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Live Mint 2021-09-27China may be diving head first into a power supply shock that could hit Asia’s largest economy hard just as the Evergrande crisis sends shockwaves through its financial system. The crackdown on power consumption is being driven by rising demand for electricity and surging coal and gas prices as well as strict targets from Beijing to cut...
UK counts on vaccines, ‘common sense’ to keep virus at bay
Egypt Independent 2021-09-26LONDON (AP) — Britons are encouraged these days — though in most cases not required — to wear face coverings in crowded indoor spaces. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson regularly appears in the packed, poorly ventilated House of Commons cheek-by-jowl with other maskless Conservative lawmakers. For critics, that image encapsulates the flaw in the...
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
Yahoo Daily News 2021-09-26In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing...
Whatever happened to Michel Barnier?
The Observer 2021-09-26My Secret Brexit Diary, Michel Barnier’s blow-by-blow account of the Brexit negotiations, is at times quite a dry and technical read. But every now and then it offers glorious moments of comic relief. There is, for example, the day that Lord Digby Jones and a jovial bunch of leave-voting businessmen pitch up optimistically at Barnier’s Brussels...
Iceland votes amid splintered political landscape
Al Jazeera 2021-09-25Iceland votes in an election that could see its unprecedented left-right coalition lose its majority, despite bringing four years of stability after a decade of crises. With the political landscape more splintered than ever, the process of forming a new coalition could be more complicated than in the past after Saturday’s polls. Prime Minister...
Minister: Iran will return to nuclear talks `very soon'
Asahi News 2021-09-25UNITED NATIONS--Iran’s new foreign minister said Friday the country will return to nuclear negotiations “very soon,” but accused the Biden administration of sending contradictory messages — saying it wants to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal while slapping new sanctions on Tehran and not taking “an iota of positive action.” Hossain Amir Abdollah said...
New light emerges from China’s shadowy shoppers
Reuters 2021-09-24HONG KONG, Sept 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - One grey area of Chinese consumption is becoming more black and white. Cross-border trading known as daigou has been hit hard by restricted travel during Covid-19, curbing sales of everything from powdered milk to calfskin handbags. Shrinking this shadowy bazaar comes at a cost, but the lower risks and...
Economic sanctions on Afghanistan must end: Chinese FM Wang Yi at G20
Hindustan Times 2021-09-23Afghanistan’s peaceful reconstruction and medium- and long-term development cannot do without financial support from the international community, the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said. PUBLISHED ON SEP 23, 2021 09:50 AM IST Economic sanctions against Afghanistan must end and unilateral restrictions on the country should be lifted as soon as...
Apple to give store workers bonuses up to $1,000 next month
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UN Human Rights Council: Renew Libya Fact-Finding Mission’s Mandate
Human Rights Watch 2021-09-21(Geneva, September 21, 2021) – United Nations Human Rights Council member states, including Libya, should continue to support the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya by renewing its mandate during its 48th session, which began on September 13, 2021, seven human rights organizations said today. Impunity for past and ongoing violations and...
US to lift travel ban for fully vaccinated passengers from November - know rules
DNA India 2021-09-21The United States announced on Monday that it would lift COVID-19 travel bans on all fully vaccinated air passengers from November. However, such passengers would also have to undergo COVID-19 testing and contact tracing. The COVID-19 response coordinator for US President Joe Biden, Jeffrey Zients told reporters that the new...
Giving birth under the Taliban
BBC News 2021-09-20Rabia is cradling her newborn baby, just days after giving birth at a small hospital in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan's east. "This is my third child, but the experience was totally different. It was horrible," she says. In a matter of weeks, the birthing unit Rabia delivered her baby in had been stripped down to its bare basics. She was given...
Biden pitching partnership after tough stretch with allies
Las Vegas Sun 2021-09-19Published Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021 | 7:22 a.m. Updated 3 hours, 29 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden goes before the United Nations this week eager to make the case for the world to act with haste against the coronavirus, climate change and human rights abuses. His pitch for greater global partnership comes at a moment when allies are...
Where to find top restaurant wines to drink at home
The Observer 2021-09-19Some wine merchants have done well out of the pandemic. Among them were big guns such as Waitrose and Majestic, which saw online sales rise by as much as 300% last year. Even smaller shops were unusually busy: on average, sales (many home-delivered) by specialist independent wine shops shot up by 65.6% in April 2020 alone, according to a survey by...
The new Texas abortion law could be a civil suit model for other states
The Los Angeles Times 2021-09-18The Republican lawmakers gathered around the marble table for the historic moment, watching as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the strict abortion bill into law. Several applauded, one pumped his fist. Abbott had finalized Senate Bill 8 — a piece of Texas legislation that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy and in effect blocks women’s...
Official says US will deport 'massive' number of Haitians
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Race for Japan's new prime minister kicks off
The Times of India 2021-09-17TOKYO: The campaign to become Japan's next prime minister kicks off on Friday, with four candidates vying for leadership of the ruling party in an unusually close race. The candidates include two women hoping to lead a country that has never had a female prime minister, though both are considered long shots. The race follows Prime Minister...
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Huawei & HEC Officials Successfully Conclude ‘Seeds for the Future 2021’ Program
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China imposes local lockdowns as Covid-19 cases surge
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