These are just some of the more eye-catching scenes playing out in the Asia Pacific region, where various countries are facing their worst energy crisis in years — and grappling with the growing discontent and instability caused by knock-on increases in the cost of living....
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With eye on China’s zero-Covid chaos, Taiwan seizes chance to open up 💥💥💥
The tables at his diner in the Taiwanese capital are buzzing with customers, waiters bustle with dishes of squid soup and rice noodles, and talk and laughter fills the air. Chen considers himself lucky. Taiwan is allowing restaurants like his to remain open despite a...
UK shipping company fires 800 seafarers, causing port chaos 💥💥💥
P&O Ferries carries more than 10 million passengers and 2.2 million units of freight between ports in the United Kingdom and Europe each year. The company, which is owned by Dubai’s logistics group DP World, said that it had resorted to mass layoffs to ensure...
Trump’s thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor’s race 💥💥💥
At the center of the potential fight is Trump’s false contention that the election was stolen, with the narrow victory for Joe Biden in Georgia as a central part of the tale. Despite Kemp’s call for an audit that turned up no substantial change in...
Covid chaos grips the East and uncertainty haunts the West. Europe is entering its second pandemic winter 💥💥💥
Despite the widescale availability of vaccines this winter compared to the last, Europe is the only part of the world reporting an increase in new Covid-19 cases globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. This is the third consecutive week the region has recorded...
Chaos on tarmac at Haiti’s main airport after US deports migrants 💥💥💥
Thousands of Haitains have fled the country due to a combination of political instability following the assassination of the president in August and an earthquake in the same month that left more than 1,200 people dead. Furious Haitians crowded the tarmac at Port-au-Prince airport after...
Pakistan’s Imran Khan says world should give Taliban ‘time’ on human rights but fears ‘chaos’ without aid 💥💥💥
Speaking to CNN from his private Bani Gala residence in Islamabad on Wednesday, Khan spoke about enduring what he perceived as a “terrible” relationship with the United States that has been disastrous for Pakistan and how he is now seeking a more pragmatic approach in...
Pakistan’s Imran Khan says world should give Taliban ‘time’ on human rights but fears ‘chaos’ without aid 💥💥💥
Speaking to CNN from his private Bani Gala residence in Islamabad on Wednesday, Khan spoke about enduring what he perceived as a “terrible” relationship with the United States that has been disastrous for Pakistan and how he is now seeking a more pragmatic approach in...
Taliban crush opposition across Afghanistan, as chaos builds at airport 💥💥💥
A curfew will be imposed “for an indefinite time” over the entire southeastern Afghan city of Khost on Thursday, multiple Taliban sources told CNN on Wednesday, after videos emerged on social media purporting to show hundreds of people there demonstrating against the militant group’s seizure...
Analysis: Biden’s presidency is under scrutiny as never before over Afghan chaos 💥💥💥
A defiant Biden on Wednesday rejected criticism of his leadership, as he battled the most significant self-inflicted drama of a term that he won by promising proficient government and to level with voters. The President had repeatedly pledged the withdrawal from the country’s longest war...