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Nearly 1,000 children dead as Bangladesh battles worst measles outbreak in decades
DHAKA, Sept 5 — Bangladesh’s deadliest measles outbreak in decades is nearing the grim milestone of 1,000 child deaths, as a devastating epidemic sweeps through the country and crowded hospital […]
‘Mini-dictatorship’: Argentina’s Paris university residence faces scrutiny over far-right meetings, student freedoms
PARIS, Sept 5 — Weeks before President Javier Milei visits France, scrutiny has grown around an Argentina-run university residence in Paris supposed to promote peaceful coexistence but which activists say […]
As smoke spreads across South-east Asia, Indonesia works with neighbours to tackle transboundary haze
JAKARTA, Sept 5 — Indonesia continues to coordinate with neighbouring countries and utilise Asean mechanisms to address transboundary haze, while intensifying domestic efforts to control forest and land fires as smoke […]
Japan warns of landslides on Yakushima off Kagoshima coast as Typhoon Krovanh brings heavy rain
TOKYO, Sept 5 — Japan’s weather agency today issued its highest landslide warning for Yakushima Island in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, calling for maximum vigilance in the morning amid […]
US judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks in Lindsay Clancy murder case
PLYMOUTH, Sept 5 — A judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the high-profile case of an American woman who killed […]
‘We have an idea for peace’: Trump dispatches envoys Kushner, Witkoff to Moscow and KyivÂ
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 — US President Donald Trump said Friday that he was sending envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kyiv with a plan to end the […]
Trump pushes to strip endangered species protections from wolves, again
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday pushed to drop endangered species protections for wolves, outraging conservationists who said the move would jeopardize the iconic predators’ recovery […]
US election officials brace for chaos as Trump pushes mail voting curbs
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 — America’s midterm elections opened Friday in a fog of confusion over mail voting, with ballots already going out as President Donald Trump presses courts to let […]
Cambodia’s displaced families rebuild lives in ‘waiting villages’ as they dream of returning home
PHNOM PENH, Sep 5 — More than 3,000 new identical houses rise in a grid formation from a Cambodian plain not far from the Thai border, but most of the […]
How El Nino-driven drought is squeezing the Panama Canal and putting global supply chains at risk
 PANAMA CITY, Sept 4 — The Panama Canal will restrict the number of vessels transiting the crucial waterway from Friday for the second time ever due to drought caused […]