UNB 2022-12-11 12:06:01
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has welcomed and greatly appreciated the announcement by the United States to increase the number of resettlement places for Rohingya refugees. However, there are very l...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-11 09:45:38
All non-critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odesa was without power after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit two energy facilities, offici...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-11 09:42:56
Iran's troubled currency fell to a new low against the US dollar on Saturday amid continued unrest and the country's increasing isolation in the face...
REUTERS 2022-12-11 09:38:05
When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding in northern China, he braced for a five-day quarantine at a makeshift local hospital as part of the country's strict pandemic controls. Inst...
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A cyclonic storm killed at least four people in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday, the top state official said, as heavy rain and strong winds buffeted several districts damaging pro...
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Nobel laureates congregated in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Saturday for the first fully in-person award ceremonies complete with a formal banquet since the COVID-19 pandemic that curtailed events...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 15:10:51
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on China and Arab states to carry forward the spirit of China-Arab friendship, and foster a closer China-Arab community with a shared future, while addressing the f...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 15:07:32
China said on Saturday it would stop checking truck drivers and ship crew transporting goods domestically for COVID-19, removing a key bottleneck from its supply chain network as a dismantling of the...
REUTERS 2022-12-10 13:07:35
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ghana are expected to reach a staff-level agreement on a loan deal by Tuesday at the latest, said three sources with knowledge of the ongoing talks. The IMF...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 12:44:15
European Union countries are preparing for extraordinary negotiations on Saturday aimed at finalising a deal on a gas price cap that has divided the 27-country bloc. EU states have debated for...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 10:24:00
A prominent dissenting Sunni cleric on Friday said the death sentence of an Iranian protester involved in anti-government unrest violated sharia law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-10 10:13:40
The United States announced new military aid for Ukraine on Friday and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran, which a British envoy said involved Moscow seeking hundreds of ballistic m...
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged Member States, civil society, the private sector and others to put human rights at the heart of efforts to reverse today’s damaging trends. "Huma...
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A total of 183,741 Indians have renounced their citizenship this year, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan told this at the Lok Sabha today (Friday). Responding to a question from...
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A Vietnamese oil service vessel rescued 154 people from a sinking boat in the Andaman Sea and has transferred them to Myanmar's navy, state media reported, a group confirmed by activists as minority R...
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Canada on Friday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, Iran and Myanmar, citing alleged human rights violations by their governments. The measures included sanctions against 33 current or former senior...
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Schools were closed across Sri Lanka on Friday due to high air pollution levels as a cyclonic storm passed by its coast, raising strong winds and rain, with forecasts that it will make landfall on Ind...
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Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan's first major industrial defence collaboration b...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-09 12:45:34
Spiralling debt in low and middle-income countries has compromised their chances of sustainable development, the UN trade facilitation agency has said. Rebeca Grynspan, the head of UNCTAD, said betwe...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-09 11:14:54
Close to 60 per cent of Haiti’s capital is dominated by gangs whose violence and sexual attacks have caused thousands to flee their homes, the UN humanitarian chief in the Caribbean nation said...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-09 09:55:03
Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine's shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials claimed Thursday, raising fears Europe's largest atomic power stati...
REUTERS 2022-12-09 09:20:58
Saudi Arabia and China showcased deepening ties with a series of strategic deals on Thursday during a visit by President Xi Jinping, including one with tech giant Huawei, whose growing foray into the...
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received President Xi Jinping on Thursday as the Chinese leader heralded "a new era" in Arab relations, with a lavish welcome signalling Riyadh's interest in dee...
REUTERS 2022-12-08 17:07:40
In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: "What's our spirit like?" "The spirit of iron!" shout a group of rifle-bearing men, loyalists of the milit...
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Iran executed a protester on Thursday who was convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and closing off a street in the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, part o...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 11:56:46
False earthquake alerts went off Wednesday on Android smartphones in Iran as the country continues to grapple with nationwide protests. Authorities offered conflicting accounts as to why the incident...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 11:19:26
Seven suspected cartel gunmen and one soldier were killed in a shootout Wednesday between the army and gang members in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo, authorities said. The shootings...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 11:05:12
The US government said Wednesday it is appealing a court ruling that would lift asylum restrictions that have become the cornerstone of border enforcement in recent years. But there was no indication...
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India saw a big jump in extreme weather events such as heatwaves and lightning strikes this year and related deaths rose to their highest in three years, government data showed on Wednesday, with scie...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-12-08 10:35:25
Indiana's attorney general on Wednesday sued Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, claiming the video-sharing platform misleads its users, particularly children, about the level of inappropriate cont...
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