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-- 2021-12-17 19:10:03
At least eight people have died and more are feared injured amid severe flooding caused by torrential rainfall in northern Iraq, Iraqi officials said on Friday. Omed Khoshnaw, governor of Irbil provi...
-- 2021-12-17 18:52:50
Clashes between herders, fishermen and farmers in the far north of Cameroon have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes in the past two weeks, creating a humanitarian emergency, the United Na...
-- 2021-12-17 17:57:18
The US military should be held accountable for its war crimes of killing innocent civilians worldwide, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Friday, reports UNB citing Xinhua. Spokesperson Wan...
-- 2021-12-17 17:51:40
Ten new cases of the Omicron variant were logged in India's capital Friday, taking the country's case tally of the new variant to 98. "Ten new cases of Omicron variant reported in Delhi, taking the t...
-- 2021-12-17 17:46:26
At least five people have died as powerful Typhoon Rai pounded the Philippines, according to authorities and local media. Ricardo Jalad, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (N...
-- 2021-12-17 16:37:25
North Korea has banned its citizens from laughing, shopping, and drinking from Friday onwards as a part of the 11-day mourning on the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-il ruled...
-- 2021-12-17 16:24:34
Americans face an uncertain and anxiety-filled holiday season for the second consecutive year, as the highly contagious omicron variant threatens to intensify an already alarming surge of COVID-19 cas...
-- 2021-12-17 14:14:54
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it had received reports of eight cases of myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation, in children aged 5-11 years who received Pfi...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-17 12:29:20
At least 27 people are feared dead as a fire broke out at a building in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday. Police are looking into the possibility that the blaze was deliberately started, said pub...
-- 2021-12-17 11:12:04
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 96, has been admitted to a hospital and will be undergoing a full medical check up, the hospital said on Thursday. "He shall be undergoing a full med...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-17 10:55:18
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exhorted the world Thursday to make “concrete" progress within days toward a now-distant goal of vaccinating 40 per cent of the global population against CO...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-17 09:25:20
The US government on Thursday permanently eased some restrictions on a pill used to terminate early pregnancies, allowing the drug to be sent by mail rather than requiring it to be dispensed in person...
-- 2021-12-16 20:40:25
Spain will administer the third dose of coronavirus vaccine to people aged 40 and over, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, expanding the booster programme a day after its child vaccination campaign...
-- 2021-12-16 20:27:24
France has hardened travel restrictions with Britain because of a surging number of omicron, new coronavirus variant, cases. According to the French announcement on Thursday, only designated categori...
-- 2021-12-16 19:42:42
Queen Elizabeth has cancelled a pre-Christmas lunch with her family as a precaution while cases of COVID-19 soar in Britain, a Buckingham Palace source said. "The decision is a precautionary one as i...
-- 2021-12-16 18:47:38
Twenty-two people were trapped after a coal mine was flooded in the city of Xiaoyi, north China's Shanxi province, as a result of illegal mining, local authorities said Thursday. The accident took pl...
-- 2021-12-16 17:07:25
Typhoon Rai rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall in the southern Philippines on Thursday. The storm is forcing mass evacuations and flight cancellations as floodwaters rea...
-- 2021-12-16 16:24:15
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said. Kennedy, 64, is...
-- 2021-12-16 16:22:08
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku on Thursday, the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake struck at 11:26 Jakarta time (0426 G...
-- 2021-12-16 15:49:34
Canada's government implored residents on Wednesday not to leave the country as provinces ramp up vaccinations to combat the fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant, even as efforts to head off a...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-16 14:51:49
Four children were killed and several more badly injured in Australia after strong winds lifted an inflated jumping castle into the air during end-of-year school celebrations, causing them to fall 10...
-- 2021-12-15 21:12:53
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken cut short his Southeast Asia visit on Wednesday due to a COVID-19 case in his travelling party, an official said, in an abrupt halt to a trip aimed at boosting tie...
-- 2021-12-15 17:44:53
A search and rescue mission was underway for 25 Indonesians missing after a boat capsized off Malaysia on Wednesday killing 11 people, among them suspected undocumented migrants, maritime authorities...
-- 2021-12-15 15:24:18
A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department...
-- 2021-12-15 10:18:15
Australia on Wednesday reopened borders to vaccinated skilled migrants and foreign students after a near two-year ban on their entry, in a bid to boost an economy hit by stop-start Covid-19 lockdowns...
-- 2021-12-14 21:36:43
Japan's Digital Agency on Tuesday said that it will initiate an application software enabling visitors and returnees to go through simpler customs, immigration, and quarantine (CIQ) procedures from ne...
-- 2021-12-14 21:05:52
At least 50 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in a street in Haiti's second-largest city Cap-Haitien during the night, the city mayor said on Tuesday. The local hospital was stretched try...
-- 2021-12-14 12:44:29
Indian troops killed a suspected militant during a gunbattle in the federally-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region on Tuesday, two officials said, as violence escalated in the territory at the heart of...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-14 11:03:59
The overall number of global Covid cases is fast approaching 271 million amid the spread of the Omicron variant in several western countries. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total ca...
-- 2021-12-14 10:27:18
Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck its region of East Nusa Tenggara, the meteorological department said. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Cen...
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