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A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: “40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad’s grand son),” during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon’s Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

1st September 2022

World News

South Korea: China, Russia hold key to North’s denuclearization

1st September 2022

China locks down 21 million in Chengdu in COVID-19 outbreak

1st September 2022

Mass funeral of South African teenagers who died in East London tavern

S/Africa’s 21 youths who died in tavern were suffocated, families say

1st September 2022

Rosmah Mansor, center, wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, arrives at Kuala Lumpur High Court in Kuala Lumpur, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. The wife of jailed ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived in court Thursday, for a verdict in her corruption trial involving a 1.25 billion ringgit ($279 million) solar energy project, just days after her husband was imprisoned over the looted 1MDB state fund. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Ex-Malaysian first lady ordered to serve 10 years for graft

1st September 2022

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, Chinese soldiers arrive to the Grodekovo railway station to participate in war games drills, in Grodekovo, Primorsky Krai, Russia. Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country’s east that will involve forces from China — a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin’s action in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia launches war games with China, others

1st September 2022

FILE – A vender waits for customers at a vegetable market place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, June 10, 2022. The International Monetary Fund said Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka to provide $ 2.9 billion over four years to help salvage the country from its worst economic crisis in recent memory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

IMF set to provide $2.9 billion to help crisis-hit Sri Lanka

1st September 2022

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks to the media as a mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency prepare to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

UN nuclear agency team arrives at Ukraine power plant

1st September 2022

Student Karina Muzyka walks on the rubble of the Chernihiv School #21, which was bombed by Russian forces on the 3rd of March, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

It’s back to school in Ukraine, but far from normal

1st September 2022

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue conference in Dresden on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday for talks about Iran’s nuclear program and growing Russian-German economic ties, revisiting the city where he once served as a KGB spy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral

1st September 2022

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FILE – A farmer walks past government propaganda depicting ethnic minority residents reading the constitution with slogans which reads, “Unity Stability is fortune, Separatism and Turmoil is misfortune,” near Kashgar in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on March 19, 2021. China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, which cited “serious” rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

To China’s fury, UN accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses

1st September 2022

IMF

Sri Lanka secures IMF staff-level pact for $ 2.9bn loan

1st September 2022

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba addresses a meeting on climate change at the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa

Africa Climate Week: Experts discuss needs, priorities ahead of COP27

1st September 2022

This photo released by the U.S. Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a U.S. Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said Tuesday that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U.S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident, though it comes amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers. (U.S. Navy via AP)

US Navy says Iran seized, later let go of American sea drone

31st August 2022

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, makes a speech from his house, in Najaf, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Al-Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw Tuesday from the capital’s government quarter, where they have traded heavy fire with security forces in a serious escalation of a months long political crisis gripping the nation. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraqis heed cleric’s plea to leave streets after clashes

31st August 2022

FILE – The USNS Mercy hospital ship enters the Port of Los Angeles, March 27, 2020. The Solomon Islands government on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, asked countries to not send naval vessels to the South Pacific nation until approval processes are overhauled. The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy is currently in Honiara. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Solomon Islands asks navies not to send ships pending review

31st August 2022

Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar delivers her remarks as ministers and members of the delegate listen during the opening session the G20 Joint Environment and Climate Ministers’ Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, Pool)

G20 environment ministers in Bali spur global climate action

31st August 2022

FILE – The area in front of the Stade Industrial Park is part of the future port expansion for the planned import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Stade, Germany, on April 2022. Russia’s war against Ukraine shattered its relations with Europe, which soon lost most of the natural gas that Moscow had long provided. Now, as winter nears, European nations have backed a short-term fix set to begin before the end of 2022 that has raised alarms among scientists who fear the long term consequences for the climate. (Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP, File)

Europe plan for floating gas terminals raises climate fears

31st August 2022

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bows during a news conference at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool)

Japan PM apologizes for party’s Unification Church links, will cut ties

31st August 2022

FILE – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, right, talks with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the start of a news conference at the Castle of Gottorf in Schleswig, northern Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004. Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital. (Carsten Rehder/dpa via AP)

Mikhail Gorbachev’s death mourned as passing of rare leader

31st August 2022

FILE – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev attends the Moscow premier of a film made by Werner Herzog and British filmmaker Andre Singer based on their conversations, in Moscow, Russia on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91

31st August 2022

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks to media in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

UN monitors head to troubled Ukraine nuclear plant

31st August 2022

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell speaks on the tensions between the neighbouring Western Balkan nations in Brussels, Belgium, August 18, 2022. REUTERS/ Johanna Geron/File Photo

EU to tighten visa rules for Russians but split on travel ban

30th August 2022

A satellite imagery shows an overview of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine, August 29, 2022. Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS

Zelenskiy tells Russians to run for their lives from Ukraine offensive in south

30th August 2022

A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) conducts a military drill next to an anti-ship missiles unit, at JGSDF Miyako camp on Miyako Island, Okinawa prefecture, Japan April 21, 2022. Picture taken April 21, 2022. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

Japan, eyeing military build-up, hosts Israeli defence chief

30th August 2022

An inside view of the control room at the National Center of Meteorology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky

Parched UAE turns to science to squeeze more rainfall from clouds

30th August 2022

Former Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a preliminary reading at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, of a bill to dissolve the parliament after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid moved to disband their government and hold a snap election, in Jerusalem, June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

Former Israeli PM Netanyahu warned over festival disaster

30th August 2022

Taisia Herasymenko, 81, holds a picture of her son, Roman Herasymenko, who was shot and killed during the Russian occupation of Borodianka, Ukraine, July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas

Mother seeks justice for son in Ukraine: ‘He walked away and they shot him’

30th August 2022

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