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The number of births in the United States grew 1% in 2021 from a pandemic low in 2020, marking the first increase since 2014, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The report said 3,659,289 babies were born last year, with the increase driven by women between 25 and 49 years.
Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday he will present an interim budget within six weeks, slashing infrastructure projects to re-route funds into a two-year relief programme for the crisis-hit island nation.
Sri Lanka situation summary.
β€’ Ranil Wickremesinghe took office two weeks ago
β€’ New finance minister to be appointed on Wednesday
β€’ Government planning two-year relief package
β€’ Inflation could top 40%, protests continue as hardship grows
Pakistan's government on Tuesday banned a planned protest march by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is demanding fresh elections as a political and economic crises deepens in the South Asian nation, officials said.

The ban was announced by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah at a news briefing hours after a policeman was shot and killed during a crackdown on Khan's supporters across the country.
The Taliban will sign an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on operating airports in Afghanistan, the group's acting deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, after months of talks with the UAE, Turkey and Qatar.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar made the announcement in a Tweet and later told reporters in Kabul that his administration was renewing an airport ground handling agreement with the UAE.
Saudi Arabia is finalising the extension of the kingdom's $3 billion deposit to Pakistan, Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed al-Jadaan told Reuters.

"We are currently finalising extending the $3 billion deposit to Pakistan," he said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday the first case of monkeypox detected in the country, state news agency WAM reported, citing the health ministry.

The virus was detected in a 29-year-old woman visiting the Gulf country from West Africa.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit eight Pacific Island countries from May 26 to June 4 including the Solomon Islands, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

The other seven countries are Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, spokesman Wang Wenbin told a regular press briefing.
The EU's proposed new sanctions against Russia, including an oil embargo, should not be discussed at next week's summit of the bloc's leaders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a letter to the President of the European Council
The head of Moldova's pro-Russian opposition party, former President Igor Dodon, has been detained by Moldovan authorities on corruption charges, state television reported, a move likely to anger the Kremlin.
Russia's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill giving prosecutors powers to shut foreign media bureaus in Moscow if a Western country has been "unfriendly" to Russian media, following the closure of some Russian state news outlets in the West.

The bill, passed in the first reading by the lower house of parliament, or Duma, also prohibits the distribution of articles or other materials from media that have been closed by the prosecutor's office. It needs to undergo two more readings, be reviewed by the upper house of parliament, and signed by President Vladimir Putin to become law.
African countries raised an objection on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal to reform the International Health Regulations (IHR), a move delegates say might prevent passage at the World Health Organization's annual assembly.

If Africa continues to withhold support, it could block one of the only concrete reforms expected from the meeting, fraying hopes that members will unite on reforms to strengthen the U.N. health agency's rules as it seeks a central role for itself in global health policy
Centre allows duty-free import of 20 Lakh MT crude soyabean, sunflower oil.
Coal India to open big, new mine this year to fight power crisis
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'One China policy' remains unchanged, emphasises Pentagon after Biden's vow to defend Taiwan militarily in case of Chinese threat
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Farewell ceremony for assassinated Iranian Revolutionary Guard colonel takes place in Tehran

The farewell ceremony of Sayyad Khodaei, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps colonel and defender of the holy shrine, was held in Tehran on Monday.

According to official reports, Khodaei was shot dead by two motorcyclists outside his home in Tehran on Sunday.

The IRGC decried Khodaei’s murder as a β€œterrorist act”. No one claimed responsibility for the attack yet, and the cause is still unknown.

Iranian President Raisi gave a speech in Tehran on Monday condemning the assassination of Colonel Khodaei.

"I consider it necessary to congratulate and condole the martyrdom of our dear Colonel Mr Sayad Khodaei to his family and to the dears in IRGC, and to ask God Almighty to exalt him," said Raisi, who blamed the Sunday killing on 'global arrogance’, a term widely used in Iran to refer the US and in particular Israel.

Israel has not made any comment on the incident.