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US students stage walkouts to protest in-person classes amid Omicron surge

US students stage walkouts to protest in-person classes amid Omicron surge

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-15 09:50:03

Hundreds of students in Boston and Chicago walked out of classes on Friday in protests demanding a switch to remote learning as a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Omicron variant disrupted effort...

Life with 'no lights, no heat, no money' during Ukraine's cyber warfare

Life with 'no lights, no heat, no money' during Ukraine's cyber warfare

-- 2022-01-15 09:48:53

Hackers who defaced and interrupted access to numerous Ukrainian government websites on Friday could be setting the stage for more serious cyberattacks that would disrupt the lives of ordinary Ukraini...

Early holiday shopping hammers US retail sales

Early holiday shopping hammers US retail sales

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-15 09:37:43

Holiday shopping hammers US retail sales US retail sales dropped by the most in 10 months in December, likely the result of Americans starting their holiday shopping in October to avoid empty shelves...

Russia takes down REvil hacking group at US request!

Russia takes down REvil hacking group at US request!

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-15 09:20:59

Russia has dismantled ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the United States in an operation in which it detained and charged the group's members, the FSB domestic intelligence service said...

Pakistan launches security policy focusing on peace, economic connectivity

Pakistan launches security policy focusing on peace, economic connectivity

-- 2022-01-14 23:21:44

Pakistan on Friday launched its first-ever comprehensive National Security Policy that it said was centred on regional peace and economic connectivity, and stressed that it wanted improved relations w...

Denmark’s former defence minister charged with treason for leaking state secrets

Denmark’s former defence minister charged with treason for leaking state secrets

-- 2022-01-14 22:33:25

Denmark's former defence minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen said on Friday he has been charged with violating a section of the penal code that includes treason for leaking state secrets. Frederiksen, w...

Rohingya genocide case: Fresh round of hearings begins Feb 21

Rohingya genocide case: Fresh round of hearings begins Feb 21

-- 2022-01-14 21:07:23

Representatives of Myanmar's junta are expected to challenge the jurisdiction of the World Court to hear allegations the country committed genocide against its Rohingya minority in a fresh round of he...

Ukraine hit by cyberattack, Russia moves more troops

Ukraine hit by cyberattack, Russia moves more troops

-- 2022-01-14 18:08:21

Ukraine was hit by a massive cyberattack warning its citizens to "be afraid and expect the worst", and Russia, which has amassed more than 100,000 troops on its neighbour's frontier, released TV pictu...

Philippines bans unvaccinated from public transport

Philippines bans unvaccinated from public transport

-- 2022-01-14 17:50:03

The Philippines will push through with its plan next week to ban from public transportation people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, officials said on Friday, as the country grapples to quell a...

Suu Kyi to face five new corruption charges

Suu Kyi to face five new corruption charges

-- 2022-01-14 17:43:05

Myanmar's ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and deposed President Win Myint will face five additional charges of corruption, each carrying a maximum of 15 years in prison, a source familiar with t...

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for holy dip, defying COVID-19 surge

Hundreds of thousands of Indians gather for holy dip, defying COVID-19 surge

-- 2022-01-14 17:31:08

Hundreds of thousands of Hindu worshippers gathered on the banks of India's Ganges River on Friday for a holy bathe despite a 30-fold rise in coronavirus cases in the past month. Hindus believe a bat...

Swedish PM Andersson tests positive for Covid-19

Swedish PM Andersson tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-01-14 16:46:06

Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has tested positive for Covid-19, her spokesperson said on Friday, as a growing wave of infections swept the country driven by the more con...

Massive cyberattack hits Ukraine government websites

Massive cyberattack hits Ukraine government websites

-- 2022-01-14 16:22:58

A massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to "be afraid and expect the worst" hit government websites late on Thursday, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open...

Nine dead in India train accident

Nine dead in India train accident

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 11:57:16

The death toll in the India rail tragedy rose to nine Friday morning, as rescuers called off the search for survivors in the wreckage of the train that derailed in the eastern state of West Bengal Thu...

Global Covid cases near 320m

Global Covid cases near 320m

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 10:57:28

The overall number of Covid cases is now fast approaching 320 million, with a spike in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus across the world. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), t...

UK's Prince Andrew loses royal and military links

UK's Prince Andrew loses royal and military links

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 09:37:00

Prince Andrew had his military links and royal patronages removed on Thursday and will no longer be known as "His Royal Highness", Buckingham Palace said, as the son of Queen Elizabeth fights a US law...

US Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses

US Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-14 09:24:34

The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses - a policy the conservative justices deemed an improper imposition on the li...

Europe at greatest risk of war in 30 years, Poland warns

Europe at greatest risk of war in 30 years, Poland warns

-- 2022-01-13 19:40:06

Europe is nearer war than it has been in 30 years, Poland's foreign minister warned during the third round of diplomacy this week aimed at defusing tensions over Russia's demand that Ukraine never be...

Palestinian old man found dead after being held in Israeli raid

Palestinian old man found dead after being held in Israeli raid

-- 2022-01-13 11:40:13

An 80-year-old Palestinian-American man was found dead after being detained and handcuffed during an Israeli raid on an occupied West Bank village, Palestinian officials and relatives said on Wednesda...

Taliban want greater role in distribution of foreign aid

Taliban want greater role in distribution of foreign aid

-- 2022-01-13 11:34:11

The Taliban administration that seized control of Afghanistan proposed a joint body on Wednesday of its officials and international representatives to coordinate billions of dollars in planned aid. I...

US hits N Korean officials with sanctions after missile test

US hits N Korean officials with sanctions after missile test

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-13 11:17:02

The Biden administration on Wednesday slapped sanctions on five North Korean officials in its first response to Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile test and later announced it will also seek ne...

US consumer prices record biggest rise in nearly 40 years

US consumer prices record biggest rise in nearly 40 years

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-13 09:52:46

American consumers got hit with the biggest price increases in nearly 40 years. The Labor Department reported Wednesday the consumer price index surged 7 per cent in the year through December. That&r...

British prime minister apologises for attending lockdown party

British prime minister apologises for attending lockdown party

-- 2022-01-12 19:01:14

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised on Wednesday for attending a "bring your own booze" gathering at his official residence during the first coronavirus lockdown as opponents said he had t...

Car bomb in Somali capital kills eight

Car bomb in Somali capital kills eight

-- 2022-01-12 18:00:05

A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services said. Mogadishu resident Mo...

India reports 194,720 new Covid cases, tally crosses 36m

India reports 194,720 new Covid cases, tally crosses 36m

-- 2022-01-12 16:03:33

India's Covid-19 tally rose to 36,070,510 on Wednesday, as 194,720 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. This is the...

South Korea authorises use of Novavax Covid vaccine, imports Pfizer pills

South Korea authorises use of Novavax Covid vaccine, imports Pfizer pills

-- 2022-01-12 12:39:01

South Korea is turning to additional pharmaceutical tools as it looks to pre-empt a surge of COVID-19 omicron infections, authorising the use of Novavax Inc's vaccine on Wednesday and preparing to dis...

Taliban paying in wheat as Afghan economic crisis deepens

Taliban paying in wheat as Afghan economic crisis deepens

-- 2022-01-12 10:34:43

The Taliban administration said on Tuesday it was expanding its 'food for work' programme, in which it uses donated wheat to pay thousands of public sector employees instead of cash as a financial cri...

North Korea launches 'more advanced' missile

North Korea launches 'more advanced' missile

-- 2022-01-11 18:56:18

North Korea appeared to test fire a ballistic missile on Tuesday that may be more capable than the "hypersonic missile" it launched less than a week earlier, South Korea's military said, as Pyongyang...

Ugandan novelist charged with communications offences

Ugandan novelist charged with communications offences

-- 2022-01-11 18:44:28

A prominent Ugandan writer and critic of long-ruling leader Yoweri Museveni has been charged with communications offences related to tweets critical of the president and his son, the charge sheet show...

Smart guns finally arriving in US, seeking to shake up firearms market

Smart guns finally arriving in US, seeking to shake up firearms market

-- 2022-01-11 18:43:05

Personalised smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to US consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new...