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-- 2021-12-08 12:11:22
Americans are lining up for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines at a record pace, with concerns about the newly-detected omicron coronavirus variant spurring millions to get shots, the US government sa...
-- 2021-12-08 10:55:36
Up to one million Covid-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters news agency, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows t...
-- 2021-12-07 22:51:31
One of the suspected killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was arrested at Roissy airport near Paris on Tuesday as he was about to board a flight to Riyadh, a police source told Reuters. The ar...
-- 2021-12-07 21:26:03
Africa needs to make its own vaccines to avoid a repeat of its supply problems in the COVID-19 pandemic but faces big obstacles in turning itself from a pharmaceutical testing ground into a place wher...
-- 2021-12-07 20:53:57
A bomb killed four people in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the first such attack in years in a part of the country that has enjoyed relative stability, and a senior official said Islami...
-- 2021-12-07 20:13:46
The United States will have to "pay a price" for its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China said on Tuesday, just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the two...
-- 2021-12-07 19:35:24
The United Arab Emirates will shift to a working week of four and half days with a Saturday-Sunday weekend from the start of next year to better align its economy with global markets, reports Reuters....
-- 2021-12-07 17:46:47
Students around the world risk losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 per cent of today's global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, accordin...
-- 2021-12-07 17:23:37
A truck collided with a minibus on a highway in northern Ukraine on Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people and injuring seven, a statement by the emergency services said. Rescuers were at the s...
-- 2021-12-07 15:51:13
US President Joe Biden will use a high-stakes video conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin later on Tuesday to tell him that Russia will be hit with the toughest economic sanctions yet if it...
-- 2021-12-07 15:13:07
A senior Myanmar junta official said on Tuesday the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law and the army chief had commuted her sentence on "grounds of humanity", Reuters...
-- 2021-12-07 14:23:13
The boss of a US firm has been criticised after he fired around 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call. "If you're on this call you're part of the unlucky group being laid off," said Vishal G...
-- 2021-12-07 14:11:20
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday said his armed forces were capable of fighting off any Russian attack, as the country marked its national army day with a display of US armoured vehic...
-- 2021-12-07 13:04:59
Cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have risen to 21 in India over the weekend and people must step up for vaccination, officials said on Monday. The western state of Rajasthan reported the most...
-- 2021-12-07 13:02:52
Western powers have called on Russia to lower tensions with Ukraine, and backed Kyiv against any threats from Moscow. US President Joe Biden spoke with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, an...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-07 11:07:35
The overall number of Covid cases has now crossed 266 million amid the emergence of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 2...
-- 2021-12-07 10:46:52
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suing Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, for $150 billion over allegations that the social media company did not take action against anti-Rohingya hate spee...
-- 2021-12-06 21:35:25
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in New Delhi on Monday, with trade and the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan both on the agenda. Afghanistan's takeover b...
-- 2021-12-06 21:00:53
An Indonesian volcano was active again on Monday, spewing out hot clouds of ash, two days after a powerful eruption killed at least 22 people and left dozens missing. Mt Semeru, the tallest mountain...
-- 2021-12-06 20:58:32
Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced from four years to two years after a partial pardon by the head of the military-appointed government, the country's state televis...
-- 2021-12-06 19:26:47
Rescuers dug out the body of 13-year-old boy with their bare hands on Monday, as improved weather conditions allowed them to resume their search after the highest volcano on Indonesia's Java island er...
-- 2021-12-06 19:25:01
Nepalese authorities on Monday reported the first cases of the omicron variant in the Himalayan nation. A Health Ministry statement said a 66-year-old foreign national who arrived by air on Nov. 19 t...
-- 2021-12-06 18:23:51
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Monday denounced a four-year jail term handed down to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi after a "sham trial" and called for her immediate release. Th...
-- 2021-12-06 17:09:45
Sales of weapons and military services by the world’s 100 biggest arms companies reached a record $531bn in 2020, an increase of 1.3 per cent in real terms compared with the previous year, accor...
-- 2021-12-06 15:34:03
India's tally of reported cases of the heavily mutated omicron variant of the coronavirus rose to 12 on Sunday after the state of Maharashtra said it had detected seven new cases. Local media also sa...
-- 2021-12-06 13:27:11
The incoming German government wants to make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory from March 16 for people working in hospitals, nursing homes and other medical practices, according to a copy of draft legi...
-- 2021-12-06 12:54:52
Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi received a four-year jail term on Monday on charges of incitement and violations of a law on natural disasters, a source familiar with the proceedings said, Re...
-- 2021-12-06 11:58:41
Africa has little chance of overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic unless 70 per cent of its population is vaccinated by end-2022, yet "extreme vaccine discrimination" is leaving the continent behind, a rep...
-- 2021-12-06 10:46:49
A court in Myanmar is due to deliver the first rulings on Monday in the trial of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular former leader ousted by the military in a coup 10 months ago,...
-- 2021-12-06 10:42:48
India's tally of reported cases of the heavily mutated omicron variant of the coronavirus rose to 12 on Sunday after the state of Maharashtra said it had detected seven new cases. Local media also sa...
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