-- 2022-04-20 09:19:47
Russia was intensifying its attack on Ukraine's east on Tuesday as it seized a frontline city and sought a decisive victory in Mariupol, prompting Western governments to pledge more arms and sanctions...
-- 2022-04-19 21:47:09
The Cabinet of Pakistan's newly-elected prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, was sworn in Tuesday during a brief ceremony. Acting President Sadiq Sanjrani administered the oath to the 34 ministers at the...
-- 2022-04-19 21:42:11
Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from the International Monetary...
-- 2022-04-19 19:45:40
India and Sri Lanka have resumed talks on linking their electricity grids, officials told Reuters on Tuesday, a step that could aid New Delhi's goal of reducing China's influence on the island nation,...
-- 2022-04-19 19:20:50
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday said their forces are ‘methodically carrying out’ plans to ‘liberate’ two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Sergei Shoig...
-- 2022-04-19 19:12:40
Pakistan's new prime minister has appointed 57-year-old economist and businessman Miftah Ismail as the finance minister who will be tasked with quickly arresting a downward economic spiral and getting...
-- 2022-04-19 16:56:26
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region. Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video addr...
-- 2022-04-19 14:56:48
Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials, Reuters reports. Many residents in the neighbourhood belo...
-- 2022-04-19 14:02:44
Pakistan's new cabinet took their oaths in a ceremony on Tuesday, state television reported, according to Reuters. The new cabinet, made up of allied political parties, was sworn in over a week after...
-- 2022-04-19 13:44:54
Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials. Many residents in the neighbourhood belong to the Shia Ha...
-- 2022-04-19 13:26:04
A number of US officials engaged in phone calls with Israelis, Palestinians and Arab representatives in the region over the weekend to see to it that tensions in Jerusalem do not escalate, State Depar...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-19 12:54:54
Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has increased its fuel prices from midnight Monday to a record high. With the latest price hike, the price of Octane 92 petrol rose by 33.1...
-- 2022-04-19 12:34:44
Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhet...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-19 10:46:41
Sri Lanka's president acknowledged Monday that he made mistakes that led to the country's worst economic crisis in decades and pledged to correct them. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made the admission...
-- 2022-04-19 10:31:29
A court sentenced six men to death on Monday in a mass trial for the mob lynching of a clothes factory's Sri Lankan manager in eastern Pakistan last year, the case's public prosecutor said, Reuters re...
-- 2022-04-19 10:30:46
Thousands of South African soldiers will help with relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal province, where more than 440 people have died in floods and mudslides and dozens more are missing. A week after the...
-- 2022-04-19 10:25:58
For many leaders, mounting public anger and a rapidly worsening economic outlook would be cause for worry and a policy rethink. But Chinese President Xi Jinping, who doubtless would prefer smoother s...
-- 2022-04-19 10:14:05
The Biden administration will no longer enforce a US mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a...
-- 2022-04-19 09:11:09
Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for unity among her people, according to a source familiar with her legal proceedings, in rare remarks since her overthrow in a military coup last y...
-- 2022-04-18 21:55:03
British police closed a road in central London near British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official residence on Monday. The police said they had arrested a man armed with a knife who had confronted...
-- 2022-04-18 21:34:41
Myanmar's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for unity among her people, according to a source familiar with her legal proceedings, in rare remarks since her overthrow in a military coup last y...
-- 2022-04-18 19:37:30
China has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March. A release from the city health commission said the vict...
-- 2022-04-18 19:29:16
Russia said on Monday it had hit hundreds of military targets in Ukraine overnight, destroying command posts with air-launched missiles, while authorities in the western city of Lviv, which had escape...
-- 2022-04-18 19:14:19
Two British fighters captured in Ukraine by Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday and asked to be exchanged for a pro-Russian politician who is being held by the Ukrainian authorities....
-- 2022-04-18 19:01:52
Almost all residents of Indonesia's most populous island of Java have antibodies against Covid-19, owing to a combination of prior infection and vaccination against the virus, a government-commissione...
-- 2022-04-18 16:47:53
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa expanded his cabinet with 17 new ministers on Monday, but they did not include members of his family who were dropped as protests erupted over the government's...
-- 2022-04-18 16:17:39
Ukrainian authorities said missiles struck Lviv early on Monday and explosions rocked other cities as Russian forces kept up their bombardments after claiming near full control of the strategic southe...
-- 2022-04-18 14:35:04
Iran's armed forces will target Israel's heart if it makes "the slightest move" against the Islamic Republic, President Ebrahim Raisi told a military parade on Monday, amid stalled talks between Tehra...
-- 2022-04-18 12:57:29
India's tally of daily Covid-19 cases nearly doubled on Monday from the previous day to more than 2,000 for the first time in a month, government data showed, and the southern state of Kerala reported...
-- 2022-04-18 12:41:01
The tensions of lockdown have exposed divisions among Shanghai residents, pitting young against old, locals against outsiders, and above all, Covid-negative against Covid-positive people. Shanghai's...
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