs a high-rise building in southern Chinese city

-- 2022-09-16 21:45:07

A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of China's southern province of Hunan, on Friday afternoon. Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall (656-fo...

Saudi Arabia discovers new gold, copper ore in Madinah

Saudi Arabia discovers new gold, copper ore in Madinah

-- 2022-09-16 21:40:48

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced the discovery of new sites for gold and copper ore deposits in the Madinah region. According to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Saudi Geological Su...

Children, women suffer from water-borne diseases in Pakistan as floods recede

Children, women suffer from water-borne diseases in Pakistan as floods recede

-- 2022-09-16 16:31:48

Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan, government data showed and UNICEF said on Friday,...

Xi Jinping skips dinner with Putin, allies due to ‘Covid-19 precaution’

Xi Jinping skips dinner with Putin, allies due to ‘Covid-19 precaution’

-- 2022-09-16 16:24:30

Chinese leader Xi Jinping stayed away from a dinner attended by 11 heads of states at a regional security summit in line with his delegation's COVID-19 policy, a source in the Uzbek government said on...

Six arrested in northern India over alleged rape and murder of teens

Six arrested in northern India over alleged rape and murder of teens

-- 2022-09-16 15:56:34

Police in northern India have arrested six people in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two girls from a lower-caste community who were found hanging from a tree, local officials said on T...

Disease spreads in Pakistan as flooding toll surpasses 1,500

Disease spreads in Pakistan as flooding toll surpasses 1,500

-- 2022-09-16 15:19:06

Over 90,000 people were treated for infectious and water-borne diseases in a day in southern Pakistan's flood-hit areas, government data showed on Friday, as the total death toll from the inunda...

Nine dead after wall collapse in northern India

Nine dead after wall collapse in northern India

-- 2022-09-16 12:12:47

At least nine people, including three children, have died after a wall collapsed following heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the state's Deputy Chief Minister said on F...

Sri Lanka's crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink

Sri Lanka's crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink

-- 2022-09-16 11:08:55

Under a blazing sun, a 44-year-old Tamil labourer tended his rented patch of peanut field in Sri Lanka, striking his spade against the earth in a daily struggle to beat inflation that has put many nec...

Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500

Death toll in Pakistan floods nears 1,500

-- 2022-09-15 19:38:50

Unprecedented floods that have submerged huge swathes of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,500 people, data showed on Thursday, as authorities said hundreds of thousands of people were still sleeping in t...

India plans no more funding for Sri Lanka as IMF talks progress

India plans no more funding for Sri Lanka as IMF talks progress

-- 2022-09-15 16:55:17

India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island's battered economy starts to stab...

France respects India keeping Russia ties, foreign minister says

France respects India keeping Russia ties, foreign minister says

-- 2022-09-15 12:55:35

France is aware of and respects India's energy and other relations with Russia, its foreign minister told the India Today news channel on Thursday during a visit to the country, Reuters reports....

Japan logs record Aug trade deficit on weak yen, costly oil

Japan logs record Aug trade deficit on weak yen, costly oil

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-15 10:42:33

Japan posted a record trade deficit in August as costs for imports of oil and gas soared, the government reported Thursday. The 2.82 trillion yen ($19.6 billion) deficit, the 13th in a row, was tripl...

Syria’s bloody conflict at risk of further escalation, says UN report

Syria’s bloody conflict at risk of further escalation, says UN report

-- 2022-09-14 17:55:00

Syria's bloody conflict is at risk of further escalation after several frontlines across the country flared up in recent months, the United Nations warned on Wednesday in a new report. "Syria cannot...

Nearly 100 soldiers killed in clashes on Azerbaijan-Armenia border

Nearly 100 soldiers killed in clashes on Azerbaijan-Armenia border

-- 2022-09-14 15:46:59

Fresh clashes erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia on Wednesday as international efforts intensified to end violence that killed nearly 100 soldiers in the deadliest fighting between the ex-Soviet r...

US considers China sanctions to deter Taiwan action, Taiwan presses EU

US considers China sanctions to deter Taiwan action, Taiwan presses EU

REUTERS 2022-09-14 09:19:28

The United States is considering options for a sanctions package against China to deter it from invading Taiwan, with the European Union coming under diplomatic pressure from Taipei to do the same, ac...

US returns 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel two decades after it was looted

US returns 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel two decades after it was looted

-- 2022-09-13 21:10:34

American authorities have returned a rare, 2,000-year-old Jewish coin to Israel nearly two decades after it was looted, smuggled and put up for auction in the United States, Israel’s antiquitie...

Activist jailed for insulting monarchy by dressing like Thai queen

Activist jailed for insulting monarchy by dressing like Thai queen

-- 2022-09-13 19:30:03

A Thai court sentenced a political activist to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the monarchy, her lawyer said, after the activist was judged to have dressed as Queen Suthida during a street...

Australian man killed by kangaroo he kept as pet, police say

Australian man killed by kangaroo he kept as pet, police say

-- 2022-09-13 18:11:14

An Australian man has died after being attacked by a kangaroo he had been keeping as a pet, police say. A relative found the 77-year-old man with serious injuries on Monday at his home in Redmond, ab...

Deadly clashes erupt on Armenia-Azerbaijan border

Deadly clashes erupt on Armenia-Azerbaijan border

-- 2022-09-13 17:19:39

Clashes erupted between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops early on Tuesday in a resumption of decades-old hostilities linked to the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan, which re-establis...

Saudi women have significantly contributed toward development of KSA

Saudi women have significantly contributed toward development of KSA

-- 2022-09-13 15:42:37

Saudi women have made significant contributions to the Kingdom's economic and social development fields, affirmed Dr Abrar Abdulmannan Bar, head of the knowledge department at the Salam Project for Cu...

China declines to say if Xi will meet Putin and Modi at summit

China declines to say if Xi will meet Putin and Modi at summit

REUTERS 2022-09-13 14:39:01

China's foreign ministry declined to say whether President Xi Jinping will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin or Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation reg...

Fire at e-scooter showroom in India kills eight in deadliest such incident

Fire at e-scooter showroom in India kills eight in deadliest such incident

REUTERS 2022-09-13 12:09:35

A fire that started at an electric scooter showroom in India killed at least eight people and injured 11, police said on Tuesday, in what is the deadliest such incident involving electric vehicles in...

Japan govt to waive tourist visa requirements from some countries

Japan govt to waive tourist visa requirements from some countries

REUTERS 2022-09-12 13:10:56

Japan's government is planning to waive tourist visa requirements from some countries as part of a further easing of border controls enacted to stop the spread of Covid-19, Fuji News Network reported...

‘25pc start-ups in Silicon Valley are managed by people of Indian origin’

‘25pc start-ups in Silicon Valley are managed by people of Indian origin’

-- 2022-09-11 21:10:02

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said higher education in their country has contributed to the best of company executives globally. She mentioned, “Around 25 per cent of al...

Xi Jinping set to make first foreign trip in more than two years to meet Putin

Xi Jinping set to make first foreign trip in more than two years to meet Putin

-- 2022-09-11 20:16:19

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to make a foreign trip for the first time in more than two years to Central Asia where he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin just a month before Xi is poise...

7.6 magnitude earthquake hits Papua New Guinea, at least four dead

7.6 magnitude earthquake hits Papua New Guinea, at least four dead

-- 2022-09-11 19:56:45

An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck eastern Papua New Guinea on Sunday killing at least four people, injuring others and damaging property and essential infrastructure. The quake hit about 67 km ea...

UAE tourism revenue tops $5.0b in H1 of 2022

UAE tourism revenue tops $5.0b in H1 of 2022

-- 2022-09-11 19:40:06

The United Arab Emirates' tourism revenues were 19 billion dirhams ($5.17 billion) in the first half of 2022, its vice president said on Sunday in a tweet. Numbers of hotel guests rose 42 per cent ye...

King Charles proclaimed monarch of Australia, New Zealand

King Charles proclaimed monarch of Australia, New Zealand

-- 2022-09-11 19:35:11

King Charles III was officially proclaimed head of state of both Australia and New Zealand at ceremonies on Sunday in the nations' capitals. In New Zealand, the proclamation of Charles as monarch, ta...

Three Taliban men killed while trying to fly US helicopter

Three Taliban men killed while trying to fly US helicopter

-- 2022-09-11 18:00:22

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a Taliban training exercise in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, killing three, the group's defence ministry said on Saturday. "An American Black Hawk helicopter, wh...

Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan escapes a plane crash

Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan escapes a plane crash

-- 2022-09-11 17:37:55

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan escaped a plane crash on Saturday after the aircraft he was travelling on made an emergency landing due to technical malfunction mid-air, sources said. The ai...