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Tokyo Olympics exec arrested over bribery allegations

Forced labour, possible 'enslavement' in China's Xinjiang: UN expert

UN Myanmar envoy begins talks with junta chief

Afghanistan's Olympic flag-bearer makes Australia home

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, made a loss of 1.68 trillion Norwegian crowns ($174 billion) in the first half of 2022, it said on Wednesday, as stocks and bonds were hit by global recession fears and rampant price inflation.

Climate change driving unprecedented forest fire loss

China reconnects nuclear reactor after shutdown due to damage

A Brazilian man managed to survive on a deserted island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro for five days by eating two lemons and a piece of charcoal.

China will discourage abortions and take steps to make fertility treatment more accessible as part of efforts to boost one of the world's lowest birth rates, its National Health Authority said on Tuesday.

Voters in Wyoming and Alaska will pick candidates for the U.S.

Seven U.S. Western states that share Colorado River water are poised to miss a federal deadline for drastic consumption cuts amid a megadrought.

Kenyan women make history with record election wins

Rohingya demand security as UN rights chief visits Bangladesh camps

China slashed holdings of U.S. Treasuries for a seventh consecutive month in June, Treasury department data released on Monday showed, with investors closely tracking this measure in the wake of tensions between the world's two largest economies involving Taiwan.

The already endangered African penguin is being driven away from its natural habitat off the east coast of South Africa due to noise from ship refuelling, a scientific study has found.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected as "null and void" the result of an Aug.

US tests ICBM after Ukraine, China-linked delays

#TellAJokeDay is a celebration of the numerous humorous stories you've told and heard throughout your lifetime.

Stock markets struggled for direction on Tuesday as they grappled with worries over global growth, following weak Chinese and U.S.

Oil prices extended losses Tuesday after weak US and Chinese data reinforced recession expectations.

As many as seven Common dolphins that were stranded on a remote beach off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, were saved by rescuers on Friday.

Iran will respond to the European Union's "final" draft text to save a 2015 nuclear deal by midnight on Monday, its foreign minister said, calling on the United States to show flexibility to resolve three remaining issues.

August 15th is the day to slow down and unwind.

Legend has it that harvesting local Stemilt cherries around the full moon makes the fruit taste much sweeter.

Due to Freya's friendly nature, crowds would ignore warnings not to get close to her and take pictures, putting both themselves and the walrus at risk.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York and suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, according to New York State Police and an eyewitness.

Germany's gas market operator is set to announce on Aug.

Ongoing wildfires in France have already released record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, new satellite data has shown https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/intense-wildfire-activity-southwestern-europe-amid-heatwaves-and-dry-conditions?utm_source=press&utm_medium=outreach&utm_campaign=wildfires.

Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday, a process that continues to irk the country's downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan.