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Ukraine Is Missing Its Budget Targets. The Ports Stopped Working on July 22.

ODESA, Aug. 22 -- A Ukrainian farmer with grain or oilseed to sell is being offered about 30 percent less for it than before the summer, and many are taking the loss and borrowing against the differen... Read More


Ukraine's Election Question Reaches the UN. Nobody Has Actually Asked for Help.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- A reporter from RIA Novosti asked Stephane Dujarric on Friday whether anyone in Ukraine had approached the United Nations for help organising an election. The secretary-gene... Read More


Iran Deepens Trade Ties With Oman, Turkey, and Iraq as US Declares 'Greatest Economic Isolation in History'

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 -- For the family of the textile merchant in the Isfahan bazaar, the math of the war has arrived in the form of new geography. A cotton shipment that used to clear the port of Shahid R... Read More


Teacher vocal against drugs and gambling dies in Dhaka, three weeks after being attacked

LALMONIRHAT, Aug. 22 -- A college teacher who was brutally hacked by a local drug and online gambling syndicate for protesting social crimes, died Friday night while undergoing treatment at a hospital... Read More


Supreme Court allows White House ballroom work for nowPublished on: August 22, 2026 12:21 AM

Pakistan, Aug. 22 -- The US Supreme Court has temporarily allowed Donald Trump's administration to continue work on a White House ballroom. The court issued an administrative stay on Friday. The decis... Read More


Kwara senator picks PDP ticket hours after quitting APC

Nigeria, Aug. 22 -- Senator Saliu Mustapha of the Kwara Central District has picked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the district, hours after resigning from the All Progressives Congress... Read More


Italy Is Buying 5,031 Cheap Rockets to Shoot Down Drones

ROME, Aug. 22 -- The arithmetic of air defence has been running the wrong way for years. A one-way attack drone costs a few tens of thousands of dollars. The missile fired to stop it costs a million. ... Read More


Washington Is Paying the UN $725m. It Owes More Than $4bn.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 22 -- The United States is preparing to pay the United Nations $725 million, which is a large sum, a welcome one for an organisation that spent this year rationing cash, and less ... Read More


CPI claims growing public support from Bihar for foot march, September 1 Delhi rally

Patna, Aug. 22 -- The Communist Party of India (CPI) claimed on Friday that its ongoing foot march across Bihar and preparations for its September 1 "Badlav Zaroori Hai" (Change is Necessary) rally in... Read More


BJP workers'' dedication made party world''s largest political force: Saraogi

Khagaria, Aug. 22 -- Bihar BJP president Sanjay Saraogi said the hard work, sacrifice and dedication of party workers had made the BJP the world's largest political party. Inaugurating the newly cons... Read More