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-- 2021-09-11 22:07:29
Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Weligamage Don Lakshman has said he would step down next week at a time when the South Asian island nation’s weak foreign exchange reserves have limited its ab...
-- 2021-09-11 21:11:40
Vietnamese health officials have allowed Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to be used interchangeably amid Covid vaccine supply shortages, according to Viet Nam News. Since the beginning of the week, peopl...
-- 2021-09-11 20:14:50
The Taliban victory in Afghanistan has not led to a dramatic refugee exodus but the country urgently needs humanitarian aid to prevent economic collapse and major upheaval, the UN refugee agency chief...
-- 2021-09-11 18:54:20
Afghanistan's central bank has ordered banks to pay out remittances in local currency only, the latest move to preserve scarce US dollars, say sources familiar with the matter. Hard currency remittan...
-- 2021-09-11 13:27:27
Officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan will hold a meeting on North Korea next week in Tokyo, South Korea's foreign ministry confirmed on Friday. The three co...
-- 2021-09-11 12:28:29
At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between militias and Myanmar's ruling military, a witness and local media said on Friday, in the worst violence since opponents of the junta called this...
-- 2021-09-11 10:38:29
Lebanese leaders agreed a new government led by Sunni Muslim tycoon Najib Mikati on Friday after a year of feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic collapse, op...
-- 2021-09-11 10:37:19
Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas sites in Gaza in response to rocket firing towards Israel on Friday evening, an Israeli army spokesman said in a Twitter post early on Saturday. Sirens warning of in...
-- 2021-09-11 10:18:34
The Taliban have executed the brother of Amrullah Saleh, the former Afghan vice president who became one of the leaders of anti-Taliban opposition forces in the Panjshir valley, his nephew said on Fri...
-- 2021-09-10 21:16:58
At an unusual North Korean parade showcasing military dogs and virus workers in orange hazmat suits, leader Kim Jong Un still stood out by looking thinner and more energetic than he has in years. Dur...
-- 2021-09-10 20:43:01
Lebanese leaders agreed on the formation of a new government led by Sunni Muslim tycoon Najib Mikati on Friday after a year of feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic co...
-- 2021-09-10 17:52:54
In a luxury hotel along Doha's coastline last year, Zalmay Khalilzad smiled as he shook hands with the Taliban's co-founder Mullah Baradar in front of journalists and diplomats from around the world....
-- 2021-09-10 12:36:01
The five-nation BRICS summit chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday evening called for settling the situation in Afghanistan through peaceful means. The declaration at the summit said...
-- 2021-09-10 12:06:57
The global Covid-19 caseload has now surpassed another grim mark of 223 million, with the world still struggling to contain the second wave of the pandemic. Now the total caseload and fatalities from...
-- 2021-09-10 10:18:17
A group of influential farmer leaders ratcheted up pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to roll back three new farm laws by organising a mammoth rally in India's most populous state U...
-- 2021-09-09 21:03:15
As India's financial capital, Mumbai, gets ready for its biggest festival of the year, daily coronavirus cases have surged, rising more than two-fold in less than a month, even as authorities imposed...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-09 16:36:32
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled Kabul as Taliban forces reached the outskirts of the city last month, has said he left his country to save Kabul and its 6 million citizens. Ghani said...
-- 2021-09-09 08:28:54
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organisation had helped around 100 members of the "Olympic community" in Afghanistan to leave the country on huma...
-- 2021-09-08 22:25:12
India and Russia believe that foreign militant groups operating from Afghanistan pose a threat to Central Asia and to India and agreed to deepen anti-terrorism cooperation at a meeting of their nation...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-08 16:59:09
China and Japan gave a lukewarm reception on Wednesday to the formation of the Taliban's provisional government in Afghanistan following Islamist militants lightning seizure of Kabul last month. Tali...
-- 2021-09-08 16:54:02
The Taliban regime, which unveiled a caretaker government in Afghanistan on Tuesday, is doing exactly what the people of the country and the world feared. Shortly after being named as Afghanistan's ed...
-- 2021-09-08 15:00:06
Southeast Asian and Western countries have urged all sides in Myanmar to refrain from violence and allow in humanitarian aid, after a shadow government, formed by opponents of military rule, declared...
-- 2021-09-08 11:16:34
A fire tore through an overcrowded block in a jail in Indonesia's Banten province in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens, a government spokeswoman and media re...
-- 2021-09-07 23:02:54
The Taliban announced key acting ministerial positions on Tuesday. Here are some facts about the main appointments: MOHAMMAD HASAN AKHUND, ACTING PRIME MINISTER Akhund is the longtime head of the Ta...
-- 2021-09-07 20:58:43
The Taliban named Mullah Hasan Akhund, an associate of the movement's late founder Mullah Omar, as the head of Afghanistan's new government on Tuesday, with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the mov...
-- 2021-09-07 19:05:05
Singapore's health ministry recorded 328 new domestic coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the highest daily number of new infections in more than a year. The city-state has been reporting more than 100 dom...
-- 2021-09-07 17:45:31
The ruling triggered outrage online, sparking debate about the treatment of female workers across companies in China. Chinese prosecutors have dropped a case against a former Alibaba Group Hold...
-- 2021-09-07 17:01:52
Afghanistan is facing the collapse of basic services and food and other aid is about to run out, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday. OCHA spokesperson J...
-- 2021-09-07 16:58:59
The Taliban have fired shots to disperse the crowd at a large protest in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Video footage from the scene shows people running to safety, while heavy gunfire can be heard in th...
-- 2021-09-07 15:09:56
Six minor girls in central India were stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rains. The incident took place in a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of...
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