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Syria's President Assad wins 4th term with 95pc of vote

-- 2021-05-28 09:29:30

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1 per cent of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say...

Israel rejects, Palestine welcomes UNHRC's decision to probe conflict

-- 2021-05-28 09:00:45

Palestine on Thursday welcomed the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to form an independent committee to investigate Israeli violations in the Palestinian territories. Durin...

Cyclone Yaas leaves 150,000 people homeless in India

-- 2021-05-28 08:36:45

More than 150,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath of a cyclone that unleashed storm surges in eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday, with heavy rains hampering relief wor...

UN rights chief says Israeli strikes on Gaza may be war crimes

REUTERS 2021-05-27 20:22:41

The UN high commissioner for human rights said on Thursday that Israel's deadly strikes on Gaza might constitute war crimes and that Islamist group Hamas had violated international humanitarian law by...

French President Macron seeks forgiveness over Rwanda genocide

-- 2021-05-27 19:23:23

French President Emmanuel Macron said he recognised his country's role in the Rwandan genocide and hoped for forgiveness at a memorial in Kigali on Thursday, seeking to reset relations after years of...

Biden seeks report on coronavirus origins within 90 days

-- 2021-05-27 18:04:49

US President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying on Wednesday that US intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially includin...

Five dead as villages in India, Bangladesh marooned by tidal surges

-- 2021-05-27 14:38:29

Hundreds of thousands of villagers along the low-lying coast of eastern India and Bangladesh were marooned by floodwaters on Thursday in the aftermath of a powerful cyclone that has killed at least fi...

Global temperature likely to rise by 1.5 °C in next five years, UN warns

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-05-27 13:28:41

Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in at least one of the next five years, the UN weather agency warns in a new repo...

Total, Chevron suspend payments in Myanmar

-- 2021-05-27 12:53:24

French oil and gas group Total and US energy company Chevron have suspended some payments from a gas joint venture that would have reached Myanmar's junta, earning praise from pro-democracy activists...

Australia’s Victoria enters fourth lockdown to counter virus outbreak

-- 2021-05-27 10:38:17

Australia's second most populous state Victoria will enter a seven-day lockdown to counter a fast-spreading outbreak in its capital, Melbourne. The lockdown will begin at midnight on Thursday (14...

Pakistan starts production of homemade single-dose COVID-19 vaccine

-- 2021-05-26 21:40:54

Pakistan has started production of its homemade single-dose vaccine, PakVac, for COVID-19 disease at its own plant to reduce dependence on importing vaccine from other countries. The country will pro...

Saudi Arabia refuses to allow Israeli flight to use airspace

-- 2021-05-26 21:17:32

An Israeli carrier was forced on Tuesday to cancel a flight to Dubai after failure to obtain Saudi permission to fly through its airspace. Israeli army radio said the passengers waited for 10 hours a...

Girlfriend of Belarusian blogger ‘confesses’ in video, opposition cries foul

REUTERS 2021-05-26 16:53:36

The girlfriend of a Belarusian blogger detained with him on Sunday after a plane they were travelling on was forced to land in Belarus appeared in a video on Tuesday evening in which she made a confes...

Myanmar cardinal calls for end to fighting

Reuters 2021-05-26 12:35:49

Myanmar’s Roman Catholic leader has called for attacks on places of worship to end after he said four people had died and more than eight were wounded when a group of mainly women and children s...

Powerful Cyclone Yaas makes landfall in eastern India

-- 2021-05-26 12:30:09

A powerful cyclone with winds gusting to 140 kph (87 mph) has begun landfall in eastern India, the weather office said on Wednesday, warning of tidal surges in the coastal areas. Cyclone Yaas is the...

India's total Covid cases cross 27 million

Reuters 2021-05-26 12:13:56

India's total coronavirus infections crossed 27 million on Wednesday, swelled by 208,921 new cases over the last 24 hours, while daily deaths from Covid-19 rose by 4,157. The South Asian country's ov...

Vaccinated South Koreans no longer need masks outdoors

Reuters 2021-05-26 11:11:58

South Korea on Wednesday said masks will no longer be required outdoors from July for those vaccinated with at least one Covid-19 shot. The move is a bid to encourage older residents to get vaccinate...

Blinken announces additional US aid to Palestinians

Reuters 2021-05-26 10:00:18

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would provide new aid to help rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Islami...

Coronavirus 'unlikely leaked from lab', Chinese researchers claim again

-- 2021-05-25 17:49:53

Chinese researchers have again claimed that the novel coronavirus was unlikely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The Global Times, owned by The Chinese Communist Party, published a r...

India relocating over a million people as cyclone approaches

-- 2021-05-25 17:28:57

Authorities on India's east coast began moving more than a million people to safety on Tuesday as a "severe" Cyclone Yaas neared, days after the deadly cyclone hit the west coast. The India Meteorolo...

Blinken says US will work to rebuild Gaza, prevent return to war

REUTERS 2021-05-25 16:48:58

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would rally support to rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Hamas Islamis...

Japan to impose 10-day quarantine on travellers to Bangladesh, five South Asian countries

-- 2021-05-25 15:38:11

Japan on Tuesday said it has extended the quarantine period for travellers who have recently been to Bangladesh and five other South Asian countries amid growing concerns over B.1.617 Covid-19 variant...

India reports lowest rise in daily virus cases since April 14

Reuters 2021-05-25 10:43:10

India on Tuesday posted 196,427 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, its lowest daily rise in infections since April 14, while deaths from Covid-19 rose by 3,511. The country's overall case...

Indian govt appeals to farmers to call off mass protest, citing Covid 'super-spreader' risk

-- 2021-05-25 10:13:48

Indian government leaders appealed to farmers to call off a mass protest this week for fear it could prove a viral "super-spreader" event as the country's overall death toll from COVID-19 crossed 300,...

Belarus faces sanctions over 'state piracy', arrest of journalist

Reuters 2021-05-25 09:59:47

Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist,...

Biden, Putin likely to hold summit in Geneva

-- 2021-05-25 09:59:11

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely hold a summit in Geneva in June, US media reported on Monday. Citing sources familiar with the matter, several media outlets sa...

Military arrest Mali's president, prime minister

-- 2021-05-25 09:45:50

Military officers in Mali detained the president, prime minister and defence minister of the interim government on Monday, deepening political chaos just months after a military coup ousted the previo...

Australia to close Kabul embassy

-- 2021-05-25 09:30:03

Australia is to close its embassy in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where the Australian troops are scheduled to withdraw later this year. According to a joint media statement on Tuesday, Aust...

Myanmar junta shows first images of Suu Kyi since coup

REUTERS 2021-05-24 22:55:12

Myanmar's state television on Monday aired pictures of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time since a military coup nearly four months ago, showing her first in-person court appearance sinc...

We'll be wiped out if we can't control Covid now, Bhutan PM says

-- 2021-05-24 20:16:37

Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has expressed concern over the prevailing threat of Covid-19 in the country and said: "We will be wiped out if we can't control the virus now." In an address to t...