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Landslide kills 14 in eastern India, nearly 50 others feared dead

Landslide kills 14 in eastern India, nearly 50 others feared dead

-- 2022-06-30 22:24:50

At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, officials said on Thursday....

Philippines begins new era of Marcos rule

Philippines begins new era of Marcos rule

-- 2022-06-30 13:27:04

The son and namesake of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was sworn in as president of the Philippines on Thursday, completing a stunning comeback for one of Asia's most famous political dynasties, 36 ye...

Taliban to exclude women at its ‘gathering for unity’

Taliban to exclude women at its ‘gathering for unity’

-- 2022-06-29 18:56:23

A large gathering organised by the Taliban of Afghanistan's religious scholars and tribal elders will address issues of national unity and will be without female participants, the acting deputy prime...

Hindu man killed in India, Muslim man arrested after claiming responsibility

Hindu man killed in India, Muslim man arrested after claiming responsibility

-- 2022-06-28 22:48:09

A Hindu man was killed in his tailoring shop in a northwestern Indian town on Tuesday, and two machete-wielding Muslim men in a video claimed responsibility for it, raising tension in the area. Polic...

Gunmen open fire on vaccination team in Pakistan, kill three

Gunmen open fire on vaccination team in Pakistan, kill three

-- 2022-06-28 22:33:04

Unidentified militants opened fire on a polio vaccination team in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing one of those handing out doses and two policemen, while a child was injured, officials said, but there wa...

Sri Lanka rushes to find fuel as shortages hit schools, workers

Sri Lanka rushes to find fuel as shortages hit schools, workers

-- 2022-06-28 19:44:48

A Sri Lankan government minister was in Qatar on Tuesday and another will travel to Russia at the weekend in search of energy deals to alleviate a severe fuel shortage that is crippling the economy of...

1.5pc of Syria's population killed in war: UN

1.5pc of Syria's population killed in war: UN

-- 2022-06-28 19:12:40

The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 per cent of its pre-war population, in what it said was...

10 killed after residential building collapses in Mumbai

10 killed after residential building collapses in Mumbai

-- 2022-06-28 18:08:16

A four-storey residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai overnight, killing at least 11 people, with more feared trapped under the rubble, officials said on Tuesday. Part o...

Iran applies to join BRICS group

Iran applies to join BRICS group

-- 2022-06-28 17:37:25

Iran, which holds the world's second largest gas reserves, has applied to join the BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that Beijing and Moscow cast as a powerful emerging mark...

Non-essential petrol sales halted for two weeks in Sri Lanka

Non-essential petrol sales halted for two weeks in Sri Lanka

-- 2022-06-28 10:40:55

Sri Lanka has suspended sales of fuel for non-essential vehicles as it faces its worst economic crisis in decades. For the next two weeks only buses, trains, and vehicles used for medical ser...

Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel

Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel

-- 2022-06-27 18:22:30

Troops in Sri Lanka handed tokens on Monday to people queuing for petrol amid a severe fuel shortage in the nation battling its worst economic crisis in seven decades, while schools shut in Colombo an...

Political crisis worsens in India's richest state

Political crisis worsens in India's richest state

-- 2022-06-27 13:50:15

The ongoing political crisis in India's richest state, Maharashtra, is showing no signs of ending soon as rebel lawmakers jostle to take control of the governing party. Around 40 lawmakers fr...

Japan urges 37 million people to switch off lights

Japan urges 37 million people to switch off lights

-- 2022-06-27 11:26:58

Japan's government has urged people in Tokyo and its surrounding area to use less electricity on Monday, as it warned that supplies will be strained as the country faces a heatwave. The Minis...

Bangkok's market fire kills at least 2

Bangkok's market fire kills at least 2

-- 2022-06-26 20:31:46

A huge blaze in Bangkok torched buildings and cars in a market community near the city's Chinatown district on Sunday, killing at least two, with nine others suffering smoke inhalation, reports Reuter...

Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies: minister

Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies: minister

-- 2022-06-26 19:04:19

Sri Lanka is struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, a top government minister said on Sunday, as the crisis-hit country of 22 million people is down to just 15,000 tonnes of petrol and diesel to ke...

Health official warns of disease outbreak among Afghan earthquake survivors

Health official warns of disease outbreak among Afghan earthquake survivors

-- 2022-06-26 17:33:46

Thousands affected by a deadly earthquake in eastern Afghanistan are in need of clean water and food and are at risk of disease, an Afghan health ministry official said on Sunday, days after a UN agen...

Indonesia president to visit Ukraine, Russia on peace-building mission

Indonesia president to visit Ukraine, Russia on peace-building mission

-- 2022-06-26 11:55:07

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Sunday he will urge his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts to open room for dialogue during a peace-building mission to the warring countries and ask Russia's...

Taliban appeal for more aid after deadly earthquake

Taliban appeal for more aid after deadly earthquake

-- 2022-06-25 19:34:25

Vital medical supplies reached hospitals on Saturday in the remote area of Afghanistan hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people this week, as the country's Taliban government appealed f...

China announces $7.5m humanitarian aid for Afghanistan

China announces $7.5m humanitarian aid for Afghanistan

-- 2022-06-25 19:13:39

China will provide humanitarian aid worth 50 million yuan ($7.5 million) to Afghanistan after it was hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people this week, the Chinese foreign ministry sai...

Beijing to reopen schools, Shanghai declares victory over COVID

Beijing to reopen schools, Shanghai declares victory over COVID

-- 2022-06-25 11:24:11

Beijing on Saturday said it would allow primary and secondary schools to resume in-person classes and Shanghai's top party boss declared victory over COVID-19 after the city reported zero new local ca...

China's Xi to visit Hong Kong for 25th anniversary of city's handover

China's Xi to visit Hong Kong for 25th anniversary of city's handover

-- 2022-06-25 10:25:19

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong for the 25th anniversary of the city's handover to mainland China, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday. The trip will be Xi's first known v...

UN findings suggest Al Jazeera journalist Shireen was killed by Israeli forces

UN findings suggest Al Jazeera journalist Shireen was killed by Israeli forces

-- 2022-06-24 19:32:30

Information reviewed by the UN human rights office suggests Israeli security forces fired the shots that killed Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May, not indiscriminate firing from P...

Pakistan levies 'super tax' on industries, companies to trim deficit to clinch IMF deal

Pakistan levies 'super tax' on industries, companies to trim deficit to clinch IMF deal

-- 2022-06-24 17:10:29

Pakistan will impose an extra one-time 10 per cent tax on large scale industry for one year to raise over 400 billion Pakistani rupees ($1.93 billion) to clinch a crucial deal from the International M...

India's Covid cases hit month-high

India's Covid cases hit month-high

-- 2022-06-24 15:51:24

India recorded 17,336 new daily infections of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Friday, the highest single-day rise since Feb 20, according to a Reuters tally. India's richest state of Mah...

Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement in jail

Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement in jail

-- 2022-06-24 12:47:16

Myanmar military authorities have transferred deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a prison in the capital from an undisclosed location where she had been held since she and her government were ousted i...

ASEAN should rethink its approach to Myanmar crisis, UN expert says

ASEAN should rethink its approach to Myanmar crisis, UN expert says

-- 2022-06-23 17:33:31

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN should rethink its approach to engaging with Myanmar and demand specific actions and timeframes to end hostilities in the military-ruled country, a United Nations expert...

Afghanistan appeals for international aid

Afghanistan appeals for international aid

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-23 11:06:35

The Taliban in Afghanistan have appealed for international support, as the country deals with the aftermath of a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake. More than 1,000 people have been killed and at l...

Death toll from Afghan earthquake reaches 1,000

Death toll from Afghan earthquake reaches 1,000

-- 2022-06-22 20:41:33

The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan on Wednesday hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll expected to grow as information trickles in from re...

Sri Lanka plans donor conference to find way out of economic crisis

Sri Lanka plans donor conference to find way out of economic crisis

-- 2022-06-22 17:19:19

Sri Lanka will hold a donor conference with China, India and Japan as it seeks overseas assistance to find a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes...

India's BJP nominates tribal, female politician as presidential candidate

India's BJP nominates tribal, female politician as presidential candidate

-- 2022-06-22 17:09:33

A female Indian politician from a tribal community has been nominated as presidential candidate by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling nationalist party, officials said on Wednesday. Droupadi Murmu...