-- 2022-04-15 21:47:02
Israeli police have raided the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, with medics reporting at least 158 Palestinians injured in the ensuing violence as hundreds were detained. The Islam...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-15 21:11:42
A petition was filed with the Islamabad High Court in Pakistan on Friday to prevent the expected issuance of a diplomatic passport to Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The plea als...
-- 2022-04-15 19:26:45
China will cut the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Saturday, the country's top economic planner said Friday. Based on recent changes in international oil prices, the retail prices of...
-- 2022-04-15 10:12:17
South Korea said on Friday it will drop most Covid-19 pandemic-related restrictions next week, including a midnight curfew on eateries, as the Omicron surge in cases shows signs of waning, although pe...
-- 2022-04-15 09:59:48
A Taiwanese activist jailed in China returned to Taiwan on Friday after completing a five-year sentence. Li Ming-che, a community college lecturer and activist at a human rights non-governmental orga...
-- 2022-04-14 20:00:20
Police in Vietnam on Thursday arrested Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung on suspicion of bribery, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam said. Dung, 58, is accused of taking bribes a...
-- 2022-04-14 19:55:19
Singapore's finance minister, Lawrence Wong, has been chosen as leader of the ruling People's Action Party's so-called fourth generation (4G) team, paving the way for him to potentially become the cit...
-- 2022-04-14 18:47:50
The death toll from the tropical storm that battered the Philippines over last weekend rose to 121, including 81 victims buried by landslides in central Philippine city, authorities said Thursday.&nbs...
-- 2022-04-14 15:03:36
The United States on Wednesday congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on becoming Pakistan's new prime minister following the ouster of his predecessor in a parliamentary no-confidence vote, with the top US dip...
-- 2022-04-14 14:25:03
China's financial hub Shanghai reported over 27,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, setting a new record a day after President Xi Jinping said that the country must continue with its strict "dynamic Co...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-14 13:40:15
A fire at a chemical factory in southern India killed at least six people and injured 12, a government official said on Thursday, with more casualties feared in the second such accident this week. Pi...
-- 2022-04-14 12:50:41
Hong Kong confirmed on Thursday it will ease some of the world's most stringent Covid-19 restrictions, allowing beauty parlours, cinemas and gyms to reopen from April 21 as infections in the global fi...
-- 2022-04-14 10:12:24
Rubble and ashes, overlooked by a single golden pagoda, are almost all that remain of the wood and brick houses most people had built for themselves in the quiet riverside village of Bin in the Buddhi...
-- 2022-04-13 16:06:20
India is likely to face more power cuts this year as utilities' coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is expected to rise at the fastest pa...
-- 2022-04-13 15:44:48
Sri Lanka's prime minister offered talks on Wednesday with protesters calling for the government to step down over its handling of an economic crisis as the opposition threatened to bring a no-confide...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-13 12:06:35
Sri Lanka is suspending its repayment of foreign debt, including bonds and government-to-government borrowing, pending the completion of a loan restructuring programme with the International Monetary...
-- 2022-04-13 09:37:10
After Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan, the next move of the joint Opposition is to appoint ministers. According to sources, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was to f...
-- 2022-04-12 20:21:55
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the A...
-- 2022-04-12 16:35:50
Indonesia's parliament passed a long-awaited bill on Tuesday to tackle sexual violence, aimed at building stronger cases and helping victims to secure justice in a country where sexual abuse has often...
-- 2022-04-12 16:00:13
Sri Lanka's central bank said on Tuesday it had become "challenging and impossible" to repay external debt, as it tries to use its dwindling foreign exchange reserves to import essentials like fuel....
-- 2022-04-12 15:19:23
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit Southeast Asia and possibly countries in Europe during the upcoming Golden Week string of national holidays starting in late April, sources w...
-- 2022-04-12 12:53:42
The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group is operating in waters off the Korean peninsula, a US official said, after South Korean media reported that the ships were deployed amid tensions over North Korea'...
-- 2022-04-12 12:15:52
Myanmar's military conducted air strikes on Sunday targeting ethnic rebels in Karen state, as fresh fighting broke out for control of the town of Lay Kay Kaw near the Thai border, according to a spoke...
-- 2022-04-12 11:12:01
Philippine authorities said on Monday at least 25 people had died in landslides and floods caused by tropical storm Megi as it hit the eastern and southern coasts of the Southeast Asian country. The...
-- 2022-04-12 10:13:28
More than 100 lawmakers loyal to Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan resigned on Monday, creating a headache for the new, Western-friendly incumbent Shehbaz Sharif as he tries to drag his coun...
-- 2022-04-12 08:18:27
President Joe Biden told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that buying more oil from Russia was not in India's interest and could hamper the US response to the war in Ukraine, US officials said, Reu...
-- 2022-04-11 18:18:13
Nepal is tightening imports of cars, gold and cosmetics as its foreign exchange reserves have fallen, a central bank official said on Monday after the government suspended the central bank governor an...
-- 2022-04-11 18:08:55
Pakistan Muslim League (N) President Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the 23rd prime minister of Pakistan after 174 lawmakers voted in his favour in the parliament on Monday. The lawmakers from the Paki...
-- 2022-04-11 16:25:14
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Monday decided to resign from their National Assembly, minutes before the election for the new prime minister of Pakistan is scheduled to place. The decision was taken...
-- 2022-04-11 13:35:11
Pakistan's parliament was set to meet on Monday to elect a new prime minister, with opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif the favourite to win after a week-long constitutional crisis that climaxed on Sunda...
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