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Rescuers aided by drones were continuing a desperate search on Wednesday for possible survivors of devastating landslides in an isolated area of southern Ethiopia that have claimed the lives of at least 229 people.Humanitarian agencies were also scrambling to rush emergency relief aid to the stricke...
Business & Commerce
Tesla reported a hefty drop in second-quarter profits Tuesday due to the effect of price cuts while spending aggressively on autonomous driving and other technology.Elon Musk's electric vehicle company reported profits of $1.5 billion, down 45 percent, on revenues of $25.5 billion, which were up...
World
An explosion at a factory producing Jose Cuervo tequila in Mexico killed five people Tuesday, local authorities said."So far the deaths of five people are confirmed, workers of the company," the civil protection unit in the western state of Jalisco said in a statement. Two others were inju...
In the US state of Pennsylvania, the Democratic Party's switch to Kamala Harris as its presumptive nominee for president has re-energized its campaign for the White House in a key battleground state, grassroots party activists say."I believe we're going to have a blue landslide," s...
Panamanian border police on Wednesday reported 10 migrants had drowned in a river near the Central American country's coastal border with Colombia.The migrants died as a result of the river flooding, with their bodies discovered in the remote riverside community of Carreto, a statement from the ...
Thailand's top court will rule next month on a case seeking to oust Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin over his appointment of a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction.In May the court accepted a petition submitted by 40 former senators, to remove Srettha from office under ethics rules.The cas...
Trash-carrying balloons sent by North Korea hit the South Korean presidential compound Wednesday, security officials told AFP, prompting Seoul to mobilise chemical response teams in the escalating tit-for-tat propaganda war.It is the first time the South Korean leader's office in downtown Seoul,...
Sports,Football
Nicolas Kuhn scored twice and Luis Palma netted the decider in the 68th minute to give Celtic a 4-3 victory over Manchester City in a pre-season friendly on Tuesday.Norway's Erling Haaland, wearing the City captain's armband for the first time, nodded home an equalizer in the 57th minute onl...
Troops in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir hunted Tuesday for militants after several soldiers were critically wounded in ferocious gun battles, with Indian media reporting four had died.Muslim-majority Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since their independence from British ru...
Facing growing criticism over a massive security failure, the US Secret Service on Monday vowed to cooperate with an independent review after a shooter was allowed to open fire on Donald Trump.The 78-year-old former president was injured but survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in P...
Four people were killed and multiple others wounded in a shooting near a mosque in Oman's capital Muscat, police said Tuesday."The Royal Oman Police have responded to a shooting incident that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque in the Al-Wadi Al-Kabir area," police said in a statement...
US President Joe Biden defended both his "mental acuity" and his rhetoric about Donald Trump Monday, in a second TV interview aimed at ending calls for him to quit his reelection bid following a disastrous debate.The 81-year-old delivered an often combative defense of his mental and physic...
The IMF held its global growth expectations for 2024 steady in a report Tuesday even as it cut forecasts for the United States and Japan, while warning of inflation risks and trade tensions ahead.The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow 3.2 percent this year, unchanged from ...
EU leaders' fate will be in lawmakers' hands from Tuesday onwards as the European Parliament convenes for the first time since June elections, with a bolstered far right demanding more influence in the assembly.Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has outraged his EU counterparts b...
Cartier-owner Richemont said Tuesday its quarterly sales in China tumbled by 27 percent as the deepening economic malaise in the world's second-largest economy lashes luxury firms.The Swiss luxury group said overall sales dipped 1.0 percent to 5.27 billion euros ($5.74 billion) in its first quar...
Nepal’s Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was sworn in as Prime Minister on Monday after his communist party forged a coalition government with the centre-left Nepali Congress.Oli, chief of the second-largest party in the parliament, the Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), re...
China's economy grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2024, official data showed Monday, less than analysts had expected."By quarter, the GDP for the first quarter increased by 5.3 percent year on year and for the second quarter 4.7 percent," Beijing's National Bur...
Asian markets were mixed Monday as investors weigh the impact of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump with data suggesting it has boosted his chances of being re-elected president.Eyes are also on a key meeting of China's top leadership in Beijing, with hopes for measures to boost the world...
Millions of Rwandans head to the polls on Monday with President Paul Kagame set to cruise to victory and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years.Rwanda's de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame faces only two challengers after several promin...
Israel hammered the Gaza Strip from the air, sea and land Monday as the war in the Palestinian territory showed no sign of abating, with Hamas saying it was pulling out of truce talks.Shells rained down on the neighbourhoods of Tal Al-Hawa, Sheikh Ajlin and Al-Sabra in Gaza City, AFP correspondents ...
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