Xinhua Asia-Pacific news summary at 0600 GMT, July 29

NEW DELHI– Two pilots of the Indian Air Force were killed when a MiG-21 jet they were flying crashed during a training sortie in the western state of Rajasthan, officials said Friday. JAKARTA– Three people were killed and four others went missing as flash floods struck Indonesia’s province of Central Sulawesi, and a search operation for the missing is underway, a…

NEW DELHI — Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed when a MiG-21 jet they were flying crashed during a training sortie in the western state of Rajasthan, officials said Friday.

The trainer aircraft crashed late on Thursday in Barmer district, about 532 km west of Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan. (India-MiG-21 Jet-Crash)

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JAKARTA — Three people were killed and four others went missing as flash floods struck Indonesia’s province of Central Sulawesi, and a search operation for the missing is underway, a senior local disaster agency officer said on Friday.

Heavy downpours triggered the natural disaster that submerged all the houses in the Torue village of the Parigi Moutong district, said Idran MT. Lopi, head of the operational unit of the district’s disaster management agency. (Indonesia-Floods)

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CANBERRA — Australian energy prices have soared to their highest level amid “an unparalleled period.”

According to data published by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) on Friday, the average wholesale price of electricity in the National Electricity Market (NEM) in the three months to June 30 was 264 Australian dollars per megawatt hour (MWh). (Australia-Energy Prices)

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ISLAMABAD — The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Pakistani government lifted a ban on the import of non-essential and luxury products imposed earlier in May, according to the country’s Ministry of Finance on Thursday.

The decision was taken in the wake of imports substantially reduced due to the government’s efforts at a former meeting of the ECC, the ministry said in a statement. (Pakistan-Import) Enditem