-- 2018-07-23 14:12:51
Gunmen entered the governorate building in Erbil, the seat of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Monday, and fired from windows at security forces, a deputy governor of the ci...
FE Online Desk 2018-07-23 14:08:40
An intense heat wave in Japan pushed temperatures to 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday in a city northwest of Tokyo, marking a record high for the country, the weather agency sai...
-- 2018-07-22 21:43:06
Russian and Syrian jets stepped up their bombing of an Islamic State (IS) bastion along the Jordan-Israel border in southwestern Syria, reports Agencies. The militants pushed into areas abandoned by...
-- 2018-07-22 21:11:18
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday backed President Hassan Rouhani's suggestion that Iran may block Gulf oil exports if its own exports are stopped and said negotiations with the...
-- 2018-07-22 14:36:54
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned US President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying “America should know... war with Iran is the mother of all w...
Reuters 2018-07-22 12:34:42
Two earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.7 and 5.7 respectively struck Hormozgan province in southern Iran on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, state television reported....
-- 2018-07-22 11:09:54
Tropical storm Son Tinh has killed 20 people, left 16 missing and injured 14 in Vietnam, the country’s rescue committee said on Saturday. Floods triggered by heavy rains hit northern Vietnam af...
-- 2018-07-22 10:08:22
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani may offer the Taliban a ceasefire during next month’s Eid holiday after the truce in June which saw unprecedented scenes of unarmed fighters and soldiers mingling o...
-- 2018-07-21 21:17:50
Legal experts have said Myanmar violated its obligations to the United Nations child rights convention in its crackdown on the Rohingyas. Legal experts commissioned by Save the Children Norway analys...
-- 2018-07-21 17:21:47
People across Japan have been urged to take precautions against a heatwave that has killed about 30 people. Thousands more have sought hospital treatment for heat-related conditions over the past two...
-- 2018-07-21 17:14:22
Hamas has announced that it agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians along the volatile border. The Israeli military declined...
-- 2018-07-21 17:12:32
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz are unlikely to be transferred to the Sihala Rest House owing to its lack of proper security arrangements needed for the high...
-- 2018-07-21 16:39:30
Suspected vigilantes on Saturday killed a Muslim man transporting two cows in India, just 15 months after a similar attack spotlighted the growing influence of pro-Hindu fringe groups. Many Hindus re...
-- 2018-07-21 10:52:36
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi surprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday when he interrupted a no-confidence debate by walking across the parliament floor to give his rival a hug. Modi easily...
-- 2018-07-20 22:01:17
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi created a flutter in parliament on Friday, giving Prime Minister Narendra Modi a surprise hug during a heated debate and said he had nothing but love for his bitt...
-- 2018-07-20 20:59:21
A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016...
-- 2018-07-20 17:02:56
Hackers have stolen personal data in Singapore belonging to some 1.5 million people, or about a quarter of the population, officials say. They broke into the government health database in a "delibera...
-- 2018-07-20 16:46:47
A deadly heatwave in Japan this week has many residents in the Japanese capital questioning the wisdom of staging the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in July and August. Rescuers in Tokyo responded to more than...
-- 2018-07-20 15:58:29
A South Korean court sentenced former president Park Geun-hye to eight more years in prison on Friday after finding her guilty on charges of causing loss of government funds and interfering in a 2016...
-- 2018-07-20 12:49:33
Malaysia will release the long-awaited report final report of missing flight MH370 on July 30, the transport minister said on Friday. In May, the country called off a privately-funded underwater sear...
-- 2018-07-19 19:40:30
Seventeen men have been charged in India with the gang-rape of an 11-year-old deaf girl in the city of Chennai. Police say she was raped repeatedly since the start of the year. They say the main perp...
-- 2018-07-19 18:17:01
Australia is overtaking the UK as the world's second biggest destination for international students, says research from University College London. Researchers at UCL's Centre for Global Higher Educat...
-- 2018-07-19 17:19:44
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz are likely to be shifted from Adiala jail in Rawalpindi to the rest house of Sihala Police Training College in Islamabad. Geo...
-- 2018-07-19 12:37:32
At least ten people were killed and nine others injured after a passenger bus skidded off a mountainous road and fell into a deep gorge in northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Thursday, police sa...
-- 2018-07-19 12:29:27
Israel’s parliament has passed into law a controversial bill that defines the country as an exclusively Jewish state. The “Jewish nation state” bill downgrades Arabic as an official...
-- 2018-07-19 10:48:21
Malaysia has detained seven people for suspected militant-linked activities, including a man who allegedly made death threats against the country’s king and prime minister, police said on Thursd...
-- 2018-07-18 19:46:19
The 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand have spoken publicly of their ordeal for the first time, describing the ‘moment of miracle’ when divers found them. Adul Sam-on, 14, th...
-- 2018-07-18 12:12:57
US President Donald Trump says there is "no time limit" for North Korea to denuclearise and that there is no need to rush the process. It marks a shift in tone from Trump who previously said nuclear...
-- 2018-07-18 11:12:57
A six-story building under construction collapsed onto an adjacent building in Greater Noida near New Delhi, killing at least three people and trapping several others under the debris, police said on...
-- 2018-07-17 14:20:42
At least 11 people were killed in heavy rains in Kozhikkode, Malappuram and Kollam districts of Kerala in the past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday. “While three people died in rain-related inc...
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