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India overturns ban on Muslim prayer gatherings at Gyanvapi mosque

India overturns ban on Muslim prayer gatherings at Gyanvapi mosque

-- 2022-05-17 20:27:09

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a local order to ban large Muslim prayer gatherings in a high-profile mosque in north India after a survey team said it found relics of the Hindu god Shiva...

Over 250 Ukrainian troops surrender in Mariupol

Over 250 Ukrainian troops surrender in Mariupol

-- 2022-05-17 19:06:07

More than 250 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and Kyiv said it had ordered its entire garrison to evacuate, heralding the end of Europe's bloodi...

Iran-backed Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon parliament

Iran-backed Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon parliament

-- 2022-05-17 17:53:38

Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon's parliament in a general election, a tally of final results showed on Tuesday, a major blow to the heavily armed group that re...

China's news sector employs 1.0m in two years

China's news sector employs 1.0m in two years

-- 2022-05-17 17:51:06

China's news sector employed approximately 1.0 million employees in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, according to a report by the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) unveiled Monday. Omni-media...

US warns over risk of hiring North Korea IT workers

US warns over risk of hiring North Korea IT workers

-- 2022-05-17 14:37:27

The US has warned that IT workers from North Korea are trying to get remote working jobs by hiding their true identities for the purpose of stealing money for Pyongyang. Many of them pret...

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children: UNICEF

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children: UNICEF

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-05-17 12:58:58

The number of children with severe wasting was rising even before the war in Ukraine threatened to plunge the world deeper into a spiralling global food crisis - and it’s getting worse, UNICEF w...

Ukrainian troops evacuate from Mariupol, ceding control to Russia

Ukrainian troops evacuate from Mariupol, ceding control to Russia

-- 2022-05-17 12:30:00

Ukraine's military said on Tuesday it was working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, ceding control of the city to Russia after months of bom...

Japan announces limited 'test tourism' from May as step to full re-opening

Japan announces limited 'test tourism' from May as step to full re-opening

-- 2022-05-17 11:17:51

Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting "test tourism" in the form of limited package tours in May as a way of gathering information prior to a full re-opening of the country to tourism. Thou...

Sweden's plans for NATO membership hit snag as Turkey says no

Sweden's plans for NATO membership hit snag as Turkey says no

-- 2022-05-17 10:27:39

Sweden will formally apply for NATO membership in the next few days, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday, but its accession process, and that of Finland, hit a snag when NATO member Turk...

Putin sees no threat from NATO expansion

Putin sees no threat from NATO expansion

-- 2022-05-17 09:48:08

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that there was no threat to his country if Sweden and Finland joined NATO but cautioned that Moscow would respond if the US-led alliance bolstered milit...

Military build-up in Nordic countries, not NATO expansion, to provoke response: Putin

Military build-up in Nordic countries, not NATO expansion, to provoke response: Putin

-- 2022-05-16 21:50:28

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that there was no threat to Russia if Sweden and Finland joined NATO but cautioned that Moscow would respond if the US-led alliance bolstered mil...

Biden reverses Trump’s decision to redeploy some US troops to Somalia

Biden reverses Trump’s decision to redeploy some US troops to Somalia

-- 2022-05-16 21:21:59

US President Joe Biden has authorised the redeployment of several hundred American troops into Somalia, two US officials said on Monday, after Donald Trump ordered their withdrawal during his presiden...

Sri Lankan PM says they have petrol stocks just for one day

Sri Lankan PM says they have petrol stocks just for one day

-- 2022-05-16 21:12:57

Sri Lanka's new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galv...

Hindu idols found at India’s Gyanvapi mosque, Muslim prayer gatherings banned

Hindu idols found at India’s Gyanvapi mosque, Muslim prayer gatherings banned

-- 2022-05-16 20:49:56

A court in north India on Monday ordered authorities to limit large Muslim prayer gatherings in the historic Gyanvapi mosque after a survey team found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu sym...

US deaths from Covid hit 1.0m, less than 2 1/2 years in

US deaths from Covid hit 1.0m, less than 2 1/2 years in

-- 2022-05-16 20:20:35

The US death toll from Covid-19 hit 1.0 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration, reports Reuters....

North Korea battles Covid with antibiotics, home remedies

North Korea battles Covid with antibiotics, home remedies

-- 2022-05-16 19:17:36

Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a Covid-19 outbreak that - in the presumed absence of vaccines - the country is...

Indonesia tourist bus crash kills 14

Indonesia tourist bus crash kills 14

-- 2022-05-16 17:08:04

A tourist bus with an apparently drowsy driver slammed into a billboard Monday on a highway on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least 14 people and injuring 19 others, police said. T...

Sri Lanka PM to address crisis-hit nation

Sri Lanka PM to address crisis-hit nation

-- 2022-05-16 14:50:20

Sri Lanka's new prime minister will address the crisis-hit nation later on Monday, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-...

Ex-Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency to face war and drought

Ex-Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency to face war and drought

-- 2022-05-16 14:13:54

Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on Sunday in an airport hangar protected by blast walls from Islamist insurgents whom he must now figh...

North Korea's Kim orders military to stabilise supply of Covid drugs

North Korea's Kim orders military to stabilise supply of Covid drugs

-- 2022-05-16 13:27:06

Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to stabilise distribution of COVID-19 medicine in the capital, Pyongyang, in the battle on the country's first confirmed outbreak of the disease,...

Ukraine counter-attacks Russian forces in the east

Ukraine counter-attacks Russian forces in the east

-- 2022-05-16 13:13:22

Ukraine counter-attacked Russian forces on the eastern front on Monday with fighting reported near its second-largest city of Kharkiv, after Western military agencies said Moscow's offensive in the Do...

Shanghai targets June 1 return to normal as Covid lockdowns cool economy

Shanghai targets June 1 return to normal as Covid lockdowns cool economy

-- 2022-05-16 11:08:55

Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the return of more normal life from June 1 and the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks and contributed to a sharp slowdown in Ch...

Poor workers bear the brunt of India's heatwave

Poor workers bear the brunt of India's heatwave

-- 2022-05-16 10:14:04

For construction worker Yogendra Tundre, life at a building site on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi is hard enough. This year, record high temperatures are making it unbearable. As Indi...

Sweden's ruling party backs joining NATO, paving way for bid

Sweden's ruling party backs joining NATO, paving way for bid

-- 2022-05-15 22:37:57

Sweden's ruling Social Democrats said on Sunday they backed the country joining NATO, abandoning decades of opposition in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and creating a large parliament major...

Front lines shift in Donbas as Ukraine mounts counteroffensive

Front lines shift in Donbas as Ukraine mounts counteroffensive

-- 2022-05-15 20:23:07

The front lines in Ukraine had shifted on Sunday as Russia made advances in the fiercely contested eastern Donbas region and Ukraine's military waged a counteroffensive near the strategic Russian-held...

Russia suspends electricity supply to Finland due to ‘problems with payments’

Russia suspends electricity supply to Finland due to ‘problems with payments’

-- 2022-05-15 19:50:03

Russian energy supplier RAO Nordic says it will suspend deliveries of electricity to Finland from Saturday, citing problems with payments. The company said it had not been paid for previous deliverie...

Ankara says Sweden, Finland must lift export bans on Turkey

Ankara says Sweden, Finland must lift export bans on Turkey

-- 2022-05-15 19:22:42

Turkey's foreign minister said on Sunday that Sweden and Finland must stop supporting terrorist groups in their countries, provide clear security guarantees and lift export bans on Turkey as they seek...

Somali legislators gather to choose new president

Somali legislators gather to choose new president

-- 2022-05-15 18:51:10

Somali parliamentarians met on Sunday in a heavily-fortified airport hangar to choose a new president in a vote required to keep foreign aid coming to the impoverished nation tortured by three decades...

Some Shanghai businesses to reopen Monday, officials say

Some Shanghai businesses to reopen Monday, officials say

-- 2022-05-15 18:45:34

Supermarkets, malls and restaurants in Shanghai will be allowed to open in a limited capacity starting Monday, officials said, even while it remained unclear whether residents would be let out of thei...

India open to exporting wheat to poorer nations despite ban

India open to exporting wheat to poorer nations despite ban

-- 2022-05-15 18:37:58

India on Sunday said it would keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries at the government level despite restrictions announced two days earlier. India's Commerce Secretary BVR Subr...