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Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry

Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry

-- 2022-04-24 14:37:45

Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city's 25 million peop...

Loyalists of Sri Lanka’s prime minister back street protests

Loyalists of Sri Lanka’s prime minister back street protests

-- 2022-04-23 21:32:27

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has come under increased pressure to step down as a cabinet minister and other senior party members back street protests calling for resignations ove...

Blast tears through mosque in Afghanistan, 33 killed

Blast tears through mosque in Afghanistan, 33 killed

-- 2022-04-23 19:08:36

A blast tore through a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, killing 33 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Tali...

Israel closes crossing to Gaza workers after rockets

Israel closes crossing to Gaza workers after rockets

-- 2022-04-23 18:08:36

Israel said Saturday that it would close its border crossing to thousands of Gaza workers after a series of rockets were fired from the territory ruled by the militant Hamas group in recent days. The...

Boat with 26 on board goes missing in Japan

Boat with 26 on board goes missing in Japan

-- 2022-04-23 17:56:48

Japan's coast guard on Saturday was searching for a sightseeing boat with 26 people on board which went missing off the northern island of Hokkaido after reporting that it was sinking Authorities los...

Shanghai registers 12 new Covid deaths as frustrations boil over

Shanghai registers 12 new Covid deaths as frustrations boil over

-- 2022-04-23 15:00:31

The major financial hub of Shanghai reported 12 new COVID-19 related deaths on April 22, up from 11 the previous day, as frustrations among residents continued to boil over amid a harsh lockdown and s...

Iran Revolutionary Guards general unhurt after car shot at

Iran Revolutionary Guards general unhurt after car shot at

-- 2022-04-23 13:27:50

Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in restive southeastern Iran early on Saturday, killing a bodyguard, Iranian state media reported, Reuters reports. Brigad...

Indonesia bans exports of palm oil as global food inflation spikes

Indonesia bans exports of palm oil as global food inflation spikes

-- 2022-04-23 10:32:50

Indonesia, the world's top palm oil producer, announced plans to ban exports of the most widely used vegetable oil on Friday, in a shock move that could further inflame surging global food inflation....

31 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa compound

31 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa compound

-- 2022-04-22 21:12:59

At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, Palestinian medics said, the latest outbreak in a recent upsurge of violence...

Taliban bans TikTok, PUBG in Afghanistan

Taliban bans TikTok, PUBG in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-22 20:26:42

The Taliban has ordered a ban on video-sharing app TikTok and the online multi-player game PUBG, insisting they were leading Afghan youths "astray". The group said it would also ban TV channels from...

North Korea's Kim offers rare praise for South's outgoing president

North Korea's Kim offers rare praise for South's outgoing president

-- 2022-04-22 17:06:53

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked South Korea's outgoing president for trying to improve relations, a rare gesture of goodwill but one that analysts said may not be enough to head off growin...

Two militants, soldier killed in gunfight near Jammu ahead of Modi's visit

Two militants, soldier killed in gunfight near Jammu ahead of Modi's visit

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-22 12:33:51

Two suspected terrorists and a security force member have been killed in India’s Jammu when a fierce gun battle erupted between the militants and a bus carrying 15 law enforcers. The incident o...

No let-up in Shanghai's Covid lockdown

No let-up in Shanghai's Covid lockdown

-- 2022-04-22 12:07:37

Shanghai authorities doubled down on their offensive against CovidD-19 on Friday, launching a new round of city-wide testing and warning residents their three-week lockdown would only be lifted in bat...

India condemns US lawmaker's Kasmir visit   

India condemns US lawmaker's Kasmir visit  

-- 2022-04-21 20:24:40

India has condemned a prominent US lawmaker's visit to Pakistan-administered Kashmir. US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is currently on a four-day tour of neighbouring Pakistan. She has already called on P...

Xi pushes back on sanctions, de-coupling

Xi pushes back on sanctions, de-coupling

-- 2022-04-21 10:36:39

Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated China's opposition to unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction" in a speech on Thursday, without directly mentioning the West's punitive actions against...

Russia tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile

Russia tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile

-- 2022-04-20 22:04:39

Russia said on Wednesday it had test launched its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new addition to its nuclear arsenal which President Vladimir Putin said would give Moscow's enemies somet...

New Delhi makes wearing of masks compulsory again

New Delhi makes wearing of masks compulsory again

-- 2022-04-20 21:12:20

India’s New Delhi authorities on Wednesday made the wearing of masks compulsory again after COVID-19 infections rose in the Indian capital in recent days. "In view of the rise in Covid-19 posit...

Pakistan to cut expenditures, development funds to revive IMF programme

Pakistan to cut expenditures, development funds to revive IMF programme

-- 2022-04-20 19:47:23

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said their country will need to cut expenditures and development funds to try and revive an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. "...

Taiwan TV station apologises after mistakenly reporting Chinese attack

Taiwan TV station apologises after mistakenly reporting Chinese attack

-- 2022-04-20 16:55:11

A Taiwan government-backed television station apologised and urged people not to panic on Wednesday after mistakenly reporting a Chinese attack in Taipei, amid rising military tensions with Beijing....

Six Rohingya dead, hundreds flee after riot at Malaysian detention camp

Six Rohingya dead, hundreds flee after riot at Malaysian detention camp

-- 2022-04-20 14:56:31

Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre where a riot broke out early o...

India's Supreme Court stays demolition of shops in sensitive area of New Delhi

India's Supreme Court stays demolition of shops in sensitive area of New Delhi

-- 2022-04-20 14:12:34

India's Supreme Court stayed demolition of small, illegal retail shops in the wake of communal violence in New Delhi, shortly after civil authorities began tearing down the structures under protection...

Pakistan's new PM picks coalition cabinet after Khan ousted

Pakistan's new PM picks coalition cabinet after Khan ousted

-- 2022-04-20 12:35:35

New Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday appointed a multi-party coalition cabinet made up of what had previously been political rivals in opposition who united to oust Imran Khan, Reute...

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in

-- 2022-04-19 21:47:09

The Cabinet of Pakistan's newly-elected prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, was sworn in Tuesday during a brief ceremony. Acting President Sadiq Sanjrani administered the oath to the 34 ministers at the...

Sri Lankan police fire ammunition to scatter protesters, one killed

Sri Lankan police fire ammunition to scatter protesters, one killed

-- 2022-04-19 21:42:11

Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from the International Monetary...

India, Sri Lanka resume talks on linking electricity grids

India, Sri Lanka resume talks on linking electricity grids

-- 2022-04-19 19:45:40

India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi's goal of reducing China's influence on the island nation,...

Pakistan's new finance minister faces tight time frame to tackle crises

Pakistan's new finance minister faces tight time frame to tackle crises

-- 2022-04-19 19:12:40

Pakistan's new prime minister has appointed 57-year-old economist and businessman Miftah Ismail as the finance minister who will be tasked with quickly arresting a downward economic spiral and getting...

Blasts hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

Blasts hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

-- 2022-04-19 14:56:48

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials, Reuters reports. Many residents in the neighbourhood belo...

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in: state television

Pakistan's new cabinet sworn in: state television

-- 2022-04-19 14:02:44

Pakistan's new cabinet took their oaths in a ceremony on Tuesday, state television reported, according to Reuters. The new cabinet, made up of allied political parties, was sworn in over a week after...

Explosions hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

Explosions hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

-- 2022-04-19 13:44:54

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials. Many residents in the neighbourhood belong to the Shia Ha...

Israel shoots down Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer

Israel shoots down Gaza rocket, admonishes Jordan as Jerusalem tensions simmer

-- 2022-04-19 12:34:44

Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhet...