6. Pakistan out of UK`s `high-risk countries` list
• The United Kingdom has removed Pakistan from its `high-risk third countries` list through a statutory instrument, effectively meaning the UK foreign office recognises the progress Pakistan has made to be removed from FATF`s grey list.
• A notification by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Monday marked this development, saying the UK recognizes Pakistan`s efforts to improve money laundering and terror financing curbs.
• Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari hailed the development on Twitter, saying it was `good news` The list includes those countries that the UK deems pose risks due to unsatisfactory money laundering and terror financing controls
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7. Afghan supreme leader orders full enforcement of Sharia
• Afghanistan`s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stoning and floggings, and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban`s chief spokesman said.
• Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that the `obligatory` command by Hibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.
• Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement`s birthplace and spiritual heartland.
• The Taliban promised a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power, from 1996-2001, but have gradually clamped down on rights and freedoms.
8. Iran launches strikes on Kurds in Iraq
• Iran launched a wave of cross-border missile and drone strikes on November 14, 2022 against Kurdish opposition groups based in northern Iraq, where local authorities reported one death and eight wounded.
• Tehran previously launched attacks that killed more than a dozen people in Iraq`s Kurdistan region in late September, after accusing Kurdish armed groups based there of stoking a wave of unrest that has rocked the Islamic republic.
• Iran has been hit by almost two months of protests since the death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, after she was arrested by the country`s feared morality police for allegedly breaching the strict dress code for women
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9. France, UK sign new deal to thwart migrant Channel crossings
• Britain agreed to pay France another 72.2 million euros ($74.5m) to prevent migrant boat crossings under a new deal signed on Monday that underlines improving ties between the neighbours.
• Around 42,000 people -most of them Albanians, Iranians and Afghans have crossed the Channel to England from France this year.
• The figure is well over last year`s 28,561, which was a thousand-fold increase from 2018 when migrants and asylum seekers first began sailing inflatables across one of the world`s busiest shipping channels
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10. Biden, Xi cool Cold War rhetoric in landmark summit
• Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping tried to take some heat out of their simmering superpower rivalry on November 14, 2022, during a three-hour summit that found common ground on Ukraine but left little doubt that stark differences remain.
• Biden emerged from the meeting proclaiming there need not be a new Cold War, as both the US and Chinese leaders spoke of the desire to prevent high tensions from spilling over into conflict.
• Xi told Biden that the two countries `share more, not less, common interests`, according to a Chinese account of the meeting, sounding more conciliatory than the last three pandemic-filled years without face-to-face presidential meetings would suggest. `The world expects that China and the United States will properly handle the relationship,` Xi told him
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