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Mahathir Mohamad admitted to hospital

Mahathir Mohamad admitted to hospital

-- 2022-01-22 17:30:24

Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister of Malaysia, has been admitted to hospital, a spokesperson for him said on Saturday. The spokesperson said Mahathir was admitted to the cardiac care unit at th...

Death toll from Mumbai building fire rises to 7

Death toll from Mumbai building fire rises to 7

-- 2022-01-22 16:19:26

At least seven people have been killed and 14 injured when a large fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in India's financial capital Mumbai on Saturday, authorities said. According t...

Washington suspends 44 US flights by Chinese carriers after Beijing action

Washington suspends 44 US flights by Chinese carriers after Beijing action

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-22 12:09:29

The US government said on Friday it would suspend 44 China-bound flights from the United States by four Chinese carriers in response to the Chinese government's decision to suspend some US carrier fli...

13 injured in Southern Japan earthquake

13 injured in Southern Japan earthquake

-- 2022-01-22 11:36:08

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 jolted southwestern Japan early on Saturday morning, injuring 13 people, the authorities and local media said. No tsunami warning was issued after the quake stru...

Delhi to stay under Covid curfew

Delhi to stay under Covid curfew

-- 2022-01-22 11:12:00

India's capital Delhi will remain under curfew over the weekend and overnight to help curb the spread of the omicron variant of coronavirus, the city's disaster management authority said on Friday, re...

Explosion leaves 13 dead in Ghana mining region

Explosion leaves 13 dead in Ghana mining region

-- 2022-01-22 11:10:05

At least 13 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana detonated, flattening a rural community, the police said on Friday. Smouldering timb...

Data paints encouraging scenario as Covid-19 cases falling in US

Data paints encouraging scenario as Covid-19 cases falling in US

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-22 10:16:53

New coronavirus cases are falling in parts of the United States hit hardest by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, according to a Reuters analysis of public health data, offering an early indication t...

Airbus revokes Qatar order for 50 A321 jets

Airbus revokes Qatar order for 50 A321 jets

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-22 10:03:13

Airbus on Thursday raised the stakes in a dispute with major customer Qatar Airways over grounded and undelivered A350 jets by announcing it had revoked a separate contract for 50 smaller A321neo jets...

Crypto giant Binance kept weak money-laundering checks, reveals Reuters special report

Crypto giant Binance kept weak money-laundering checks, reveals Reuters special report

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-22 09:37:07

In the courtyard of a secluded limestone palace, Malta’s political elite welcomed a guest: Changpeng Zhao, chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. It was...

India blocks 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels

India blocks 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels

-- 2022-01-21 19:31:37

India on Friday said that it has blocked as many as 35 Pakistan-backed YouTube channels with over 1.3 billion views "for spreading fake and misleading information on social media". The Indian Informa...

IS gunmen mount attacks in Syria, Iraq killing dozens

IS gunmen mount attacks in Syria, Iraq killing dozens

-- 2022-01-21 19:04:34

Militants from the Islamic State group launched sophisticated attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by US-backed fighters, of...

Delhi to stay under weekend, overnight curfew to curb Omicron spread

Delhi to stay under weekend, overnight curfew to curb Omicron spread

-- 2022-01-21 18:51:40

India's capital Delhi will remain under curfew over the weekend and overnight to help curb the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the city's disaster management authority said on Friday, re...

Singapore approves booster doses for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years

Singapore approves booster doses for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years

-- 2022-01-21 17:00:07

Singapore will extend its COVID-19 booster vaccination programme to adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from next month, its health ministry said on Friday. The country is among the first few countries t...

TotalEnergies backs Myanmar gas sanctions

TotalEnergies backs Myanmar gas sanctions

-- 2022-01-21 16:37:43

French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies has asked the American and French governments to support targeted sanctions against Myanmar's oil and gas funds, the largest single source of income for the...

Delhi to lift weekend curfew as Covid cases fall

Delhi to lift weekend curfew as Covid cases fall

-- 2022-01-21 14:06:43

India's capital is set to lift a weekend curfew and allow private offices to be partially staffed after a fall in new COVID-19 infections, a city government official said on Friday. The number of new...

Germany to attract 400,000 foreign workers each year

Germany to attract 400,000 foreign workers each year

-- 2022-01-21 13:25:02

Germany's new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified workers from abroad each year to tackle both a demographic imbalance and labour shortages in key sectors that risk undermining the...

India test-fires latest version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

India test-fires latest version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

-- 2022-01-20 20:31:51

India Thursday successfully test-fired the latest version of its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land, reports UNB. The missile was launched...

European Union threatens 'massive' sanctions if Russia attacks Ukraine

European Union threatens 'massive' sanctions if Russia attacks Ukraine

-- 2022-01-20 19:13:59

The European Union threatened "massive" economic sanctions if Moscow attacks Ukraine, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rallied allies on Thursday ahead of last-ditch crisis talks with Russia a...

Bomb blast in Pakistan`s Lahore, one killed, 20 injured

Bomb blast in Pakistan`s Lahore, one killed, 20 injured

-- 2022-01-20 18:32:02

At least one person was killed and 20 others were injured on Thursday in a bomb blast in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, a local police official told media. The death toll might rise as several of...

Lawmakers being blackmailed to keep UK Premier Johnson in power?

Lawmakers being blackmailed to keep UK Premier Johnson in power?

-- 2022-01-20 17:27:24

A senior Conservative lawmaker accused the British government on Thursday of intimidating and attempting to "blackmail" those lawmakers they suspect of wanting to force Prime Minister Boris Johnson ou...

India sees 0.3m cases in a day after eight months

India sees 0.3m cases in a day after eight months

-- 2022-01-20 16:06:56

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 38,218,773 on Thursday, as 317,532 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. This is the...

University of Michigan agrees to $490m sexual-abuse settlement

University of Michigan agrees to $490m sexual-abuse settlement

-- 2022-01-20 12:07:23

The University of Michigan said it would pay $490 million to 1,050 people to resolve claims of sexual assault against a former sports doctor, in a settlement spanning decades and involving mostly male...

US Democrats' move to pass voting rights bill fails

US Democrats' move to pass voting rights bill fails

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-20 10:44:47

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats suffered twin legislative defeats late on Wednesday in their push to toughen voting rights protections in the run-up to this November's mid-term electio...

Coronavirus spreading like never before in Americas, health agency warns

Coronavirus spreading like never before in Americas, health agency warns

-- 2022-01-20 10:12:19

COVID-19 infections are reaching new peaks in the Americas with 7.2 million new cases and more than 15,000 COVID-related deaths in the last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on We...

Voting rights debate takes centre-stage in US Senate

Voting rights debate takes centre-stage in US Senate

REUTERS 2022-01-19 18:51:39

The US Senate as early as Wednesday could kick off a pair of votes on an election reform bill that is a top Democratic priority but faces dim prospects against a united front of Republican opposition....

UK PM Johnson faces growing pressure to resign

UK PM Johnson faces growing pressure to resign

-- 2022-01-19 15:46:10

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership on Wednesday amid a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street. Propel...

Four French soldiers injured in Burkina Faso explosion

Four French soldiers injured in Burkina Faso explosion

REUTERS 2022-01-19 13:54:36

Four French soldiers from the Operation Barkhane taskforce were injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit their vehicle in Burkina Faso, reported Le Monde, Le Figaro and Agence France Pre...

Mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparks fear of owners abandoning pets

Mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparks fear of owners abandoning pets

-- 2022-01-19 11:52:52

A mass hamster cull in Hong Kong sparked fears among animal welfare groups on Wednesday that panicky people would abandon their pets after 11 of the rodents from one petshop in the city tested positiv...

Half of global cyber defence investment made in Israel

Half of global cyber defence investment made in Israel

-- 2022-01-18 21:37:25

Around half of the global cyber defence investment in the past few years has been in Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday. Speaking by video to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Be...

Covid-19 negative report not mandatory to travel Sweden

Covid-19 negative report not mandatory to travel Sweden

-- 2022-01-18 21:03:32

Travellers to Sweden will no longer be required to show a negative COVID test before entering the country, the government said on Tuesday. Sweden introduced rules for a recent negative COVID test on...