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United States President Donald Trump has announced that he has struck a “massive” trade deal with Japan following months of fraught negotiations.Under the agreement announced on Tuesday, the US will impose a 15 percent tariff on Japanese exports and Japan will invest $550bn in the US, Tr...
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China has started building a mega-dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River in Tibet, which could become the world’s largest source of hydroelectric power when completed, according to Chinese officials.The mega-project in the foothills of the Himalayas will include five hydropower stations on the river,...
Tehran, Iran – The wave of Afghan refugees and migrants being sent back from Iran has not stopped, with more than 410,000 being pushed out since the end of the 12-day war with Israel on June 24.More than 1.5 million Afghan refugees and migrants have been sent back in 2025, according to the Uni...
Torrential rains that lashed South Korea have killed at least 18 people and left nine others missing, authorities said, as the government lifted advisories for heavy rain and the meteorological agency warned of a return of heatwaves to southern parts of the country.The toll on Monday came as South K...
Ecuadorean gang leader Adolfo Macias Villamar, also known as “Fito”, is set to appear in a federal court in the United States, where he will plead not guilty to international charges of drug and weapons trafficking, his lawyer says.The Ecuadorean government on Sunday extradited the notor...
A prominent Kenyan human rights activist has been charged with unlawful possession of ammunition over his alleged role in deadly antigovernment protests in June.Boniface Mwangi was charged by the police on Monday, two days after he was arrested and accused of possessing unused tear gas canisters, a ...
South Korea is considering allowing individual tours to North Korea as it studies ways to improve relations with its neighbour, a spokesperson for South Korea’s Ministry of Unification says. “The government is formulating and pursuing North Korea policies with the goal of easing ten...
The nationwide death toll from heavy rainfall in South Korea has risen to 14, authorities said, as fears grow of more deaths, with 12 more people missing since the disaster began.Two people died and four went missing in the resort town of Gapyeong on Sunday after a landslide engulfed houses and floo...
Hong Kong has issued its highest tropical cyclone warning as Typhoon Wipha batters the city, with authorities cancelling classes and grounding hundreds of flights and other transport services.Wipha was located about 60km (37 miles) southwest of Hong Kong at around 1pm (05:00 GMT) on Sunday and was m...
The Israeli military has issued a new forced evacuation warning for the Palestinians in central Gaza, ordering them to move south to al-Mawasi, an area Israel has regularly attacked despite declaring it a “safe zone”.Thousands of leaflets were dropped over Deir el-Balah on Sunday, tellin...
At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in the latest carnage at the GHF aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, with most of the victims reported to have died in a stampede.Gaza’s Ministry of Health has disputed the allegation from the controversial United States- and Israel-backed organi...
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A SpaceX capsule carrying astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary and the United States has landed in California, completing the 20-day Axiom Mission 4.The crew undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday and landed on earth on Tuesday after a 22-hour journey.The return flight concl...
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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox party, United Torah Judaism (UTJ), has announced it is quitting the country’s fractious right-wing coalition due to a long-running dispute over mandatory military service, threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power.Six of the remaining sev...
The Syrian Ministry of Defence has announced a ceasefire in the Druze-majority city of Suwayda, saying an agreement has been reached with the city’s “notables and dignitaries” after days of deadly clashes with Bedouin tribes.“To all units operating within the city of Suwayda,...
Chinese President Xi Jinping says relations with Australia have “turned around” as the two countries stress dialogue and seek to stabilise trade in the face of global tensions.Xi made the remarks as he hosted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the Great Hall of the People in B...
A group of human rights lawyers in Sudan have accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of raiding and setting fire to villages in the state of North Kordofan and killing nearly 300 people, including children and pregnant women.The statement by Emergency Lawyers late on Monday came as figh...
Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for 11 people who went missing after a boat capsized in bad weather off the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province, according to a local search and rescue agency.Dozens of rescuers and two boats were at the site of the disaster on Tuesday, and seven of the 18 p...
France is celebrating Bastille Day with nationwide festivities commemorating the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison, a pivotal moment in the French Revolution.In Paris, the celebration features 7,000 participants marching along the Champs-Elysees, including troops and armoured vehicles, followed b...
United States President Donald Trump has said he will send Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine as his administration signals growing disillusionment with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to negotiate an end to Moscow’s invasion.“We will send them Patriots, which they d...
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