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REUTERS 2022-07-25 10:51:15
Myanmar’s military junta said on Monday it had executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out “terrorist acts” in the Southeast Asian country’s first executions...
REUTERS 2022-07-25 10:24:27
China's population has slowed significantly and is expected to start to shrink ahead of 2025, the state backed Global Times reported, citing a senior health official. Birth data released late on Sund...
-- 2022-07-24 20:46:51
Sri Lanka's new President Ranil Wickremesinghe told diplomats this week that non-violent protests against his government will be allowed to continue, including in the commercial capital Colombo, his o...
-- 2022-07-24 17:13:10
Three people died in a shooting at a university graduation ceremony in the Philippines' capital region on Sunday, including a former mayor from the volatile south of the country, police said, news age...
REUTERS 2022-07-24 13:33:02
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants in a pre-dawn gun battle in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the dea...
-- 2022-07-23 23:06:15
Ten employees of a coal company died in northwestern China on Saturday when a mountainside slope collapsed on them, state media reported. Rescuers spent all day to retrieve the workers who were burie...
-- 2022-07-23 17:08:36
India’s Enforcement Directorate has arrested West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged teacher recruitment scam, says a bdnews24.com...
-- 2022-07-23 15:42:11
The suspected assassin of Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will undergo psychiatric evaluation until later this year, reports Reuters on Saturday citing Japanese media reports. Tetsu...
FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-23 14:47:38
At least 18 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Iran's southern province of Fars, state media said on Saturday. Khalil Abdollahi, head of the province's crisis management depa...
-- 2022-07-23 13:34:20
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and 10 cabinet ministers survived no-confidence votes in parliament on Saturday, with the government emerging on top in Prayuth's last major test ahead of a g...
-- 2022-07-22 21:28:51
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday rejected Myanmar's objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, paving the way for the case to be heard in full....
-- 2022-07-22 20:31:39
Eighteen ministers including Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena were sworn into Sri Lanka's new cabinet before President Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Friday. The President's Office said that among tho...
-- 2022-07-22 17:46:53
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to keep the finance portfolio and could also appoint a junior minister to help him out with the department's work, a source with knowledge of the...
-- 2022-07-22 17:35:20
New Zealanders are dying from Covid-19 at record rates as the country battles a new wave of the omicron strain that is particularly affecting the older population. Deaths from the virus reached 151 i...
-- 2022-07-22 17:15:41
Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to conclude the aid agreement with the crisis-ridden country, saying Lebanon has been adopting the needed structu...
-- 2022-07-22 17:04:34
Russian air strikes on a rural swath of northwest Syria on Friday killed at least seven people including four children, a war monitoring group and rescuers said, following months of relative calm in t...
-- 2022-07-22 15:52:53
The United Nations' highest court is ruling Friday on whether to proceed with a landmark case that accuses Myanmar's rulers of genocide against the country's mainly Muslim Rohingya minority. The Inte...
-- 2022-07-22 13:14:15
Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the Indian Ocean nation grapple...
-- 2022-07-22 12:09:32
Sri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in the main city of Colombo early on Friday and cleared out a section of it, a sign that the country's new president was c...
REUTERS 2022-07-22 10:38:49
The World Court is expected to rule on Friday on Myanmar's objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a decision that could pave the way for the case to be heard...
-- 2022-07-21 21:50:42
New Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint an ally of the ousted Rajapaksa dynasty as prime minister, four sources said on Thursday, a day after urging unity to find a way out of the c...
-- 2022-07-21 20:53:26
A 64-year-old former school teacher in India scripted history on Thursday by being the youngest and first tribal politician to win the presidency. Draupadi Murmu, a former state governor who was fiel...
-- 2022-07-20 19:47:27
Syria has announced breaking diplomatic ties with Ukraine in support of its close ally Russia, saying the move was a response to a similar move by Kyiv. “The Syrian Arab Republic has decided to...
-- 2022-07-20 17:22:24
A Thai minister has admitted the country uses surveillance software to track individuals in cases involving national security or drugs, amid revelations that government critics' phones had bee...
-- 2022-07-20 16:19:03
Over 0.16 million Indians gave up their Indian citizenship last year and received citizenship of other counties, according to official data shared in Parliament on Tuesday. The data shared by State...
-- 2022-07-20 13:35:27
Sri Lankan MPs on Wednesday elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public, reports the BBC. Mr Wickremesinghe face...
-- 2022-07-19 19:27:12
India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday said Nupur Sharma, suspended spokesperson of India’s ruling party BJP, cannot be arrested till August 10 this year in the nine cases against her over her c...
-- 2022-07-19 17:27:41
Sri Lanka's main opposition leader withdrew from the presidential race on Tuesday and promised support to a low-profile politician from the ruling party who will take on acting president Ranil Wickrem...
-- 2022-07-19 11:55:31
Sri Lanka opposition leader Sajith Premadasa withdrew on Tuesday from the race to become president of the island nation, in order to support a rival candidate, reports Reuters. "For the greater good...
-- 2022-07-19 11:03:15
Sri Lankan students and other groups planned to protest on Tuesday against Ranil Wickremesinghe's expected bid for president, as lawmakers gathered in parliament to finalise candidates for the role....
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