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(Reuters) – China’s tech stocks slumped to new lows yesterday and Hong Kong’s benchmark index hit an almost 10-month trough, as an unrelenting series of Chinese regulatory crackdowns crushed investors’ confidence.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan.

KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda said today it had suspended the operations of 54 non-governmental organisations, a move that one of the groups described as “political persecution”.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Taliban called on Afghanistan’s imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to more cities yesterday, including the capital, Kabul.

CAVAILLON, Haiti, (Reuters) – A drip of foreign aid began to reach more rural areas of southwestern Haiti yesterday, arriving five days after a powerful earthquake https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/magnitude-7-quake-strikes-western-haiti-usgs-2021-08-14

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said yesterday it had imposed sanctions on three Cuban officials it said were involved in the suppression of protests on the island that began on July 11.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is negotiating with Argentina on the construction of a billion-dollar pipeline from the Vaca Muerta shale gas reserves, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Flag-waving protesters took to the streets of more Afghan cities today as popular opposition to the Taliban spread, and a witness said several people were killed when the militants fired on a crowd in Asadabad in the east.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Armed members of the Taliban kept people desperate to flee Afghanistan from reaching Kabul’s airport yesterday, witnesses said, while President Joe Biden vowed to keep U.S.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba introduced tighter controls on the use of social media this week, including a ban on publications that might damage “the country’s prestige,” angering many citizens and international rights activists.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest businessmen, Yorgen Fenech, has been indicted for the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, prosecutors said in court documents filed yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The world should give the Taliban the space to form a new government in Afghanistan and may discover that the insurgents cast as militants by the West for decades have become more reasonable, the head of the British army said today.

VALLETTA,  (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest businessmen, Yorgen Fenech, has been indicted for the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, prosecutors said in court documents filed today.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The Taliban said yesterday they wanted peaceful relations with other countries and would respect the rights of women within the framework of Islamic law, as they held their first official news briefing since their lightning seizure of Kabul.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba has turned to the military to provide oxygen amid a surge of the coronavirus even as doctors rush to administer locally developed vaccines to the population.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil has had 37,613 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,106 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow’s failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO’s own deployment to the country had been doomed from the start.

 (Reuters) – It took just a few days for the Taliban to sweep across Afghanistan and seize territory they did not already control, sometimes taking major provincial capitals with barely a shot in anger.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The chief of field operations of the U.N.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul’s airport yesterday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the United States to pause evacuations much of the day as President Joe Biden confronted mounting criticism over the U.S.