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The conflict, which began in its current form in 2004, has killed more than 7,000 people as ethnic Malay Muslim rebels seek greater autonomy from the Buddhist-majority state.

The earthquake struck at about 2am, with its epicentre in southern Ibaraki prefecture to the northeast of the capital at a depth of 68km, the weather agency said. No tsunami was generated.

Taliban officials say 8mn Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan in five years, as daily deportations of 2,000 to 3,000 people continue.

Iran has discovered a new onshore gas field in the southern province of Fars holding 7.5 trillion cubic feet (212bn cubic metres) of natural gas in place, Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said.

Five such aircraft and ground crews were on August 1 dispatched to Estonia's Amari air base.

Tech

Zain Bahrain announced that it signed a deal with service technology firm Text, integrating the company's platform into its OneCX system.

Dubai Chambers has signed an agreement with India's Nasscom to draw Indian agentic AI and deeptech firms to the emirate, opening a channel to an industry worth $315bn across 3,500 companies.

The Qazaq AI Research University in Astana aims to train engineers capable of developing AI systems.

Ukrainians trade more cryptocurrency per head than anyone else on earth. What they mostly do not do is trade it under Ukrainian law.

Iranian mobile operators' roaming has reportedly been cut in the UAE, leaving Iranian residents and travellers unable to receive calls.

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Failure to agree on a successor to Bosnia & Herzegovina's international high representative exposes differences over the future of the country's postwar political order, says Atlantic Council commentary.

The PR surge which heralded that the “tide is turning” in the Ukrainian conflict is ending up in a debacle. Ukraine can inflict tangible damage on the Russian economy but Russia can take it and give it back in spades.

Attempt to steer economy toward sustainable growth running into increasingly difficult terrain with economic policy facing sharp trade-off between fighting stubborn inflation and fixing external imbalances.

America's retreat from research funding and openness to skilled immigration has handed Europe an unexpected strategic advantage. If Brussels can remove visa barriers and back scientists, it has a rare chance to narrow the innovation gap.

Capital Economics says Thailand's Anutin Charnvirakul government is squandering a rare post-election reform mandate, leaning instead on a poorly targeted 175bn baht subsidy scheme, centralised power and rising industrial protectionism.

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Cheaper transaction fees and easier access to services remain critical to pulling more citizens into the formal financial system, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas says.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has for the first time topped the list of candidates Ukrainians say they would not vote for under any circumstances, according to the pollster SOCIS.

Around 30 people attacked a Ukrainian military recruitment team in the western city of Lutsk, injuring two servicemen and smashing their vehicle.

Russia's happiness index fell nine points in July to 50, its lowest level since 2011 and the sharpest one-month drop the state pollster has recorded during the war.

The July figure widened the year-to-date gap by around RUB0.7 trillion.

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As any sharp PR practitioner in Turkey will tell you, Mr President’s head nearly bumped up against the ceiling of the old one.

The report, carrying the somewhat dramatic title of ‘The Great Transshipment Scam’ and headed by an image of a Trojan horse style graphic, says Chinese exporters increasingly routed goods through third countries

For three decades, the Balkans exported workers. Now countries across the region are increasingly importing them from Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam and elsewhere.

Southeast Europe is at the sharp end of this summer’s extreme weather crisis, with firefighters battling active blazes in counties across the region.

Nepal has completed its first IMF-supported programme in almost two decades, ending it with inflation down to 1.7%, more than a year's worth of import cover in reserve and a fiscal deficit it can defend.

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A fresh corruption scandal broke out in Ukraine – this time, it was racketeering by relative junior members of the Zelenskiy administration. Corruption is not a problem of the system in Ukraine; corruption is the system.

At the ancient Egyptian obelisk outside the Blue Mosque, looking along what was once the Hippodrome of Constantinople, I found myself thinking about a tent.

Ukraine's power generation capacity has fallen from 60GW before the war to 12GW today, and a renewed Russian bombing campaign this winter could push the shortfall toward 10GW, even as European gas storage sits near a 15-year low.

Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

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Southern Taiwan is preparing for further flooding and landslides as heavy rain persists, while a strengthening typhoon is forecast to enter the Philippines’ area of responsibility.

The Mediterranean has spent the summer soaking up heat. That heat comes back out as rain.

The climate models that were discarded for predicting too much warming were right, and the ones the world's climate projections rest on are running cold.

Moldova is carrying out one of the fastest energy market reforms in Europe, but concerns have been raised over both transparency and the grid's ability to absorb additional electricity.

HPPs are expected to generate 620mn kWh of electricity annually, supply around 350,000 households, save 187mn cubic metres of natural gas and prevent 311,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

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