‘Cold Lava’ and Flash Floods Kill 37 in Indonesia
Heavy rain in Indonesia over the weekend triggered flash flooding and sent torrents of volcanic matter coursing down a volcano and into towns, killing at least 37 people, officials said.
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Bilahari Kausikan is former permanent secretary and ambassador-at-large in the Singaporean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Steven Okun is chief executive of ESG and sustainability consultancy APAC Advisors and a senior adviser with geostrategic consultancy McLarty Associates. He previously served as chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
Biden administration says Israel is not violating U.S. weapons terms
The Biden administration said Friday that it was "reasonable to assess" that Israel has violated international law in Gaza, but that it hasn't violated terms of U.S. weapons agreements.
Flash floods kill hundreds and injure many others in Afghanistan, Taliban says
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Flash floods from seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed hundreds of people and injured a “substantial number,” a Taliban official said Saturday, without giving exact figures.
Japan Fisheries Agency proposes allowing commercial catching of fin whales
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Fisheries Agency on Thursday proposed a plan to allow catching fin whales in addition to three smaller whale species currently permitted under the country’s commercial whaling around its coasts.
China’s EV giants driving onshore equity rally
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‘Orangutan diplomacy’: Malaysia plans to gift great apes to ease palm oil deforestation concerns
The idea, floated by Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani, comes as a European Union (EU) deforestation regulation, which mandates that traders who sell palm oil to the EU prove their products have no links to deforestation, is set to come into effect.
