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57 more die in Pakistan flood including 25 children

57 more die in Pakistan flood including 25 children

-- 2022-09-03 19:01:11

The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of nearly unprecedented...

How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war

How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war

REUTERS 2022-09-03 15:11:02

When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who proved once again h...

Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home

Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-03 08:54:34

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home in the early hours of Saturday after fleeing the country in July, a senior security official said. Rajapaksa resigned after protesters an...

Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark

Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark

-- 2022-09-02 21:31:41

Planes carrying fresh supplies are surging across a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll surged past 1,200, officials said Friday, with families and children at special...

Pro-Taliban cleric among 18 dead in Afghanistan mosque blast

Pro-Taliban cleric among 18 dead in Afghanistan mosque blast

-- 2022-09-02 18:50:04

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric in what authorities said was an attack. "18 have b...

Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for a year

Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for a year

-- 2022-09-02 17:04:57

Courts in military-ruled Myanmar have sentenced a former British ambassador to the country and her Burmese spouse to a year in prison for violating immigration laws, two sources and a news portal said...

Pakistan's armed forces rescue 2,000 marooned by catastrophic floods

Pakistan's armed forces rescue 2,000 marooned by catastrophic floods

-- 2022-09-02 16:37:30

Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the South Asia...

Blast at Afghan mosque kills cleric, civilians

Blast at Afghan mosque kills cleric, civilians

-- 2022-09-02 16:33:09

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in Western Afghanistan on Friday killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians, police said. "Mujib Rahman Ansari, with some of his guard...

Modi commissions India’s first home-made aircraft carrier

Modi commissions India’s first home-made aircraft carrier

-- 2022-09-02 16:10:17

India has scripted history by becoming the first country in South Asia to induct into its Navy a domestically built aircraft carrier. The 45,000-tonne Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant, capable of acco...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets more jail, hard labour for election fraud

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets more jail, hard labour for election fraud

-- 2022-09-02 14:10:39

Myanmar's deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced by a judge to three years in jail with hard labour, according to a source familiar with the...

India commissions its first homemade aircraft carrier

India commissions its first homemade aircraft carrier

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-02 13:04:54

India on Friday scripted history by becoming the first country in South Asia to induct into its Navy a domestically built aircraft carrier. The 45,000-tonne Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant, capable o...

China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN

China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN

REUTERS 2022-09-01 09:28:29

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in...

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique

-- 2022-08-31 22:54:53

Officials from the Group of 20 major economies meeting on Wednesday for climate talks in Bali have been unable to agree a joint communique, amid objections over language used on climate targets and th...

Taliban mark first anniversary of US-led force withdrawal

Taliban mark first anniversary of US-led force withdrawal

-- 2022-08-31 19:29:48

The Taliban have celebrated the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led forces from Afghanistan with a military parade showcasing equipment left behind by foreign troops and calls for their gove...

Pakistan urged to open up India route to flood aid

Pakistan urged to open up India route to flood aid

-- 2022-08-31 18:03:38

International aid agencies struggling to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by deadly floods in Pakistan have asked for the easing of curbs on imports of food from Pakistan’s old riv...

Japan plans longer-range missiles to counter China, Russia

Japan plans longer-range missiles to counter China, Russia

-- 2022-08-31 16:00:40

Japan says it will develop and mass-produce a cruise missile and a high-velocity ballistic missile, as part of a military expansion aimed at dealing with threats from China and Russia. The procuremen...

Saudi woman gets 45-year prison term 'for social media posts'

Saudi woman gets 45-year prison term 'for social media posts'

-- 2022-08-31 11:40:11

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for social media posts, a rights group said, in the latest example of a crackdown on women activists that followed a visit by US Presi...

Mahathir in hospital after testing positive for Covid

Mahathir in hospital after testing positive for Covid

-- 2022-08-31 11:15:32

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 97, has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been hospitalised for observation, his office said on Wednesday. The nonagenarian, who served for more t...

Taiwan vows to 'counter-attack' if China's forces enter its territory

Taiwan vows to 'counter-attack' if China's forces enter its territory

REUTERS 2022-08-31 11:08:26

Taiwan said on Wednesday it would exercise its right to self-defence and "counter-attack" if Chinese armed forces entered its territory, as Beijing increased military activities near the democra...

Cataclysmic floods in Pakistan kill 1,100, including 380 children

Cataclysmic floods in Pakistan kill 1,100, including 380 children

REUTERS 2022-08-31 09:11:12

Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid on Tuesday for what it described as an...

Pakistan to consider vegetable imports from archrival India

Pakistan to consider vegetable imports from archrival India

-- 2022-08-30 21:22:59

Pakistan will consider importing vegetables from arch-rival India to mitigate floods fallout, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday, as food prices have risen significantly. "We can consider...

Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone

Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone

-- 2022-08-30 20:43:48

Taiwan's military on Tuesday fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an islet controlled by Taiwan near the Chinese coast, a military spokesperson said. The drone headed back to China aft...

China's Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress from October 16

China's Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress from October 16

-- 2022-08-30 19:42:50

China's ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on Oct 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure a historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country's most powe...

Iraq's cleric Moqtada al-Sadr orders his followers to end their protests

Iraq's cleric Moqtada al-Sadr orders his followers to end their protests

-- 2022-08-30 19:35:12

Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad on Tuesday, easing a confrontation that led to the deadliest violence in the Iraqi capital in year...

Russia takes back S-300 air defence missiles from Syria

Russia takes back S-300 air defence missiles from Syria

-- 2022-08-30 17:48:08

Russia has shipped a battery of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to a Russian port near Crimea, according to an Israeli satellite imaging company, in an apparent attempt to bolster its air defe...

UN issues flash appeal for $160 million to help Pakistan with floods

UN issues flash appeal for $160 million to help Pakistan with floods

-- 2022-08-30 17:48:05

The United Nations issued a flash appeal on Tuesday for $160 million to help Pakistan cope with catastrophic floods that have killed more than 1,100 people, destroyed infrastructure and crops, and aff...

Iran closes borders with Iraq over unrest

Iran closes borders with Iraq over unrest

-- 2022-08-30 17:11:19

Iran has closed its borders with Iraq and urged its citizens to avoid travelling there, a senior official said on Tuesday, amid an eruption of violence after powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said...

Pakistan says IMF approved over $1.1b in bailout funds

Pakistan says IMF approved over $1.1b in bailout funds

-- 2022-08-30 16:17:12

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board on Monday approved the seventh and eighth reviews of Pakistan's bailout programme, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said, which will release $1.17 billion in...

Populous Chinese cities including Shenzhen ramp up COVID curbs

Populous Chinese cities including Shenzhen ramp up COVID curbs

REUTERS 2022-08-30 12:49:59

Several big Chinese cities escalated COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday, with Shenzhen closing more businesses and Dalian locking down millions, renewing economic uncertainty and delaying the start of t...

75 killed in rain spells across Pakistan in 24 hours

75 killed in rain spells across Pakistan in 24 hours

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-30 12:38:31

At least 75 people were killed and 59 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Au...