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KABUL (Reuters) - The official death toll from devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan has risen to 151 people, the Taliban's interior ministry said on Saturday.

At least 135 people have been injured in the flooding, induced by heavy rain on Friday, ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qaniee told Reuters.

(Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar in Kabul; Writing by Charlotte Greenfield; editing by William Mallard)

BEIJING (Reuters) - Embattled Chinese property developer Country Garden said in a statement on Saturday it had repaid two onshore bond coupons before the expiry of a five-day grace period, following missed payments last week.

Country Garden, which defaulted on $11 billion of offshore bonds and extended other onshore bond repayments late last year, said on Thursday it aimed to make the payment and additional interest incurred by Monday.

It... (continue reading...)

TBILISI (Reuters) - Armenian police on Saturday arrested 41 people at a Yerevan protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his decision to cede several border villages to Azerbaijan, TASS reported, citing the interior ministry.

Armenia said last month it would return the uninhabited villages in what both sides said was an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after fighting two wars since the collapse of... (continue reading...)

By Felix Light

TBILISI (Reuters) -The United States said on Saturday it was deeply alarmed by democratic backsliding in Georgia which Washington said had a choice to support either a "Kremlin-style" foreign agent bill or the people's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.

"We are deeply alarmed about democratic backsliding in Georgia," U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan wrote on X.

"Georgian Parliamentarians face a critical... (continue reading...)

By Utkarsh Shetti

(Reuters) -Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a "degraded service" as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.

Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet.

Musk said earlier in a post on X that Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due... (continue reading...)