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Beijing Olympics get political with Taiwan, Uyghur questions

Beijing Olympics get political with Taiwan, Uyghur questions

-- 2022-02-17 17:06:07

For two weeks and more, China's stance on questions about its politics and policies has been straightforward: It's the Olympics, and we're not talking about these things. That changed Thursday at the...

China expresses serious concerns regarding India’s ban of Chinese apps

China expresses serious concerns regarding India’s ban of Chinese apps

-- 2022-02-17 14:22:37

China on Thursday expressed serious concerns regarding India's ban of Chinese apps over security reasons, adding that it hopes India would treat all foreign investors, including Chinese firms, in a tr...

13 die as wedding celebrations turn tragic in India’s Uttar Pradesh

13 die as wedding celebrations turn tragic in India’s Uttar Pradesh

-- 2022-02-17 12:17:30

At least 13 people, including seven women and six girls, have died after accidentally falling into a well during wedding celebrations at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district. The women we...

Job ad for 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia attracts 28,000 applicants

Job ad for 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia attracts 28,000 applicants

-- 2022-02-17 11:13:56

A job advert to recruit 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia has attracted 28,000 applicants, highlighting the scale of pent up demand as the conservative kingdom opens up more opportunities to wom...

Beaches in Sydney close after first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years

Beaches in Sydney close after first fatal shark attack in nearly 60 years

-- 2022-02-17 10:57:43

Several beaches in Sydney, including the iconic Bondi and Bronte, were shut down on Thursday after a swimmer was killed in a shark attack, the first such fatality at the city's beaches in nearly 60 ye...

Singapore streamlines border measures for all travellers

Singapore streamlines border measures for all travellers

-- 2022-02-16 18:47:51

Singapore will expand quarantine-free travel to Hong Kong, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this month, its health ministry of the country said on Wednesday, resuming border reopening...

Schools reopen in India's Karnataka amid hijab row

Schools reopen in India's Karnataka amid hijab row

-- 2022-02-16 13:25:09

Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head coveri...

Pakistan to allow India to send wheat, medicine to Afghanistan by road

Pakistan to allow India to send wheat, medicine to Afghanistan by road

-- 2022-02-15 21:36:39

Pakistan will allow India to use its territory to transport 50,000 tonnes of wheat and medicine to Afghanistan, beginning this month, Pakistani customs officials said on Tuesday. The permission of su...

India bans 54 Chinese apps over security concerns

India bans 54 Chinese apps over security concerns

-- 2022-02-15 18:38:48

India has blocked access to 54 mobile apps, mainly Chinese but also including Singapore-based Sea Ltd's Free Fire game, over security concerns, government sources said on Tuesday, a day after Sea shar...

India asks its citizens to leave Ukraine as tensions flare

India asks its citizens to leave Ukraine as tensions flare

-- 2022-02-15 17:30:27

Amid heightened tensions over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, India has urged its nationals in that country to consider leaving. "In view of uncertainties of the current situation in Ukraine,...

India's hijab dispute now reaches Uttar Pradesh

India's hijab dispute now reaches Uttar Pradesh

-- 2022-02-15 14:31:01

A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a...

Israeli PM lands in Bahrain in first visit

Israeli PM lands in Bahrain in first visit

-- 2022-02-15 09:32:05

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived in Bahrain's capital Manama on Monday in the highest-level visit since the countries established relations under a 2020 US-sponsored deal based in part o...

New Zealand PM labels anti-vaccine mandate protests 'imported' as protesters defy calls to leave

New Zealand PM labels anti-vaccine mandate protests 'imported' as protesters defy calls to leave

-- 2022-02-14 10:48:41

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she felt demonstrations against a COVID-19 vaccine mandate now entering their second week were an "imported" phenomenon, and nothing like any...

Vietnam to end Covid restrictions on international flights from Feb 15

Vietnam to end Covid restrictions on international flights from Feb 15

-- 2022-02-14 10:35:46

Vietnam will remove its COVID-19 restrictions on international passenger flights with all markets starting Feb 15, with no limitation on the number of flights, the state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper reporte...

Israeli inquiry checking NSO database

Israeli inquiry checking NSO database

-- 2022-02-14 08:51:20

A high-level Israeli inquiry into alleged warrantless wiretaps by police is examining a database provided by NSO Group, the manufacturer of the powerful hacking tool Pegasus, the Justice Ministry said...

Nuclear talks more difficult as West "pretends" to take initiative: Iran official

Nuclear talks more difficult as West "pretends" to take initiative: Iran official

-- 2022-02-14 08:47:28

A senior Iranian security official said on Monday that progress in talks to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear deal was becoming "more difficult" as Western powers only "pretended" to come up with initiative...

Pakistani villagers lynch man over blasphemy allegation

Pakistani villagers lynch man over blasphemy allegation

-- 2022-02-13 20:36:13

A mob lynched a man because he had allegedly burnt pages of Muslim holy book the Koran in central Pakistan and dozens of people have been arrested, police and officials said on Sunday. Pakistan&rsquo...

Five United Nations staff abducted in southern Yemen

Five United Nations staff abducted in southern Yemen

-- 2022-02-13 11:36:51

Five United Nations staff have been abducted in southern Yemen while returning to Aden after a field mission, the United Nations said on Saturday. The staff were abducted on Friday in the Governora...

Hindu hardliners protest against Kashmir tweets in Modi's home state

Hindu hardliners protest against Kashmir tweets in Modi's home state

-- 2022-02-13 09:06:33

Hundreds of Hindu nationalist protesters marched in the Indian state of Gujarat on Saturday, prompting the closure of stores owned by several multinational companies caught up in a furore over social...

Hijab ban forces choice of religion or education, Indian Muslim students say

Hijab ban forces choice of religion or education, Indian Muslim students say

-- 2022-02-13 08:41:24

Ayesha Imthiaz, a devout Indian Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of devotion to the Prophet Mohammad, says a move by her college to expel hijab-wearing girls is an insult that will f...

India’s Hindu nationalists protest Kashmir tweets in Gujarat

India’s Hindu nationalists protest Kashmir tweets in Gujarat

-- 2022-02-12 21:10:42

Hundreds of Hindu nationalist protesters marched in the Indian state of Gujarat on Saturday, prompting the closure of stores owned by several multinational companies caught up in a furore over social...

Indian Muslim students say hijab ban forces choice of religion or education

Indian Muslim students say hijab ban forces choice of religion or education

-- 2022-02-12 17:54:26

Ayesha Imthiaz, a devout Indian Muslim who considers wearing a hijab an expression of devotion to the Prophet Mohammad, says a move by her college to expel hijab-wearing girls is an insult that will f...

Myanmar junta leader defends coup, denounces resistance to new regime

Myanmar junta leader defends coup, denounces resistance to new regime

-- 2022-02-12 16:58:28

Myanmar's junta showed off its military strength with a parade in the capital Naypyitaw on Saturday, with its leader Min Aung Hlaing defending last year's coup as necessary to protect the country from...

China gives conditional approval for Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid

China gives conditional approval for Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid

-- 2022-02-12 10:21:49

China's medical products regulator said on Saturday it has given conditional approval for Pfizer's COVID-19 drug Paxlovid, making it the first oral pill specifically developed to treat the diseas...

Myanmar lost 50 soldiers in Chin state in 2021 insurgency, army defector says

Myanmar lost 50 soldiers in Chin state in 2021 insurgency, army defector says

-- 2022-02-11 14:55:51

A Myanmar army officer who defected and fled the country has detailed battlefield losses to rebels in the southern part of Chin state, with at least 50 soldiers killed and 200 badly wounded in 2021 by...

Polls in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh begin

Polls in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh begin

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-02-10 10:33:11

Voting kicked off in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, touted as the semi-final before the general elections in 2024. Polling began at 7:00am in the first phase of legislative elect...

Indian students continue protests against hijab ban

Indian students continue protests against hijab ban

-- 2022-02-10 09:08:53

Hundreds of students in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday chanted slogans and blocked roads in protest of a hijab ban in the southern state of Karnataka, as a row over wearing the head c...

Death toll from cyclone in Madagascar rises to 80

Death toll from cyclone in Madagascar rises to 80

-- 2022-02-09 21:20:12

The death toll from Cyclone Batsirai in Madagascar rose to 80 on Wednesday from a previously reported 29, the state disaster relief agency said. The cyclone slammed into the Indian Ocean island late...

Himalayan avalanche kills seven Indian soldiers near border with China

Himalayan avalanche kills seven Indian soldiers near border with China

-- 2022-02-08 19:58:44

A Himalayan avalanche killed seven Indian soldiers in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh near the China border, a defence ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. The avalanche struck in the Kame...

Gaza Valley to become nature reserve under $66.0m UN project

Gaza Valley to become nature reserve under $66.0m UN project

-- 2022-02-07 17:19:25

The United Nations is set to begin the restoration of a historic valley in the Palestinian Gaza Strip next month, hoping to transform it from a landfill and sewage dump into a vibrant nature reserve i...