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North Korea reports first Covid-19 death as fever 'explosively spreads'

-- 2022-05-13 11:02:30

At least one person confirmed to have Covid-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of...

South Korean women freeze eggs as child-rearing costs surge

-- 2022-05-13 10:02:33

In South Korea, fewer women are having children and those who do are in no rush. The sky-high costs of housing and education make financial security a must. Social mores also dictate the need to be ma...

Eleven dead after Haitian migrant vessel capsizes near Puerto Rico

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-13 09:48:18

At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the US Coast Guard said on Thursday, amid a steady increase in migrants attempting reach US shores in dang...

Wickremesinghe takes oath, returns as Sri Lanka's PM

-- 2022-05-12 19:49:23

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has just one seat in the 225-member Parliament, took oath as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Monday, after holding closed-door discussions with President Gotaba...

Many Sri Lankans flee Colombo as political leaders meet to seek solution to crisis

-- 2022-05-12 19:19:28

Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns with leaders of political parties due to meet after the prime minister quit and went into hiding and P...

Saudi Arabia aims for 70m tourists this year

-- 2022-05-12 18:05:47

Saudi Arabia aims to exceed 70 million tourist visits this year after drawing 62 million last year, a tourism official said on Monday, underlining the conservative kingdom's concerted push to boost it...

Wickremesinghe to be appointed Sri Lankan PM

-- 2022-05-12 17:56:10

Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed on Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and economic crisis, a par...

Finland seeks NATO membership without delay

-- 2022-05-12 16:51:48

Finland said on Thursday it would apply to join NATO "without delay", with Sweden expected to follow suit, suggesting Russia's invasion of Ukraine will bring about the very expansion of the Western mi...

Sweden plans to send NATO application next week, Expressen daily says

REUTERS 2022-05-12 15:04:09

Sweden's government plans to submit an application to join NATO next week, following neighbour Finland in re-writing its post-World War Two security policy in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...

COVID claims 1.0 million lives in USA

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 10:58:18

The United States has now recorded more than 1.0 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday lif...

Sri Lanka's ruling family in fight for survival as crisis worsens

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 10:33:21

His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by protesters, and a museum dedicated to his father ransacked. Now former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is in hiding in a heavily fortified...

North Korea reports first Covid-19 outbreak, orders lockdown in 'gravest emergency'

-- 2022-05-12 10:00:27

North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been dete...

We don’t want war, but Western countries want to defeat us: Russia’s FM

-- 2022-05-11 19:48:44

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow did not want war in Europe, but that Western countries were keen to see Russia defeated in its military campaign in Ukraine. "If y...

Philippines' Marcos to 'hit the ground running' as president

-- 2022-05-11 18:48:43

Philippines election winner Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday he would hit the ground running as president and was looking very carefully at candidates for his economic team, with infrastructure,...

Europe to drop air travel mask mandate from May 16

-- 2022-05-11 18:27:16

Face masks will not have to be worn in airports and on flights in Europe from May 16, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) sai...

Russian envoy says barber in Poland refuses to cut his hair

-- 2022-05-11 17:49:34

Russian diplomat Sergiy Andreev was feeling unwelcome on the streets of Warsaw even before protesters doused him with red liquid thrown in his face at short range this week. Soon after beginning of R...

Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa evacuated to naval base for his safety

-- 2022-05-11 17:38:52

Sri Lanka has moved Mahinda Rajapaksa to a naval base for his safety after he quit two days ago as prime minister, the defence secretary of Sri Lanka said on Wednesday, following violence targeting th...

Belarus to deploy special forces near its border with Ukraine

-- 2022-05-11 17:21:58

Belarus will deploy special operations troops in three areas near its southern border with Ukraine, the armed forces said on Tuesday as President Alexander Lukashenko talked up the role of Russian-mad...

SL troops ordered to shoot at any persons damaging public property

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-11 14:25:02

Sri Lanka's armed forces were ordered on Tuesday to shoot at any persons damaging public property or threatening lives, Defence Ministry spokesman Nalin Herath said. The island nation has been rocked...

Al Jazeera says reporter killed by Israeli army gunfire in West Bank

-- 2022-05-11 12:19:15

An Al Jazeera reporter was killed by Israeli army gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Qatar-based news channel said, but the military said she may have been shot by Palestinians as t...

Half of Shanghai achieves 'zero Covid'

-- 2022-05-11 11:05:19

Shanghai officials said on Wednesday half the city had achieved "zero COVID" status, but uncompromising restrictions had to remain in place under a national policy which the head of the World Health...

Ukraine to halt key Russian gas transit to Europe, blames Moscow

-- 2022-05-11 09:44:27

Ukraine said on Tuesday it would suspend the flow of gas through a transit point which it said delivers almost a third of the fuel piped from Russia to Europe through Ukraine, blaming Moscow for the m...

Ukraine pushes Russian troops back in counter-offensive near Kharkiv

-- 2022-05-11 09:28:37

Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had recaptured villages from Russian troops north and northeast of Kharkiv, pressing a counter-offensive that could signal a shift in the war's momentum and jeopardi...

Western countries accuse Russia of downing satellite internet in Ukraine

-- 2022-05-10 23:08:09

Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the United States, Britain, Canada and t...

Protesters, trade group call for new government in Sri Lanka

-- 2022-05-10 23:00:05

Protesters and a key trade group in Sri Lanka called for a new government to take control of the crisis-hit country on Tuesday as the president called for calm a day after clashes killed eight people,...

Foreign food-delivery workers in UAE stage rare strike for better pay

-- 2022-05-10 18:54:07

Foreign food-delivery workers in the United Arab Emirates staged a mass walk out on Monday, calling for better pay and working conditions in a rare instance of industrial action in the country. The st...

WHO may shut Moscow office as its European members pass resolution against Russia

-- 2022-05-10 18:47:47

Members of the World Health Organization's European region passed a resolution on Tuesday that could result in the closure of Russia's regional office and the suspension of meetings in the country in...

Sri Lankan youths block airport entrance to prevent MPs from departure

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-10 18:22:57

A group of youth in Sri Lanka has blocked the entrance of their main international airport to prevent members of parliament (MPs) from leaving the country. A Daily Mirror report said youths from the...

Prince Charles delivers Queen Elizabeth’s speech for the first time

-- 2022-05-10 17:39:08

Britain's heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William took centre stage at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, replacing the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth who missed the grand set-piece event...

Sri Lanka’s military, police get powers to detain people without warrants

-- 2022-05-10 17:01:40

Sri Lanka gave emergency powers on Tuesday to its military and police to detain people without warrants, after a day of clashes that killed seven people and injured more than 200, in violence that pro...