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Ten people from missing Japanese boat confirmed dead

Ten people from missing Japanese boat confirmed dead

-- 2022-04-24 19:12:20

Ten people found so far from a Japanese tour boat missing off the country's northern coast have been confirmed dead, the coast guard said on Sunday. The boat went missing on Saturday with 26 people o...

Top US officials to visit Kyiv amid Ukraine's call for powerful weapons

Top US officials to visit Kyiv amid Ukraine's call for powerful weapons

-- 2022-04-24 17:41:32

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit Kyiv on Sunday to discuss Ukraine's call for more heavy arms, two months after Russia's invasion began. The trip, an...

Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry

Shanghai fences up Covid-hit areas, fuelling fresh outcry

-- 2022-04-24 14:37:45

Shanghai authorities battling an outbreak of COVID-19 have erected fences outside residential buildings, sparking fresh public outcry over a lockdown that has forced much of the city's 25 million peop...

'I want to see the sun' begs child in Mariupol steel works

'I want to see the sun' begs child in Mariupol steel works

-- 2022-04-24 12:48:33

Women and children sheltering in a giant steel works in Mariupol that is the last holdout of Ukrainian defenders of the southern port city, said in a video released on Saturday they are desperate to g...

Macron or Le Pen: France faces stark choice for president

Macron or Le Pen: France faces stark choice for president

-- 2022-04-24 12:31:45

The French vote on Sunday in an election that will decide whether pro-European Union, centrist President Emmanuel Macron keeps his job or is unseated by far-right eurosceptic Marine Le Pen in what wou...

Missile attack kills five in Odesa, says Ukraine

Missile attack kills five in Odesa, says Ukraine

-- 2022-04-23 22:17:39

An adviser to Ukraine's president says five people including a three-month-old infant were killed in a missile attack in the Black Sea port city of Odesa. Ukraine presidential chief of staff, Andriy...

Russia says it investigates report on presence of British special forces in Ukraine

Russia says it investigates report on presence of British special forces in Ukraine

-- 2022-04-23 21:56:42

Russia's top state investigative body said on Saturday it was looking into a Russian media report alleging that sabotage experts from Britain's SAS special forces have been deployed to western Ukraine...

Loyalists of Sri Lanka’s prime minister back street protests

Loyalists of Sri Lanka’s prime minister back street protests

-- 2022-04-23 21:32:27

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has come under increased pressure to step down as a cabinet minister and other senior party members back street protests calling for resignations ove...

UN chief to meet Putin, Zelenskiy next week

UN chief to meet Putin, Zelenskiy next week

-- 2022-04-23 19:34:51

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow next week to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin and then head to Ukraine for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Guterres...

More children, teenagers killed by guns than any other cause in US: Analysis

More children, teenagers killed by guns than any other cause in US: Analysis

-- 2022-04-23 19:28:58

More children and teenagers in the United States were killed by guns than any other cause in 2020, according to a mortality analysis by researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Guns su...

Blast tears through mosque in Afghanistan, 33 killed

Blast tears through mosque in Afghanistan, 33 killed

-- 2022-04-23 19:08:36

A blast tore through a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, killing 33 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Tali...

Ukraine says Russia resumes assault on Mariupol

Ukraine says Russia resumes assault on Mariupol

-- 2022-04-23 18:43:08

Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steelworks in Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern port ci...

Israel closes crossing to Gaza workers after rockets

Israel closes crossing to Gaza workers after rockets

-- 2022-04-23 18:08:36

Israel said Saturday that it would close its border crossing to thousands of Gaza workers after a series of rockets were fired from the territory ruled by the militant Hamas group in recent days. The...

Boat with 26 on board goes missing in Japan

Boat with 26 on board goes missing in Japan

-- 2022-04-23 17:56:48

Japan's coast guard on Saturday was searching for a sightseeing boat with 26 people on board which went missing off the northern island of Hokkaido after reporting that it was sinking Authorities los...

G20 cannot function as long as Russia remains member, says Canada

G20 cannot function as long as Russia remains member, says Canada

-- 2022-04-23 17:40:39

The Group of 20 major economies cannot effectively function as long as Russia remains a member, Canada's finance minister said on Friday after a week of protests against Moscow's war in Ukraine at the...

Many flights cancelled at Amsterdam's airport due to strike

Many flights cancelled at Amsterdam's airport due to strike

-- 2022-04-23 17:19:03

Dozens of flights were cancelled or delayed Saturday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport as a group of KLM baggage handlers went on strike on one of the busiest days of the year at the major aviation hub...

Shanghai registers 12 new Covid deaths as frustrations boil over

Shanghai registers 12 new Covid deaths as frustrations boil over

-- 2022-04-23 15:00:31

The major financial hub of Shanghai reported 12 new COVID-19 related deaths on April 22, up from 11 the previous day, as frustrations among residents continued to boil over amid a harsh lockdown and s...

New Zealand reports the 1st Omicron XE variant

New Zealand reports the 1st Omicron XE variant

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-23 14:39:57

New Zealand reported its first case of Omicron XE variant at the border, said the Ministry of Health in a statement on Saturday. A person who has travelled from overseas to New Zealand has been confi...

Russian forces shot down Ukrainian fighter jet in Kharkiv region

Russian forces shot down Ukrainian fighter jet in Kharkiv region

-- 2022-04-23 14:26:05

Russia’s defense ministry said on Saturday that its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet and destroyed three MI-8 helicopters at an airfield in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. The...

German man took 90 COVID shots to sell vaccine certificates

German man took 90 COVID shots to sell vaccine certificates

FE Online 2022-04-23 14:21:48

Many people across the world have tried dodging Coronavirus vaccines for plenty of reasons. However, a 60-year-old man got himself vaccinated as many as 90 times to sell those vaccination cards to peo...

Iran Revolutionary Guards general unhurt after car shot at

Iran Revolutionary Guards general unhurt after car shot at

-- 2022-04-23 13:27:50

Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a senior Revolutionary Guards commander in restive southeastern Iran early on Saturday, killing a bodyguard, Iranian state media reported, Reuters reports. Brigad...

UN chief to meet with Putin, Zelenskyy to press for peace

UN chief to meet with Putin, Zelenskyy to press for peace

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-23 11:45:20

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is set to meet separately with the presidents of Russia and Ukraine next week to make urgent, face-to-face pleas for peace, the world body said Friday. Kr...

Zelenskiy warns Russia is eyeing other countries after Ukraine

Zelenskiy warns Russia is eyeing other countries after Ukraine

-- 2022-04-23 11:40:46

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Russia's invasion of his country was just the beginning and that Moscow has designs on capturing other countries, after a Russian general said it wa...

Indonesia bans exports of palm oil as global food inflation spikes

Indonesia bans exports of palm oil as global food inflation spikes

-- 2022-04-23 10:32:50

Indonesia, the world's top palm oil producer, announced plans to ban exports of the most widely used vegetable oil on Friday, in a shock move that could further inflame surging global food inflation....

UN rights office cites growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

UN rights office cites growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

-- 2022-04-22 21:20:51

The United Nations human rights office said on Friday there was growing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including signs of indiscriminate shelling and summary executions. Meanwhile, the UN...

31 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa compound

31 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa compound

-- 2022-04-22 21:12:59

At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, Palestinian medics said, the latest outbreak in a recent upsurge of violence...

Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near Ukraine’s Mariupol

Satellite images suggest mass graves dug near Ukraine’s Mariupol

-- 2022-04-22 21:07:18

A US satellite firm says it has identified a mass burial site containing about 200 graves near Mariupol city of Ukraine. The satellite firm, Maxar, said its images showed an expansion of graves that...

Britain, India call for immediate cease-fire in Ukraine

Britain, India call for immediate cease-fire in Ukraine

-- 2022-04-22 20:59:34

India and Britain on Friday called on Russia for an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced steps to help move New Delhi away from its dependence on Russia by...

Ukraine war may continue until end of next year: British PM

Ukraine war may continue until end of next year: British PM

-- 2022-04-22 20:50:00

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested there ‘is a realistic possibility’ the war in Ukraine could continue to the end of next year. Johnson, on a two-day visit to India to b...

Taliban bans TikTok, PUBG in Afghanistan

Taliban bans TikTok, PUBG in Afghanistan

-- 2022-04-22 20:26:42

The Taliban has ordered a ban on video-sharing app TikTok and the online multi-player game PUBG, insisting they were leading Afghan youths "astray". The group said it would also ban TV channels from...