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KABUL (REUTERS) - US and Taliban officials have exchanged proposals for the release of billions of dollars from Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund, three sources familiar with the talks said, giving a hint of progress in efforts to ease Afghanistan's economic crisis.

The military government knew the executions, the first in decades in Myanmar, would draw criticism.

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Students at Hong Kong's most prestigious university will be required to take a course on Beijing's national security law in order to graduate, the latest sign of China's growing influence on the city.

SUAO (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen boarded a naval warship on Tuesday (July 26) for only the second time in her six years in office, where she lauded the military's determination to defend the island while overseeing its largest annual naval and air exercises.

Drowning is the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five in the country.
 

I didn’t receive the money. Show me the proof that I have it, he says.

He received the diagnosis last month and has been undergoing treatment.

COLOMBO (REUTERS) - Crisis-hit Sri Lanka invited on Tuesday (July 26) expressions of interest from oil companies in petroleum-producing nations seeking to import and sell petroleum products as the Indian Ocean island opens its market amid acute fuel shortages.

Mr Haruyuki Takahashi is suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from Aoki Holdings.

It also presented a gross lack of will to support Asean's peace efforts, Cambodia said.

The paper says the authorities must be prepared to face the impact climate change will inevitably have on food production.

The writer says it is high time for the world to pile up political pressure on the Myanmar military junta.

There is also not enough fuel to get patients and medical staff to hospital.

Prosecutors believe suspect's mental condition at the time of the crime is a factor.

The government will introduce a climate change bill to enshrine a 43% emissions reduction target by 2030.

Three cases were reported outside quarantined areas in Shanghai and two in Shenzhen.

The attack was Japan’s worst mass killing in seven years.

City’s financial secretary points to weak recovery of economy from Covid-19 pandemic.

BEIJING - Indonesian President Joko Widodo will begin a whistle-stop tour of three East Asian countries on Tuesday (July 25).

13 of the terrorist suspects detained in Aceh on Friday (July 22) were members of Jemaah Islamiyah and Jemaah Ansharut Daulah.