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Saudi Arabia to celebrate Eid on Monday

-- 2022-04-30 21:36:56

Saudi Arabia has confirmed that Eid Al Fitr will begin on Monday, May 2, as the Shawwal crescent was not sighted on Saturday, reports Gulf News. Accordingly, Sunday, will be the last day of Ramadan a...

India seizes heroin-soaked yarn worth $58m

-- 2022-04-30 17:30:36

Indian authorities seized 90 kg (198 lbs) of drugs worth $58 million from a port in the western state of Gujarat, a police officer said on Saturday, the third such haul in two weeks. Friday's seizure...

India says it seizes $725 million of Xiaomi funds over illegal remittances

-- 2022-04-30 16:55:10

India said on Saturday it had seized $725 million from the local bank accounts of China's Xiaomi Corp after a probe found the smartphone maker had made illegal remittances to foreign entities by passi...

Chinese Omicron-specific mRNA Covid vaccine candidate to be trialed in UAE

-- 2022-04-30 15:14:28

China's Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the Omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the United...

Shanghai marks key Covid milestone, Beijing sits on edge

-- 2022-04-30 12:18:49

Shanghai said on Saturday it had detected no new daily COVID-19 cases outside quarantine areas, marking a key milestone in its battle to contain the virus, which has paralysed the city of 25 million a...

Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque

-- 2022-04-29 23:20:44

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim hol...

Sri Lanka says it will treat all creditors equally in restructuring debt

-- 2022-04-29 20:05:02

All Sri Lanka's creditors will be treated equally in a planned restructuring of the country's debt, its central bank governor said on Friday, adding that he expected progress in talks with the Interna...

Sri Lanka president agrees to remove his brother as prime minister

-- 2022-04-29 19:05:44

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to replace his older brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the...

Taliban supreme leader encourages investment in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-29 18:45:37

The supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration has invited domestic and foreign companies to invest in Afghanistan and also called upon Afghans to get together and rebuild their war-to...

Bomb explosion kills nine in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-29 15:47:03

Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shia Muslims in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people, an official said. The blasts follow an exp...

Heat wave in India leaves millions struggling to cope

-- 2022-04-29 11:54:57

India's weather department has issued a severe heatwave warning as temperatures soar, throwing millions of lives and livelihoods out of gear. "Temperatures are rising rapidly in the count...

Tourist favourite Thailand's recovery lags on Covid rule changes

-- 2022-04-29 09:54:52

When 23-year-old Norwegian Anastasia Johansen and her boyfriend were planning their first vacation in two years, they considered going to Thailand but chose nearby Vietnam instead, for its simpler ent...

Erdogan heads to Saudi to mend ties after Khashoggi U-turn

-- 2022-04-28 20:43:15

Three and a half years after accusing Saudi Arabia's leadership of murder and running a sham trial over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans a trip to the...

Sri Lanka teachers, bank workers join mass walkout over economic crisis

-- 2022-04-28 17:30:38

Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government quit over Sri L...

Biden to visit Asia next month to build united front on N Korea, Russia

-- 2022-04-28 14:05:23

Visiting Asia next month for the first time since becoming US president in 2021, Joe Biden will hold talks with allies in Japan and South Korea over China's growing influence in the region and the lat...

Malaysia to ease Covid-19 restrictions from next month

-- 2022-04-27 20:31:36

Malaysia will ease more Covid-19 curbs from the start of next month, including lifting restrictions on those who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus and scrapping the need to wear masks outdoor...

Modi says India gets too hot too early, faces risk of fire incidents

-- 2022-04-27 19:38:47

India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Wednesday, as New Delhi sweltered in extreme heat and a burning landfill on the outs...

Bilawal Bhutto takes oath as federal minister of Pakistan

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-27 19:31:24

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has taken the oath as a federal minister of Pakistan under the unity government led by Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Chief Prime Minist...

Woman graduate student behind suicide attack at Pakistani university

-- 2022-04-27 19:16:36

A woman suicide bomber who killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan was a teacher who had enrolled for a master's degree months before her attack, carried out on behalf of separatist insurgents, a Pa...

China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-27 14:23:05

BEIJING: China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country's health authority said on Tuesday, but said the risk of it spreading among people was low. A four-...

Eleven electrocuted in India temple procession

-- 2022-04-27 14:04:15

At least 11 people were electrocuted and 15 others injured during a religious procession held by a temple in Tamil Nadu in southern India. The accident occurred when the temple chariot ca...

Beijing in race to detect Covid infections as locked-down Shanghai in distress

-- 2022-04-27 13:33:59

Millions in Beijing's largest district on Wednesday took their second COVID-19 tests this week as the Chinese capital tried to keep an outbreak of dozens from spiralling into a crisis that could force...

Suu Kyi sentenced to five-year imprisonment for corruption

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-27 11:20:48

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, according to a...

Karachi blast kills three Chinese, including Confucius centre head

-- 2022-04-26 20:20:03

A bomb blast on a minibus killed three Chinese employed at Karachi University's Confucius Institute on Tuesday, officials and police said, in the first major attack in Pakistan on nationals of long ti...

North Korea displays ICBMs at huge parade, pledges to boost nuclear arsenal

-- 2022-04-26 11:00:58

North Korea will speed up development of its nuclear arsenal, leader Kim Jong Un said while overseeing a huge military parade that displayed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and other weapo...

Mass Covid-19 testing order prompts panic buying in Beijing

-- 2022-04-25 21:02:19

A mass Covid-19 testing order in Beijing's biggest district prompted residents in the Chinese capital to stock up on groceries, fearing they could be destined for a lockdown similar to that of Shangha...

Pakistan seeks increase in size, duration of $6b IMF programme

-- 2022-04-25 17:38:25

Pakistan has sought an increase in the size and duration of its $6 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, the country's Finance Minister, Miftah Ismail, said on Monday. Ismail made the...

Yemen's Houthis offer to release 200 prisoners before Eid al-Fitr, broadcaster reports

-- 2022-04-25 10:45:30

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement made a new offer to the United Nations that includes the release of 200 prisoners from each of the warring parties in Yemen before Muslim's Eid al-Fitr, Al-Masirah...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi awaits verdict in first corruption case

-- 2022-04-25 09:19:07

Deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces a possible 15 years in prison on Monday, when a court in the military-ruled country is scheduled to deliver a verdict in the first of multiple corruption...

Ten people from missing Japanese boat confirmed dead

-- 2022-04-24 19:12:20

Ten people found so far from a Japanese tour boat missing off the country's northern coast have been confirmed dead, the coast guard said on Sunday. The boat went missing on Saturday with 26 people o...