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Oil spill threatens corals in eastern Thailand

Oil spill threatens corals in eastern Thailand

-- 2022-01-30 20:26:21

Authorities are rushing to prevent an oil spill in eastern Thailand from damaging fragile corals, after officials said on Sunday the leak that began last week was drifting towards more coastal areas....

Isaac Herzog visits UAE, first-ever state visit by any Israeli president

Isaac Herzog visits UAE, first-ever state visit by any Israeli president

-- 2022-01-30 20:09:29

Israeli president Isaac Herzog arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday for a historically first visit to strengthen bilateral ties. "This morning I am embarking on a historic trip to the...

Thai pig farmers angered by suspected swine fever havoc

Thai pig farmers angered by suspected swine fever havoc

-- 2022-01-30 10:17:35

Business began unravelling for Thai pig farmer Jintana Jamjumrus two years ago, after dozens of her animals got feverish and died within days of a mysterious illness she suspected of being a viral dis...

New Zealand PM isolates herself after exposure to COVID case

New Zealand PM isolates herself after exposure to COVID case

-- 2022-01-29 19:18:38

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone into self-isolation until Tuesday after being deemed a close contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19, the government said. The exposu...

Myanmar families of detainees search for answers a year after coup

Myanmar families of detainees search for answers a year after coup

REUTERS 2022-01-29 18:50:03

Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive. One night last April, a neighbour phoned to...

Cambodia says ASEAN foreign ministers to meet for talks on Myanmar next month

Cambodia says ASEAN foreign ministers to meet for talks on Myanmar next month

-- 2022-01-29 17:01:55

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will meet next month to discuss humanitarian aid for Myanmar, the current chair of the grouping, Cambodia, said on Saturday. Ca...

India registers 235,532 new COVID-19 cases

India registers 235,532 new COVID-19 cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-29 15:35:05

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 40,858,241 on Saturday as 235,532 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry's latest data. Besides, as many as 8...

UN labour group says 1.6m jobs lost in Myanmar in 2021

UN labour group says 1.6m jobs lost in Myanmar in 2021

-- 2022-01-28 18:10:12

The International Labor Organization (ILO) says about 1.6 million jobs were lost in Myanmar in 2021, with women suffering the worst setbacks as work in factories, tourism and construction dwindled ami...

Delhi lifts weekend curfew as Covid cases drop

Delhi lifts weekend curfew as Covid cases drop

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-28 14:17:33

India's capital Delhi lifted a weekend curfew and allowed restaurants and marketplaces to reopen on Friday, following a sharp drop in new infections of COVID-19. Under new orders, however, the city w...

10 Pakistan soldiers killed in Balochistan terror attack

10 Pakistan soldiers killed in Balochistan terror attack

-- 2022-01-28 12:14:04

Ten Pakistani soldiers have been killed when terrorists attacked a security forces’ check-post in Kech district of the restive southwestern Balochistan province, the army said on Thursday, bdnew...

Anti-Semitism being fuelled by protesters against Covid measures, alleges Israel

Anti-Semitism being fuelled by protesters against Covid measures, alleges Israel

-- 2022-01-28 10:53:27

Protesters against COVID-19 measures who liken themselves to Jews under Nazi persecution are stoking global anti-Semitism, the Israeli government said in a report marking International Holocaust Remem...

Filipino officials challenged to disclose wealth

Filipino officials challenged to disclose wealth

-- 2022-01-28 10:38:24

Former boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, who has vowed to root out graft in the Philippine government if elected president, said on Thursday he would proudly disclose full details of his wealth and cha...

Olympics return to a changed China, amid pandemic, protest

Olympics return to a changed China, amid pandemic, protest

-- 2022-01-28 09:57:53

The Beijing Winter Olympics kick off in a week, putting sports at centre-stage following preparations that have been clouded by diplomatic boycotts and the COVID-19 pandemic that has forced the Games...

Air India officially handed over to Tata Group

Air India officially handed over to Tata Group

-- 2022-01-27 20:18:11

India's salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group on Thursday formally took over the country's ailing national carrier Air India for a whopping 2.4 billion US dollars, three months after Prime Minister...

Jordanian military kills 27 Syrian smugglers

Jordanian military kills 27 Syrian smugglers

-- 2022-01-27 19:19:04

The Jordan Armed Forces on Thursday killed 27 infiltrators while trying to smuggle large amounts of narcotics from Syria into the country. A source at the army told the state-run Petra news agency th...

Qatar could reroute some gas to Europe with US mediation

Qatar could reroute some gas to Europe with US mediation

-- 2022-01-27 11:58:31

Qatar will need help from the United States to persuade Doha's natural gas buyers to reroute some supplies to Europe in case a Russia-Ukraine conflict disrupts Russian deliveries to the continent, a s...

India's jobs crisis exasperates its youth

India's jobs crisis exasperates its youth

-- 2022-01-26 12:27:20

Srijan Upadhyay supplied fried snacks to small eateries and roadside stalls in the poor eastern Indian state of Bihar before COVID-19 lockdowns forced most of his customers to close down, many without...

19 killed in blaze, brawl at karaoke bar in Indonesia's Papua

19 killed in blaze, brawl at karaoke bar in Indonesia's Papua

-- 2022-01-25 11:59:23

At least 19 people have died after a karaoke bar in Indonesia's West Papua was set ablaze following a brawl between rival gangs of youths in the area, police in the provincial capital of Sorong said o...

Pakistan gets female Supreme Court judge for first time

Pakistan gets female Supreme Court judge for first time

-- 2022-01-24 18:22:27

Pakistan has appointed a female Supreme Court judge for the first time in its history. Justice Ayesha Malik, 55, was selected by a commission that decides on the promotion of judges. As is typical f...

Pakistan not to allow unvaccinated people at mosques

Pakistan not to allow unvaccinated people at mosques

-- 2022-01-24 15:46:15

The government of Pakistan has decided to allow the people, who have completed full-vaccination against Covid-19, at mosques and other places of worship. The National Command and Operation Centre (NC...

Fourth dose of Covid vaccine raises resistance to serious illness for people over 60: Israel

Fourth dose of Covid vaccine raises resistance to serious illness for people over 60: Israel

-- 2022-01-24 10:42:54

A fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given to people over 60 in Israel made them three times more resistant to serious illness than thrice-vaccinated people in the same age group, Israel's Health Ministr...

South Korea logs second-highest daily Covid count ahead of holiday

South Korea logs second-highest daily Covid count ahead of holiday

-- 2022-01-23 14:02:24

South Korea posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases on Sunday, despite extended COVID-19 curbs and a high vaccination rate, raising concerns of further spread during the upcoming L...

Beijing to maintain ‘full emergency mode’ as Winter Olympics loom

Beijing to maintain ‘full emergency mode’ as Winter Olympics loom

-- 2022-01-23 12:37:36

China's capital Beijing urged all its local districts on Saturday to maintain "full emergency mode" as the city continued to report new local coronavirus cases, less than two weeks before the start...

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern cancels her wedding amid new omicron cuyrb

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern cancels her wedding amid new omicron cuyrb

-- 2022-01-23 11:00:08

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as the nation imposes new restrictions to slow the community spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant, she told reporters on Sunday, Re...

Mahathir Mohamad admitted to hospital

Mahathir Mohamad admitted to hospital

-- 2022-01-22 17:30:24

Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister of Malaysia, has been admitted to hospital, a spokesperson for him said on Saturday. The spokesperson said Mahathir was admitted to the cardiac care unit at th...

Death toll from Mumbai building fire rises to 7

Death toll from Mumbai building fire rises to 7

-- 2022-01-22 16:19:26

At least seven people have been killed and 14 injured when a large fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in India's financial capital Mumbai on Saturday, authorities said. According t...

13 injured in Southern Japan earthquake

13 injured in Southern Japan earthquake

-- 2022-01-22 11:36:08

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted southwestern Japan early on Saturday morning, injuring 13 people, the authorities and local media said. No tsunami warning was issued after the quake stru...

Delhi to stay under Covid curfew

Delhi to stay under Covid curfew

-- 2022-01-22 11:12:00

India's capital Delhi will remain under curfew over the weekend and overnight to help curb the spread of the omicron variant of coronavirus, the city's disaster management authority said on Friday, re...

India blocks 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels

India blocks 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels

-- 2022-01-21 19:31:37

India on Friday said that it has blocked as many as 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels with over 1.3 billion views "for spreading fake and misleading information on social media". The Indian Informa...

IS gunmen mount attacks in Syria, Iraq killing dozens

IS gunmen mount attacks in Syria, Iraq killing dozens

-- 2022-01-21 19:04:34

Militants from the Islamic State group launched sophisticated attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by US-backed fighters, of...