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-- 2022-09-03 19:01:11
The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of nearly unprecedented...
REUTERS 2022-09-03 15:11:02
When a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week, there was only one man who could stop it: a 92-year-old Iraqi Shi'ite cleric who proved once again h...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
REUTERS 2022-08-31 11:08:26
Taiwan said on Wednesday it would exercise its right to self-defence and "counter-attack" if Chinese armed forces entered its territory, as Beijing increased military activities near the democra...
REUTERS 2022-08-31 09:11:12
Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid on Tuesday for what it described as an...
-- 2022-08-30 21:22:59
Pakistan will consider importing vegetables from arch-rival India to mitigate floods fallout, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Monday, as food prices have risen significantly. "We can consider...
-- 2022-08-30 20:43:48
Taiwan's military on Tuesday fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an islet controlled by Taiwan near the Chinese coast, a military spokesperson said. The drone headed back to China aft...
-- 2022-08-30 19:42:50
China's ruling Communist Party will hold its five-yearly congress beginning on Oct 16, with Xi Jinping poised to secure a historic third leadership term and cement his place as the country's most powe...
-- 2022-08-30 19:35:12
Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad on Tuesday, easing a confrontation that led to the deadliest violence in the Iraqi capital in year...
-- 2022-08-30 17:48:08
Russia has shipped a battery of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to a Russian port near Crimea, according to an Israeli satellite imaging company, in an apparent attempt to bolster its air defe...
-- 2022-08-30 17:48:05
The United Nations issued a flash appeal on Tuesday for $160 million to help Pakistan cope with catastrophic floods that have killed more than 1,100 people, destroyed infrastructure and crops, and aff...
-- 2022-08-30 17:11:19
Iran has closed its borders with Iraq and urged its citizens to avoid travelling there, a senior official said on Tuesday, amid an eruption of violence after powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said...
-- 2022-08-30 16:17:12
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) board on Monday approved the seventh and eighth reviews of Pakistan's bailout programme, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said, which will release $1.17 billion in...
REUTERS 2022-08-30 12:49:59
Several big Chinese cities escalated COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday, with Shenzhen closing more businesses and Dalian locking down millions, renewing economic uncertainty and delaying the start of t...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-30 12:38:31
At least 75 people were killed and 59 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Au...
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