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Xi speaks with UN rights chief as Xinjiang row rages

Pope 'heartbroken' over Texas shooting, condemns arms trade

Moscow says sanctions need to be lifted to avoid food crisis

Group of EB-5 regional centers file lawsuit against USCIS

'Bodies of four missing miners found in flooded Burkina Faso mine'

Kashmir conflict is elephant in the room: Hina Rabbani Khar on South Asia integration, trade potential

International: Her remarks came at a session on 'Strategic outlook on South Asia' at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022

Zelenskyy: Will only talk directly to Russia's Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, also said that Ukraine would fight until it recovered all of its territory.

Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed Finance Minister by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa

International: Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the Minister of Finance, Economic Stability and National Policies

North Korea launches 3 test missiles as Biden leaves Asia

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and two shorter-range weapons into the sea on Wednesday, the first ICBM launch since March, as U.S. President Biden left Asia.

World Bank rules out bridge financing to crisis-hit Sri Lanka

International: Sri Lanka is near bankruptcy and has severe shortages of essentials from food, fuel, medicines and cooking gas to toilet paper and matchsticks

Ukraine war may be beginning of third world war: George Soros

International: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are tied together in an alliance that has no limits, he says

Indian man jailed for 10 years over wife's 'dowry death'

A court in southern India on Tuesday sentenced a man to 10 years in prison in a ruling that found he abused his wife over their wedding dowry, leading to her death by suicide.

Sri Lankan PM says he will slash expenditure in new budget

International: Sri Lanka is reeling from its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948

Global digital tax deal might not be ready until early 2024, France’s finance minister says

Technology: The deal aims to reallocate rights to tax big digital groups such as Apple and Google to the countries where the end clients are located.

Imran Khan's Azadi March: PTI members arrested

South Korea, US security advisers hold talks after North Korea fires missiles

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North Korea fired 'suspected intercontinental ballistic missile': Seoul

At least three missiles - including one suspected ICBM - were fired from the Sunan area in Pyongyang, Seoul said, where multiple recent weapons tests by the nuclear-armed regime have been conducted. South Korea and the United States conducted a live fire "land to land missile drill" in response to North Korea's "suspected ICBM and missile provocations", Seoul's military said.

George Soros: Ukraine may be start of third World War

"We must mobilise all our resources to bring the war to an early end. The best and perhaps only way to preserve our civilization is to defeat Putin as soon as possible," US billionaire George Soros said.

North Korea fires suspected ICBM after Biden visits region

News/World: North Korea fired three missiles, including one thought to be an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, after U.S. President Joe Biden left Asia following a trip in which he agreed to new measures to deter the nuclear-armed state.