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Ukraine's priority to hold the line as global security leaders gather

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 12:04:30

Senior politicians and military leaders from around the world meet in Germany on Friday with Ukrainian officials expected to address the security conference as they try to fend off Russian missile str...

Portugal ends Golden Visas, curtails Airbnb rentals to address housing crisis

Reuters 2023-02-17 11:55:43

Portugal announced on Thursday a hefty package of measures to tackle a housing crisis, including the end of its controversial "Golden Visa" scheme and a ban on new licenses for Airbnbs and other s...

China declares 'decisive victory' over COVID-19

Reuters 2023-02-17 11:49:28

China's top leaders declared a "decisive victory" over COVID-19, claiming the world's lowest fatality rate, although experts have questioned Beijing's data as the coronovirus tore across the country a...

Biden says he will speak to China's Xi about balloon incident

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 11:10:29

President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China's president, Xi Jinping, about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a US fighter jet shot down early this mont...

Cyclone in New Zealand leaves seven dead

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:24:28

The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle rose to seven on Friday, and New Zealanders were told the number was likely to rise because emergency services have not yet made contact with hundreds of communit...

Indian tax inspectors examine mobiles, laptops of BBC employees

-- 2023-02-16 17:08:42

Indian tax officials examined mobile phones and laptops used by some BBC editorial and administrative employees, two sources said, as an inspection at the British broadcaster's offices in New Delhi an...

At least 39 migrants die in bus crash off Panama cliff

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-16 10:46:30

At least 39 have died in Panama after a bus carrying more than 60 migrants fell off a cliff early on Wednesday, the country's migration authorities said, marking the worst migration accident in the Ce...

Sri Lanka approves 65pc hike in electricity tariffs

-- 2023-02-15 21:51:18

Sri Lanka's electricity regulator has approved a 65 per cent hike in electricity tariffs effective from Wednesday, a government source told Reuters. The latest hike comes in addition to a 75 per cent...

Scotland’s longest-serving first minister resigns

-- 2023-02-15 19:54:22

Nicola Sturgeon, who has dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade as first minister, is expected to quit on Wednesday Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed her resignat...

73 migrants presumed dead after shipwreck off Libya

-- 2023-02-15 19:15:28

At least 73 migrants were reported missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the official Twitter account of International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Li...

EU debates $11.8b euro worth of trade curbs in new Russia sanctions

-- 2023-02-15 16:24:27

Representatives of the 27 European Union countries meet in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss a new batch of sanctions against Russia, which the head of the bloc's executive said could cost 11 billion e...

Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war

Reuters 2023-02-15 13:47:31

Vladimir Putin casts the war in Ukraine as a watershed when Russia finally stood up to the West - but some within the elite fear he has committed his country to a long and fruitless drain on lives and...

India doesn't know how many people it has

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 13:45:44

In two months, India is projected to become the world's most populous country with over 1.4 billion people. But for at least a year, and possibly longer, the country won't know how many people it has...

More than 100 priests suspected of abuse remain active in Portugal's Catholic Church

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 13:22:01

More than 100 priests suspected of child sexual abuse remain active in church roles in Portugal, according to the head of a commission investigating the issue. The commission, which started its work...

Damages from Turkey quake estimated to surpass $20 billion

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 12:01:20

Damages from deadly earthquakes in Turkey last week will probably exceed $20 billion, the risk modelling company Verisk estimated on Tuesday. Only a fraction of the damages - likely more than...

Diplomatic spat deepens as US examines Chinese balloon debris

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 11:36:24

A diplomatic rift between China and the United States deepened on Tuesday with Beijing accusing Washington of flying high-altitude balloons into its airspace and that of other countries, as the US mil...

Nine survivors pulled from Turkey's rubble as quake toll passes 41,000

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-15 10:32:28

Nine survivors were rescued from the rubble in Turkey on Tuesday, more than a week after a massive earthquake struck, as the focus of the aid effort shifted to helping people now struggling without sh...

Haley announces 2024 Republican presidential bid

-- 2023-02-14 19:19:37

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is challenging her one-time boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a video she released on Tuesday. "I'm Nikki Haley and I'm run...

5.3-magnitude earthquake jolts off central Indonesia

-- 2023-02-14 18:59:32

A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, but did not leave damages or casualties, the country's weather agency said. The Indonesian Agency for Meteorologica...

India’s income tax department conducts searches at BBC offices

-- 2023-02-14 15:34:56

India's income tax department conducted searches at the BBC's New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, two sources said. The income tax department and the BBC did not immediately respond to emails se...

New Zealand declares national emergency as Cyclone Gabrielle wreaks havoc

Reuters 2023-02-14 12:13:14

New Zealand declared a national state of emergency for only the third time in its history on Tuesday as Cyclone Gabrielle caused widespread flooding,...

Modi's party has 'nothing to hide' on India's Adani group, home minister says

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:57:22

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has "nothing to hide or be afraid of" on the controversy over Adani group, the home minister said on Tuesday, responding to opposition allegations of favour...

Earthquake fans anti-Syrian sentiment in Turkey amid desperate conditions

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:40:49

The devastating earthquake to hit Turkey and Syria has fanned resentment among some Turks towards the millions of Syrian refugees in the country who are being blamed anecdotally by some for looting am...

US military says it recovers key sensors from downed Chinese spy balloon

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:39:37

The US military said on Monday it had recovered critical electronics from the suspected Chinese spy balloon downed by a US fighter jet off South Carolina's coast on February 4, including key sen...

Global Covid-19 cases near 678m

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 11:09:10

The overall number of Covid-19 cases in the world is now approaching 678 million.According to the latest global data, the total Covid-19 case count amounted to 677,724,407 while the death toll from th...

Pakistan plans to quadruple domestic coal-fired power

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-14 10:36:02

Pakistan plans to quadruple its domestic coal-fired capacity to reduce power generation costs and will not build new gas-fired plants in the coming years, its energy minister told Reuters on Mon...

Turkey finds more survivors but hopes dwindle a week after quake

-- 2023-02-13 20:25:38

Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country's wors...

China says US balloons breached airspace at least 10 times

-- 2023-02-13 18:17:22

China's foreign ministry says the US has flown balloons into its airspace more than 10 times in the past year. The accusation comes after the US on February 04 shot down a suspected spy balloon over...

6.1-magnitude quake hits New Zealand

-- 2023-02-13 17:31:01

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at 09:18:07 GMT on Monday, reports Xinhua citing the US Geological Survey. The epicenter, with a depth of 374.033 km, was in...

Explosions rock Gaza, Israel says it hit Hamas rocket factory

-- 2023-02-13 14:47:03

Several explosions rocked the Gaza Strip early on Monday, according to a Reuters witness, as Israel's military said it attacked an underground site used by the Palestinian enclave's Hamas Islamists to...