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Australia reopens its borders for vaccinated tourists from February 21

Australia reopens its borders for vaccinated tourists from February 21

-- 2022-02-07 16:23:08

Australia will fully reopen its borders to all vaccinated visa holders from Feb 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, nearly two years after he shut the border to non-citizens to slow the...

ASEAN envoy can meet Suu Kyi party members, Myanmar junta chief pledges

ASEAN envoy can meet Suu Kyi party members, Myanmar junta chief pledges

-- 2022-02-07 16:17:39

Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing agreed to arrange for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special envoy from Cambodia to meet members of the ousted ruling party on a future visit...

Myanmar parents disown dissident children fearing junta

Myanmar parents disown dissident children fearing junta

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-07 11:49:49

Every day for the last three months, an average of six or seven families in Myanmar have posted notices in the country's state-owned newspapers cutting ties with sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and g...

Late Filipino dictator Marcos' son aims to restore family pride

Late Filipino dictator Marcos' son aims to restore family pride

-- 2022-02-07 11:44:18

As frontrunner in the Philippines' presidential race, the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos appears poised to complete a remarkable rebranding of the family name 36 years after a "people power" up...

Twenty militants, nine soldiers killed in Pakistan clashes

Twenty militants, nine soldiers killed in Pakistan clashes

-- 2022-02-06 16:47:31

Twenty militants and nine soldiers were killed in recent days during insurgent attacks on two military bases in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province and the military's response, the military s...

Israeli may halt flights to Dubai due to dispute over security arrangements

Israeli may halt flights to Dubai due to dispute over security arrangements

-- 2022-02-06 16:08:25

Israel said on Sunday that it could halt Israeli airlines' flights to Dubai in the next few days due to a dispute over security arrangements, but is looking at rerouting them to Abu Dhabi instead. An...

Australian PM hints reopening borders to tourists on cards

Australian PM hints reopening borders to tourists on cards

-- 2022-02-06 15:55:36

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday that the reopening of the country's borders to international tourists may not be far away, adding that the parliament will debate the matter thi...

UN report reveals North Korea expands nuclear, missiles programmes, profits from cyberattacks

UN report reveals North Korea expands nuclear, missiles programmes, profits from cyberattacks

-- 2022-02-06 15:37:11

North Korea continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes during the past year and cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges were an important revenue source for Pyongyang, accordin...

Pakistan bans hockey player for criticising PM Imran

Pakistan bans hockey player for criticising PM Imran

-- 2022-02-04 20:32:42

Pakistan's sports authorities have banned for 10 years hockey player Rashid-ul-Hasan, a member of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics gold medal winning team, for allegedly using offensive language against...

Saudi Arabia moves to redefine Islam-bearing green flag

Saudi Arabia moves to redefine Islam-bearing green flag

-- 2022-02-04 20:10:31

Saudi Arabia has initiated a move to change its national anthem and green flag, which is emblazoned with a sword and inscribed with Islam’s creed as the birthplace of the faith. Late on Monday,...

India to offer jobs to 80 Afghan military cadets

India to offer jobs to 80 Afghan military cadets

-- 2022-02-04 20:09:02

India would offer jobs to as many as 80 cadets of the Afghan defence forces, who recently graduated from various military academies in this country but could not return to their homeland. But jobs wo...

Xi ready to work with Putin to push forward China-Russia cooperation

Xi ready to work with Putin to push forward China-Russia cooperation

-- 2022-02-04 19:29:33

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday said he stands ready to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to chart the future and provide guidance for bilateral relations under new historical circumst...

Putin unveils new gas deal with Xi Jinping

Putin unveils new gas deal with Xi Jinping

-- 2022-02-04 18:47:34

Russia’ s President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new Russian gas deal with China at a meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday, promising to increase Moscow's far east exports at a ti...

Myanmar court postpones hearing in Suu Kyi's trial

Myanmar court postpones hearing in Suu Kyi's trial

-- 2022-02-04 17:40:50

A court in military-run Myanmar postponed a hearing in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi this week, a source with knowledge of proceedings said on Friday, after media reported the ousted leader had not be...

Bali reopens to all foreign travellers keeping mandatory quarantine in place

Bali reopens to all foreign travellers keeping mandatory quarantine in place

-- 2022-02-04 17:35:10

Direct international flights to Bali have resumed for the first time in two years as Indonesia opens the resort island to foreign travellers from all countries, but mandatory quarantine remains in pla...

Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases

Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 14:17:47

Myanmar's military government announced a new bribery charge against deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, the country's state broadcaster reported. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, is on...

India may have seen 3m Covid deaths, but official figure far below

India may have seen 3m Covid deaths, but official figure far below

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 11:28:31

India's death toll from COVID-19 crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level many health experts say was breached last year but obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where mil...

Mamata Banerjee re-elected Trinamool chief

Mamata Banerjee re-elected Trinamool chief

-- 2022-02-02 20:46:56

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been re-elected as the chairperson of her ruling Trinamool Congress party unopposed on Wednesday, 10 months after single-handedly pulling off a landslide vict...

Afghan universities reopen with women attendance

Afghan universities reopen with women attendance

-- 2022-02-02 16:04:42

Afghanistan's public universities on Wednesday opened for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus....

Myanmar's shadow government of Suu Kyi's people drops objections to ICJ's Rohingya genocide case

Myanmar's shadow government of Suu Kyi's people drops objections to ICJ's Rohingya genocide case

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-02 11:25:30

Myanmar's shadow government, set up after last year's military coup, said it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to hear allegations that the country committed genocid...

More US Black colleges, universities receive bomb threats

More US Black colleges, universities receive bomb threats

-- 2022-02-02 09:15:18

At least a dozen historically Black colleges and universities in the United States received bomb threats and put their campuses on lockdown on Tuesday, a day after a rash of similar threats forced sev...

Spyware use raises legal questions, Israeli police admits

Spyware use raises legal questions, Israeli police admits

-- 2022-02-02 09:03:12

Israel's police force, accused by rights groups of improperly using powerful hacking spyware, said on Tuesday it had found "anomalies" in its electronic surveillance that meant the legality of some of...

Myanmar: Opponents of military rule hold ‘silent strikes’

Myanmar: Opponents of military rule hold ‘silent strikes’

-- 2022-02-01 23:20:30

Streets in some of Myanmar's main cities were nearly deserted on Tuesday as opponents of military rule held "silent strikes", making the first anniversary of a coup that led to deadly chaos and snuffe...

Instability increases narcotics production in Myanmar, UN official says

Instability increases narcotics production in Myanmar, UN official says

-- 2022-02-01 20:29:55

Increased instability in Myanmar since a military coup a year ago has seen a surge in narcotics production there and trafficking into Southeast Asia and beyond, a senior official from the UN Office on...

Israel enforcing 'apartheid' on Palestinians, Amnesty says

Israel enforcing 'apartheid' on Palestinians, Amnesty says

-- 2022-02-01 20:04:20

Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of "segregation, dispossession and exclusion" that it said amounted to crimes ag...

Myanmar death toll exceeds 1,500 with nearly 8,800 in custody

Myanmar death toll exceeds 1,500 with nearly 8,800 in custody

-- 2022-02-01 17:02:30

At least 1,500 people are known to have been killed in year-long protests against the coup in Myanmar, with thousands more possibly killed in the armed conflict, the United Nations human rights office...

Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on Twitter

Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on Twitter

-- 2022-01-31 21:28:45

Chief Minister of India’s West Bengal State Mamata Banerjee has blocked the state's top constitutional figure, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, her micro-blogging platform Twitter's handle. Describin...

Myanmar junta to start election fraud trial of Suu Kyi on February 14

Myanmar junta to start election fraud trial of Suu Kyi on February 14

-- 2022-01-31 17:38:19

A court in army-ruled Myanmar will start an election fraud trial of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb 14, a source familiar with the proceedings said on Monday, after she was accused of influenci...

North Korea tests biggest missile since 2017, as US calls for talks

North Korea tests biggest missile since 2017, as US calls for talks

-- 2022-01-31 10:06:45

North Korea on Monday confirmed it had launched a Hwasong-12 ballistic missile, the same weapon it once threatened to target the US territory of Guam with "enveloping fire," sparking fears the nuclear...

India's ruling party revives Hindu-Muslim dispute ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls

India's ruling party revives Hindu-Muslim dispute ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-31 09:49:18

In the streets around a revered religious site in the Indian city of Mathura where a temple and mosque stand side-by-side, the handful of Muslim restaurants that remain are mostly empty or shuttered....