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West weighs contentious anti-China move as UN rights council opens

-- 2022-09-11 14:56:33

Western countries face a dilemma as the UN Human Rights Council opens on Monday: confront China over human rights violations in its Xinjiang region and risk failing or miss the biggest opportuni...

UK dismisses Putin assertion on Ukraine grain exports to poor countries

REUTERS 2022-09-11 14:17:47

Britain dismissed as untrue on Sunday Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that only a fraction of grain exported from Ukraine under an international deal was going to poor countries. Putin s...

We have shown we can defeat Russians, we need more weapons: Ukraine

-- 2022-09-11 10:02:36

The success of a counter-offensive against Russia shows Ukraine can beat Moscow's forces but Kyiv needs more weapons from its partners, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday, Reuters r...

Queen Elizabeth's funeral to be held on Sept 19

-- 2022-09-11 00:07:34

The funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth who died this week after 70 years on the throne, will be held on Monday, Sept 19 at 1000 GMT, England's most senior peer who is in charge of state occasions sa...

Russia abandons northeast Ukraine bastion

-- 2022-09-10 21:42:03

Moscow abandoned its main bastion on the front line in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday after it became encircled in a stunning Ukrainian advance that appeared to turn into a rout. The state run Tass...

Putin wishes King Charles 'success, good health’

-- 2022-09-10 19:48:51

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Britain's new monarch King Charles on the accession to the throne, the Russian embassy in London said on Twitter. "Please accept my sincere congratu...

Britain’s Charles formally confirmed as king

FE ONLINE DESK   2022-09-10 15:38:23

Britain’s Charles III has been proclaimed as king at a ceremony at St James's Palace in London on Saturday. Charles became king immediately following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II...

Ukraine retakes territory in Kharkiv region as Russian front crumbles

REUTERS 2022-09-10 11:45:44

Ukrainian forces have seized an expanding area of previously Russian-held territory in the east in a "very sharp and rapid" advance, a Russian-installed regional official said on Friday, in a br...

Germany’s bakeries burnt by rising energy prices

-- 2022-09-09 20:49:15

German bakery owner Peter Hemmerle is expecting his company's annual electricity bill to quadruple to 1.2 million euros as energy prices have risen since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. According...

Britain's King Charles reaches London, greets public outside Buckingham Palace

-- 2022-09-09 19:54:45

Britain's King Charles reached London on Friday, having flown back from Scotland to address the nation following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth a day earlier. Charles, wearing a dark suit an...

Russian invasion of Ukraine caused $97 billion in damages   

-- 2022-09-09 18:23:54

Russia's invasion caused over $97 billion in direct damages to Ukraine through June 1, but it could cost nearly $350 billion to rebuild the country, a report released Friday by the World Bank, Ukraini...

King Charles to address a nation shaken by death of queen

-- 2022-09-09 17:09:12

Britain's King Charles will address a country in mourning on Friday following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth, the only monarch most Britons ever knew and the "spirit of the nation" for seven...

Russian air strike hits hospital in Ukraine, wounds people

-- 2022-09-09 16:29:43

A Russian air strike hit a hospital in Ukraine's northeastern region of Sumy on Friday morning, destroying the building and wounding people, the region's governor said. "Russian aviation, without cro...

Britain’s royal mourning to last until seven days after queen's funeral

-- 2022-09-09 16:12:43

Britain's royal family will observe a period of mourning that ends on the seventh day after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, with flags at royal residences to remain at half-mast. "Following the death...

The scandals of Queen Elizabeth's reign

REUTERS 2022-09-09 11:08:39

Queen Elizabeth, who died on Thursday aged 96, was praised for her devotion to duty, but her reign was often overshadowed by scandals involving her extended family. Here are some of the most pr...

Death of Queen Elizabeth marked around world with tributes and flowers

-- 2022-09-09 10:00:54

As world leaders paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth on her death aged 96 on Thursday, ordinary people in Britain and around the globe paid their own respects to a woman who had been the face of her...

Charles' succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

-- 2022-09-09 10:00:03

The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for B...

Queen Elizabeth II dies

BBC 2022-09-08 23:54:13

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlie...

Doctors concerned for health of UK Queen  

-- 2022-09-08 18:25:31

Doctors are concerned about the health of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and have recommended the 96-year-old remains under medical supervision, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, with immediate family tr...

Ronaldo's time has come - the end has finally arrived!

Neel Rahman 2022-09-08 16:15:40

‘The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.’ When Robert Frost wrote that line, he definitely did not think about Cristiano Ronaldo or football. But as reality is stranger...

New UK leader Liz Truss finalises huge power subsidy plan

-- 2022-09-08 11:43:50

Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday readied the final details of a plan to tackle soaring energy bills, which looks likely to cool inflation but add more than 100 billion pounds...

Britain gets a cabinet first time without white man in top jobs

-- 2022-09-07 21:18:20

The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has selected a cabinet where for the first time a white man will not hold one of the country's four most important ministerial positions. Truss appointed Kwas...

EU plans to cap Russian gas price as Putin warns West of winter freeze

-- 2022-09-07 21:03:35

The European Union proposed a price cap on Russian gas on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin threatened to halt all energy supplies if they took such a step, raising the risk of rationing in som...

Putin casts doubt over Ukraine grain deal and gas supplies to Europe

-- 2022-09-07 19:27:17

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he wanted to discuss reopening a UN-brokered deal that allows Ukraine to export its grain via the Black Sea and threatened to halt all energy supplies to Eur...

Women earn 43pc less than men in Switzerland

-- 2022-09-07 18:19:32

Women in Switzerland earn more than 40 per cent less than men and draw less pension money, a gender pay gap report the government adopted on Wednesday showed, citing the high proportion of women worki...

Chelsea sack Tuchel - every bit an unwise decision

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-09-07 16:48:21

Thomas Tuchel, the 49-year-old manager of Chelsea, has been sacked from the club following a 1-0 defeat against Dinamo Zagreb in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday. The German had a relatively succe...

Pope urges halt to 'world war'

-- 2022-09-07 15:41:50

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a stop to the current "world war", calling on "everyone to be builders of peace" as he invoked special prayers for "martyred Ukraine." "I am not forgetting the ma...

'Impossible' to isolate Russia, Moscow will turn to Middle East: Putin

REUTERS 2022-09-07 13:28:40

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would be "impossible" to isolate Russia and that Moscow would defy the West's attempts to push Russia off the global stage. Speaking at an economic forum in t...

Ukrainian 'counter-attack underway,' UN pushes for nuclear plant's safety

REUTERS 2022-09-07 11:45:16

Ukrainian forces have attacked the Russian-held eastern town of Balakliia in the Kharkiv region, a senior pro-Moscow separatist official said, as Ukrainian officials remained guarded about how a...

Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World' concept

-- 2022-09-06 21:38:30

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a ‘Russian World’, a notion that conservative ideologues have used to j...