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Twin suicide blast rocks Baghdad, killing 25

Twin suicide blast rocks Baghdad, killing 25

-- 2018-01-15 12:00:00

At least 25 people were killed and 63 wounded in a twin suicide bombing in central Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi health ministry said on its Facebook page. The attack targeted Aviation Square, a comme...

Philippines volcano fears grow for possible eruption

Philippines volcano fears grow for possible eruption

-- 2018-01-15 11:47:40

The Philippines’ chief volcanologist warned on Monday of a possible hazardous eruption at Mount Mayon “within weeks or even within days”, as magma continued to pile up at the summit...

Sri Lanka legally bars women from buying alcohol

Sri Lanka legally bars women from buying alcohol

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 11:02:37

Sri Lanka has legally barred women from buying alcohol, a right preserved only to men. A move to grant women to buy alcohol legally has been overruled by President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday. He...

China highway crash claims eight lives

China highway crash claims eight lives

-- 2018-01-15 11:01:39

Eight people were killed and another six wounded in a highway collision in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Monday. The accident happened on Sunday when a coach rear-ended a tru...

Koreas begin talks on Olympic art troupe

Koreas begin talks on Olympic art troupe

BBC 2018-01-15 10:30:15

North and South Korea have begun talks on Pyongyang's plan to send an art troupe to the Winter Olympics taking place next month in the South. North Korea agreed last week to send a delegation to the...

Myanmar sets up make-shift camps for 30,000 Rohingyas

Myanmar sets up make-shift camps for 30,000 Rohingyas

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 07:05:29

Myanmar is building a camp to temporarily house 30,000 Rohingya Muslims targeted for repatriation after fleeing violence in Rakhine State. State media of Myanmar reported on Monday as part of Myanmar...

India, Israel inks defence deal among others

India, Israel inks defence deal among others

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:50:21

India and Israel have hailed the "dawn of a new era" in their relations after signing key deals in defence, agriculture and aviation sectors. The deals were announced after Israeli Prime Minister Ben...

Tripura police arrests six Rohingya children

Tripura police arrests six Rohingya children

FE Online Desk 2018-01-15 06:40:53

Tripura police arrested six Rohingya refugees, all of them minors, , suspecting that they had crossed the border with Bangladesh to enter India. North Tripura district police held them from Dharmana...

Kashmir gunfight leaves five ‘militants’ dead

Kashmir gunfight leaves five ‘militants’ dead

-- 2018-01-15 03:14:07

At least five suspected militants have been killed in a gunfight with government troops Monday after they crossed into the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the disputed ter...

Saudis start screening films as ban goes

Saudis start screening films as ban goes

-- 2018-01-15 02:33:00

Saudi Arabia began screening feature-length animated children’s films this weekend in a makeshift theatre, after a 35-year-old ban on cinemas was lifted in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The...

Indonesia stock exchange ceiling collapses, dozens wounded

Indonesia stock exchange ceiling collapses, dozens wounded

-- 2018-01-15 02:03:20

A mezzanine ceiling collapsed at the Jakarta stock exchange building (IDX), with reports that at least a dozen people have been injured. Images on social media show pieces of ceiling and broken furni...

US ultimatum on nuclear deal draws Iran threat

US ultimatum on nuclear deal draws Iran threat

Reuters 2018-01-14 11:45:54

Iran said on Saturday it would retaliate against new sanctions imposed by the United States after President Donald Trump set an ultimatum to fix “disastrous flaws” in a deal curbing Tehran...

Volcano spews ash in Philippines, alert level raised

Volcano spews ash in Philippines, alert level raised

-- 2018-01-14 11:43:26

The Philippines raised the alert at its restive Mayon volcano by one notch early on Sunday, citing signs of rising magma that could lead to hazardous eruptions. Residents were evacuated from two vill...

Iraqi PM Abadi to seek re-election in May vote

Iraqi PM Abadi to seek re-election in May vote

Reuters 2018-01-14 11:23:35

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Sunday his candidacy for the May 12 parliamentary elections to choose a prime minister. Abadi, a Shi‘ite Muslim who led the country in the four...

India to raise 15 battalions to fortify borders

India to raise 15 battalions to fortify borders

FE Online Desk 2018-01-14 07:00:56

India is planning to raise 15 new battalions to strengthen its defence along its borders, said a senior Union home ministry official. The battalion will be placed along its frontier with Bangladesh,...

Afghan forces kill four insurgents

Afghan forces kill four insurgents

-- 2018-01-14 03:36:14

Four Taliban insurgents were killed and one other arrested in an operation in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand overnight, said the command of Special Forces on Sunday. "The operation began...

Netanyahu to visit India for strengthening ties

Netanyahu to visit India for strengthening ties

-- 2018-01-14 01:54:49

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed on Saturday night for a six-day visit to India to boost trade and solve out differences over a New Delhi decision to cancel a defence deal. A statem...

PNG volcano explodes, prompting mass evacuations

PNG volcano explodes, prompting mass evacuations

-- 2018-01-14 01:38:41

About 1,500 people are being evacuated from an island off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG) after a nearby volcano erupted, the local Red Cross said on Sunday. A volcano on the island of K...

SKorea and NKorea to hold working-level talks Jan 15

SKorea and NKorea to hold working-level talks Jan 15

-- 2018-01-14 01:33:19

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to hold working-level talks at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom on Jan 15. South Korea’s unification minist...

Pakistan’s Imran Khan talks US relations as elections loom

Pakistan’s Imran Khan talks US relations as elections loom

-- 2018-01-14 01:08:24

Famous cricketer turned politician Imran Khan said Saturday that meeting US President Donald Trump would be a “bitter pill” to swallow should he become Pakistan’s prime minister in e...

Southern India bus plunge takes eight lives

Southern India bus plunge takes eight lives

-- 2018-01-13 12:54:37

At least eight people, including two women have been killed and more than 10 others wounded after a passenger bus fell off a bridge into a pond in the southern Indian state of Karnataka Saturday, poli...

Rajasthan house fire claims five lives

Rajasthan house fire claims five lives

-- 2018-01-13 12:30:41

At least five members of a family have been killed on Saturday after a devastating fire broke out at a house in India's western state of Rajasthan, police said. A police official said, "A massive fir...

Army admission on killings a positive step: Suu Kyi

Army admission on killings a positive step: Suu Kyi

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi said army admission on Rohingya kiilings was a “positive” step . Suu Kyi also said the country’s military was taking responsibility...

Boat capsizes with 40 school children aboard in India

Boat capsizes with 40 school children aboard in India

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

A boat with 40 school children on board capsized near Dahanu in Maharashtra on Saturday morning. Local media reports say, 32 children have been rescued, while operations are underway to locate the mi...

China to create ‘Simulated Earth’

China to create ‘Simulated Earth’

-- 2018-01-13 12:00:00

China will build an earth system simulating device to strengthen fundamental research. The project, to be built in Beijing's northern suburbs of Huairou and Miyun, is a major national scientific infr...

Two bodies recovered from Iranian oil tanker in China

Two bodies recovered from Iranian oil tanker in China

-- 2018-01-13 11:19:08

Chinese state media say rescuers have recovered the bodies of two crew members of an Iranian oil tanker that's been burning after it collided with a freighter last week in the East China Sea. State b...

Iran vows 'severe' retaliation over US sanctions

Iran vows 'severe' retaliation over US sanctions

-- 2018-01-13 08:47:59

Iran slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to target the head of its judiciary with sanctions, saying the move warrants a "severe" response. The country said the US has "crossed a red line" by...

Koreas to hold working-level talks on January 15

Koreas to hold working-level talks on January 15

-- 2018-01-13 07:05:43

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to have working-level talks on January 15 at the Tongil Pavilion on the North Korean side of the truce village of Panmunjom. South Korea's Yonhap news agency c...

Qatar claims second UAE jet made unauthorised entry

Qatar claims second UAE jet made unauthorised entry

-- 2018-01-13 06:12:05

Qatar said on Saturday a second United Arab Emirates military jet had violated its airspace, prompting a new complaint to the United Nations. The plane was travelling from the UAE to Bahrain on Janua...

Four die after chopper crashes in India

Four die after chopper crashes in India

-- 2018-01-13 04:19:26

At least four people were killed as Indian helicopter, with five employees of a state-owned oil company and two pilots on board, crashed off the coast of Dahanu near Mumbai on Saturday. The helicopte...