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President Joko Widodo has for years been wooing the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to invest in nickel-rich Indonesia, which is seeking grow its electric vehicle sector.

Gyanvapi mosque, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, may have been built after historic temple was demolished; relics of Shiva and other Hindu symbols found.

The aid will be co-financed with the World Bank and not used for military purposes; specialised job assistance will be given to people who have fled to Japan since Russia’s invasion.

The Arun IV project will be jointly built on the Arun River in Nepal’s east; electricity will be split on a 51/49 per cent basis; India is investing billions of dollars in its smaller neighbours, where China is increasingly active.

Time is running out, but new PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is struggling to forge a unity government as strongman President Gotabaya Rajapaksa clings to power.

Dozens of police and troops have been assigned to Khan’s Islamabad residence; security forces will also escort him whenever he travels; says he has video message detailing plot.

Successful apple-growing needs just the right amount of rain and sunshine, as too much or too little can severely affect the fruit’s quality.

Home to some of the biggest aluminium smelters and hydroelectric dams in Southeast Asia, Sarawak aims to achieve the same standard and success as Norway, which has developed the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.

The deal would mark the first time in 70 years that Tokyo has signed a major defence project with a country other than the United States, a decision that analysts suggest indicates Japan’s desire to build stronger political and security alliances with more like-minded nations.

Retired career diplomat Trevor Sofield, who was high commissioner to the Solomon Islands from 1982 to 1985, told a security summit Australia had ‘lost its way’ in the Pacific as China scaled up its influence in the region.

Photos of the April 25 parade showed huge crowds at Pyongyang’s Kim Il-sung Square unmasked and not socially distanced. Three weeks later, North Korea has more than 1 million cases and at least 50 people have died.

The meeting marked the first publicly acknowledged occasion when a ministerial-level official from an Asean member state has had face-to-face talks with a counterpart in Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government.

Japan’s government was already supporting relocation of domestic companies’ production bases back to the country. Then the yen took a major tumble.

State media did not specify how many of the cases were confirmed as Covid-19. Eight new deaths on Monday brought the toll from North Korea’s outbreak to 50. Most of the country’s 26 million people are thought to be unvaccinated.

The US President will seek to deepen security cooperation with both allies and encourage them to press further sanctions on Russia amid the Ukraine war.

Government declared a two-day holiday for the nation’s most important religious event; but cancelled state festival at the Kuragala temple; recent mob violence by loyalists left nine dead and more than 225 wounded.

The US YouTuber drew flak for wearing the Cartier-designed jewellery, which originally belonged to an Indian king, at the New York event’s red carpet.

‘If this ban occurred in a normal year the impact would be minimal, but the loss of Ukraine volumes exacerbate the issues,’ analyst said; India will approve export to countries that need wheat for food security, based on requests.

Jinshiro Motoyama has been on a hunger strike demanding the immediate termination of work on the new base at Henoko and a reduction in the total number of US bases in Okinawa.

The president, who met the billionaire in Texas, also invited him to the November G20 meeting in Bali.