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Saudi Arabia announces emergency coalition to fund Palestinian Authority

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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan says Riyadh will provide $90 million as part of an urgent funding drive. Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday the launch of an emergency international coalition to fund the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Speaking at a press conference in New York on […]

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New flood fears spook evacuees after Super Typhoon Ragasa kills 14 in Taiwan

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HUALIEN, Taiwan — Residents in an eastern Taiwan town where flooding from a strong typhoon killed 14 people took to shelters on Wednesday (Sept 24) fearing further disaster, as Premier Cho Jung-tai called for an inquiry into what went wrong with evacuation orders. Sub-tropical Taiwan, frequently hit by typhoons, normally has a well-oiled disaster mechanism

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Putin offers Trump one-year extension to nuclear weapons treaty

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the US agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but she added that US President

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South Korea vows response after US arrests hundreds at Hyundai plant

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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has ordered all-out efforts to respond to the arrests of hundreds of the nation’s citizens in a US immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor car battery factory. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said on Saturday that the government has set up a team to respond to Thursday’s arrest of over 300

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Israel warns Gaza City residents to flee south to ‘humanitarian area’

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As Israel’s offensive on Gaza City continues, the military has now declared what it calls a humanitarian zone in the south. Residents should flee to safety there, a spokesperson has said, as some Gazans endure a crisis in food and medical care. Israeli forces are carrying out an offensive on suburbs of Gaza City, in

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Afghan earthquake death toll passes 2,000

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The death toll from Afghanistan‘s worst earthquake in years passed 2,000 on Thursday as rescuers continue to find bodies in the rubble of destroyed buildings. Hamdullah Fitrat, a spokesman for the Taliban authorities, said hundreds more bodies were recovered in the hardest-hit Kunar province, where many people live in hard-to-reach villages and river valleys. He said 2,205 people

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Indonesia ready to cut lawmaker perks in concession to protesters

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Indonesian political parties have agreed to revoke a number of perks and privileges for parliamentarians, president Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a major concession to anti-government protests that left five people dead. Protests over what demonstrators termed excessive pay and housing allowances for parliamentarians started on Monday. They expanded into riots on Thursday after one person, a motorcycle rideshare

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India Post suspends all mail services to United States

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This came after the Donald Trump administration’s order withdrawing the duty-free exemption for goods valued up to $800 came into effect on Friday. India’s Department of Posts on Sunday said that it has suspended all categories of mail services to the United States, including letters, documents, parcels and gift items valued under $100, following new

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India warns Pakistan of flood threat in first known official contact for months

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India warns Pakistan of flood threat in first known official contact for months. ISLAMABAD — India has alerted Pakistan about possible cross-border flooding after heavy monsoon rains in the South Asian region, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, in what marks the first public official contact between the two nuclear-armed rivals in months. The ministry said New Delhi conveyed the information through

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Iran, European powers to resume nuclear talks next week

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Iran, European powers to resume nuclear talks next week. Iranian state media said Araghchi and the British, French and German foreign ministers agreed during a phone call for deputy foreign ministers to continue the talks on Tuesday. During the call, Araghchi “emphasized the legal and moral incompetence of these countries to resort to the (snapback) mechanism,

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