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Five dead, 18 injured in shooting at gay nightclub in Colorado

-- 2022-11-20 17:03:27

Five people were killed and 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub on Saturday night in Colorado Springs, Colorado, police said. A suspect was in custody and was being treated for injuries after...

Mahathir Mohamad suffers first election defeat in 53 years

-- 2022-11-20 16:50:22

Malaysia's veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad suffered his first election defeat in 53 years on Saturday in a blow that could mark the end of a seven-decade political career. Mahathir, 97, who served as...

Malaysia faces hung parliament in tight election race

-- 2022-11-20 15:50:40

Malaysia was facing a hung parliament for the first time in its history as support for a conservative Islamic alliance prevented major coalitions from winning a simple majority in a general election....

APEC pledges to boost trade as geopolitical rifts hijack regional summits

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 12:40:29

Leaders of the 21-member APEC bloc pledged on Saturday to boost trade and do more to tackle other economic challenges, wrapping up the last of three summits in the region in a week that have been over...

World's longest-serving president eyes re-election

BBC 2022-11-20 12:18:38

The world's longest-serving president is seeking re-election to continue his 43-year rule in Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, has presided over a regime mar...

Voting begins in Nepal amid looming economic, political stability concerns

REUTERS 2022-11-20 12:07:17

Nepali women clad in saris and men in jeans and baseball caps were standing in long queues on Sunday as voting started in a general election that few expect to bring drastic change - or a government a...

Turkey launches airstrikes over northern Syria

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 12:05:38

Turkey launched airstrikes over several towns in northern Syria on Saturday, US-backed Kurdish-led forces reported. The airstrikes occurred a week after a bomb rocked a bustling avenue in the heart o...

Al Qaeda urges Muslims to shun World Cup, stops short of threats

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 11:09:16

Al Qaeda's regional branch urged Muslims around the world to shun the soccer World Cup in Qatar, though it stopped short of threatening attacks or promoting violence in connection with the event, acco...

UK PM Sunak makes surprise trip to Kyiv, boosts defense aid

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 10:46:34

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine's snow-blanketed capit...

Climate compensation fund approved, other issues up in air

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 10:26:23

Negotiators early Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution, but an...

UN’s proposal for 'loss and damage' fund to be considered at COP27

-- 2022-11-19 20:38:05

The United Nations climate agency on Saturday published the latest draft proposal for a deal to tackle the issue of "loss and damage" that said the summit would agree to launch a new fund to help coun...

Xi Jinping criticises Trudeau in awkward exchange at G20 summit

-- 2022-11-19 20:23:47

China's Xi Jinping has been filmed accusing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of leaking meeting details, days after they held talks at the G20 summit in Bali. Xi told the Canadian PM, via a tra...

British PM Rishi Sunak meets Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Kyiv

-- 2022-11-19 20:14:14

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on his first visit to Kyiv since taking office. The meeting was held to "confirm continued UK support" for Ukraine, a...

Leave if you can to save energy: Ukraine power boss

-- 2022-11-19 19:14:02

The head of Ukraine's biggest private energy firm says people should consider leaving the country to reduce demand on the country's power network. "If they can find an alternative place to stay for a...

Over 400 children killed in war, Ukraine says 

-- 2022-11-19 18:41:17

At least 437 Ukrainian children have been killed as a result of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office said on Saturday.  More than 837 children have also been injured in a tal...

Asia-Pacific leaders renew calls for open trade, condemn war

-- 2022-11-19 17:39:35

Leaders from around the Asia-Pacific called for an end to Russia's war on Ukraine and pledged to steer the region's economies toward sustainable growth as they wrapped up summit meetings Saturday. Ho...

EU would walk away from a bad COP27 deal, warns climate policy chief Timmermans

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-19 15:42:06

The European Union warned it was prepared to walk away from climate negotiations if a satisfactory outcome could not be reached, but said it still believed a deal could be struck on Saturday between n...

Nine die as apartment block collapses in Russia

-- 2022-11-19 15:16:19

Nine people have been found dead in the rubble of a five-storey apartment block that partially collapsed on the Russian Pacific island of Sakhalin, the regional governor said on Saturday, and emergenc...

North Korea's Kim reveals daughter at ballistic missile test

-- 2022-11-19 15:10:21

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un revealed his daughter to the world for the first time on Saturday in striking photos showing the pair hand-in-hand before the launch of the nuclear-armed country's larg...

India power binges on coal, outpaces Asia

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-19 15:05:28

India's coal-fired power output has increased much faster than any other country in the Asia Pacific since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, underscoring the challenges the world's third-largest greenhous...

Four Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli 'air aggression': State media

REUTERS 2022-11-19 12:49:51

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and one wounded in Israeli "air aggression" on some military posts in the coastal and central region of Syria on Saturday morning, Syrian state news agency SANA...

Malaysians vote in general election

-- 2022-11-19 12:20:43

Malaysians were voting on Saturday in a general election that may fail to end the recent phase of political instability in the Southeast Asian nation as polls have predicted no clear winner. The alli...

N Korea's Kim oversees ICBM test, vows more nuclear weapons

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-19 11:13:16

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons as he inspected a test of the country's new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media KCNA said...

Anwar tries to lock in lead in close Malaysia's election race

-- 2022-11-18 20:37:25

Anwar Ibrahim has ramped up campaigning this week to be Malaysia's prime minister, buoyed by polls putting the veteran opposition leader ahead in a closely fought contest, reports Reuters. Saturday's...

Social media videos show flames at home of late Iran leader Khomeini

-- 2022-11-18 19:09:36

Video clips showing the ancestral home in Iran of the late founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on fire have been widely shared on social media, with activists saying it was tor...

Myanmar junta says was no bargaining with other countries before freeing four foreigners 

-- 2022-11-18 18:31:08

Myanmar's ruling military on Friday said it did not engage in political bargaining with other countries before releasing four foreign prisoners among nearly 6,000 in an amnesty this week, reports Reut...

Road crash kills 20 in southern Pakistan

-- 2022-11-18 18:03:03

Twenty people were killed and 13 others injured when a passenger van fell into a water ditch in Pakistan's south Sindh province on Thursday night, local reports said on Friday.  The accident hap...

15 killed in gas cylinder explosion in Iraq 

-- 2022-11-18 17:45:06

At least fifteen people were killed in a gas cylinder explosion in a residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya, the civil defence said on Friday.  A rescue operation lasting 17...

Traces of explosives found at Nord Stream pipelines

-- 2022-11-18 17:44:46

Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, confirming that gross sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday. Swedish and Danish...

No alcohol sales permitted at Qatar's World Cup stadium sites

-- 2022-11-18 17:00:22

In a reversal, World Cup organisers will announce on Friday that no alcoholic beer will be sold to fans at Qatar's stadiums, a source with knowledge of the decision told Reuters. The expected announc...