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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
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A volcano in Indonesia’s eastern island of Halmahera erupted on Saturday spewing a five-kilometer high ash cloud, the country’s volcanology agency (PVMBG) said, while its disaster agency warned of potential flash floods and cold lava flow. The eruption of Mount Ibu at 11:03 a.m. (0203 GMT)
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As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are dying from those catastrophes globally because of better warning, planning and resilience, a top United Nations official said. The world hasn’t really noticed how the type of
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Indians began voting Saturday in the last round of a six-week-long national election that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power. The election is considered one of the most consequential in India’s history. If Modi wins, he’ll be only the second
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At least 24 people died of suspected heatstroke in India’s eastern states of Bihar and Odisha on Thursday, and the heatwave in the region is expected to continue until Saturday, authorities said. India has been experiencing a blisteringly hot summer and a part of capital Delhi recorded the country’
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Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore have agreed to stage more complex military drills in the region this year involving drones, fifth-generation fighter planes and surveillance aircraft. The announcement on Friday by defence ministers from members of the 53-year old Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA) on the sidelines of
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape on Friday made his first visit to a remote village hit by a deadly landslide last week and thanked international aid donors for their support. Officials are still trying to pinpoint how many people are buried under parts of a mountain which
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Former Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, a prominent conservative, was among candidates registering on Friday for an early election next month following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, state media reported. Larijani, an adviser and ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters that he
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The British parliament dissolved on Thursday ahead of a July 4 general election, which looks set to bring Labour to power after 14 years of Conservative rule. Five weeks of campaigning officially began as 650 seats of members of parliament (MPs) became vacant at one minute past midnight (2301 GMT)
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Gunmen in Bangladesh have killed a teacher and a student in a Rohingya refugee camp for refusing to return to Myanmar to fight, their parents said Thursday. Hundreds of Rohingya boys and young men have been seized from refugee camps in Bangladesh, where they had sought safety after Myanmar’s
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A bus carrying pilgrims fell into a deep gorge in the northern Indian federal territory of Jammu on Thursday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens, authorities said. The bus, which began its journey in Kurukshetra in the northern Haryana state was headed to a Hindu temple in Jammu
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Nigerian Josephine Akiga looks around her empty restaurant in Abuja, where a sole customer sits eating, longing for the days when the place was filled with people. Business has been so tough since President Bola Tinubu took office a year ago that she sometimes lets customers pay what they have
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Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama's coast that is fast disappearing. Some 300 families - 1,351 people - based in Gardi Subdug, a small Caribbean island a couple of kilometers off
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A northern Nigerian state governor on Wednesday banned protests and public rallies to prevent a power struggle between two rival royals over a traditional throne spilling into violence. Emirs in the mostly Muslim north, as well as Obas or kings and other traditional rulers in the predominantly Christian south, have
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A volcano in southwestern Iceland sent glowing hot lava shooting 50 metres into the air on Wednesday, its fifth eruption since December, shortly after an eight-week long eruption on the same Reykjanes peninsula came to an end. Authorities had warned of the risk of renewed volcanic activity in the area
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A person died after ending up in a running aircraft engine at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, Dutch airline KLM (AIRF.PA), opens new tab said on Wednesday. Dutch media had reported, opens new tab on the incident earlier on Wednesday, while the Dutch military police, Marechaussee, said, opens new