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-- 2023-02-25 18:50:32
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is postponing local government elections that had been due to take place early next month, because of a lack of funds, the country's election commission said on Friday. The is...
-- 2023-02-25 18:42:15
Nepal's ruling coalition was in turmoil on Saturday after the Prime Minister said he planned to support a presidential candidate from an opposition party, a decision that prompted the deputy prime min...
-- 2023-02-25 16:39:24
Finance leaders of the world's biggest economies were entangled in differences on Saturday over the war in Ukraine and on resolving the debt burden of distressed developing nations, participants said....
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-25 11:07:16
Iran has developed a cruise missile with a range of 1,650 km (1,025 miles) a top Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday, in a move likely to raise Western concerns after Russia's use of Iranian...
-- 2023-02-24 22:07:36
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday he plans to present to other Group of Seven countries a set of "new ideas" for sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine when he hosts an onlin...
-- 2023-02-24 19:34:51
Indonesia tightened security in the town of Wamena in the easternmost region of Papua, after 10 people were killed during a riot triggered by rumours that a child had been kidnapped, an official said...
-- 2023-02-24 19:31:41
US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken will travel to New Delhi, India on March 1 to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. The meeting will focus on strengthening multilateralism and dee...
REUTERS 2023-02-24 12:37:29
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged global financial leaders to focus on the world's "most vulnerable citizens" as he inaugurated a G20 meeting on Friday, the first anniversary of Russia's i...
-- 2023-02-23 18:41:47
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook a lightly populated, remote part of Tajikistan early Thursday near China's far western Xinjiang region. It was 67 kilometres (41 miles) west of Murghob, Tajikistan, a...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-23 12:31:30
Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment on Wednesday approved two wind power plants by India’s Adani Green Energy Ltd with a total investment of $442 million, a statement issued by the board said....
REUTERS 2023-02-23 11:03:35
An earthquake of about 7.2 magnitude shook Tajikistan at 8:37 am (0037 GMT) on Thursday at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), Chinese state television CCTV reported，citing the China Earthquake Networks Cent...
-- 2023-02-22 21:46:06
Pakistan's government will cut back allowances and travel expenses of ministers and advisers as part of an austerity drive that will save it 200 billion rupees ($766 million) a year. The belt tighten...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-22 20:32:10
An earthquake of magnitude measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Nepal around 1:45 pm on Wednesday, according to Nepal's National Earthquake Monitoring & Research Centre (NEMRC). The epicentr...
Reuters 2023-02-22 08:49:09
South Korea will not require travellers from China to test for COVID-19 after arrival starting next month, although they will still need to take pre-departure tests, a senior South Korean official sai...
-- 2023-02-21 16:55:23
An Iranian foundation has praised a man accused of severely injuring novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack last year and promised him 1,000 sq metres of agricultural land, state TV reported on Tuesday...
-- 2023-02-21 16:14:46
Pakistan's parliament gave the go-ahead Monday for the government to raise taxes on a raft of luxury imports and services in a bid to unlock the next tranche of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) lo...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 15:23:23
China is "deeply worried" that the Ukraine conflict could spiral out of control, foreign minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday, and called on certain countries to stop "fuelling the fire" in an apparent d...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 15:12:19
A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan remained closed for a third day, with thousands of goods vehicles stuck and businesses facing losses as officials from both sides try to broker a...
Reuters 2023-02-21 12:29:30
Tens of thousands of North Koreans and people in South Korea, Japan and China could be exposed to radioactive materials spread through groundwater from an underground nuclear test site, a Seoul-based...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-21 09:39:09
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted protective bail by a court in the eastern city of Lahore on Monday, providing him respite from arrest for two weeks in a case that involves charge...
-- 2023-02-20 18:47:30
India is set to produce lesser sugar than previously estimated by industry bodies and government agencies, with the cane crop maturing early and losing weight due to weather conditions in key growing...
-- 2023-02-20 15:07:20
The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan was closed on Monday, officials from the two sides said, and residents in the area reported the sound of gunfire near the normally bustling bo...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-20 10:24:40
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its eastern coast on Monday in its second weapons test in three days that drew quick condemnation from its rivals. The weapons firings follow...
-- 2023-02-19 19:36:21
The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a...
-- 2023-02-19 15:38:31
The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand climbed to 11 on Sunday as thousands of people remained missing a week after the storm struck the country's North Island. The cyclone hit the isla...
Reuters 2023-02-19 12:59:55
North Korea said on Sunday it had fired a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the day before in a "sudden launching drill" that confirmed its readiness for "mobile and mighty countera...
FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-19 10:38:00
A senior Chinese diplomat on Saturday urged the United States to show sincerity, correct its mistakes, acknowledge and repair the damage it has done to the China-U.S. relations over the Chinese civili...
-- 2023-02-18 19:44:11
India’s foreign minister said the democratic world needed a debate on democracy, labelling billionaire investor George Soros “old, rich, opinionated and dangerous” for his comments o...
-- 2023-02-18 17:53:37
South Korea’s military said North Korea on Saturday fired one suspected long-range missile from its capital toward the sea, a day after it threatened to take strong measures against South Korea...
-- 2023-02-18 17:34:27
At least 53 civilians were killed in an attack in Syria's central desert province of Homs, state media reported on Friday, blaming jihadist militant group Islamic State. The bodies of all victims tak...
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