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-- 2021-12-17 17:51:40
Ten new cases of the Omicron variant were logged in India's capital Friday, taking the country's case tally of the new variant to 98. "Ten new cases of Omicron variant reported in Delhi, taking the t...
-- 2021-12-17 17:46:26
At least five people have died as powerful Typhoon Rai pounded the Philippines, according to authorities and local media. Ricardo Jalad, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (N...
-- 2021-12-17 16:37:25
North Korea has banned its citizens from laughing, shopping, and drinking from Friday onwards as a part of the 11-day mourning on the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il ruled...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-17 12:29:20
At least 27 people are feared dead as a fire broke out at a building in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday. Police are looking into the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started, said pub...
-- 2021-12-17 11:12:04
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, has been admitted to a hospital and will be undergoing a full medical check up, the hospital said on Thursday. "He shall be undergoing a full med...
-- 2021-12-16 18:47:38
Twenty-two people were trapped after a coal mine was flooded in the city of Xiaoyi, north China's Shanxi province, as a result of illegal mining, local authorities said Thursday. The accident took pl...
-- 2021-12-16 17:07:25
Typhoon Rai rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall in the southern Philippines on Thursday. The storm is forcing mass evacuations and flight cancellations as floodwaters rea...
-- 2021-12-16 16:22:08
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Thursday, the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake struck at 11:26 Jakarta time (0426 G...
-- 2021-12-15 17:44:53
A search and rescue mission was underway for 25 Indonesians missing after a boat capsized off Malaysia on Wednesday killing 11 people, among them suspected undocumented migrants, maritime authorities...
-- 2021-12-15 15:24:18
A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department...
-- 2021-12-15 10:18:15
Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a near two-year ban on their entry, in a bid to boost an economy hit by stop-start Covid-19 lockdowns...
-- 2021-12-14 21:36:43
Japan's Digital Agency on Tuesday said that it will initiate an application software enabling visitors and returnees to go through simpler customs, immigration, and quarantine (CIQ) procedures from ne...
-- 2021-12-14 12:44:29
Indian troops killed a suspected militant during a gunbattle in the federally-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region on Tuesday, two officials said, as violence escalated in the territory at the heart of...
-- 2021-12-14 10:27:18
Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck its region of East Nusa Tenggara, the meteorological department said. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Cen...
-- 2021-12-13 20:17:36
When Pakistan's annual inflation rate hit 11.5 per cent in November, the statistics office put a number on a phenomenon that was already painfully clear to the poor and the salaried middle-class voter...
-- 2021-12-13 18:29:03
Pakistan has confirmed its first case of the omicron Covid-19 variant, in the country's most populous city of Karachi, the country's National Institute of Health (NIH) said on Monday. "The NIH has be...
-- 2021-12-13 10:41:31
More than a dozen Chinese-listed companies said they had suspended production in coronavirus-hit parts of China's eastern Zhejiang province in response to local government's tightened COVID-19 curbs,...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-12 19:52:15
Saudi Arabia has banned Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic organisation, in the kingdom, describing the body as “one of the gates of terrorism.” The country has directed the mosque preachers to...
-- 2021-12-12 17:14:15
Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) at Assam has come up with a testing kit that can detect the new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, in just two hours. The I...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-12 12:48:23
The Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly hacked, confirmed his office early on Sunday. "The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter w...
-- 2021-12-11 20:51:33
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Saturday that 190 Houthis had been killed in military operations in the last 24 hours. The coalition conducted 36 operations against Houthi targets i...
-- 2021-12-11 19:37:18
If the United States lifts anti-Iran sanctions, a "good agreement," which Iran is looking for, will be reached in nuclear negotiations, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday. "The Islamic R...
-- 2021-12-11 13:37:36
The health authority in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong said on Saturday that one case of a human being infected with the H5N6 strain of bird flu has been reported in the city of Huizhou....
-- 2021-12-11 13:13:04
India has detected 25 cases of the emergent omicron variant of the coronavirus and all have shown mild symptoms, the health ministry said on Friday, adding that there was no immediate plan to authoris...
-- 2021-12-11 10:13:19
Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health in Afghanistan, the World Bank said as it seeks to...
-- 2021-12-10 19:51:24
India's top general, Bipin Rawat, was cremated in New Delhi on Friday with full military honours, including a 17-gun salute, two days after he and 12 others died in a helicopter crash in southern Indi...
-- 2021-12-10 17:55:57
The Chinese embassy in London said an unofficial tribunal of lawyers which accused Beijing of genocide against the Uyghurs was nothing more than a political tool of China's enemies which were spreadin...
-- 2021-12-09 20:12:36
India on Thursday ordered a tri-services probe into Wednesday's chopper crash that claimed the lives of the country's first military chief, General Bipin Rawat, his wife, and 11 other armed forces per...
-- 2021-12-09 19:43:15
Indian farmers called off a year-long protest on Thursday after the government conceded a clutch of demands, including assurances to consider guaranteed prices for all produce, instead of just rice an...
FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-09 18:01:09
Governments across South Asia need to urgently expand investments in basic health, education, and protection services for the millions of children and their families whose lives have been devastated b...
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