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From Sep. 25 through March 2027, Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum hosts Southeast Asia’s largest Dunhuang / Mogao Caves exhibition with China’s Dunhuang Academy — four full cave replicas, dozens of paintings and artefacts, and a 13-meter reclining Buddha in the foyer. The r
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MEKELLE / ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front told AFP on Thursday that it is now in a state of “full-blown war” with the federal government, a day after Tigrayan forces seized control of airports in Mekelle, Shire, and Axum and pushed into neighboring Afar and Amhara.
RIYADH / ADEN — Saudi Arabia intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Thursday, thwarting attacks aimed at the southern province of Taif and the Yanbu area on the Red Sea, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said, Reuters reported.
MOSCOW — The governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, a major agricultural producer, has declared a state of emergency over Ukrainian drone attacks that have inhibited grain exports — a move that allows those affected to receive compensation, Reuters reported Thursday.
UNITED NATIONS — Dozens of delegates walked out of the U.N. General Assembly hall as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium Thursday; he called the walkouts “moral cowards,” said attacking Iran “was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” and dismissed genocide accusations as “the biggest lie of the century,” the Associated Press and Reuters reported.
WASHINGTON — Chinese President Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the interests of China and the United States are “deeply intertwined” and that competition should stay “healthy” and within bounds, while Trump called their relationship a “truly great friendship” and later described the meeting as “great,” El País and Reuters reported.
DUBAI / RIYADH — Iranian airlines were barred Thursday from neighboring countries including the UAE and Oman after a U.S. deadline for firms to stop dealing with Iran’s carriers, the first big visible hit from Washington’s secondary-sanctions push Trump has called “economic D-Day,” Reuters reported.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday rejected a concurrent resolution that would have directed President Trump to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran unless Congress explicitly authorized the fight, falling 49–50 even after four Republicans joined most Democrats, CBS News reported.
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