Loading...
The Financial Express

Search results for: World

Ukraine to slash ties with Iran over 'evil' drones supply to Russia

Ukraine to slash ties with Iran over 'evil' drones supply to Russia

REUTERS 2022-09-24 15:06:02

Ukraine said on Friday it would downgrade diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran's decision to supply Russian forces with drones, a move President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called "a collaboration with evil"...

US sending 'dangerous signals' on Taiwan, China tells Blinken

US sending 'dangerous signals' on Taiwan, China tells Blinken

-- 2022-09-24 13:59:07

China has accused the United States of sending "very wrong, dangerous signals" on Taiwan after the US secretary of state told his Chinese counterpart on Friday that the maintenance of peace and stab...

Cambodia still searching for at least 10 Chinese missing from sunken boat

Cambodia still searching for at least 10 Chinese missing from sunken boat

REUTERS 2022-09-24 12:56:08

Cambodian rescuers were still searching on Saturday for at least 10 missing Chinese nationals after a boat with more than 40 people on board sank near islands off the coastal town of Sihanoukville, th...

Canada, South Korea seek deeper cooperation on critical minerals

Canada, South Korea seek deeper cooperation on critical minerals

REUTERS 2022-09-24 11:27:46

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday agreed to deepen cooperation on critical minerals used in electric vehicles (EVs) batteries as both countries...

Typhoon lashes central Japan killing one

Typhoon lashes central Japan killing one

REUTERS 2022-09-24 10:25:24

A typhoon lashed central Japan on Saturday with torrential rain and fierce winds, triggering a landslide that killed one man, the Kyodo news agency reported. Some parts of the region southwest of the...

Hurricane Fiona pounds Bermuda as Canada braces for major jolt

Hurricane Fiona pounds Bermuda as Canada braces for major jolt

REUTERS 2022-09-24 10:00:58

Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in...

Palestinian President Abbas calls on Israel to resume negotiations immediately

Palestinian President Abbas calls on Israel to resume negotiations immediately

-- 2022-09-23 22:45:46

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid's call for a two-state solution was a "positive development" but said the proof would be an immediate return to negotiations....

UN rights experts present evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

UN rights experts present evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

-- 2022-09-23 21:04:37

A team of experts commissioned by the UN's top human rights body to look into rights violations in Ukraine said Friday its initial investigation turned up evidence of war crimes in the country followi...

State-organised marchers in Iran call for execution of rioters

State-organised marchers in Iran call for execution of rioters

-- 2022-09-23 19:34:34

State-organised demonstrations took place in several Iranian cities on Friday to counter anti-government protests triggered by the death of a woman in police custody, with some marchers calling for th...

Death toll from Lebanon migrant boat rises to 71

Death toll from Lebanon migrant boat rises to 71

-- 2022-09-23 19:27:05

At least 71 people died when the migrant boat they were aboard sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week, the Lebanese transport minister said, as search operations contin...

At least 26 dead from protests in Iran

At least 26 dead from protests in Iran

-- 2022-09-23 18:52:25

Protesters across Iran continued to clash violently with security forces early Friday following the death of a young woman in police custody, as Iranian state TV suggested the death toll from the unre...

US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as warning to North

US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as warning to North

-- 2022-09-23 17:51:56

A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in about four years, set to join other military vessels in a show of force intended to send a message to North Korea. USS Ron...

Russia starts annexation vote in occupied Ukrainian regions

Russia starts annexation vote in occupied Ukrainian regions

-- 2022-09-23 17:47:25

Russia launched referendums in four occupied areas of Ukraine on Friday expected to be used by Moscow to justify annexation, but Kyiv said the voting was mandatory with residents being threatened with...

Europe's vegetable farmers warn of shortages as energy crisis bites

Europe's vegetable farmers warn of shortages as energy crisis bites

-- 2022-09-23 17:35:38

Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his farm in northern France annually, but this year he may abandon his crop because of the crippling energy costs required to freeze the ha...

Iranian army says it will 'confront the enemies' as protests rage

Iranian army says it will 'confront the enemies' as protests rage

-- 2022-09-23 17:27:11

Iran's army warned on Friday that it would "confront the enemies" to ensure security and peace in the country, according to a statement, as protests rage over the death of a woman in the morality poli...

Kazakhstan reports higher influx of Russians amid conscription

Kazakhstan reports higher influx of Russians amid conscription

-- 2022-09-23 16:39:01

Kazakhstan has seen an increased number of arrivals from neighbouring Russia, Kazakh authorities said on Friday, after Moscow announced a conscription drive this week the war in Ukraine. Russian Pres...

Finland sees more Russians at border wanting 'to be safe'

Finland sees more Russians at border wanting 'to be safe'

-- 2022-09-23 16:38:49

Traffic into Finland across its southeastern border with Russia was heavy on Friday, border guards told Reuters, adding that the number of Russians who entered the previous day was more than double th...

Death toll from Lebanon migrant boat rises to 61

Death toll from Lebanon migrant boat rises to 61

-- 2022-09-23 16:35:08

Syrian authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 61 people who were aboard a migrant boat that sank off its coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week, a Lebanese minister said on Frid...

Bhutan welcomes back tourists after COVID-19 with honey, turmeric

Bhutan welcomes back tourists after COVID-19 with honey, turmeric

-- 2022-09-23 16:31:19

Wedged between China and India, the country known for its natural beauty and ancient Buddhist culture, first opened to wealthy tourists in 1974. In March 2020 it shut its borders to visitors - a major...

Myanmar has gone from ‘bad to worse to horrific’, says UN

Myanmar has gone from ‘bad to worse to horrific’, says UN

-- 2022-09-23 16:21:48

Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, has said that conditions for Myanmar’s 54 million people have gone from “bad to worse to horrific” sinc...

Poland distributes iodine pills as fears grow over Ukraine nuclear plant

Poland distributes iodine pills as fears grow over Ukraine nuclear plant

REUTERS 2022-09-23 14:22:57

Poland, concerned about fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, has distributed iodine tablets to regional fire departments to give to people in the event of radioactive exposure,...

More than 30 migrants dead in Syrian waters

More than 30 migrants dead in Syrian waters

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-23 12:16:22

Authorities rescue more than a dozen migrants off the coast of the northern port city of Tartus Syrian authorities have found 34 bodies and rescued more than a dozen migrants off the coast of the nor...

Western nations concerned by presence of extremist groups in Afghanistan

Western nations concerned by presence of extremist groups in Afghanistan

REUTERS 2022-09-23 10:58:09

Some western countries expressed grave concern about the presence and operations of extremist groups in Afghanistan and said the Taliban were not meeting their counter-terrorism commitments. Special...

US calls Iranian demand to end nuclear probes 'unreasonable'

US calls Iranian demand to end nuclear probes 'unreasonable'

-- 2022-09-23 10:43:44

Iran said on Thursday it saw no point reviving a 2015 nuclear pact without guarantees the United States would not withdraw again and unless UN inspectors close probes of Tehran's atomic programme, a s...

Iran morality police under US sanction

Iran morality police under US sanction

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-23 10:36:35

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Iran's morality police over allegations of abuse of Iranian women, saying it held the unit responsible for the death of a 22-year-old in custody that...

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake briefly shakes Tokyo buildings

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake briefly shakes Tokyo buildings

-- 2022-09-23 10:20:04

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.5 briefly struck the southern part of Japan's Ibaraki prefecture on Friday, authorities said, shaking buildings in Tokyo. Ibaraki is in the Kanto regio...

US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as warning to North Korea

US aircraft carrier arrives in South Korea as warning to North Korea

REUTERS 2022-09-23 09:51:51

A US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in about four years, due to join South Korean ships in a military show of force aimed at sending North Korea a message, offici...

Israeli PM Lapid backs two-state solution with Palestinians

Israeli PM Lapid backs two-state solution with Palestinians

-- 2022-09-23 09:47:59

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid called on Thursday for a two-state solution to decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reasserted that Israel would do "whatever it takes" to stop Iran from...

Four Ukraine regions prepare to hold referendums on joining Russia

Four Ukraine regions prepare to hold referendums on joining Russia

-- 2022-09-23 09:40:29

Four areas of Ukraine controlled by Russia and pro-Moscow forces were preparing to hold referendums on Friday on joining Russia, a move widely condemned by the West as illegitimate and a precurs...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning as protests over woman's death spread

Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning as protests over woman's death spread

-- 2022-09-22 19:13:55

Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards called on the Islamic Republic's judiciary on Thursday to prosecute "those who spread false news and rumours" about a young woman whose death in police custody has...