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A year into Ukraine war, older refugees running out of hope

-- 2023-02-22 17:02:08

Tamila Melnichenko, 82, has one last wish: to be buried in Ukraine. A year ago, she was uprooted by the Russia-Ukraine war and now spends her days in a retirement home in Poland, longing for the life...

Zelensky plans to attend July NATO summit in Vilnius

-- 2023-02-22 15:59:47

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to attend in person a NATO summit taking place in Vilnius in July, Ukraine's ambassador to Lithuania told local newswire BNS. Zelensky has made only...

Six dead, including two children, in Moscow's hotel fire

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-22 14:30:24

Six people have died, including two children, after a fire broke out in a multi-storey building in Moscow's centre, Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations said late on Tuesday. Nine people were in...

US agrees to extradite former Peruvian President Toledo

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-22 11:02:08

Peru's attorney general's office said on Tuesday on Twitter that the US State Department had agreed to extradite former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo on corruption charges. Toledo, 76, was arre...

Huge winter storm churns across northern US, threatening record snowfall

Reuters 2023-02-22 09:01:11

A massive winter storm spreading across the US West into the Northern Plains and Midwest on Tuesday could produce blizzards, brutal cold, and record snowfall, making road travel treacherous and disrup...

Biden says Russia will never defeat Ukraine after Kremlin suspends nuclear treaty

Reuters 2023-02-22 08:52:08

US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday Ukraine "stands strong" a year after the Russian invasion and that Moscow would never defeat its neighbour, after the Kremlin suspended a landmark nuclear...

South Korea to lift post-arrival COVID test requirement for travellers from China

Reuters 2023-02-22 08:49:09

South Korea will not require travellers from China to test for COVID-19 after arrival starting next month, although they will still need to take pre-departure tests, a senior South Korean official sai...

Russia suspends participation in last remaining nuclear treaty with US

-- 2023-02-21 18:34:22

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was suspending its participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides' strategic nuclear arsenal...

Putin says Ukrainians become hostage of Kyiv regime and its Western overlords

-- 2023-02-21 17:27:15

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday vowed to continue with Russia's year-long war in Ukraine and accused the US-led NATO alliance of fanning the flames of the conflict in the mistaken belief t...

Iranian foundation offers land to Salman Rushdie's attacker

-- 2023-02-21 16:55:23

An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday...

Pakistan hikes tax on luxury goods, services for IMF loan

-- 2023-02-21 16:14:46

Pakistan's parliament gave the go-ahead Monday for the government to raise taxes on a raft of luxury imports and services in a bid to unlock the next tranche of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) lo...

‘Russia-Ukraine war claims lives of 8,000 civilians in a year’

-- 2023-02-21 15:55:49

More than 8,000 civilians have been killed since the beginning of a war between Russia and Ukraine nearly a year ago, the UN Human Rights Office said on Tuesday. The new toll represents a significant...

China says certain countries must stop 'fuelling the fire' in Ukraine conflict

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 15:23:23

China is "deeply worried" that the Ukraine conflict could spiral out of control, foreign minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday, and called on certain countries to stop "fuelling the fire" in an apparent d...

Thousands of trucks stuck at Afghan-Pakistan border crossing

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 15:12:19

A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed for a third day, with thousands of goods vehicles stuck and businesses facing losses as officials from both sides try to broker a...

Death toll from Brazil rains hits 40

-- 2023-02-21 15:00:50

The death toll from devastating rainfall in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Monday, official figures showed, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the region and said homes should no longer...

Russia urges Sweden again to share Nord Stream probe findings

Reuters 2023-02-21 14:16:26

Russia renewed its calls on Sweden late on Monday to share its findings from the ongoing investigation into the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. The UN Security Counci...

Six people die after fresh earthquake hits Turkey-Syria border

REUTERS 2023-02-21 14:08:58

Six people were killed in an earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria, CNN Turk reported on Tuesday, two weeks after a larger quake killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or d...

Groundwater carries radiation risk for North Korean cities near nuke test site, rights group says

Reuters 2023-02-21 12:29:30

Tens of thousands of North Koreans and people in South Korea, Japan and China could be exposed to radioactive materials spread through groundwater from an underground nuclear test site, a Seoul-based...

Putin to update Russia's elite on Ukraine war in major speech

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 11:39:53

President Vladimir Putin will update Russia's political and military elite on the state of what he calls his "special military operation" in Ukraine on Tuesday with many Russians eager to know what hi...

Belarus to form 100,000-150,000 strong volunteer military force

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 11:33:32

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday he had ordered the formation of a new volunteer territorial defence so everyone knows how to "handle weapons" and be ready to respond to an act...

Former Pakistan PM Khan gets court protection against arrest

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 09:39:09

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted protective bail by a court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday, providing him respite from arrest for two weeks in a case that involves charge...

Fresh quake hits Turkey-Syria border two weeks after disaster

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 08:38:55

Another earthquake struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on Monday, just two weeks after the area was devastated by a larger quake that killed more than 47,000 people and damaged or destroyed h...

‘Should China ally with Russia, there would be a world war’

-- 2023-02-20 19:59:25

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned China in a newspaper interview on Monday against supporting Russia in its war on Ukraine and said doing so would bring on a world war. Zelensky's comment...

India's sugar output could fall further as cane matures early

-- 2023-02-20 18:47:30

India is set to produce lesser sugar than previously estimated by industry bodies and government agencies, with the cane crop maturing early and losing weight due to weather conditions in key growing...

Biden makes an unannounced visit to Ukraine

-- 2023-02-20 16:26:45

US President Joe Biden announced new military aid for Ukraine during an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian capital on Monday, showing solidarity with Kyiv days before the first anniversary of Russia-U...

Pakistan, Afghanistan close main border crossing; sound of gunfire reported

-- 2023-02-20 15:07:20

The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan was closed on Monday, officials from the two sides said, and residents in the area reported the sound of gunfire near the normally bustling bo...

Three dozen dead as Brazil rains cause calamity

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-20 12:26:54

Heavy rains in coastal areas of Brazil's southeast have caused flooding and landslides that killed 36 people and dislodged hundreds of others, according to a statement from Sao Paulo state authorities...

US plans new sanctions on Russia, targets key industries

REUTERS 2023-02-20 11:25:50

The Biden administration is planning to impose new export controls and a fresh round of sanctions on Russia, targeting key industries, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with th...

North Korea fires short-range missiles after making threat

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-20 10:24:40

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast on Monday in its second weapons test in three days that drew quick condemnation from its rivals. The weapons firings follow...

Taliban plans to turn former foreign bases into special economic zones

-- 2023-02-19 19:36:21

The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a...