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Blast in Afghanistan's Kabul kills several civilians, says Taliban

Blast in Afghanistan's Kabul kills several civilians, says Taliban

-- 2021-10-03 19:33:04

Several civilians were killed in an explosion in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on Sunday, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter.The blast was near the entrance of the Edi Gah m...

Johnson says no more ‘uncontrolled immigration’

Johnson says no more ‘uncontrolled immigration’

-- 2021-10-03 18:32:28

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to "uncontrolled immigration" to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of pos...

Mamata retains chief minister’s post with record win in by-polls

Mamata retains chief minister’s post with record win in by-polls

-- 2021-10-03 16:57:30

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has won the Bhabanipur by-polls over her BJP opponent by a record margin of 58,832 votes, according to The Indian Express. The election was crucial to the A...

Fire destroys Honduras' Caribbean resort island of Guanaja

Fire destroys Honduras' Caribbean resort island of Guanaja

-- 2021-10-03 11:36:09

A huge fire destroyed or damaged more than 200 houses and businesses on the Honduran island of Guanaja on Saturday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee for safety and ravaging the tourism-dependent...

5.0m people die of Covid-19 worldwide

5.0m people die of Covid-19 worldwide

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-03 10:47:37

Worldwide deaths related to COVID-19 surpassed 5.0 million on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, with unvaccinated people particularly exposed to the virulent Delta strain. The variant has exposed...

Duterte daughter running for Philippines' president in 2022 elections

Duterte daughter running for Philippines' president in 2022 elections

-- 2021-10-03 10:35:43

Philippine President Rodrigo's daughter would run for president in next year's election and her father's long-time aide, who filed his vice presidential candidacy, would be her running mate, broadcast...

US asked to unfreeze Iran's $10b to show good will: Iran official

US asked to unfreeze Iran's $10b to show good will: Iran official

-- 2021-10-03 10:31:18

Iran's foreign minister said on Saturday that US officials tried to discuss restarting nuclear talks last month, but he insisted Washington must first release $10 billion of Tehran's frozen funds as a...

Italian vessel rescues 65 from migrant boat fleeing Libya

Italian vessel rescues 65 from migrant boat fleeing Libya

-- 2021-10-03 10:11:03

An Italian offshore supply vessel on Saturday rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a crowded, wooden boat. The migrant boat was drifting after its engine stop...

14 Myanmar nationals arrested in India

14 Myanmar nationals arrested in India

-- 2021-10-02 20:11:48

Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur have apprehended as many as 14 Myanmar nationals for allegedly entering the country using fake identity cards India shares a long land border o...

COP26 delegates agree on need to deliver climate finance pledge

COP26 delegates agree on need to deliver climate finance pledge

-- 2021-10-02 19:30:37

Delegates heading to the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow agreed they must deliver on the $100 billion per year pledge to help most vulnerable nations tackle climate change, COP26 president Alok Sha...

Qataris vote in country's first legislative elections

Qataris vote in country's first legislative elections

-- 2021-10-02 19:29:59

Qataris began voting on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state's first legislative elections for two-thirds of the advisory Shura Council in a vote that has stirred domestic debate about electoral inclusion...

Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to restart his account

Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to restart his account

-- 2021-10-02 19:15:29

Former US President Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to reinstate his account, Bloomberg News reported late on Friday. In July Trump sued Twitter, Facebook Inc and Alpha...

Philippine President Duterte says he is retiring from politics

Philippine President Duterte says he is retiring from politics

-- 2021-10-02 16:11:08

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday he was retiring from politics, a surprise move that fuelled speculation he was clearing the way for his daughter to run to succeed him, despite he...

China's largest ever air incursion angers Taiwan

China's largest ever air incursion angers Taiwan

-- 2021-10-02 14:10:14

Taiwan sharply criticised China on Saturday after Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China with the largest ever incursion by the Chinese air force into the island's air defence z...

US Covid death toll surpasses 700,000

US Covid death toll surpasses 700,000

-- 2021-10-02 14:09:18

The United States surpassed 700,000 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, as officials roll out booster doses of vaccines to protect the elderly and people working in hig...

Voting begins in Qatar's first legislative polls

Voting begins in Qatar's first legislative polls

-- 2021-10-02 13:56:18

Qataris began voting on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state's first legislative elections for two-thirds of the advisory Shura Council in a vote that has stirred domestic debate about electoral inclusion...

N Korea says it fired new anti-aircraft missile in test

N Korea says it fired new anti-aircraft missile in test

-- 2021-10-02 12:33:08

North Korea fired a newly developed anti-aircraft missile on Thursday, state media KCNA reported, the latest in a recent series of weapons tests that has come as denuclearisation talks with the United...

Murdoch's News Corp Australia tweaks climate targets

Murdoch's News Corp Australia tweaks climate targets

-- 2021-10-02 12:29:15

The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O) has set new environmental targets, an internal email showed, shoring up employee engagement with climate issues as it prepares an editorial ca...

Afghan girls waiting for Taliban plan to reopen schools

Afghan girls waiting for Taliban plan to reopen schools

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-02 11:45:35

Afghan girls waiting for Taliban plan to reopen schools As the weeks pass in Afghanistan, the new Taliban administration has yet to announce when it will re-open secondary schools for girls, leaving...

Global Covid death toll tops 4.7m

Global Covid death toll tops 4.7m

-- 2021-10-02 10:46:04

The global Covid death toll has now surpassed 4.7 million as the race for mass vaccination continues. The total caseload and fatalities from the virus stand at 234,239,476 and 4,790,858, respectively...

30-country meeting on cyber crime, ransomware planned

30-country meeting on cyber crime, ransomware planned

-- 2021-10-02 08:53:00

Top US national security advisers will gather officials from 30 countries this month with plans to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, President Joe Biden said on Friday. A...

‘Redouble pressure on Myanmar to ensure Rohingya repatriation‘

‘Redouble pressure on Myanmar to ensure Rohingya repatriation‘

-- 2021-10-01 23:27:27

Rohingya leader Mohib Ullah's killing should be a clarion call to the international community to redouble its pressure on Myanmar to recognise the Rohingya and accept their return to their homes in Ra...

ARSA blames ‘transnational border-based criminals’ for Rohingya leader’s killing

ARSA blames ‘transnational border-based criminals’ for Rohingya leader’s killing

-- 2021-10-01 20:09:45

Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), an insurgent group that is active in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, has blamed ‘transnational border-based criminals’ for the recent killing of Rohing...

78 countries for early implementation of UN anti-racism declaration

78 countries for early implementation of UN anti-racism declaration

-- 2021-10-01 18:58:33

Seventy-eight countries, including China, called on Thursday for speeding up the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and putting an end to discrimination, racism, a...

Sri Lanka lifts six-week virus lockdown amid economic worries

Sri Lanka lifts six-week virus lockdown amid economic worries

-- 2021-10-01 17:26:11

Sri Lanka lifted a six-week lockdown Friday as COVID-19 cases and deaths decline but will restrict people's movement for work and obtaining essentials only - which are running short in the island coun...

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills nine people

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills nine people

-- 2021-10-01 16:40:53

Nine people died on Friday when a fire broke out in an intensive care unit at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country's third deadly hospital fire in less than a ye...

Nobel Peace Prize: Is this year Greta Thunberg's

Nobel Peace Prize: Is this year Greta Thunberg's

-- 2021-10-01 12:49:21

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced just three weeks before world leaders gather for a climate summit that scientists say could determine the future of the planet, one reason why prize watchers sa...

Global Covid cases near 234m

Global Covid cases near 234m

-- 2021-10-01 10:41:05

The overall number of global Covid cases is fast approaching 234 million even with mass inoculations underway in several countries. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count m...

Bangkok braces for possible flooding as rains continue

Bangkok braces for possible flooding as rains continue

-- 2021-10-01 09:37:19

Authorities sandbagged low-lying areas in the Thai capital and checked pumping stations Thursday along the Chao Phraya River in preparation for possible flooding as dams upstream, swollen by heavy rai...

US immigration agents to target migrants for deportation

US immigration agents to target migrants for deportation

-- 2021-10-01 08:29:17

The US government will narrow who immigration agents target for arrest and deportation, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Thursday, in a marked departure from the hard-line app...