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Group says 5 more years of war in Yemen will cost $29b aidAP, CairoAn international relief group says another five years of fighting in Yemen...
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Thousands flee as Typhoon Kammuri churns towards Philippines
AFP, Manila :The Philippines was braced for powerful Typhoon Kammuri as the storm churned closer, forcing evacuations and threatening plans for the Southeast Asian Games...
Climate crisis has reached ‘point of no return’: UN chief says
AFP, Madrid :The devastating impacts of global warming that threaten humanity are a pushback from Nature under assault, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Sunday ahead...
Protests send Hong Kongers to Taiwan in search of new lives
AFP :Protests that have paralysed Hong Kong for nearly six months are pushing residents to seek new lives abroad, with many turning to nearby democratic...
Indonesian fires burnt 1.6m hectares of land this year: Researchers
Reuters, Jakarta :Fires in Indonesia that spread a smoky haze over Southeast Asia this year burned at least 1.6 million hectares of mostly degraded land...
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Iran official points to more open electionsAFP, Tehran A senior Iranian official has suggested in an interview with AFP that authorities may be more open...
Warming toll: 1 degree hotter, trillions of tons of ice gone
AP :Since leaders first started talking about tackling the problem of climate change, the world has spewed more heat-trapping gases, gotten hotter and suffered hundreds...
Angela Merkel coalition in balance as ally loses SPD leadership race
AFP, Berlin :The future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition was thrown into question on Saturday as her deputy chancellor and finance minister lost the leadership...
HIV/AIDS kill more than 1,300 Cambodians in 2018, down 48 pc in 9 years
Xinhua, Phnom Penh :HIV/AIDS had killed more than 1,300 people in Cambodia in 2018, down 48 percent from over 2,500 deaths in 2010, Ieng Mouly,...
Iran opposition leader compares supreme leader to Shah
AP, Dubai, United Arab Emirates : A long-detained opposition leader in Iran on Saturday compared a bloody crackdown on those protesting government-set gasoline prices rising under...
With impeachment inquiry in full swing, public opinion remains split
The New York Times :House Democrats insist they are leading an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump for one simple reason: His actions have left...
Johnson refuses to reveal how many children he has
The Washington Post :Boris Johnson once penned an article describing the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate.” Those words came back...