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At least 50 people were confirmed dead on Monday following search and rescue efforts after torrential rain lashed central China in late July, state media said. Fifteen others remained missing in Zixing city in China’s Hunan Province, according to state broadcaster CCTV. “All administrative villages in the disaster-stricken areas
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Police across England and Wales are conducting fewer strip-searches of children but “concerning practices” remain, including a “widespread failure” to comply with safeguarding procedures, a new watchdog report said Monday. Officers carried out 457 such searches in the year to June 2023 — equivalent to one child every 19 hours — children’
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Two wildfires in southern France forced several thousand people to flee before the blazes were brought under control, officials said on Monday. Some 3,000 holiday makers were evacuated from a camping site to a municipal building in the coastal town of Canet-en-Roussillon, near the city of Perpignan, in the
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Britain will use an emergency measure to detain suspected criminals in police station cells until it can find space for them in its overcrowded prisons after police arrested hundreds over widespread rioting this month. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government said on Monday the arrests of more than 1,100
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Paramilitary fighters in Sudan killed at least 80 people in an attack on a village while their delegates were in Switzerland holding talks on how to end the country’s 16-month civil war. Witnesses said the Rapid Support Forces initially faced resistance from villagers in Jalgini in Sennar state. “They
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A total of 18,737 suspected or confirmed cases of mpox were reported in Africa since the beginning of the year, including 1,200 cases in one week alone, the African Union health agency said Saturday. The figure reflects cases of all strains of the virus, not specifically the new
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A prison break in the Haitian city of Saint-Marc left 12 inmates dead on Friday, Mayor Myriam Fievre said, the third such incident in Haiti in recent months amid a protracted humanitarian crisis fueled by gang violence. State Prosecutor Venson Francois said the situation on Friday afternoon was under control
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Around 100 firefighters tackled a large blaze at London’s historic Somerset House cultural center on Saturday, with images posted on social media showing flames leaping out from underneath its roof. “Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters have now been sent in response to the fire at Somerset House.
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Crowds of Indian doctors dressed in white coats came as if ready for work on Saturday but instead stood outside hospitals demanding justice after the rape and murder of a colleague. “We just want to be safe while we are doing our duty,” said Sapna Rani, a 27-year-old woman doctor
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Firefighters are battling a strong forest fire in the Aegean resort city of Izmir for a third day, Turkish media and officials said Saturday, with hundreds more people evacuated overnight. Helicopters and water bombers which were grounded due to strong winds continued their fight against the flames on Saturday morning,
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Immigration tops the list of issues that Britons consider most important for the first time since 2016 — when Britain voted to leave the European Union — following riots this month targeting Muslims and migrants, pollster Ipsos said on Friday. Just over a third of Britons (34 percent) named immigration as the
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Pakistan’s health ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned to the country, it said on Friday, though they did not yet know the strain of the virus. A health ministry spokesperson said the sequencing of the confirmed case was
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Four more bodies have been recovered from the site of a massive garbage landslide in the Ugandan capital Kampala, bringing the death toll to 34, police said Friday. The collapse at the landfill in the northern district of Kiteezi at the weekend buried people, homes and livestock in mountains of
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Flights and trains in the Tokyo area were canceled Friday, and people were warned of strong winds, heavy rains and potential flooding and mudslides as a typhoon swerved near Japan on its way further north in the Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Ampil was forecast to reach the waters near Tokyo in
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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit off Taiwan’s east coast Friday morning, the United States Geological Survey said. Initially reported by the island’s Central Weather Administration as a magnitude 6.3, the tremor struck at 7:35 am (2335 GMT) at a depth of 15 kilometers (about nine miles)
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A 15-year-old boy on Thursday became the first person to be charged with rioting following a wave of violent unrest that swept across the UK The teen, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared at South Tyneside Youth Court on Thursday but his case was adjourned for two weeks.