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Mar 28, 2022

Workers strike across India for labor rights, better pay

Millions of workers have begun a two-day strike across India to express their anger at the government’s economic policies and to back demands for improved rights for industrial workers, employees and farmers

Mar 27, 2022

With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are working to protect ancient Buddha statues in caves carved into cliffsides outside Kabul

Mar 26, 2022

Officials: Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have refused to allow dozens of women at Kabul's international airport to board their flights because they were without a male guardian

Mar 26, 2022

Iraqi lawmakers fail to elect president for a second time

Iraqi lawmakers have failed to elect a head of state for a second time further deepening a political crisis

Mar 26, 2022

Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen's Houthis after Jiddah attack

Officials say a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city

Mar 25, 2022

China's foreign minister makes surprise stop in Afghanistan

China's foreign minister has made a surprise stop in Afghanistan's capital to meet with the country's new Taliban rulers even as the international community fumes over the former insurgents' broken promise to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth grade

Mar 24, 2022

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world will miss a target for giving doses to the U.N.-backed effort to deliver shots to poorer countries

Mar 22, 2022

Pakistan bowls out Australia for 391 in 3rd test

Sedate half-centuries by Cameron Green and Alex Carey have lifted Australia to 391 all out against relentless reverse swing by Pakistan on the second day of the third test in Lahore

Mar 22, 2022

Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers in no rush to pivot

Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as Russia's war in Ukraine has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the world.”

Mar 21, 2022

Egypt's central bank raises interest rates, cites Ukraine

The Central Bank of Egypt has raised its key interest rate for the first time since 2017, citing inflationary pressures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine

Business

Workers strike across India for labor rights, better pay

With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas

Officials: Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights

Iraqi lawmakers fail to elect president for a second time

Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen's Houthis after Jiddah attack

China's foreign minister makes surprise stop in Afghanistan

Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

Pakistan bowls out Australia for 391 in 3rd test

Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers in no rush to pivot

Egypt's central bank raises interest rates, cites Ukraine

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