The United States is urging the more than 150 countries planning to send their leader or a government minister to New York to speak in person at the UN General Assembly next month to consider giving a video address instead to prevent the annual high-level week from becoming “a super-spreader event.” ... ASSOCIATED PRESS. .
This past weekend, researchers at the National Science Foundation's Summit Station observed rainfall at the peak of Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet for the first time on record—an event driven by warming temperatures. "It's something that's hard to imagine without the influence of global climate change." ... "Like the heat wave in the [U.S ... .
The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned. It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threatening their family members ... But there are fears the Taliban have changed little since the brutal 1990s ... In other developments ... -BBC. .
UK Foreign SecretaryDominic Raab is facing mounting pressure to resign following reports that he dodged a critical call to Afghan Foreign MinisterHanif Atmar days before the Taliban seized Kabul... It has been reported that the call never took place ... Members of the British public have also lobbied for Raab to go ... ....
China could soon reduce the gap between the rich and poor by imposing new taxes on property and inheritance, capping state-owned-enterprise (SOE) executives’ salaries, strengthening antitrust enforcement and promoting more charity ...Didi rides were forced to take a break as authorities demand changes to its data-collection practices. Photo. AFP ... Photo.
At least two children were killed in a "suicide attack" targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan's Gwadar district on Friday, the provincial government's spokesperson said. Three people, including the car's driver, were also injured when a suicide bomber blew himself near the vehicle ... .
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-governing political party reclaimed the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat, after the king on Friday named its candidate, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, as the country’s new leader ...Ismail's appointment essentially restores Muhyiddin’s alliance ... “Ismail's appointment was not unexpected ... .
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Should the Taliban be allowed on social platforms if they don't break any rules, such as a ban on inciting violence, but instead use it to spread a narrative that they're newly reformed and are handing out soap and medication in the streets? ....
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday attended the funeral of the firebrand leader of Bangladesh’s top hardline Islamist organization just hours after he died in the port city of Chittagong, police said ... As the news of his death spread, thousands of Hefazat supporters gathered outside the hospital ... – AFP ....