World News: 22 September 2022

Trumps inflated net worth by billions, says NY state lawsuit
Attorney General Letitia James filed her civil lawsuit in a New York state court in Manhattan, accusing the Trump Organization of "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation" in preparing financial statements from 2011 to 2021.

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Ukraine's Zelensky demands 'just punishment' for Russian crimes
President Zelensky, in an a recorded address to the UN General Assembly, said Kyiv had a five-point plan to establish a durable peace - but rejected any suggestion that his ex-Soviet state should adopt neutrality.

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India defends its decision to ban rice wheat exports at WTO
In May, India restricted export of wheat to enhance domestic availability. This month, it also banned export of broken rice and imposed a 20 per cent export duty on non-Basmati rice except for parboiled rice to boost domestic supplies amid a fall in area under paddy crop in the current kharif season.

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Iranian protesters torch police stations as unrest over woman's death spreads
The protests, which were concentrated in Iran's Kurdish-populated northwestern regions but have spread to at least 50 cities and towns nationwide, are the largest since a wave of demonstrations in 2019 over gasoline price rises.

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China jails ex-anti-corruption minister for bribes
It cited court documents that said Fu’s corruption went back to 2005, when he was deputy director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, and that he and his family had continued to take bribes until he was detained by graft-busters in 2021.

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Amid economic crisis, Sri Lanka's inflation rate jumps to 70.2%
Official figures released earlier this month had revealed that the crisis-hit island nation's economy had contracted by 8.4 per cent in the three months to the end of August.

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