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Shanghai tightens coronavirus lockdown on second day of curbs

Shanghai tightens coronavirus lockdown on second day of curbs

-- 2022-03-29 13:24:24

Shanghai, China's most populous city, on Tuesday again tightened the first phase of a two-stage Covid-19 lockdown, asking some residents to stay indoors unless they are getting tested as the number of...

Debate on no-confidence motion against Imran Khan to begin Thursday

Debate on no-confidence motion against Imran Khan to begin Thursday

-- 2022-03-28 20:57:45

Pakistan's parliament took up a no-confidence motion moved by opposition lawmakers on Monday in a bid to remove Prime Minister Imran Khan, pushing the South Asian nation closer to political turmoil....

Taliban bars government employees without beards from work

Taliban bars government employees without beards from work

-- 2022-03-28 18:12:26

Afghanistan's Taliban has instructed all government employees to wear a beard and adhere to a dress code or risk being fired, three sources told Reuters, the latest of several new restrictions imposed...

BBC's local language services in Afghanistan banned

BBC's local language services in Afghanistan banned

-- 2022-03-28 17:31:18

The Taliban have banned BBC television news in three main languages of Afghanistan from being broadcast, the British news organisation said. A spokesman for the Taliban administration's Ministry of C...

Sri Lanka to host 5th BIMSTEC summit 

Sri Lanka to host 5th BIMSTEC summit 

-- 2022-03-27 22:16:52

Sri Lanka will host the fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit from Monday to Wednesday.  The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said on S...

Shanghai to lock down as Covid cases spike

Shanghai to lock down as Covid cases spike

-- 2022-03-27 21:52:32

China's financial hub of Shanghai said on Sunday it would lock down the city in two stages to carry out Covid-19 testing over a nine-day period, after it reported a new daily record for asymptomatic i...

India resumes regular international flights after two years 

India resumes regular international flights after two years 

-- 2022-03-27 18:26:39

After a two-year hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, India has resumed regular international flights.  Indian carriers have prepared for a return to their pre-pandemic schedule from Sunday,...

Myanmar junta chief vows no talks with opposition 'terrorists'

Myanmar junta chief vows no talks with opposition 'terrorists'

-- 2022-03-27 12:56:35

Myanmar's junta chief on Sunday said the military would not negotiate with "terrorist" opposition forces, vowing to annihilate them during a speech on Armed Forces Day, as opponents of last year's cou...

Houthis halt strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days

Houthis halt strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days

-- 2022-03-27 10:23:32

Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday it was suspending missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days, in a peace initiative it said could be a lasting commitment if the Saudi-led coaliti...

All passengers on board China Eastern plane died, authorities say

All passengers on board China Eastern plane died, authorities say

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-27 10:18:54

China confirmed late on Saturday that all 132 passengers and crew on a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week had died. Flight MU5735 was travelling from the southwestern city of Kunming...

Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights 

Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights 

-- 2022-03-26 21:23:26

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said...

Possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia increasingly real, says Japan

Possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia increasingly real, says Japan

-- 2022-03-26 16:58:22

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was "increasingly real", welcoming a visit by the US ambassador to Hiroshima, the first city to suffe...

Global Coronavirus cases top 479 million 

Global Coronavirus cases top 479 million 

-- 2022-03-26 16:06:52

The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 479 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.  According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 479,000,75...

Saudi Aramco petroleum storage site hit by Houthi attack, fire erupts

Saudi Aramco petroleum storage site hit by Houthi attack, fire erupts

-- 2022-03-26 11:13:30

Yemen's Houthis said they launched attacks on Saudi energy facilities on Friday and the Saudi-led coalition said oil giant Aramco's petroleum products distribution station in Jeddah was hit, causing a...

No-confidence motion against Imran Khan adjourned till Monday

No-confidence motion against Imran Khan adjourned till Monday

-- 2022-03-25 16:32:30

The speaker of Pakistan's parliament adjourned a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday, provoking opposition accusations he was buying time for the ex-cricketer to muster...

India presses China for early, complete disengagement of troops in Ladakh

India presses China for early, complete disengagement of troops in Ladakh

-- 2022-03-25 15:53:37

India sees the complete disengagement of Chinese and Indian troops facing off on a remote stretch of their border as key to better relations, two sources in New Delhi said after China's foreign minist...

Chinese foreign minister to meet Indian counterpart in New Delhi

Chinese foreign minister to meet Indian counterpart in New Delhi

-- 2022-03-25 13:04:52

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on Friday, India's foreign ministry said, after he arrived in the city unannounced in the first such visit since deadly b...

North Korea tests banned intercontinental missile

North Korea tests banned intercontinental missile

-- 2022-03-24 18:10:58

North Korea has tested a banned intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017, South Korea and Japan say. Japanese officials estimated it flew 1,100 km (684 miles). It fell...

Singapore to ease more Covid curbs including for overseas arrivals

Singapore to ease more Covid curbs including for overseas arrivals

-- 2022-03-24 10:45:48

Singapore is easing more COVID-19 curbs including lifting most restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors arriving in the country and dropping requirements to wear masks outdoors, Prime Minister Lee H...

Black box found from crashed China Eastern jet 

Black box found from crashed China Eastern jet 

-- 2022-03-23 17:59:28

Chinese searchers have found one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator said.  The...

Taliban orders girls high schools remain closed; students left in tears

Taliban orders girls high schools remain closed; students left in tears

-- 2022-03-23 14:40:16

The Taliban on Wednesday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to...

Heavy rain halts China's search for jet crash victims, black boxes

Heavy rain halts China's search for jet crash victims, black boxes

-- 2022-03-23 11:59:55

Heavy rain in southern China on Wednesday halted the search for victims and flight information black boxes that could tell why a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane plunged into a mountainside...

China, Pakistan jointly call for diplomatic resolution of Russia-Ukraine crisis

China, Pakistan jointly call for diplomatic resolution of Russia-Ukraine crisis

-- 2022-03-22 21:20:29

China and Pakistan have jointly called for a ceasefire and diplomatic resolution of the crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Old allies China and Pakistan have refrained from condemning Russia over its...

Biden says India 'somewhat shaky' in acting against Russia

Biden says India 'somewhat shaky' in acting against Russia

-- 2022-03-22 17:49:45

US President Joe Biden has said only India among the Quad group of countries was "somewhat shaky" in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as India tries to balance its ties with Russia...

Parents of Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan start legal action against Taliban

Parents of Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan start legal action against Taliban

-- 2022-03-22 15:40:17

The parents of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, have begun legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Islamist...

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops at gas stations to oversee fuel distribution

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops at gas stations to oversee fuel distribution

-- 2022-03-22 14:15:16

Sri Lanka ordered its military to post soldiers at hundreds of gas stations on Tuesday, to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in prices of key commodities and the accompanying shortages forced t...

India considers Covid booster doses for all adults

India considers Covid booster doses for all adults

-- 2022-03-22 11:53:29

India is considering making all adults eligible for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, as infections grow in some countries and some Indians fi...

Grim search for victims, flight recorders after China's worst plane crash in years

Grim search for victims, flight recorders after China's worst plane crash in years

-- 2022-03-22 10:41:37

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet that crashed a day earlie...

No sign of survivors in China plane crash

No sign of survivors in China plane crash

-- 2022-03-21 20:11:46

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. The media said th...

Chinese Red Cross will offer additional 10m yuan of aid to Ukraine

Chinese Red Cross will offer additional 10m yuan of aid to Ukraine

-- 2022-03-21 16:04:05

The Chinese Red Cross will offer an additional 10 million yuan ($1.57 million) of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Monday. Accordin...