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CANADA: The Canadian military was on standby to help evacuate towns and fight more than 170 wildfires fuelled by a record-smashing heat wave and tinder-dry conditions as the Government in Ottawa warned of a “long and challenging…
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CHINA: China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the international community to build a “Great Wall of Immunity” to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should face the imminent challenges together,” Mr Wang, who is also a member of…
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UN: Voicing concern over many countries failing to vaccinate their people, WHO Chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday called for vaccinating at least 10 per cent of the population of every country by September as he emphasised…
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JAPAN: Rescuers in a Japanese holiday town hit by a deadly landslide searched for survivors Sunday, climbing across cracked roofs and checking cars thrown onto engulfed buildings as more rain lashed the area. Two people have been…
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US: Search efforts for possible survivors in the rubble of a partially collapsed apartment block near Miami have been suspended ahead of the controlled demolition of the rest of the building. Teams are preparing to bring down the…
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THE PHILIPPINES: A military plane carrying at least 85 people “missed the runway” and crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday, the Armed Forces chief said. So far 40 people have been rescued from the burning wreckage of the…
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CHINA: Chinese astronauts successfully performed the country's first tandem spacewalk on Sunday, working for seven hours on the outside of the new Tiangong station in orbit around Earth. Tiangong's construction is a major step in…
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CAMBODIA: Eleven Cambodian villagers died after drinking rice wine suspected to be toxic during a funeral, a police officer said Sunday, adding to the kingdom's growing recent death toll from unsafe homemade alcohol. In the past…
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AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have captured a key district in their former bastion of Kandahar after fierce night-time fighting with Afghan government forces, officials said Sunday, sending scores of families fleeing from the area.…
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CYPRUS: A huge forest blaze raging in Cyprus has killed four people, destroyed homes and forced evacuations of villages as Greece, Israel and other countries deployed fire-fighting aircraft to the Mediterranean island. The fire…
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