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Poor workers bear the brunt of India's heatwave

-- 2022-05-16 10:14:04

For construction worker Yogendra Tundre, life at a building site on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi is hard enough. This year, record high temperatures are making it unbearable. As Indi...

Some Shanghai businesses to reopen Monday, officials say

-- 2022-05-15 18:45:34

Supermarkets, malls and restaurants in Shanghai will be allowed to open in a limited capacity starting Monday, officials said, even while it remained unclear whether residents would be let out of thei...

India open to exporting wheat to poorer nations despite ban

-- 2022-05-15 18:37:58

India on Sunday said it would keep a window open to export wheat to food-deficit countries at the government level despite restrictions announced two days earlier. India's Commerce Secretary BVR Subr...

Curfew lifted for Buddhist festival in crisis-hit Sri Lanka

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-15 14:27:23

A nationwide curfew was fully lifted on Sunday to allow Sri Lankans to celebrate the Buddhist festival of Vesak, while new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe assembled a cabinet to resolve the island...

Manik Saha replaces Biplab Deb as chief minister of India’s Tripura

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-14 22:48:49

Hours after the resignation of India’s Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb in a sudden political twist, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appointed Manik Saha as his replacement just a...

In India, poachers hunting peacock kill three police

-- 2022-05-14 19:51:21

Three Indian policemen were shot dead by wildlife poachers in central India, a police official said on Saturday, adding that the poachers had opened fire after refusing to surrender when confronted by...

India’s Tripura chief minister resigns

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-14 18:28:25

Biplab Kumar Deb, chief minister of India’s Tripura state, on Saturday said he has submitted his resignation to Governor of the state. The leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...

UAE strongman Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed named new president

-- 2022-05-14 17:21:34

The United Arab Emirates' de facto leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan was elected president of the Gulf Arab state by a federal supreme council on Saturday, solidifying his rule over the OPEC...

Sri Lanka eases curfew as new PM seeks to form cabinet

-- 2022-05-14 15:14:48

Sri Lanka lifted a nationwide curfew for 12 hours on Saturday, further easing tight curbs as new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe sought to form a government after clashes with anti-government grou...

North Korea's Kim says Covid 'great turmoil', 21 new deaths reported

-- 2022-05-14 13:04:58

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Saturday that the spread of COVID-19 had thrust his country into "great turmoil" and called for an all-out battle to overcome the outbreak, while 21 new daily d...

Delhi building fire leaves at least 26 dead

-- 2022-05-14 09:51:17

At least 26 people died on Friday in a fire that broke out in a four-storey building near a railway station in city state Delhi's western suburb, police said in a statement. Television footage showed...

20 killed, many feared trapped as building catches fire in India

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-13 23:37:56

At least 20 people died in a fire that broke out at a three-storey commercial building in New Delhi of India on Friday. More than 30 people sustained burn injuries from the fire that erupted on Frida...

Rocket attack on military bus kills 10 soldiers in Syria

-- 2022-05-13 22:23:50

A rocket attack on a military bus killed 10 soldiers and wounded nine more in northwest Syria on Friday in a deadly flare-up near the frontier with rebel-held territory close to the Turkish border. T...

Sri Lanka’s PM says crisis to get worse before it gets better

-- 2022-05-13 21:42:40

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said an economic crisis that has brought misery and unrest is "going to get worse before it gets better". The country is facing fuel shortages and so...

Al Jazeera journalist, killed by Israeli forces, to be laid to rest in Jerusalem

-- 2022-05-13 18:44:32

Thousands of Palestinians on Friday attended the funeral in Jerusalem for an Al Jazeera journalist who witnesses say was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier this week while covering a military raid in...

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed dies

-- 2022-05-13 17:59:44

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs said on Friday. He was also ruler of Abu Dhabi emirate. "The Ministry of Presidential...

ASEAN countries to get $150m US investment

-- 2022-05-13 17:14:06

US President Joe Biden opened a gathering of Southeast Asian leaders with a promise to spend $150 million on their infrastructure, security, pandemic preparedness and other efforts aimed at countering...

Sri Lanka opposition, protesters vow to continue anti-government campaign

-- 2022-05-13 16:33:47

Sri Lanka's main opposition party joined anti-government protesters on Friday in rejecting the appointment of a new prime minister, and insisted the president resign because of the country's disastrou...

Sri Lanka protesters vow to continue anti-government campaign despite new PM

-- 2022-05-13 14:17:46

Sri Lanka's new prime minister will begin forming a unity government on Friday, but his appointment has failed to appease anti-government protesters demanding the resignation of the president for the...

North Korea reports first Covid-19 death as fever 'explosively spreads'

-- 2022-05-13 11:02:30

At least one person confirmed to have Covid-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of...

South Korean women freeze eggs as child-rearing costs surge

-- 2022-05-13 10:02:33

In South Korea, fewer women are having children and those who do are in no rush. The sky-high costs of housing and education make financial security a must. Social mores also dictate the need to be ma...

Wickremesinghe takes oath, returns as Sri Lanka's PM

-- 2022-05-12 19:49:23

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has just one seat in the 225-member Parliament, took oath as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Monday, after holding closed-door discussions with President Gotaba...

Many Sri Lankans flee Colombo as political leaders meet to seek solution to crisis

-- 2022-05-12 19:19:28

Many Sri Lankans thronged buses in the main city Colombo on Thursday to return to their hometowns with leaders of political parties due to meet after the prime minister quit and went into hiding and P...

Saudi Arabia aims for 70m tourists this year

-- 2022-05-12 18:05:47

Saudi Arabia aims to exceed 70 million tourist visits this year after drawing 62 million last year, a tourism official said on Monday, underlining the conservative kingdom's concerted push to boost it...

Wickremesinghe to be appointed Sri Lankan PM

-- 2022-05-12 17:56:10

Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be reappointed on Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and economic crisis, a par...

Sri Lanka's ruling family in fight for survival as crisis worsens

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 10:33:21

His beloved villa has been daubed in graffiti by protesters, and a museum dedicated to his father ransacked. Now former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is in hiding in a heavily fortified...

North Korea reports first Covid-19 outbreak, orders lockdown in 'gravest emergency'

-- 2022-05-12 10:00:27

North Korea confirmed its first COVID-19 outbreak on Thursday, calling it the "gravest national emergency" and ordering a national lockdown, with state media reporting an Omicron variant had been dete...

Philippines' Marcos to 'hit the ground running' as president

-- 2022-05-11 18:48:43

Philippines election winner Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Wednesday he would hit the ground running as president and was looking very carefully at candidates for his economic team, with infrastructure,...

Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa evacuated to naval base for his safety

-- 2022-05-11 17:38:52

Sri Lanka has moved Mahinda Rajapaksa to a naval base for his safety after he quit two days ago as prime minister, the defence secretary of Sri Lanka said on Wednesday, following violence targeting th...

SL troops ordered to shoot at any persons damaging public property

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-11 14:25:02

Sri Lanka's armed forces were ordered on Tuesday to shoot at any persons damaging public property or threatening lives, Defence Ministry spokesman Nalin Herath said. The island nation has been rocked...