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IEU-CEPA to offer Indonesia's highest tariff commitments: Minister

Jakarta, Aug. 22 -- Indonesia's upcoming trade agreement with the European Union will deliver its highest tariff commitments in any trade pact, Trade Minister Budi Santoso said. Speaking at an IEU-CE... Read More


Indonesia, China urge finalization of South China Sea Code of Conduct

Jakarta, Aug. 22 -- Indonesia and China reaffirmed their shared commitment to accelerating the finalization of the South China Sea Code of Conduct (CoC) while upholding ASEAN centrality in regional se... Read More


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


UK, France, Germany and Allies Demand Israel Halt West Bank E1 Settlement Project

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Ed Miliband did not send a letter. He summoned Israel's charge d'affaires to hear Britain's position in person - the most emphatic diplomatic signal the UK has deployed against I... 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


Lula Asked Trump to Convene the UN Security Council. Brazil Has No Seat on It.

BRASILIA, Aug. 22 -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent eighty minutes on the telephone to Donald Trump on Friday, and somewhere inside them he asked the American president to convene an extraordinary se... 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


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


Security forces alone cannot defeat terrorism, whole-of-society approach needed: LG

Jammu, Aug. 22 -- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday underscored the role of community solidarity in eliminating terrorism, substance abuse and corruption, while promoting economic development ... Read More


CM inaugurates Srinagar's first 'Waste to Wonder' Flower Garden

Srinagar, Aug. 22 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday inaugurated Srinagar's first Waste to Wonder Flower Garden and a Floriculture Mela at Floriculture Park, Polo View, saying the initiative de... Read More