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Israeli forces raid Al-Aqsa mosque, over 150 Palestinians injured

Israeli forces raid Al-Aqsa mosque, over 150 Palestinians injured

-- 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...

Petition filed seeking arrest of Nawaz Sharif upon his return to Pakistan

Petition filed seeking arrest of Nawaz Sharif upon his return to Pakistan

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...

China to cut retail fuel prices from Saturday 

China to cut retail fuel prices from Saturday 

-- 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...

South Korea to lift most virus curbs from next week

South Korea to lift most virus curbs from next week

-- 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...

China releases jailed Taiwanese activist

China releases jailed Taiwanese activist

-- 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...

Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister arrested in bribery case

Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister arrested in bribery case

-- 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...

Singapore's finance minister seen as prime minister-in-waiting

Singapore's finance minister seen as prime minister-in-waiting

-- 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...

Death toll from storm 'Megi' in Philippines reaches 121 

Death toll from storm 'Megi' in Philippines reaches 121 

-- 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...

US congratulates Sharif on becoming new Pakistani prime minister

US congratulates Sharif on becoming new Pakistani prime minister

-- 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...

Xi reiterates urgency of Covid curbs as Shanghai cases hit peak

Xi reiterates urgency of Covid curbs as Shanghai cases hit peak

-- 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...

Chemical factory fire leaves six dead in India

Chemical factory fire leaves six dead in India

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...

Hong Kong to ease virus restrictions from April 21

Hong Kong to ease virus restrictions from April 21

-- 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...

Troops burn villages in Myanmar heartland, seek to crush resistance

Troops burn villages in Myanmar heartland, seek to crush resistance

-- 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...

India likely to face more power cuts this year

India likely to face more power cuts this year

-- 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...

Sri Lanka PM offers protesters talks as opposition eyes no-confidence vote

Sri Lanka PM offers protesters talks as opposition eyes no-confidence vote

-- 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...

Sri Lanka halts debt repayment pending IMF bailout plan

Sri Lanka halts debt repayment pending IMF bailout plan

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...

Shehbaz sworn in as 23rd PM, Bilawal likely foreign minister

Shehbaz sworn in as 23rd PM, Bilawal likely foreign minister

-- 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...

United States monitoring a rise in human rights abuses in India, says Blinken

United States monitoring a rise in human rights abuses in India, says Blinken

-- 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...

Indonesia's parliament passes landmark bill on sexual violence

Indonesia's parliament passes landmark bill on sexual violence

-- 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...

Sri Lanka unilaterally suspends external debt payments

Sri Lanka unilaterally suspends external debt payments

-- 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....

Japan's PM mulls Southeast Asian, European tour

Japan's PM mulls Southeast Asian, European tour

-- 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...

US aircraft carrier operating in waters off Korean peninsula, official says

US aircraft carrier operating in waters off Korean peninsula, official says

-- 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'...

Myanmar army launches air strikes against rebels near Thai border

Myanmar army launches air strikes against rebels near Thai border

-- 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...

'Megi' hits Philippines, leaving at least 25 dead

'Megi' hits Philippines, leaving at least 25 dead

-- 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...

Pakistani lawmakers loyal to Imran Khan quit en masse

Pakistani lawmakers loyal to Imran Khan quit en masse

-- 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...

Buying more Russian oil is not in India's interest, Biden warns Modi

Buying more Russian oil is not in India's interest, Biden warns Modi

-- 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...

Nepal restricts imports to save cash, suspends central bank governor

Nepal restricts imports to save cash, suspends central bank governor

-- 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...

Shehbaz Sharif elected prime minister of Pakistan

Shehbaz Sharif elected prime minister of Pakistan

-- 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...

Imran Khan’s party announces mass resignation from parliament

Imran Khan’s party announces mass resignation from parliament

-- 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...

Pakistan's parliament set to elect new prime minister

Pakistan's parliament set to elect new prime minister

-- 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...