World News in Brief: September 6

Cambodia approved 123 fixed-asset investment projects worth nearly 3.3 billion USD in the first eight months of 2022, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia's report on Tuesday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts to minimize casualties after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, stressing that saving lives should be taken as the primary task.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts to minimize casualties after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, stressing that saving lives should be taken as the primary task.

* Year-on-year inflation in the Philippines slowed to 6.3 percent in August from 6.4 percent in July, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.

* British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss won the ruling Conservative Party's leadership contest Monday and will replace Boris Johnson as the country's new prime minister.

* The Slovakian government has lost its majority in the parliament after more ministers from the liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party resigned on Monday.

* Kenya's incoming President William Ruto said Monday his administration will prioritize economic turnaround, peace, reconciliation, and cohesion once he is sworn into office next week.

* An additional 25 US citizens have been indefinitely barred from entering the country in response to Washington's growing anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday.

* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India will start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership with Bangladesh.

* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has assured the resources industry that the country will remain a major exporter of fossil fuels under his leadership.

* Russia will respond to price caps on Russian oil by shipping more supply to Asia, its energy minister Nikolai Shulginov told reporters at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday.

* French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that France and Germany will help each other through the energy crisis and get by the upcoming winter.

* Incoming British prime Minster Liz Truss is planning a 40 billion pound (46.22 billion USD) support package for businesses to help them cope with rising energy costs, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

* Bulgaria is willing to increase its energy exports and provide gas storage services to North Macedonia, Bulgarian caretaker Prime Minister Galab Donev said on Monday.

* Sweden and Norway announced on Monday they were ready to launch a joint task force aimed at reining in the soaring electricity costs in the Nordic region.

* Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Monday enacted a package of measures to assist families in mitigating the effects of inflation.

* The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is disconnected from its backup power line Monday but continues to receive the electricity it needs for safety from its sole operating reactor, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said, citing information from Ukraine.

* Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Monday met with visiting Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita in Amman on ways to advance bilateral relations as well as regional and international developments.

* France is well prepared to get through this winter despite the energy crisis stemming from the war in Ukraine as it has now filled its strategic gas reserves at their maximum level, Energy Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday.

* Portugal's government on Monday rolled out additional measures worth 2.4 billion euros (2.38 billion USD) to help families cope with soaring inflation, following similar announcements in other European countries in recent weeks.

* Hungary aims to invest up to 16 billion euros by 2030 to boost electricity production and storage capacity and curb reliance on gas imports, Technology and Industry Minister Laszlo Palkovics said on Tuesday.

* A total of 66 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, local authorities said Tuesday.

* Typhoon Hinnamnor departed the Republic of Korea on Tuesday after making landfall in the country's south, leaving thousands of people displaced and one dead, authorities said.

* Typhoon Hinnamnor sideswiped Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu, with the region being pummeled by torrential downpours and gale force winds, resulting in power outages and transportation disruption, the weather agency said Tuesday.

* At least 11 people were killed in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.

* Hungary has this year seen its hottest summer since 1901, the country's Meteorological Service (MOSZ) said Monday. Figures show that the summer of 2022, covering June, July and August, had an average temperature of 22.8 degrees Celsius, which is two degrees higher than the summer average of 20.8 degrees Celsius recorded between 1991 and 2020.

* Australian farmers are expected to earn a record amount from agriculture exports this financial year, the country's chief commodity forecaster said on Tuesday, as it raised its estimate on the back of favourable weather and high global prices.

* Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by famine in the coming months.

* Italian authorities arrested 35 people in a series of raids against suspected mafia members, police said on Tuesday, as they stepped up the hunt for the country's most wanted fugitive.

* Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded 16 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank in which the military blew up the house of a Palestinian who had carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv, witnesses and medics said.

* Dozens of Americans were shot - 15 people fatally - in multiple cities over the US Labor Day weekend.

VNA, Reuters, Xinhua