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US rejects linking Iran nuclear deal, IAEA probes

US rejects linking Iran nuclear deal, IAEA probes

REUTERS 2022-09-03 10:42:07

The White House on Friday rejected linking a revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with the closure of investigations by the UN nuclear watchdog a day after Iran reopened the issue according to a West...

Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home

Sri Lanka's ousted President Rajapaksa returns home

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-03 08:54:34

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home in the early hours of Saturday after fleeing the country in July, a senior security official said. Rajapaksa resigned after protesters an...

Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark

Aid pours into Pakistan; deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark

-- 2022-09-02 21:31:41

Planes carrying fresh supplies are surging across a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll surged past 1,200, officials said Friday, with families and children at special...

Pro-Taliban cleric among 18 dead in Afghanistan mosque blast

Pro-Taliban cleric among 18 dead in Afghanistan mosque blast

-- 2022-09-02 18:50:04

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric in what authorities said was an attack. "18 have b...

Unattended bag at Heathrow Airport prompts evacuation

Unattended bag at Heathrow Airport prompts evacuation

-- 2022-09-02 17:53:52

London police said on Friday an unattended bag in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2, which prompted an evacuation, was deemed not to be suspicious, adding the incident had been stood down. "We were calle...

Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for a year

Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for a year

-- 2022-09-02 17:04:57

Courts in military-ruled Myanmar have sentenced a former British ambassador to the country and her Burmese spouse to a year in prison for violating immigration laws, two sources and a news portal said...

Pakistan's armed forces rescue 2,000 marooned by catastrophic floods

Pakistan's armed forces rescue 2,000 marooned by catastrophic floods

-- 2022-09-02 16:37:30

Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the South Asia...

Blast at Afghan mosque kills cleric, civilians

Blast at Afghan mosque kills cleric, civilians

-- 2022-09-02 16:33:09

A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in Western Afghanistan on Friday killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians, police said. "Mujib Rahman Ansari, with some of his guard...

Modi commissions India’s first home-made aircraft carrier

Modi commissions India’s first home-made aircraft carrier

-- 2022-09-02 16:10:17

India has scripted history by becoming the first country in South Asia to induct into its Navy a domestically built aircraft carrier. The 45,000-tonne Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant, capable of acco...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets more jail, hard labour for election fraud

Myanmar's Suu Kyi gets more jail, hard labour for election fraud

-- 2022-09-02 14:10:39

Myanmar's deposed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced by a judge to three years in jail with hard labour, according to a source familiar with the...

India commissions its first homemade aircraft carrier

India commissions its first homemade aircraft carrier

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-02 13:04:54

India on Friday scripted history by becoming the first country in South Asia to induct into its Navy a domestically built aircraft carrier. The 45,000-tonne Indian Naval Ship (INS) Vikrant, capable o...

Biden targets 'extremist' Trump allies as democratic threat in fraught political moment

Biden targets 'extremist' Trump allies as democratic threat in fraught political moment

-- 2022-09-02 12:39:34

US President Joe Biden charged Republican allies of Donald Trump with undermining the country's democracy and urged voters on Thursday to reject extremism ahead of November's midterm elections,...

Rising energy prices could fuel social unrest across Europe this winter

Rising energy prices could fuel social unrest across Europe this winter

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-02 11:58:48

Europe's wealthiest nations face rising risks of civil unrest over the winter, including street protests and demonstrations, due to high energy prices and mounting costs of living, according to a risk...

Australia raises permanent migration numbers amid labour shortage

Australia raises permanent migration numbers amid labour shortage

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-02 10:50:07

Australia will increase its permanent immigration numbers by 35,000 to 195,000 in the current financial year as it looks to shift its focus toward long-term migrants, bringing some relief for business...

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral

Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral

-- 2022-09-01 21:43:38

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours gra...

Poland seeks $1.3t in WWII reparations from Germany

Poland seeks $1.3t in WWII reparations from Germany

-- 2022-09-01 20:26:34

Poland has estimated its World War II losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion) and announced its plan to officially demand reparations from Berlin. The remarks were made on Th...

N Korea may send workers to Russian-occupied east Ukraine

N Korea may send workers to Russian-occupied east Ukraine

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-09-01 10:47:16

As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east. The...

China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN

China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN

REUTERS 2022-09-01 09:28:29

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in...

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique

-- 2022-08-31 22:54:53

Officials from the Group of 20 major economies meeting on Wednesday for climate talks in Bali have been unable to agree a joint communique, amid objections over language used on climate targets and th...

EU foreign ministers agree to suspend visa deal with Russia

EU foreign ministers agree to suspend visa deal with Russia

-- 2022-08-31 20:25:46

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Wednesday to fully suspend a visa facilitation agreement with Russia, making it harder and more costly for Russian citizens to enter the EU, the bloc's forei...

West must not underestimate Russia's military strength, German defence chief warns

West must not underestimate Russia's military strength, German defence chief warns

-- 2022-08-31 20:23:24

Germany's chief of defence has warned that the West must not underestimate Moscow's military strength, saying Russia has the scope to open up a second front should it choose to do so. "The bulk of th...

Taliban mark first anniversary of US-led force withdrawal

Taliban mark first anniversary of US-led force withdrawal

-- 2022-08-31 19:29:48

The Taliban have celebrated the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led forces from Afghanistan with a military parade showcasing equipment left behind by foreign troops and calls for their gove...

Pakistan urged to open up India route to flood aid

Pakistan urged to open up India route to flood aid

-- 2022-08-31 18:03:38

International aid agencies struggling to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by deadly floods in Pakistan have asked for the easing of curbs on imports of food from Pakistan’s old riv...

Amazon rainforest sees worst August fires in over a decade

Amazon rainforest sees worst August fires in over a decade

-- 2022-08-31 17:57:02

Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in August to the highest for the month since 2010, government data showed on Wednesday, surpassing the blazes in August 2019 that drew global attention soon...

Russia halts Nord Stream 1 gas flow to Europe again

Russia halts Nord Stream 1 gas flow to Europe again

-- 2022-08-31 17:14:02

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom has again suspended gas deliveries on the arterial Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany, citing maintenance requirements. The suspension is the latest in...

Ukraine makes push along entire front, Zelensky says, as Russia halts gas

Ukraine makes push along entire front, Zelensky says, as Russia halts gas

-- 2022-08-31 17:06:07

Ukrainian troops have attacked Russian positions along the entire front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, while Russia halted gas supplies via a major pipeline to Germany citing the need f...

Japan plans longer-range missiles to counter China, Russia

Japan plans longer-range missiles to counter China, Russia

-- 2022-08-31 16:00:40

Japan says it will develop and mass-produce a cruise missile and a high-velocity ballistic missile, as part of a military expansion aimed at dealing with threats from China and Russia. The procuremen...

Saudi woman gets 45-year prison term 'for social media posts'

Saudi woman gets 45-year prison term 'for social media posts'

-- 2022-08-31 11:40:11

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for social media posts, a rights group said, in the latest example of a crackdown on women activists that followed a visit by US Presi...

Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-31 11:30:02

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as...

Mahathir in hospital after testing positive for Covid

Mahathir in hospital after testing positive for Covid

-- 2022-08-31 11:15:32

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 97, has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been hospitalised for observation, his office said on Wednesday. The nonagenarian, who served for more t...