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Today's news: US and France call for 21-day truce in Lebanon after UN Security Council; New $7 billion loan to Pakistan from International Monetary Fund; The Vatican Library will exhibit its works in an exhibition set up in the terminal of the Saudi airport where pilgrims disembarking to Mecca; In Kazakhstan new fences at the presidential palace to make demonstrations impossible.

Today's news: Hezbollah fires rocket (intercepted) at Tel Aviv, death toll rises to 569 in Israeli raids; Former PM Noda nominated as leader of opposition party in Japan; Bangkok starts distributing the 10,000 baht subsidy; Pakistan auctions off its national airline; Galstanyan launches new protest campaign in Armenia.

Today's news: China cuts interest rates and bank reserves to give the economy oxygen; Sri Lanka's new president dissolves parliament, general elections in December; Former Singapore transport minister pleads guilty in first corruption case involving a government official; Half of all Russians over 60 suffer from anxiety and depression.

Today's news: new Israeli raids on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after missiles on Haifa;The Quad strengthens cooperation between coast guards in the South China Sea; US returns illegally trafficked archaeological finds to India; Alarm in Myanmar over execution of 5 political prisoners that could take place tomorrow.

Today's news: Indonesia releases New Zealand pilot captured by Papua independence rebels; Tens of thousands of people also evacuated in Japan; South Korea to revise laws regulating the work of underage singers; Cambodia withdraws from a regional economic development agreement.

Today's news: Nasrallah: ‘Israel has crossed all red lines’, raids on Gaza continue; Taiwan opens same-gender marriage also between Taiwanese and Chinese citizens; 500 million dollars on loan from the Asian Development Bank to Indonesia to aid ecological transition; On eve of vote in Sri Lanka, economic crisis weighs.

Today's news: The Japanese company Icom says pagers used in Lebanon explosion out of production for 10 years; In Malaysia 49 Immigration Department officials arrested for smuggling workers into the country; Japanese child killed in nationalist attack yesterday in Shenzhen; 1500 Samsung workers have been protesting for 11 days in Tamil Nadu.

Today's news: Taiwan's Gold Apollo company defends itself against accusations of manufacturing the devices that exploded in Lebanon; A Chinese aircraft carrier enters Japanese waters for the first time; West Bengal police chief removed after August rape protests; US urges Vietnam not to support Chinese submarine links.

Today's news: more than 500 people have died in the storms that are sweeping through Southeast Asia; Israel places return of displaced people from the North among the targets of the war, a further step towards an offensive in Lebanon; India condemns Ali Khamenei's statements on the treatment of Muslims in the country; First 2024 case of monkeypox in Malaysia.

Today's news: a ballistic missile from Yemen hit central Israel; In Japan, the over-65 age group is now close to 30 per cent of the population; India reports aa second death from the Nipah virus since July, lethal and highly contagious according to the WHO; The Philippines will continue to guard the Sabina Shoal.

Today's headlines: Rain water seeps into the dome of the Taj Mahal. Dozens of journalists from different Hong Kong newspapers get threatening messages. Japan grants citizenship to the daughter of two Afghan refugees. Wave of arrests in Malaysia over alleged paedophilia in a network of care homes run by an Islamic organisation. Turkmenistan runs out of petrol.

Today's news: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released on bail; Indonesia proposes inclusion of fish milk in free meals for children; Chinese modern history researchers are finding it increasingly difficult to do their work; Israel conducts a ground operation in Syria; Tajiki crackdown in the Pamir.