The Biden administration announced that tariffs imposed on Chinese goods by former President Donald Trump will remain in place.

🔴 #Algeria lawmakers launch efforts to criminalize French colonialism, deputy parliament speaker tells media.

#China will be capable of mounting a full scale invasion of #Taiwan by 2025, the island’s defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng has said, describing current tensions as the worst in 40 years.

Speaking to the China Times on Wednesday, Chiu said China was capable now, but would be completely prepared to launch an invasion in three years.

British officials travelled to #Afghanistan to hold talks with senior Taliban leaders, the first such open meeting since the West’s mass evacuations from the country in August.

Items on the agenda included alleviating the country’s humanitarian crisis and ensuring safe passage for those who want to flee.

Nonetheless, no Western country has yet recognised the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.

The #energy crisis in #Europe is caused by the fact that the countries did not conclude long-term contracts for gas supplies from #Russia in time. This opinion was expressed by the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, who arrived in Slovenia for the summit of the EU and the Western Balkans. (Tanjug agency)

Vucic noted that #Serbia's decision to build the Balkan Stream gas pipeline (a continuation of the Turkish Stream) was very clever since it allowed providing the country with gas at an affordable price. "Now we have enough electricity and gas," Vucic stressed, promising to provide heat in homes, "unlike other European countries."

Upon arrival in #Moscow, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian gave a media interview in which he stated that #Tehran expects Russia to be "sensitive" to Israeli movements in the South Caucasus and "any possible changes in borders."

He said he was confident that he "will reach good agreements'" at tomorrow's meeting with Lavrov.

Abdullahyan added that he would conduct serious negotiations with Russian officials on the situation in the South Caucasus.

A group of French senators will meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei today. Beijing protested the visit, while Taiwan’s foreign ministry said it showed a “commitment to the spirit of freedom and democracy.”

❗Regional leaders have extended the Southern African Development Community (SADC) military mission which intervened in Mozambique in July to combat an Islamist insurgency in the country’s northernmost Cabo Delgado province.

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The World Health Organisation endorsed use of the first #malaria vaccine for children at risk of infection. It said that the jab, called RTS,S and made by GlaxoSmithKline, was safe and reduced by 30% cases of severe malaria in young children.

In much of sub-Saharan Africa youngsters contract malaria several times a year. A child under five dies of it every two minutes.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit #Pakistan’s Balochistan province, killing at least 20 people and injuring hundreds more.

With rescue operations being hindered by a lack of access and poor communications, officials say the death toll is likely to increase.

⚡️ The presidents of #Turkey and #Russia held a phone call to discuss “bilateral ties” and “regional issues”, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate; they also exchanged views on “regional developments”.

Croatia, Greece and Romania have carried out hundreds of illegal pushback operations at the European Union’s external borders since early 2020 as part of a “violent campaign” to deny access to asylum, a new report alleges.

The findings, published on Wednesday by the Amsterdam-based investigative news organisation Lighthouse Reports, reveal that masked security forces and police units in the three EU member states have repeatedly taken coordinated, clandestine action to prevent asylum seekers from crossing their borders. https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/unmasking-europes-shadow-armies/

⚡️Journalists Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for 'courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines, Russia'

Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist confirms that the establishment of new Army bases in the country’s north is on the government’s agenda, and he does not exclude that the Lapland Ranger Regiment could get new life.
The re-establishment of the regiment will be among the issues to be assessed, he told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
Behind the plans lie a more difficult security situation in the North and an ambition to strengthen military cooperation with Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland.
The Lapland Ranger Regiment in Kiruna, northern Sweden, was established in 1975 but disbanded in 2000.

🔴🔴Taliban confirm heavy blast at Shia mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan, local media reports death toll near 100

#Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz steps down from the post following corruption allegations.

🔴 Plane carrying paratroopers crashes in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, 16 people killed.

Severe flooding displaced more than 1.76m people in Shanxi province in northern China, according to local media. A 12-hour period of heavy rainfall starting on Wednesday delivered about four times the monthly average, destroying 17,000 homes and taking dozens of coal plants and chemical factories offline.

Five Indian soldiers were killed by suspected militants in Indian-controlled #Kashmir, according to the Indian army.

They died while searching for insurgents following the killing of seven civilians in the past week.