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Blinken to visit Asia to emphasise US commitment

Blinken to visit Asia to emphasise US commitment

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 09:14:26

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken goes to Asia next week for talks with Indo-Pacific allies, including a meeting of foreign ministers of the four-nation Quad, the State Department said on Friday....

Antarctic fuel-eating microbes may help in plastic clean-up: Argentine scientists

Antarctic fuel-eating microbes may help in plastic clean-up: Argentine scientists

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 09:07:46

A team of Argentine scientists is using microorganisms native to Antarctica to clean up pollution from fuels and potentially plastics in the pristine expanses of the white continent. The tiny microbe...

Queen Elizabeth marks 70 years on the British throne

Queen Elizabeth marks 70 years on the British throne

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 08:40:58

Queen Elizabeth marks 70 years on the British throne on Sunday, a milestone never reached by any of her predecessors over the last 1,000 years, and one which only a few monarchs across the globe have...

Belgians forced to fork out more for cherished fries

Belgians forced to fork out more for cherished fries

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 08:35:24

Belgians forced to fork out more for cherished fries Belgians are having to fork out more for their favourite snack - fries, or fried potato sticks - because of rising energy, commodity and labour co...

US Treasury raises alarm over money laundering

US Treasury raises alarm over money laundering

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 08:26:09

The US Treasury Department on Friday issued a set of recommendations to combat illicit finance in the high-value art market and warned that the emerging digital art market, such as non-fungible tokens...

Western nations make no positive contribution in Russia-Ukraine crisis, Erdogan says

Western nations make no positive contribution in Russia-Ukraine crisis, Erdogan says

-- 2022-02-04 22:14:49

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the United States and other Western nations did not make any positive contribution to resolve the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Erdogan, who is seeking to burnish h...

Pakistan bans hockey player for criticising PM Imran

Pakistan bans hockey player for criticising PM Imran

-- 2022-02-04 20:32:42

Pakistan's sports authorities have banned for 10 years hockey player Rashid-ul-Hasan, a member of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics gold medal winning team, for allegedly using offensive language against...

Saudi Arabia moves to redefine Islam-bearing green flag

Saudi Arabia moves to redefine Islam-bearing green flag

-- 2022-02-04 20:10:31

Saudi Arabia has initiated a move to change its national anthem and green flag, which is emblazoned with a sword and inscribed with Islam’s creed as the birthplace of the faith. Late on Monday,...

India to offer jobs to 80 Afghan military cadets

India to offer jobs to 80 Afghan military cadets

-- 2022-02-04 20:09:02

India would offer jobs to as many as 80 cadets of the Afghan defence forces, who recently graduated from various military academies in this country but could not return to their homeland. But jobs wo...

NATO secretary general becomes Norway’s central bank chief

NATO secretary general becomes Norway’s central bank chief

-- 2022-02-04 19:32:24

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will become Norway's new central bank chief, the government said on Friday, despite opposition worries that the appointment of the former prime minister could w...

Xi ready to work with Putin to push forward China-Russia cooperation

Xi ready to work with Putin to push forward China-Russia cooperation

-- 2022-02-04 19:29:33

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday said he stands ready to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to chart the future and provide guidance for bilateral relations under new historical circumst...

Putin unveils new gas deal with Xi Jinping

Putin unveils new gas deal with Xi Jinping

-- 2022-02-04 18:47:34

Russia’ s President Vladimir Putin unveiled a new Russian gas deal with China at a meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday, promising to increase Moscow's far east exports at a ti...

Omicron sub-variant accounts for 23pc cases in South Africa

Omicron sub-variant accounts for 23pc cases in South Africa

-- 2022-02-04 18:22:15

South Africa is seeing more cases of the ba.2 sub-variant of the omicron coronavirus variant and is monitoring it, but there is no clear sign that ba.2 is substantially different from the original omi...

Myanmar court postpones hearing in Suu Kyi's trial

Myanmar court postpones hearing in Suu Kyi's trial

-- 2022-02-04 17:40:50

A court in military-run Myanmar postponed a hearing in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi this week, a source with knowledge of proceedings said on Friday, after media reported the ousted leader had not be...

Bali reopens to all foreign travellers keeping mandatory quarantine in place

Bali reopens to all foreign travellers keeping mandatory quarantine in place

-- 2022-02-04 17:35:10

Direct international flights to Bali have resumed for the first time in two years as Indonesia opens the resort island to foreign travellers from all countries, but mandatory quarantine remains in pla...

Putin arrives in Beijing amid rising tension with West

Putin arrives in Beijing amid rising tension with West

-- 2022-02-04 16:38:08

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Friday for the 2022 Winter Olympics and a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, bringing with him a deal to increase natural gas supplies to...

Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases

Suu Kyi faces new bribery charge in string of cases

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 14:17:47

Myanmar's military government announced a new bribery charge against deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, the country's state broadcaster reported. Nobel laureate Suu Kyi, 76, is on...

India may have seen 3m Covid deaths, but official figure far below

India may have seen 3m Covid deaths, but official figure far below

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 11:28:31

India's death toll from COVID-19 crossed 500,000 on Friday, a level many health experts say was breached last year but obscured by inaccurate surveys and unaccounted dead in the hinterlands, where mil...

Campaigners begin legal fight against EU green investment rules

Campaigners begin legal fight against EU green investment rules

-- 2022-02-04 11:21:51

Climate campaigners have started the process of a legal challenge against the European Union over the labelling of investments in bioenergy and plastics as green in its flagship sustainable finance ru...

Russia may stage video to create pretext for Ukraine war: US intel

Russia may stage video to create pretext for Ukraine war: US intel

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 09:13:44

US intelligence agencies believe Russia has formed a plan to fabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, potentially by producing propaganda videos showing a staged attack, the United States said...

US claims IS leader Quraishi kills himself during Syria raid

US claims IS leader Quraishi kills himself during Syria raid

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-04 09:04:37

The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a US military raid in Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, dealing a blow to the jihadist group's efforts to...

US raid in Syria targeted leader of Islamic State, says Biden

US raid in Syria targeted leader of Islamic State, says Biden

-- 2022-02-03 19:43:26

US President Joe Biden said a US special forces counter-terrorism raid in northwest Syria on Thursday targeted the leader of Islamic State, adding he would address the operation in remarks later on Th...

NATO says Russia to have 30,000 troops on drills in Belarus, north of Ukraine

NATO says Russia to have 30,000 troops on drills in Belarus, north of Ukraine

-- 2022-02-03 18:15:33

NATO said Russia had stepped up deployments to Ukraine's northern neighbour Belarus in recent days and was expected to have 30,000 troops there for joint military exercises this month. The Russia-Bel...

13 reported killed as US forces launch raid in Syria

13 reported killed as US forces launch raid in Syria

-- 2022-02-03 16:40:54

US special forces carried out what the Pentagon said was a large-scale counterterrorism raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday. First responders at the scene reported 13 people had been killed, inc...

Report raises new campaign finance questions

Report raises new campaign finance questions

-- 2022-02-03 10:21:19

An inherent conflict of interest arises from many political donations to sheriffs around the country, including from medical providers and bail bond companies doing business with them, according to a...

IS reportedly hits back amid power vacuum in Iraq, Syria

IS reportedly hits back amid power vacuum in Iraq, Syria

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-03 10:20:40

Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by Islamic State. "The police and army don't come...

CNN President Jeff Zucker resigns over relationship with colleague

CNN President Jeff Zucker resigns over relationship with colleague

-- 2022-02-02 23:10:04

CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker, the influential news executive who reshaped the iconic network, abruptly announced Wednesday morning that he has resigned from his position effective immediately....

US sending additional troops to east Europe to reinforce allies against Russia

US sending additional troops to east Europe to reinforce allies against Russia

-- 2022-02-02 21:25:58

US President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to eastern Europe, two US officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it describes as a Russian...

Mamata Banerjee re-elected Trinamool chief

Mamata Banerjee re-elected Trinamool chief

-- 2022-02-02 20:46:56

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been re-elected as the chairperson of her ruling Trinamool Congress party unopposed on Wednesday, 10 months after single-handedly pulling off a landslide vict...

Militia attack at Congo displaced persons’ camp kills 60

Militia attack at Congo displaced persons’ camp kills 60

-- 2022-02-02 17:50:44

At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack on Wednesday morning at a displaced persons' camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of a local humanitarian group and a witness said....