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India records 2,338 new Covid-19 cases, 19 more deaths

India records 2,338 new Covid-19 cases, 19 more deaths

-- 2022-05-31 16:35:10

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,158,087 on Tuesday, as 2,338 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 19 deaths from the pandem...

Russian forces face stiff resistance in Ukraine's Donbas

Russian forces face stiff resistance in Ukraine's Donbas

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-31 13:02:00

Russian troops were slowly advancing towards the city centre in Sievierodonetsk, a regional governor said on Tuesday, giving an update from a pocket of Ukrainian resistance that has held back the broa...

Shanghai to end two-month Covid curbs Wednesday

Shanghai to end two-month Covid curbs Wednesday

-- 2022-05-31 11:30:17

Shanghai authorities on Tuesday began dismantling fences around housing compounds and ripping police tape off public squares and buildings, to the relief of the city's 25 million residents, before a p...

Bodies of all 22 victims of Nepal plane crash recovered

Bodies of all 22 victims of Nepal plane crash recovered

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-31 11:21:01

The bodies of all 22 people, including 19 passengers and three crew members, who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside in Nepal two days ago have been recovered, an official...

Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales

Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-31 10:43:37

Canada's government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and b...

UK says Russia suffers devastating losses among lower-ranked officers

UK says Russia suffers devastating losses among lower-ranked officers

-- 2022-05-30 22:53:39

Russia appears to have suffered devastating losses amongst mid- and junior-ranking officers in its conflict with Ukraine, raising the prospect of weaker military effectiveness in future, Britain's def...

Russian foreign minister denies speculation that Putin is ill

Russian foreign minister denies speculation that Putin is ill

-- 2022-05-30 21:14:30

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denied speculation that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is ill. In an interview with French TV, Lavrov said the Russian leader appears in public eve...

First monkeypox death recorded in Nigeria; 21 cases confirmed

First monkeypox death recorded in Nigeria; 21 cases confirmed

-- 2022-05-30 19:56:01

Nigeria has recorded its first death from monkeypox this year in a patient with underlying medical conditions, the diseases control agency said. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention...

Britain offers work visas to graduates from world's 50 top universities

Britain offers work visas to graduates from world's 50 top universities

-- 2022-05-30 19:33:56

Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world's best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to attract the "best and brightest" workers. Since...

India plans to reduce power output from 81 coal-fired utilities

India plans to reduce power output from 81 coal-fired utilities

-- 2022-05-30 19:14:42

India plans to reduce power generation from at least 81 coal-fired utilities over the next four years, the federal power ministry said in a letter, in an effort to replace expensive thermal generation...

20 bodies recovered after Nepal plane crash, hopes fade for two missing

20 bodies recovered after Nepal plane crash, hopes fade for two missing

-- 2022-05-30 17:58:31

Hopes were fading in Nepal on Monday of finding any survivors among the 22 people aboard a small plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside a day earlier, officials said, with just two people st...

War in Ukraine adds to food price hikes, hunger in Africa

War in Ukraine adds to food price hikes, hunger in Africa

-- 2022-05-30 17:57:09

It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia's capital. Nearly all the w...

EU to pledge support for Ukraine, but not ready with new Russia sanctions

EU to pledge support for Ukraine, but not ready with new Russia sanctions

-- 2022-05-30 10:22:03

European Union leaders will meet on Monday to declare continued support for Ukraine to help it fend off Russia's assault, but the talks will be overshadowed by their failure to agree on a new sanction...

Nepal finds wreckage of a plane that crashed with 22 on board

Nepal finds wreckage of a plane that crashed with 22 on board

-- 2022-05-30 10:16:11

Nepal's army said on Monday it had located the crash site of a plane that went missing with 22 people on board during cloudy weather on Sunday, Reuters reports. "Search and rescue troops have physica...

Skirmishes erupt in Al-Aqsa mosque

Skirmishes erupt in Al-Aqsa mosque

-- 2022-05-30 09:33:13

Tens of thousands of flag-waving Israeli nationalists, some chanting "Death to Arabs", marched through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, defying threats of retaliation from Palesti...

Nepal suspends search operation for missing plane as night falls

Nepal suspends search operation for missing plane as night falls

-- 2022-05-29 21:57:54

A small passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in cloudy weather in Nepal on Sunday and authorities suspended a search in difficult terrain as night fell. "The search operation has been...

Colombians head to polls in a divisive presidential election

Colombians head to polls in a divisive presidential election

-- 2022-05-29 20:59:50

Colombians vote on Sunday to choose a new president from among a former rebel promising generous social programs, a centre-right candidate warning against a leftist economic model, and an eccentric bu...

Zelenskiy visits frontline in first official appearance outside Kyiv since invasion

Zelenskiy visits frontline in first official appearance outside Kyiv since invasion

-- 2022-05-29 20:12:17

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops on the frontline in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Sunday, his first official appearance outside the Kyiv region since the start of Rus...

Nepal sends search teams as villagers spot 'aircraft on fire'

Nepal sends search teams as villagers spot 'aircraft on fire'

-- 2022-05-29 18:40:38

A small passenger plane operated by a private airline went missing in mountainous Nepal on Sunday with 22 people on board during cloudy weather, and officials said search teams had been sent to the si...

Ukraine gets missiles from Denmark, howitzers from US

Ukraine gets missiles from Denmark, howitzers from US

-- 2022-05-29 17:31:23

Ukraine has started receiving Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark and self-propelled howitzers from the United States, arms that will bolster forces fighting Russia's invasion, Ukrainian Defence M...

France, Germany urge Putin to hold ‘direct, serious’ negotiations with Zelensky

France, Germany urge Putin to hold ‘direct, serious’ negotiations with Zelensky

-- 2022-05-29 17:19:26

The leaders of France and Germany have urged Russia's Vladimir Putin to hold "direct [and] serious negotiations" with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, the German chancellor's office said. Emma...

China signs deal with Samoa as Australia vows Pacific Islands plan

China signs deal with Samoa as Australia vows Pacific Islands plan

-- 2022-05-29 17:10:38

China's foreign minister signed a deal with Samoa on Saturday to strengthen diplomatic relations, while Australia's new leader said he had a "comprehensive plan" for the Pacific, as Beijing and Canber...

Covid-19 situation improving in North Korea

Covid-19 situation improving in North Korea

-- 2022-05-29 16:38:16

North Korea plans to revise anti-epidemic restrictions as the country's first acknowledged Covid-19 outbreak is improving, according to state media of the country. A politburo meeting guided by leade...

At least 35 people die amid heavy rainfall in Brazil

At least 35 people die amid heavy rainfall in Brazil

-- 2022-05-29 16:25:15

At least 35 people died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil on Friday and Saturday, as downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South American nation's fourth maj...

Jerusalem on edge ahead of contentious Israeli flag march

Jerusalem on edge ahead of contentious Israeli flag march

-- 2022-05-29 14:56:38

Flag-waving Jewish nationalists are set to march through the heart of the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday in a parade that could re-ignite violence between Israelis and Palestinians,...

Nepal plane missing with 22 people on board

Nepal plane missing with 22 people on board

-- 2022-05-29 13:28:33

A plane operated by a private airline in Nepal went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board, airline and government officials told Reuters, Reuters reports. The small plane was flying from the tour...

At least 31 people die in stampede at Nigerian church

At least 31 people die in stampede at Nigerian church

-- 2022-05-28 21:08:06

At least 31 people died in Nigeria on Saturday during a stampede at a church in the southern Rivers state, a police spokesperson said. Hundreds of people who had turned up to receive food at the chur...

Japan opening its borders to visitors after two years

Japan opening its borders to visitors after two years

-- 2022-05-28 21:00:45

After being closed to tourists for two years, Japan is opening its borders to visitors from 98 countries and regions. It marks the most significant moment so far in the country's slow relaxation of i...

Iran seizes two Greek tankers amid row over US oil grab

Iran seizes two Greek tankers amid row over US oil grab

-- 2022-05-28 20:49:46

Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, shortly after Tehran warned it would take "punitive action" against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from...

Ukraine’s former president prevented from leaving his country

Ukraine’s former president prevented from leaving his country

-- 2022-05-28 20:45:47

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was prevented from leaving Ukraine to take part in a meeting of a NATO body in Lithuania, his party's parliamentary faction said on Saturday. Poroshenko wa...