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The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows but had raised concerns among tech giants.

Jakarta's temporary blocking of websites highlights tension between desire to rein in internet and grow digital economy.

Japanese carmaker has repeatedly cut production targets due to global chip shortage and China's pandemic restrictions.

Ukraine president calls for talks with Xi, says he has been asking for a conversation since the Russian invasion began.

The employees are planning a 24-hour strike as the company offered a 1 percent salary hike against 9 percent inflation.

Printing money fuels inflation which is now over 60 percent in Argentina and expected to reach 90 percent by year end.

Beijing relies on self-ruled island's semiconductors to keep its economy on track.

State media frame military exercises in six areas around self-ruled island as war plan rehearsal.

As Mexico grapples with a wave of violence against members of the press, small local outlets are especially at risk.

A viral video shows Hadi Abuatelah, 17, being beaten repeatedly by three police officers while on the ground.

Advocates say expanding language access to all voters improves the political process by enabling greater participation.

Food prices jumped 94.65 percent while prices in the transportation sector soared 119.11 percent.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years.

Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr orders supporters to continue sit-in inside the national parliament, calls for new elections.

Robert E Crimo III is charged with 117 counts connected to the attack, including 21 charges of first-degree murder.

EU demands an end to fighting near the disputed region as Azerbaijan says it seized several strategic hills.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges governments to tax oil and gas companies' profits amid energy crisis.

Sandy Hook parents are suing Jones for $150m after being victimised by those who believed his conspiracy theories.

The president's popularity is declining amid what critics characterise as a chaotic management style and corruption.

Iran and the US to hold indirect talks centred on a text recently proposed by the EU in attempt to revive nuclear deal.

The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Russia’s invasion leaves Turkey en route for Lebanon.

Olaf Scholz says gas turbine for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline is fully operational and ready to be shipped back to Russia.

Democratic and Republican primaries across several states tested voters' views ahead of the crucial midterm elections.

The cartel said it would add only 100,00 barrels a day of oil next month, one of the smallest oil hikes in its history.

Millions of lives are at stake and the world's most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time.

Hackett campaigned for the civil rights of ethnic minorities in the southern city of Bristol during the 1960s.

After a years-long campaign by Roma activists, a pig farm that stood on a former concentration camp is being removed.

Taiwanese experts reassured of US support as China gears up for military drills in waters surrounding island.

Thirty-six people, including four UN peacekeepers, were killed last week in protests against the missions.

The first in a three-part series on how the Arab world was transformed during the 1960s, a decade of change.

Lavrov's visit to Myanmar coincides with the ASEAN summit in Cambodia.

Only a third of the 22 million registered Kenyan voters are youths and the country's artists are trying to change that.

The drills take place annually, but this year's are the largest ever amid rising tensions with China in the region.

Ranil Wickremesinghe makes the remarks during his speech to open a new session of parliament in the crisis-hit nation.

The West African country has been battling rebel groups, some linked to al-Qaeda and ISIL, in recent years.

'It is a shrine to the people who helped raise me - a marriage of memories from my past and those I continue to create.'

From being denied jobs for wearing hijab to more implicit forms of exclusion, as a study reveals, the women struggle.

Former German chancellor Schroeder, an ally of Putin, says that Moscow wants to negotiate a solution to the conflict.

It is seeking $1bn from each lender as the economy is buffeted by energy price shocks from the Ukraine war.

Bill would enshrine in law election pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent below 2005 levels.

A soldier and a whistleblower shed light on the rise of armed rebel groups in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Senior pro-Sadr loyalist told supporters to end parliament sit-in but called for protests to continue inside Green Zone.

Tlaib all but secures a third term in US Congress after comfortably defeating primary challengers in Michigan district.

US House speaker is the highest-profile elected US official to visit Taiwan in a quarter of a century.

A warning for Myanmar's coup leaders as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations meet in Phnom Penh.

Taiwan says unprecedented six days of exercises violate UN rules, invade its territorial space and amount to a blockade.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 161st day, we take a look at the main developments.

Anti-coup voices brace for tough and protracted fight as military leadership extends state of emergency.

Kansas vote rejecting removal of abortion protections is the first of several US ballots on abortion rights this year.

Its customer base has been spooked by decades-high inflation and rising interest rates.