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Taliban officials nearing contract for purchase of gasoline from Russia

Taliban officials nearing contract for purchase of gasoline from Russia

REUTERS 2022-08-30 11:10:55

The Taliban administration is in the final stages of talks in Moscow over the terms of a contract for Afghanistan to purchase gasoline and benzene from Russia, Afghan officials told Reuters. Habibura...

Deadly clashes rage in Baghdad in Shi'ite power struggle

Deadly clashes rage in Baghdad in Shi'ite power struggle

REUTERS 2022-08-30 10:16:38

Heavy clashes erupted in Baghdad, killing almost 20 people on Monday, after powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would quit politics, prompting his loyalists to storm a government palace an...

Iraq's powerful Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quits politics

Iraq's powerful Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quits politics

-- 2022-08-29 19:13:57

Iraq's powerful Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Monday he was quitting politics and closing his institutions in response to an intractable political deadlock, a decision that could fuel ins...

6.1-magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island

6.1-magnitude quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra island

REUTERS 2022-08-29 15:01:55

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the third tremor to rattle the area since early Monday, according to the country's geophysics agency. Indonesia's meteor...

Taliban accuses Pakistan of allowing US drones to use its airspace

Taliban accuses Pakistan of allowing US drones to use its airspace

-- 2022-08-28 17:28:58

The Taliban's acting defence minister on Sunday said Pakistan had allowed American drones to use its airspace to access Afghanistan, a charge Pakistan has recently denied following a US air strike in...

Kuwait to hold parliamentary election on September 29

Kuwait to hold parliamentary election on September 29

-- 2022-08-28 17:07:06

Kuwait will hold a parliamentary election on Sept 29, state news agency KUNA reported, after the Gulf state's crown prince moved to dissolve parliament in a bid to resolve a political standoff between...

Pakistan flooding death toll tops 1,000

Pakistan flooding death toll tops 1,000

-- 2022-08-28 17:00:28

Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan topped 1,000 since mid-June, officials said Sunday, as the country’s climate minister called the deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catast...

India demolishes two illegal residential skyscrapers

India demolishes two illegal residential skyscrapers

-- 2022-08-28 16:41:38

Indian authorities demolished two illegally constructed skyscrapers in a wide plume of dust debris on Sunday near the capital New Delhi, razing the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country i...

Pakistan floods force tens of thousands from homes overnight

Pakistan floods force tens of thousands from homes overnight

-- 2022-08-28 12:16:22

Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as deadly floods cause devastation across the country. Powerful flash...

Taiwan opposition defends 'brave' China outreach after controversial visit

Taiwan opposition defends 'brave' China outreach after controversial visit

REUTERS 2022-08-28 12:13:43

The head of Taiwan's main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT) defended its "brave" outreach to Beijing on Sunday after a senior official visited China on a trip condemned by Taipei's government and...

Pakistan appeals to world for flood help amid devastation

Pakistan appeals to world for flood help amid devastation

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-28 10:17:28

Pakistan is appealing for further international assistance after floods wreaked havoc across the country. The US, UK, United Arab Emirates and others have contributed to a monsoon disaster appeal but...

US warships carrying out Taiwan Strait passage, first since Pelosi visit

US warships carrying out Taiwan Strait passage, first since Pelosi visit

-- 2022-08-28 09:37:17

Two US Navy warships are sailing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait, three US officials told Reuters, the first such operation since heightened tension with China over US House Speaker...

Pakistan police want to search Imran Khan’s residence

Pakistan police want to search Imran Khan’s residence

-- 2022-08-27 19:19:18

Pakistan’s police want to conduct search operations at the residence of Imran Khan, a former prime minister of the country and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The Islamabad police h...

India to raze skyscrapers in record demolition

India to raze skyscrapers in record demolition

-- 2022-08-27 19:06:09

Indian authorities started evacuating thousands of people from their homes on Saturday ahead of the demolition of two 40-storey skyscrapers in a residential area on the outskirts of New Delhi, officia...

Why is Taiwan now so important to US politicians?

Why is Taiwan now so important to US politicians?

-- 2022-08-27 16:32:46

Another senior US politician is visiting Taiwan as Chinese military drills around the independent island have just wound down. Described as rehearsals for a potential invasion of the island, the unpr...

Pakistan declares national emergency as flood toll nears 1,000

Pakistan declares national emergency as flood toll nears 1,000

-- 2022-08-27 16:07:07

The Pakistan government has declared devastating floods a “national emergency” after nearly 1,000 people died and more than 30 million are without shelter as monsoon rains continue to lash...

Death toll from floods in Afghanistan rises above 180: Taliban

Death toll from floods in Afghanistan rises above 180: Taliban

-- 2022-08-27 12:13:40

Flooding in Afghanistan this month killed more than 180 people, the Taliban said on Thursday, appealing to the international community for help, Reuters reports. Flooding has wrought widespread devas...

Cinema ticket sales in Saudi Arabia increase by 2,605pc since 2018

Cinema ticket sales in Saudi Arabia increase by 2,605pc since 2018

-- 2022-08-26 17:42:06

Annual cinema ticket sales in Saudi Arabia have risen 2,605 per cent since the first year that theatres were opened in the country, according to a report from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture....

Veteran of India's Congress quits with broadside against Gandhi scion

Veteran of India's Congress quits with broadside against Gandhi scion

-- 2022-08-26 16:08:05

A veteran leader of India's main opposition Congress party quit on Friday, issuing a scathing resignation letter in which he blamed the scion of the influential Gandhi family for the decline of the pa...

Pakistan floods affect over 30 million people

Pakistan floods affect over 30 million people

-- 2022-08-26 15:47:14

Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country's climate change minister said on Thursday, calling the situation a "clim...

Arrests over India politician and former TikTok star murder

Arrests over India politician and former TikTok star murder

BBC 2022-08-26 15:17:21

Police in India have arrested two men in connection with the murder of politician and former TikTok star Sonali Phogat. The arrests came on Thursday evening after a post-mortem revealed "mult...

China's navy begins to erase imaginary Taiwan Strait median line

China's navy begins to erase imaginary Taiwan Strait median line

REUTERS 2022-08-26 12:22:25

For nearly 70 years an imagined line running down the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China has helped keep the peace but the so-called median line is looking increasingly meaningless as China's mode...

Suspended Thai PM Prayuth says to continue as defence minister

Suspended Thai PM Prayuth says to continue as defence minister

-- 2022-08-26 10:34:16

Suspended Thai leader Prayuth Chan-ocha said on social media he will continue in his role as defence minister, in his first direct address to the public since a court ordered him to cease his duties a...

Takeover of NDTV by India's richest man worries journalists

Takeover of NDTV by India's richest man worries journalists

-- 2022-08-26 10:25:19

For years Indian television company NDTV pursued an independent line critical of the government even as others embraced strident nationalism. Now a proposed takeover by tycoon Gautam Adani's conglomer...

Thailand's new acting leader is another royalist military man

Thailand's new acting leader is another royalist military man

-- 2022-08-25 19:16:26

Thailand's new acting leader, Prawit Wongsuwan, represents little substantial change from suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha for opposition forces seeking to end what they decry as military do...

More US lawmakers set to visit Taiwan 

More US lawmakers set to visit Taiwan 

-- 2022-08-25 19:07:37

Another group of US lawmakers will arrive in Taiwan on Thursday evening, Taiwan's official Central News Agency reported, the third such visit this month and defying pressure from Beijing for these tri...

UK imposes new sanctions against Myanmar in support of Rohingya community

UK imposes new sanctions against Myanmar in support of Rohingya community

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-08-25 18:55:14

The UK on Thursday took fresh action against Myanmar Armed Forces into the sixth year of the military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya community. New sanctions have been impo...

Japan police chief to resign over Shinzo Abe assassination 

Japan police chief to resign over Shinzo Abe assassination 

-- 2022-08-25 18:13:45

Japan's national police chief said Thursday he will resign to take responsibility over shortfalls in security that an investigation by his own agency showed did not adequately safeguard former Japanes...

Myanmar junta detains former UK ambassador in Yangon 

Myanmar junta detains former UK ambassador in Yangon 

-- 2022-08-25 17:49:49

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain's former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said on Thur...

Taliban say they've not found body of al Qaeda leader

Taliban say they've not found body of al Qaeda leader

-- 2022-08-25 16:17:18

The Taliban have not found the body of Ayman al-Zawahiri and are continuing investigations, group spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday, after the United States said they killed the al Qaed...