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Chinese Omicron-specific mRNA Covid vaccine candidate to be trialed in UAE

Chinese Omicron-specific mRNA Covid vaccine candidate to be trialed in UAE

-- 2022-04-30 15:14:28

China's Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the Omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the United...

Britain says Russia forced to merge, redeploy depleted units

Britain says Russia forced to merge, redeploy depleted units

-- 2022-04-30 13:27:34

Russia has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from failed advances in northeast Ukraine, a British military update said on Saturday. "Shortcomings in Russian tactical coor...

Ukraine warns talks with Russia may collapse as battles rage in east

Ukraine warns talks with Russia may collapse as battles rage in east

-- 2022-04-30 13:08:27

Ukraine warned on Friday that peace talks with Moscow were in danger of collapse and said Russia was pounding areas in the east as US lawmakers vowed to swiftly approve a massive new weapons package f...

Shanghai marks key Covid milestone, Beijing sits on edge

Shanghai marks key Covid milestone, Beijing sits on edge

-- 2022-04-30 12:18:49

Shanghai said on Saturday it had detected no new daily COVID-19 cases outside quarantine areas, marking a key milestone in its battle to contain the virus, which has paralysed the city of 25 million a...

Lifting sanctions against Russia part of peace talks with Ukraine, Lavrov says

Lifting sanctions against Russia part of peace talks with Ukraine, Lavrov says

-- 2022-04-30 10:33:56

Lifting sanctions imposed on Russia is part of peace negotiations between Moscow and Ukraine, which are "difficult" but continue daily, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published...

US sees no threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite rhetoric

US sees no threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite rhetoric

-- 2022-04-30 10:27:10

The United States does not believe that there is a threat of Russia using nuclear weapons despite a recent escalation in Moscow's rhetoric, a senior US defence official said on Friday, Reuters reports...

UN head condemns attacks on civilians during Ukraine visit

UN head condemns attacks on civilians during Ukraine visit

-- 2022-04-30 08:55:09

KYIV (Ukraine): The head of the United Nations said Ukraine has become "an epicentre of unbearable heartache and pain" - a description underscored a short time later by the first Russian strike on t...

Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque

Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque

-- 2022-04-29 23:20:44

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim hol...

Britain to send investigators to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes

Britain to send investigators to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes

-- 2022-04-29 21:55:28

Britain will send investigators to Ukraine to help gather evidence of war crimes, including sexual violence, its foreign minister said on Friday. Both Ukrainian prosecutors and the International Crim...

Russia makes some overdue debt payments in dollars

Russia makes some overdue debt payments in dollars

-- 2022-04-29 21:28:07

Russia has made a number of already-overdue international debt payments in dollars despite previously vowing they would only be paid in roubles. Whether the money would make it to the United States a...

Moderna plans to build vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

Moderna plans to build vaccine manufacturing facility in Canada

-- 2022-04-29 21:23:00

Moderna Inc said on Friday it plans to build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Quebec province as part of the Covid-19 vaccine maker's ten-year partnership with the Government of Canada to bet...

Panama opens door to commercialisation of crypto assets

Panama opens door to commercialisation of crypto assets

-- 2022-04-29 20:27:31

Lawmakers in Panama's National Assembly on Thursday approved a bill to regulate the use and commercialisation of crypto assets in the Central American country renowned as a hub of offshore financial s...

South Africa may be entering fifth Covid-19 wave earlier than expected

South Africa may be entering fifth Covid-19 wave earlier than expected

-- 2022-04-29 20:14:32

South Africa may be entering a fifth Covid-19 wave earlier than expected after a sustained rise in infections over the past 14 days that seems to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants, h...

More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021

More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021

-- 2022-04-29 20:08:21

More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes. UN refugee agency gave the information...

Sri Lanka says it will treat all creditors equally in restructuring debt

Sri Lanka says it will treat all creditors equally in restructuring debt

-- 2022-04-29 20:05:02

All Sri Lanka's creditors will be treated equally in a planned restructuring of the country's debt, its central bank governor said on Friday, adding that he expected progress in talks with the Interna...

Sri Lanka president agrees to remove his brother as prime minister

Sri Lanka president agrees to remove his brother as prime minister

-- 2022-04-29 19:05:44

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to replace his older brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the...

Taliban supreme leader encourages investment in Afghanistan

Taliban supreme leader encourages investment in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-29 18:45:37

The supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration has invited domestic and foreign companies to invest in Afghanistan and also called upon Afghans to get together and rebuild their war-to...

Russia kills Radio Liberty journalist in missile attack on Kyiv

Russia kills Radio Liberty journalist in missile attack on Kyiv

-- 2022-04-29 18:31:43

Russia killed a journalist from the US-backed broadcaster Radio Liberty in a missile attack on Kyiv during a visit to the Ukrainian capital by the secretary-general of the United Nations, the broadcas...

We have serious losses but Russia's losses are much bigger: Ukraine

We have serious losses but Russia's losses are much bigger: Ukraine

-- 2022-04-29 18:06:28

Ukraine acknowledged on Friday it was taking heavy losses in Russia's assault in the east, but said Russia's losses were even worse, as US President Joe Biden called on Congress to send as much as $33...

Bomb explosion kills nine in Afghanistan

Bomb explosion kills nine in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-29 15:47:03

Bombs exploded aboard two passenger vans carrying Shia Muslims in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday, killing at least nine people, an official said. The blasts follow an exp...

Heat wave in India leaves millions struggling to cope

Heat wave in India leaves millions struggling to cope

-- 2022-04-29 11:54:57

India's weather department has issued a severe heatwave warning as temperatures soar, throwing millions of lives and livelihoods out of gear. "Temperatures are rising rapidly in the count...

Blasts hit Kyiv during UN chief’s visit

Blasts hit Kyiv during UN chief’s visit

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-29 09:59:37

Russia fired two missiles into Kyiv on Thursday during a visit by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow pressed an assault in the east that drew new US pledges of...

Tourist favourite Thailand's recovery lags on Covid rule changes

Tourist favourite Thailand's recovery lags on Covid rule changes

-- 2022-04-29 09:54:52

When 23-year-old Norwegian Anastasia Johansen and her boyfriend were planning their first vacation in two years, they considered going to Thailand but chose nearby Vietnam instead, for its simpler ent...

Swedish PM rejects referendum on possible NATO membership

Swedish PM rejects referendum on possible NATO membership

-- 2022-04-29 09:41:24

Sweden's government does not plan to hold a referendum if its parliament decides to proceed with an application for NATO membership, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Friday. Russia's invasi...

Biden seeks $33 billion for Ukraine, a massive jump in funding

Biden seeks $33 billion for Ukraine, a massive jump in funding

-- 2022-04-29 09:02:53

President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to support Ukraine - a dramatic escalation of US funding for the war against Russia - as well as new legal tools to siphon assets from Ru...

Biden asks US congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine

Biden asks US congress for $33 billion to support Ukraine

-- 2022-04-28 22:33:57

US President Joe Biden asked US Congress on Thursday for $33 billion to support Ukraine - a dramatic escalation of US funding for the war against Russia - as well as new legal tools to siphon assets f...

Erdogan heads to Saudi to mend ties after Khashoggi U-turn

Erdogan heads to Saudi to mend ties after Khashoggi U-turn

-- 2022-04-28 20:43:15

Three and a half years after accusing Saudi Arabia's leadership of murder and running a sham trial over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans a trip to the...

NATO says it is ready to support Ukraine for years in war against Russia

NATO says it is ready to support Ukraine for years in war against Russia

-- 2022-04-28 20:33:11

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday the organisation is ready to maintain its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia for years, including help for Kyiv to shift from Soviet...

Russian spy chief says US, Poland plotting division of Ukraine

Russian spy chief says US, Poland plotting division of Ukraine

-- 2022-04-28 20:23:38

Russia's foreign spy chief accused the United States and Poland on Thursday of plotting to gain a sphere of influence in Ukraine, the strongest signal from Moscow that the war could end with forced pa...

Sri Lanka teachers, bank workers join mass walkout over economic crisis

Sri Lanka teachers, bank workers join mass walkout over economic crisis

-- 2022-04-28 17:30:38

Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government quit over Sri L...