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Ukraine says 16 killed in helicopter crash, including interior minister

-- 2023-01-18 15:12:37

Sixteen people including Ukraine's interior minister and other senior ministry officials were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed outside Kyiv in the town of Brovary, the national police chi...

Ukraine blames Russia for most of over 2,000 cyberattacks in 2022

Reuters 2023-01-18 14:00:18

A senior Ukrainian official blamed Russia on Tuesday for carrying out the bulk of more than 2,000 cyberattacks on Ukraine in 2022, speaking at a news conference that he said was itself delayed because...

Taliban publicly cut off hands of four men suspected of theft

bdnews24.com 2023-01-18 11:56:04

The Taliban have reportedly cut off the hands of four people in front of spectators in a football stadium in Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Shabnam Nasimi, former policy advisor to the minister for Afg...

Greta Thunberg released after brief detention at German mine protest, police say

Reuters 2023-01-18 09:21:41

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained alongside other activists on Tuesday during protests against the demolition of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion but was released after an...

Iran's 'death committee' president unyielding in defence of clerical rule

Reuters 2023-01-18 09:15:51

As a young prosecutor in Tehran, Ebrahim Raisi sat on a "death committee" overseeing the execution of hundreds of political prisoners in the Iranian capital, rights groups say. Now president three de...

Nepal finds all but one missing person following deadly plane crash

-- 2023-01-17 19:38:26

Rescuers used drones and abseiled down a deep gorge on Tuesday looking for the last missing person from Nepal's worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small childre...

Aid groups resume some Afghan operations with female staff

-- 2023-01-17 19:32:27

Several aid organisations have restored some operations in Afghanistan after they received assurances from Taliban-run authorities that women could work in areas such as health, in spite of restrictio...

Singapore expects full tourism recovery by 2024

-- 2023-01-17 17:36:45

Singapore's international arrivals beat forecasts in 2022, paving the way for its tourism sector to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, its tourism authority said on Tuesday, reports Reuters.&nbsp...

Families mourn Nepal plane victims, data box sent to France

-- 2023-01-17 17:15:48

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday began returning to families the bodies of plane crash victims and were sending the aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis as they try to determine what caused...

Vietnam’s president resigns

-- 2023-01-17 16:02:20

Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has submitted his resignation after the ruling Communist Party found him responsible for violations and wrongdoing of numerous officials under him, the country's o...

Pakistan PM Sharif offers talks with arch-rival India

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-17 14:47:04

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered his Indian counterpart talks over all outstanding issues, including disputed Kashmir, which he believes could be facilitated by the United Arab...

Saudi Arabia reduces Umrah insurance cost for foreign pilgrims by 63pc

UNB 2023-01-17 13:54:30

The Saudi government has announced that the cost of the comprehensive insurance for foreign Umrah performers has been reduced by 63 per cent. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of KSA has cut the cost fr...

Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers

Reuters 2023-01-17 12:16:38

Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal on Tuesday to search for two passengers still unaccounted for after the country's deadliest plane crash in 30...

Russia says Britain's tanks 'will burn' in Ukraine

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-17 10:40:59

The Kremlin said on Monday that tanks Britain plans to send to Ukraine "will burn", warning the West that supplying a new round of more advanced weapons to Ukraine would not change the outcome o...

China’s population falls for first time since 1961, highlights demographic crisis

Reuters 2023-01-17 10:00:05

China's population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period of decline in its citizen numbers with profound implications fo...

Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter to seek Thai premiership

-- 2023-01-16 20:25:42

The daughter of Thailand's self-exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra has declared her readiness to run for prime minister in an election this year, as the main opposition seeks to regain power afte...

Human rights activist shot dead in Pakistan

-- 2023-01-16 18:26:31

A prominent Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist known as a vocal critic of both the military and Islamist militants was shot dead on Monday at a court in the northwestern city of Peshawar, poli...

Bangladesh, some other countries keen on rupee trade with India

-- 2023-01-16 18:17:58

Russia, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Bangladesh are some of the countries that are keen on rupee trade with India, an Indian trade ministry official said on Monday. Satya Srinivas, a secretary at the tra...

Nepal plane crash: Pilot didn’t report anything untoward, official says

-- 2023-01-16 17:36:11

The pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report "anything untoward" as the plane approached the airport, a spokesman said. Anup Joshi said that the "mountains were clear and visibility w...

Death toll in Russian strike on Ukrainian building rises to 35

-- 2023-01-16 17:20:23

The death toll from the weekend Russian missile strike on the apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro has risen to 35, an official said Monday. Rescuers continued searching th...

Road crash in Senegal kills 19, wounds 24

-- 2023-01-16 17:11:02

Nineteen people were killed and 24 wounded in a road accident in Senegal early on Monday, President Macky Sall said, the second major crash this month highlighting poor driving conditions in the West...

Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash

-- 2023-01-16 15:56:51

Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 yea...

Last moments of Nepal plane crash captured on Facebook Live

-- 2023-01-16 15:50:08

A mobile phone recovered from the wreckage of the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal on Sunday, has apparently captured the final disturbing moments of the doomed flight, reports bdnews24.com c...

Italian police arrest most wanted mafia boss Messina Denaro in Sicily

-- 2023-01-16 15:42:13

Italian police said on Monday they had arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country's most wanted mafia boss who had been on the run for three decades, swooping on a private hospital in the Sicilian ca...

Peru extends state of emergency in protest-hit cities

-- 2023-01-16 15:31:32

Peru has extended a state of emergency for another month in the capital city of Lima and two southern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country's worst violence in...

Jamaica seizes cocaine worth $80m from cargo ship

-- 2023-01-16 15:27:42

Jamaican authorities have seized an estimated $80 million worth of cocaine from a ship at the port of Kingston in one of the country's biggest-ever drug busts, authorities said. Reuters said Jamaican...

Jailed Iranian American appeals to Biden, starts hunger strike

-- 2023-01-16 15:23:56

An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless appealed to US President Joe Biden on Monday to bring him home and said he...

Violence at Indonesia nickel smelter protest kills two

-- 2023-01-16 15:18:21

Two workers were killed in clashes and rioting at an Indonesian nickel smelting facility at the weekend, officials said on Monday, after violence erupted during a protest by a labour group demanding b...

China braces for COVID holiday surge as people leave megacities for hometowns

Reuters 2023-01-16 14:00:50

Luggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a COVID-19 outbreak that has claim...

Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul

Reuters 2023-01-16 12:07:50

A former female member of Afghanistan's parliament has been killed by unknown gunmen at her home in Kabul, police said. Mursal Nabizada and her guard were shot dead and her brother was injured in Sun...