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Red alert for Mumbai as rains lash Indian city

Red alert for Mumbai as rains lash Indian city

-- 2022-07-08 10:13:47

India's weather department has issued a red alert for Mumbai as heavy rains continue to lash the city and its neighbouring districts. The city is expected to receive heavy to very heavy r...

Japan ex-prime minister Abe taken to hospital after apparent shooting

Japan ex-prime minister Abe taken to hospital after apparent shooting

REUTERS 2022-07-08 09:38:14

Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital bleeding after collapsing while delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday. A sound...

Sri Lanka looks to Indian visitors to restore battered tourism sector

Sri Lanka looks to Indian visitors to restore battered tourism sector

-- 2022-07-06 17:11:10

Sri Lanka will hold road shows in five key Indian cities to attract more visitors from its populous northern neighbour in a bid to bring more foreign currency into the crisis-hit island, its tourism m...

Young Indian job seekers fume over shortened military contracts

Young Indian job seekers fume over shortened military contracts

REUTERS 2022-07-06 13:39:04

Prem Prakash has been trying for five years to get a job in India's armed forces, which used to provide employment for 17 years to the lucky few who passed the exams and physical tests. But since the...

Ajmer Sharif cleric held over 'incendiary remarks' against Nupur Sharma

Ajmer Sharif cleric held over 'incendiary remarks' against Nupur Sharma

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-06 12:16:33

A cleric of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah in India's Rajasthan has been arrested for allegedly making a provocative statement against suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose remarks on Prophet Mohamm...

Foot and mouth disease casts shadow over Eid festival in Indonesia

Foot and mouth disease casts shadow over Eid festival in Indonesia

-- 2022-07-06 11:31:42

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Indonesia threatens to disrupt a ritual of slaughtering animals to mark the festival of Eid al-Adha this year, with livestock traders in the world's largest Mu...

COVID and bust: China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls

COVID and bust: China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls

-- 2022-07-06 11:11:52

On March 24, a court in the central Chinese city of Fuyang announced that a $1.5 billion hospital built just four years earlier had filed for bankruptcy because it was unable to pay its debts, Reuters...

Twitter challenges India order to take down tweets

Twitter challenges India order to take down tweets

BBC 2022-07-06 10:45:06

Twitter has mounted a legal challenge in India against government orders to take down content. The social media giant has filed a petition with the high court in Karnataka state resisting "se...

China sees record rains, heat as weather turns volatile

China sees record rains, heat as weather turns volatile

-- 2022-07-05 17:29:09

From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June. Extreme heat is also battering Japan,...

Saudi Arabia, UAE boost spending to shield citizens from inflation

Saudi Arabia, UAE boost spending to shield citizens from inflation

-- 2022-07-05 16:33:10

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are boosting state spending on social welfare by billions of dollars as they seek to shield their citizens from rising living costs. The UAE is doubling the...

Indonesia school helps students recite Koran in sign language

Indonesia school helps students recite Koran in sign language

-- 2022-07-05 16:28:38

Concerned about how Indonesian students with hearing impairments often miss out on religious education, cleric Abdul Kahfi founded an Islamic boarding school to help them study and recite scripture fr...

Majority of IndiGo flights delayed as crew members go for job interviews

Majority of IndiGo flights delayed as crew members go for job interviews

-- 2022-07-05 16:03:08

Over half of the flights operated by India's biggest airline, IndiGo, were delayed on Saturday after a large number of cabin crew members did not report for duty, reports bdnews24.com citing Indian ne...

Makkah greets Muslim pilgrims for first post-pandemic Hajj

Makkah greets Muslim pilgrims for first post-pandemic Hajj

-- 2022-07-05 13:34:31

Wrapped in white robes, with some carrying umbrellas against the burning desert sun, Muslim pilgrims began perfoming Hajj in droves after two years of major disruption caused by the COVID pandemic, Re...

Road accident kills 16, including schoolchildren, in India

Road accident kills 16, including schoolchildren, in India

-- 2022-07-04 16:34:11

Sixteen passengers, including schoolchildren, were killed after a bus fell into a gorge in India's Himachal Pradesh. The bus was heading to Sainj when it plunged into the gorge near Kullu's Jangla vi...

Tens of thousands Sydney residents told to evacuate as rains flood suburbs

Tens of thousands Sydney residents told to evacuate as rains flood suburbs

-- 2022-07-04 11:53:43

Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs, with officials warning of more wild weather to come. An intense...

Sri Lanka struggles to raise $587m to pay for fuel shipments

Sri Lanka struggles to raise $587m to pay for fuel shipments

-- 2022-07-03 20:01:42

Sri Lanka is struggling to raise $587 million to pay for about half a dozen fuel shipments, a top minister said on Sunday as the cash-strapped country tries to cope with its worst financial crisis in...

Australia part of Asia, says Australian Foreign Minister

Australia part of Asia, says Australian Foreign Minister

-- 2022-07-03 17:44:28

Visiting the Malaysian city where she was born, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her story showed that Australia was part of Asia, as new data showed more than half of Australians were born...

Japan's KDDI says 70pc of services restored after wide network troubles

Japan's KDDI says 70pc of services restored after wide network troubles

-- 2022-07-03 11:02:33

Japanese mobile carrier KDDI Corp said on Sunday that about 70 per cent of services have been recovered and the company is working hard to restore the rest after nationwide network troubles made calls...

North Korea says US-South Korea-Japan agreement materialises US plan for 'Asian NATO'

North Korea says US-South Korea-Japan agreement materialises US plan for 'Asian NATO'

REUTERS 2022-07-03 10:40:52

North Korea criticised the United States, South Korea and Japan's recent agreement on strengthening military cooperation to be a means to materialise a US plan for a military alliance like NATO in the...

Taliban's large gathering ends with calls for international recognition

Taliban's large gathering ends with calls for international recognition

-- 2022-07-02 22:22:55

A Taliban-run gathering of thousands of male religious and ethnic leaders ended on Saturday by asking foreign governments to formally recognise their administration, but made no signals of changes on...

Indian police arrest 'masterminds' behind execution of Hindu tailor, officials say

Indian police arrest 'masterminds' behind execution of Hindu tailor, officials say

-- 2022-07-02 14:40:49

Indian police made fresh arrests in the case of the execution of a Hindu tailor in Rajasthan, a murder that stoked unease between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority, leading to a clampdown on prot...

Muslim pilgrims flock to Makkah for first post-pandemic Hajj

Muslim pilgrims flock to Makkah for first post-pandemic Hajj

-- 2022-07-02 11:43:56

Thousands of pilgrims started arriving in the holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia on Friday, among some one million Muslims expected to attend the 2022 Hajj pilgrimage season after two years of majo...

Modi, Putin discuss energy, food markets

Modi, Putin discuss energy, food markets

-- 2022-07-02 09:56:29

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Friday and discussed the state of global energy and food markets, Modi's office said in a statement, as I...

Magnitude 6.1 quake kills five in Iran

Magnitude 6.1 quake kills five in Iran

-- 2022-07-02 09:40:16

At least five people were killed by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in southern Iran early on Saturday, state media reported, with the area also hit by two later strong quakes of up to 6.3 magnitude, repor...

India bans single-use plastic

India bans single-use plastic

-- 2022-07-01 20:33:02

India on Friday imposed a ban on single-use plastics on items ranging from straws to cigarette packets to combat worsening pollution in country whose streets are strewn with waste. Announcing the ban...

Thailand scrambles fighter planes after Myanmar jet ‘violates’ airspace

Thailand scrambles fighter planes after Myanmar jet ‘violates’ airspace

-- 2022-07-01 16:05:48

Thailand scrambled fighter jets near its border with Myanmar on Thursday and ordered its defence attache to issue a warning to the military government, its air force said, over what it called an airsp...

China urges US to fulfill climate duties after Supreme Court ruling

China urges US to fulfill climate duties after Supreme Court ruling

REUTERS 2022-07-01 15:59:14

The United States must meet its international obligations on climate change and do more than "shout slogans", China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday following a U.S. Supreme Cou...

Japan govt asks citizens to cut power use

Japan govt asks citizens to cut power use

-- 2022-07-01 15:40:48

The highest temperatures for the season since record-keeping began have scorched much of eastern Japan for a week, prompting the government to ask citizens to cut power use as much as possible, while...

India court says Prophet row 'set country on fire'

India court says Prophet row 'set country on fire'

-- 2022-07-01 13:44:51

India's top court has rebuked a former spokesperson of the ruling party for her controversial remarks on the Prophet Muhammad. The court told Nupur Sharma that "her loose tongue has set t...

North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for COVID outbreak

North Korea blames 'alien things' near border with South for COVID outbreak

REUTERS 2022-07-01 10:59:28

North Korea claimed on Friday that the country's first COVID-19 outbreak began with patients touching "alien things" near the border with South Korea, apparently shifting blame to the neighbour for th...