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How Florida is rebuilding for a stormy, costly future

How Florida is rebuilding for a stormy, costly...

Florida [US], August 25: "The road was a raging river. It was like the ocean," recalled Maria Blancett. "There were...

Trump's plan to send troops to Chicago is abuse of power: Illinois governor

Trump's plan to send troops to Chicago is...

New York [US], August 25: President Donald Trump's plan to deploy troops to Chicago is an abuse of power, the...

Asylum protests in UK as govt plans new process

Asylum protests in UK as govt plans new...

London [UK], August 25: Protests continued in the UK on Sunday over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers...

Over 500,000 to be evacuated as typhoon nears Vietnam

Over 500,000 to be evacuated as typhoon nears...

Hanoi [Vietnam], August 25: More than 150,000 households are set to be evacuated as Vietnam braces for the landfall from...

UN's OCHA warns of man-made Gaza famine, calls for ceasefire

UN's OCHA warns of man-made Gaza famine, calls...

Gaza [Palestine], August 25: The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that famine in Gaza...

Israel launches massive strikes on Yemen

Israel launches massive strikes on Yemen

Sana'a [Yemen], August 25: Two people were killed and 35 injured as Israel launched massive airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sana'a...

Iran will stand up to US demands to be 'obedient', says Khamenei

Iran will stand up to US demands to...

Tehran [Iran], August 25: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the United States wants Tehran "to be...

N Korea's Kim oversees test-firing of new air defence missiles

N Korea's Kim oversees test-firing of new air...

Pyongyang [North Korea], August 25: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen the firing of two new air defence missiles,...

Seven drown near popular Egyptian summer resort: Local media

Seven drown near popular Egyptian summer resort: Local...

Cairo [Egypt], August 25: Rescuers pulled another dead body from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Egyptian city...

Allies express support for Ukraine as Zelensky marks Independence Day

Allies express support for Ukraine as Zelensky marks...

Kiev [Ukraine], August 25: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his compatriots on Independence Day on Sunday, exactly three and a...

US scales down contested military presence in Iraq, say sources

US scales down contested military presence in Iraq,...

Baghdad [Iraq], August 25: US troops have begun withdrawing from bases in Iraq, where their presence as part of an...

Moscow and Kiev swap 146 POWs

Moscow and Kiev swap 146 POWs

Moscow [Russia], August 25: Russia and Ukraine have carried out another exchange of prisoners of war, the Defence Ministry in...

UN special rapporteur Albanese to contribute to 'Gaza tribunal,' says Corbyn

UN special rapporteur Albanese to contribute to 'Gaza...

London [UK], August 24: Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese will contribute to...

Ukraine marks Flag Day as Russians claim advances

Ukraine marks Flag Day as Russians claim advances

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 24: Ukraine marked its National Flag Day on Saturday with a ceremony attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky...

Venezuela launches call-up for militia as tensions with US mount

Venezuela launches call-up for militia as tensions with...

Buenos Aires [Argentina], August 24: Venezuela's authoritarian regime is planning to recruit further people for the militia branch of the...

'Restaurant fire in London like a Halloween scene'

'Restaurant fire in London like a Halloween scene'

London [UK], August 24: A fire at a restaurant in north-east London was like a "Halloween scene", a local businessman...

President Trump's Controversial Crime Crackdown Program

President Trump's Controversial Crime Crackdown Program

Washington [US], August 24: US President Donald Trump appears to be taking the federal government's crackdown on crime to a...

North Korea claims to have tested a new weapon system with superior combat capabilities

North Korea claims to have tested a new...

Pyongyang [North Korea], August 24: KCNA news agency reported today, August 24, that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un supervised the...

WSJ: Pentagon prevents Ukraine from attacking Russian territory

WSJ: Pentagon prevents Ukraine from attacking Russian territory

Kyiv [Ukraine], August 24: The Pentagon is said to have prevented Ukraine from using US missiles to attack targets inside...

China is about to put its most modern aircraft carrier into operation

China is about to put its most modern...

Beijing [China], August 24: A video released by CCTV suggests that China's third and most modern aircraft carrier, the Fujian,...

Germany admits its economy is in structural crisis

Germany admits its economy is in structural crisis

Berlin [Germany], August 24: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz admitted that addressing the country's challenges was more difficult than expected.

China urgently responds to typhoon Kajiki

China urgently responds to typhoon Kajiki

Beijing [China], August 24: China has increased its storm and flood response level and activated a series of precautionary measures...

Sri Lanka ex-President Wickremesinghe hospitalised after arrest

Sri Lanka ex-President Wickremesinghe hospitalised after arrest

Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 24: Sri Lanka's jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalised on Saturday, local media reported, a...

Taiwan, China, battle it out in competing World War Two narratives

Taiwan, China, battle it out in competing World...

Taipei [Taiwan], August 24: Veteran Pan Cheng-fa says he clearly remembers fighting for China against the Japanese in World War...

Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest sites

Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest...

Washington [US], August 24: Hundreds of National Guard soldiers in military fatigues and combat boots mingled with tourists, posed...

Taiwan nuclear plant re-opening vote fails as approval threshold missed

Taiwan nuclear plant re-opening vote fails as approval...

Taipei [Taiwan], August 24: A referendum to push for the re-opening of Taiwan's last nuclear plant failed on Saturday to...

Syria delays parliamentary vote in Sweida after sectarian violence

Syria delays parliamentary vote in Sweida after sectarian...

Damascus [Syria], August 24: Syria's first parliamentary election under its new Islamist administration, scheduled for September, will not include the...