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-- 2022-05-11 12:19:15
An Al Jazeera reporter was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Qatar-based news channel said, but the military said she may have been shot by Palestinians as t...
-- 2022-05-11 11:05:19
Shanghai officials said on Wednesday half the city had achieved "zero COVID" status, but uncompromising restrictions had to remain in place under a national policy which the head of the World Health...
-- 2022-05-10 23:00:05
Protesters and a key trade group in Sri Lanka called for a new government to take control of the crisis-hit country on Tuesday as the president called for calm a day after clashes killed eight people,...
-- 2022-05-10 18:54:07
Foreign food-delivery workers in the United Arab Emirates staged a mass walk out on Monday, calling for better pay and working conditions in a rare instance of industrial action in the country. The st...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-10 18:22:57
A group of youth in Sri Lanka has blocked the entrance of their main international airport to prevent members of parliament (MPs) from leaving the country. A Daily Mirror report said youths from the...
-- 2022-05-10 17:01:40
Sri Lanka gave emergency powers on Tuesday to its military and police to detain people without warrants, after a day of clashes that killed seven people and injured more than 200, in violence that pro...
REUTERS 2022-05-10 14:19:31
A Kuwaiti Emiri decree accepted the resignation of the government on Tuesday, more than a month after it was submitted, state news agency KUNA reported. The decree asked the government to stay...
-- 2022-05-10 09:05:23
Ferdinand Marcos Jr clinched a stunning runaway victory in the Philippines' presidential election on Monday in the first win by a majority since a 1986 revolution that toppled his late father's two-de...
-- 2022-05-09 22:15:14
US President Joe Biden's visit to Japan this month is expected to coincide with the formal launch of a new US economic strategy for the Indo-Pacific, even as China seeks "very aggressively" to fill a...
-- 2022-05-09 21:53:12
Anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Monday set on fire the official residences of Sri Lanka’s Moratuwa Mayor Saman Lal Fernando and the members of parliament Sanath Nishantha, Ramesh Path...
-- 2022-05-09 20:55:44
The United Arab Emirates will introduce a form of unemployment insurance, the cabinet said on Monday, the latest reform by the Gulf country as it strives to attract talent and investment amid increasi...
-- 2022-05-09 18:57:30
Supporters of Sri Lanka's ruling party stormed a major protest site in the country's commercial capital Colombo on Monday, attacking anti-government demonstrators and clashing with police who used tea...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-09 17:28:30
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday offered his resignation amid the island nation's worst economic crisis since independence that has led to widespread protests, a Sri Lankan gover...
-- 2022-05-09 10:36:33
Polls opened in the Philippines on Monday in the country's most divisive presidential election in decades, with the prospect of a once-unthinkable return to the rule of the Marcos family, 36 years aft...
-- 2022-05-09 10:22:21
China's armed forces carried out another round of exercises near Taiwan last week to improve joint combat operations, the People's Liberation Army said on Monday, after the Chinese-claimed island repo...
-- 2022-05-08 22:56:01
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz will stay in hospital for some more time to rest on doctors' advice after undergoing a colonoscopy on Sunday afternoon. Saudi Press Agency (SPA) gave the info...
-- 2022-05-08 19:07:33
Sitting in an office lined with books overlooking a giant prayer hall, Mohammed Ashfaq Kazi, the main preacher at the largest mosque in Mumbai, checked a decibel meter attached to the loudspeakers bef...
-- 2022-05-08 18:47:42
The Philippine police and military said on Sunday they were on high alert as last-minute preparations continued for the country's general election, even as the overall situation remained "relatively p...
-- 2022-05-08 16:25:28
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz was admitted to hospital on Saturday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah to undergo medical tests, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday, citing a stat...
-- 2022-05-08 12:30:51
Hong Kong's leader-in-waiting, John Lee, was endorsed for the city's top job on Sunday by a committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists, as the financial hub attempts to relaunch itself after several...
-- 2022-05-08 10:30:23
A Nepali sherpa scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, beating his own previous record set last year, a government official said on Sunday. Kami Rita Sherpa, 52, scaled the 8,848.86-metre (29,0...
-- 2022-05-07 17:40:49
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp has alleged its top executives faced threats of "physical violence" and coercion during questioning by India's financial crime-fighting agency, according to a cour...
-- 2022-05-07 15:52:23
The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a bac...
-- 2022-05-07 14:14:57
Taiwan hopes that the world would sanction China like it is sanctioning Russia for its war on Ukraine if Beijing invaded the island, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Saturday. Taiwan has joined in...
-- 2022-05-07 14:07:29
China's capital Beijing kicked off a fresh round of mass testing for Covid-19 on Saturday and shut more bus routes and metro stations, as it seeks to avert the fate of Shanghai, where millions of resi...
-- 2022-05-07 10:24:29
Streets in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo were calm on Saturday after the president declared a state of emergency following escalating anti-government protests, reports Reuters. Details of th...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-06 17:43:32
The government of India plans the establishment of a rail route to connect its northeastern state of Meghalaya with the rest of the country using the territory of Bangladesh. As per the plan, the rai...
-- 2022-05-06 17:33:55
Taiwan's air force scrambled on Friday to warn away 18 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, Taiwan's defence ministry said, part of what is a regular pattern of incursions that has ange...
-- 2022-05-06 16:42:32
Thousands of shops, schools and businesses closed on Friday as public and private sector workers in Sri Lanka went on strike, demanding the president and the government step down for their mishandling...
-- 2022-05-06 15:13:14
China's foreign ministry on Friday accused Japan of exaggerating a perceived threat from Beijing as an excuse to boost its own military might, after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned the in...
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