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Thirteen people were killed and two injured in Indonesia’s North Maluku province on Sunday after floods in the east of the sprawling archipelago, authorities said. The country’s disaster management agency BNPB said the floods, caused by heavy rain since Saturday, also badly damaged 10 houses in Ternate city.
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The death toll from the sinking of a migrant boat on the Bosnia-Serbia border rose to 12 on Saturday after local residents found another body, the authorities said. The vessel, which was carrying 28 to 30 migrants, capsized Thursday in the Drina river in a bid to cross from Serbia
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Libyan armed groups and authorities reached an accord in Tripoli to secure important infrastructure, the country’s interior minister announced Friday, following concern from the UN over recent fighting and a brewing crisis surrounding the country’s central bank. The North African country of 6.8 million has struggled to
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An explosion outside a synagogue in southern France wounded a police officer early on Saturday, in what authorities said was being treated as a potential terror attack. Security around Jewish sites was tightened following the early Saturday blast outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in the seaside resort of La Grande
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The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants — including several children — from neighboring Turkiye killing one passenger, Greek authorities said Friday. A coast guard statement said shots were fired, first into the air and then at the speedboat’s engine “to avert the
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Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters Saturday from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said. The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the
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A roadside bomb went off near a police office in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least two children and wounding 15 people, authorities said. Police officials said the wounded included policemen and passersby. Local police official Mujirbur Rehman said some of those wounded were hospitalized in critical condition,
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Thousands of people rallied in several cities in Indonesia on Friday, pressuring its poll body to issue rules for regional elections amid outrage over an attempt by parliamentary allies of President Joko Widodo to change them in their favor. The protests followed a day of demonstrations in which 301 people
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Italian rescue divers have found the body of the last person missing after British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s family yacht sank off Sicily, believed to be his daughter Hannah, a source close to the matter said on Friday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-meter-long (184-foot) luxury sailboat carrying 22 passengers
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Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, will visit China next week in a new bid to manage tensions months before US elections, the White House said Friday. Sullivan will travel to Beijing from August 27 to 29 in the first visit by a US national security adviser
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At least 27 people were killed and 16 others injured when a bus carrying dozens of Indian pilgrims drove off a key highway and crashed on Friday in Nepal, officials said. The bus veered off Prithvi Highway and rolled toward a fast-flowing river. Its roof was ripped open before stopping
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Thai rescuers used hoes on Friday to search muddy, forested terrain for debris and the remains of nine people aboard a charter flight that crashed the day before, authorities said, with all the travelers presumed dead. Five tourists from China and four Thais, including the two pilots, were on the
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A judge extended on Thursday the custody of a Pakistani man accused of spreading disinformation on his clickbait website thought to have fueled anti-immigration riots in Britain, officials said. Farhan Asif appeared in court for the second day in a row in the city of Lahore over allegations he published
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South Korea held a nationwide drill on Thursday that sowed confusion in the capital as traffic was brought to a standstill and thousands of civilians practiced emergency evacuations. The exercise, linked to the ongoing joint military drills between the United States and South Korea known as Ulchi Freedom Shield, is
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Floods triggered by torrential rains have swamped a swath of low-lying Bangladesh, disaster officials said Thursday, adding to the new government’s challenges after weeks of political turmoil. At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands are stranded in the floods in at least eight districts in southern
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UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from climate-induced cyclones, ocean heatwaves and rising sea levels. On a visit to Samoa, he said the fate of Pacific islands depended on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Nearly 200 nations agreed