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Syrian forces retake all towns lost to Turkey-backed rebels in Idlib

Syrian forces retake all towns lost to Turkey-backed rebels in Idlib

-- 2018-01-13 02:05:15

The Syrian army has retaken all the towns lost a day earlier to the Turkey-backed rebels and other militant groups in the north-western province of Idlib, a monitor group said on Friday. Through the...

India sends its 100th satellite into space to watch borders

India sends its 100th satellite into space to watch borders

Reuters 2018-01-12 12:50:48

India launched its 100th satellite on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to project the country as a global low-cost provider of services in space. A total of 31 small satellites were launc...

Korea talks ease war fears in Washington

Korea talks ease war fears in Washington

-- 2018-01-12 12:29:02

Talks between North and South Korea ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics have eased fears of war over Pyongyang’s development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States for...

Nepal ends India’s monopoly over its internet services

Nepal ends India’s monopoly over its internet services

-- 2018-01-12 08:49:12

Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India’s decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation’s cyber connectivity ne...

Malay police bust Bangladeshi human trafficking syndicate

Malay police bust Bangladeshi human trafficking syndicate

FE Online Report 2018-01-12 07:55:54

Malaysian police have arrested another Bangladeshi human trafficker on Friday morning. The trafficker, identified as “Abang Bangla” (43), was arrested on the day’s early hours along...

Woman driver recruitment begins in Saudi

Woman driver recruitment begins in Saudi

FE Online Desk 2018-01-12 07:40:49

Ride hailing applications in Saudi Arabia are recruiting female drivers, after the Kingdom announced plans to lift the ban on women driving by June 2018. The San Francisco-based transportation networ...

Turkey retaliates against US travel ban

Turkey retaliates against US travel ban

-- 2018-01-12 07:08:32

Turkey has issued travel alert on its citizens planning to travel in the United States after similar warning given by US to Americans. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday in t...

Indian SC judges lash out at chief justice

Indian SC judges lash out at chief justice

-- 2018-01-12 05:56:40

Four Indian top court judges has exposed a rift with country's Chief Justice over administrative issues including distribution of cases to judges and judicial appointments. Justices Kurian Joseph, Ja...

Saudi women to enter stadiums for first time

Saudi women to enter stadiums for first time

-- 2018-01-12 04:22:06

Saudi women will be allowed for the first time to enter a sports stadium to watch a soccer match between two local teams. They will be segregated from the male-only crowd with designated seating in t...

Myanmar army admits to killing Rohingyas

Myanmar army admits to killing Rohingyas

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

Myanmar’s military said its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim “terrorists” during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the capt...

9 Indians die after consuming food at relative's home

9 Indians die after consuming food at relative's home

-- 2018-01-11 12:00:00

At least nine people died allegedly after consuming food at a relative's home in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said onThursday. The incident took place at village Thal Khurd of Ba...

Pakistan blast targeting police truck kills seven

Pakistan blast targeting police truck kills seven

-- 2018-01-10 12:21:40

A bomb went off in the centre of the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of the province of Balochistan, killing seven people and wounding 23 on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said. The blast t...

Rohingya children remain stranded in Myanmar without parents: UN

Rohingya children remain stranded in Myanmar without parents: UN

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

About 100 Rohingya children are stranded in Myanmar without their parents after military operations drove 655,000 people into Bangladesh since August, the United Nations said. Another 60,000 Rohingya...

Iranian oil tanker could burn for a month: Seoul

Iranian oil tanker could burn for a month: Seoul

Reuters 2018-01-10 11:28:05

The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a four...

Two Reuters reporters due in Myanmar court today

Two Reuters reporters due in Myanmar court today

Reuters 2018-01-10 10:51:42

Two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar are due to appear in court today (Wednesday), when prosecutors could request that charges be filed against them over an accusation they broke the country&rs...

Pakistan reporter cut and runs armed abductors

Pakistan reporter cut and runs armed abductors

-- 2018-01-10 04:53:07

A prominent Pakistani journalist has escaped an attempt to abduct him by armed men in the capital Islamabad. Taha Siddiqui says 10-12 unidentified men beat him and threatened to kill him on his way t...

US strips Indian native of citizenship

US strips Indian native of citizenship

FE Online Desk 2018-01-10 04:27:34

The US has revoked the citizenship of an Indian national who reportedly attained it by fraud. In a first of its kind case, India-origin Baljinder Singh alias Davinder Singh, 43, who married a US citi...

N Korea to send team to Olympics

N Korea to send team to Olympics

-- 2018-01-09 12:00:00

North Korea said during rare talks with the South on Tuesday it will send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month. Seoul said it was prepared to lift some sanctions...

Jet Airways fires pilots over 'cockpit fight'

Jet Airways fires pilots over 'cockpit fight'

FE Online Desk 2018-01-09 12:00:00

Private Indian airline, Jet Airways, has fired two pilots who allegedly fought inside the cockpit of a London-Mumbai flight last week. The private Indian airline said in a statement that it had "term...

North and South Korea begin talks

North and South Korea begin talks

-- 2018-01-09 09:36:54

North and South Korea have begun high-level talks on Tuesday, the first between the countries in two years. The meeting, at the Peace House in the truce village of Panmunjom, will focus on North Kore...

India woman commits suicide over ‘friendship with a Muslim man’

India woman commits suicide over ‘friendship with a Muslim man’

FE Online Desk 2018-01-09 06:36:38

A Hindu woman has killed herself after facing harassment over her friendship with a Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She told a friend on WhatsApp that she loved Muslims after be...

Thai PM puts up replica to get around questions

Thai PM puts up replica to get around questions

-- 2018-01-09 04:46:30

Thailand's prime minister has taken a novel approach to avoiding questions at a news conference, by leaving a cardboard cutout to do the job. Prayuth Chan-ocha briefly spoke to an audience outside Go...

Israel reportedly strikes Syria with jets, missiles

Israel reportedly strikes Syria with jets, missiles

-- 2018-01-09 02:18:52

Israel attacked Syrian territory three times early on Tuesday with jets and ground-to-ground missiles, Syria’s army said in a statement carried by state television. The army said Israeli jets f...

Bengaluru bar fire claims five lives

Bengaluru bar fire claims five lives

-- 2018-01-08 12:00:00

At least five people including a woman have been killed after a massive fire broke out at a bar and restaurant in southern Indian city of Bengaluru early Monday, police said. According to officials,...

Deadly explosion kills 23 in Syria

Deadly explosion kills 23 in Syria

-- 2018-01-08 11:39:28

At least 23 people are reportedly dead and many more injured after a large explosion in the rebel-held city of Idlib, in northwestern Syria. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...

BBC China editor quits protesting gender pay gap

BBC China editor quits protesting gender pay gap

-- 2018-01-08 08:35:16

The China editor of British public service broadcaster, BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with her male colleagues. The editor, Carrie Gracie, wrote an open letter on...

India cancels major defence deal with Korea

India cancels major defence deal with Korea

FE Online Desk  2018-01-08 06:42:51

India has cancelled a major deal with South Korea to construct 12 advanced minesweepers at the Goa Shipyard. The country’s government has cancelled the Rs 320 billion project which they were...

India to woo ASEAN with connectivity, maritime projects

India to woo ASEAN with connectivity, maritime projects

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 06:07:06

Indian government is set to persuade the members of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with mega connectivity plans paving the way for a grand roadmap on maritime security and cooperation....

Iran bans English in primary schools

Iran bans English in primary schools

-- 2018-01-08 04:45:05

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools as early learning of this language 'opened the way to a Western cultural invasion'. State-run High Education Council's head Mehdi Navid-Adha...

China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France says

China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France says

Reuters 2018-01-08 03:22:58

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday China and Europe should work together on Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative, a project aiming to build a modern-day “Silk Road...