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India’s monsoon rains have advanced into the western state of Maharashtra after covering almost all of the southern region, but they could weaken and deliver lower-than-normal rainfall next week, two senior weather officials told Reuters. Summer rains, critical to spur economic growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, usually begin
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Polls opened in the Netherlands on Thursday to kick off four days of voting in European Union parliamentary elections across the 27 member states that are expected to deliver gains for the hard right. Estonians can cast their ballots across six days that started Monday, but the Netherlands is the
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The United Nations on Wednesday slammed a mass flogging of dozens of people in Afghanistan, and called on the Taliban authorities to end the practice. About 63 people were publicly lashed in the northern Saripul province on Tuesday, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported. “UNAMA reiterates its condemnation
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The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia as non-permanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms beginning on Jan. 1, 2025. The Security Council consists of 15 members. Five of them — China, France, Russia, the UK and the US — are permanent. Known as
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Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU’s climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert “climate hell.” The average global temperature for the 12-month period to the end of
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday blamed his opponents for fostering the “hatred” that led to an assassination attempt against him, in his first address since the shooting. Looking calm but speaking with long pauses, the 59-year-old also said in the video on Facebook that he could resume work
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King Charles III on Wednesday led commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary for the World War II D-Day landings, joining British veterans, other senior royals and political leaders. The 75-year-old monarch, who only recently resumed public engagements as he battles cancer, spoke at a remembrance event in Portsmouth, on England’
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A South African Cabinet minister who is a senior member of the African National Congress was arrested and appeared in court on Wednesday over allegations of bribery, just as his party was meeting for talks to work out a way forward for the country after an election deadlock. Sports, Arts
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Hundreds of villagers feared buried in Papua New Guinea landslide will not be recovered, the military told AFP Wednesday, describing the disaster zone as “too dangerous” to operate in. “All efforts to recover bodies have been called off because of the danger” of further landslides, Major Joe Aku said. “Recovery
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Australia will allow non-citizens to join its armed forces, the government said Tuesday, as the sparsely populated nation struggles to meet recruitment targets. Defense Minister Richard Marles said that from July, looser eligibility criteria would allow “permanent residents who have been living in Australia for 12 months” to serve. Citizens
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Indonesia’s Mount Ibu volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing thick columns of grey ash five kilometers into the sky, the volcanology agency said, but there were no immediate reports of evacuations. The volcano on the eastern island of Halmahera erupted at 5:36 a.m. for about two minutes, said
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Myanmar’s junta is cracking down on gold and foreign exchange traders and agents selling foreign real estate, with 35 arrests announced in the last two days as part of efforts to stabilize its rapidly depreciating currency. State media said these include five people charged with illegally selling condominium units
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Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni will travel to Albania on Wednesday to visit migrant centers to be run by Italy, her office said, just days before European elections. Under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana, Albania has agreed to take in asylum seekers plucked from the seas off Italy,
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nti-terrorism prosecutors in Germany will take over the investigation into a knife attack in Mannheim that killed a police officer, a spokeswoman told AFP on Monday. She said the office took on the case due to the “singular importance” of the attack, which sparked alarm in Germany. A 25-year-old Afghan
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South Africa was set to end three decades of dominance by the party that freed it from apartheid on Saturday, as voters angry at joblessness, inequality and power shortages slashed the African National Congress's (ANC) share of the vote to 40%. A dramatically weakened mandate for the legacy
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Twenty people, including children, drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, a provincial official said. “A boat with women and children on board sank on Saturday morning at 7 am (0230 GMT) in the river in the Basawul area of