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Washington, United States - US President Donald Trump sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at...
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UN gives Gaza children tablets to connect with world
Children make up nearly half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million. Most of them have never been able to leave...
- Some 890 tablets are being handed out this week at schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, following a pilot that saw a few dozen devices given to children last year
- The 15-year blockade of the enclave led by Israel has crippled Gaza's economy, leaving 74 percent of young graduates unemployed.
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Truss to meet cabinet, face MPs on first full day in power
The 47-year-old won an internal ballot of Tory members on Monday, securing 57 percent of the vote, after a grueling...
- After Cabinet, Truss will travel to the House of Commons to spar with opposition Labor leader Keir Starmer, in the rival pair's first Prime Minister's Questions session
- Truss pitched herself to the Tory grassroots as a tax-cutting free-trade champion ready to slash taxes immediately to turbo-charge growth
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Russia will stop oil, gas export to countries seeking price cap: Putin
Pointing to rising energy prices in Europe ahead of winter, Putin insisted Russia would supply nothing outside of existing contracts,...
- Facing growing isolation and deteriorating ties with the West, Moscow is seeking to pivot the country towards the Middle East, Asia and Africa
- Putin told the Eastern Economic Forum that "no matter how much someone would like to isolate Russia, it is impossible to do this".
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Juul to pay US$438m in US over marketing vapes to youth
Under the agreement, Juul would provide payments over the next 6-10 years to individual US states and pledge to not...
- Juul has been blamed for a surge in youth vaping over its marketing of fruit and candy flavored e-cigarettes, which it stopped selling in 2019
- On June 23, the FDA said it was ordering all products made by Juul Labs off the market after finding the vaping giant had failed to address certain safety concerns
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Heatwaves and wildfires to worsen air pollution: UN
The WMO's annual Air Quality and Climate Bulletin examined the impacts of large wildfires across Siberia and western North America...
- A new WMO report cautioned that the interaction between pollution and climate change would impact hundreds of millions of people
- If emission levels remain high, this climate penalty is expected to account for "a fifth of all surface ozone concentration increase, WMO said
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China export growth slows sharply in August: official data
Last month, China's exports expanded 7.1 percent year-on-year, down from 18 percent growth in July, China's General Administration of Customs...
- The slowdown in trade comes as global demand for Chinese products weakens with energy prices soaring and the United States facing the threat of recession
- Sporadic Covid-19 lockdowns around China have also dampened consumer enthusiasm and business confidence
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US returns stolen antiquities worth US$19m to Italy
US has returned dozens of antiquities stolen from Italy and valued at around $19 million, some of which were found...
- The District Attorney's office said the stolen items had been sold to Michael Steinhardt, one of the world's leading collectors of ancient art
- Among the recovered treasures, which in some cases were sold to "unwitting collectors and museums," were a marble head of the Greek goddess Athena from 200 B.C.E.
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New Israel strikes put Aleppo airport out of service: Syria state media
It is the second reported Israeli strike on the airport in northern Syria in less than a week. "At around...
- SANA said earlier that Syrian air defences had intercepted some missiles, and reported material damage
- Syria's private airline Cham Wings announced that all flights to and from Aleppo would be routed to the capital Damascus due to the strikes
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Syria impounds bowls made out of 24 kilos of captagon
Syria has impounded 24 kilograms of captagon crushed and made to look like hummus bowls in one of the bizarre...
- Captagon traffickers have in recent years found ever more imaginative places in which to conceal their drug, from fake oranges, to real hollowed-out pomegranates
- Most of global captagon production originates in Syria, spurring a multi-billion-dollar industry that has made the drug the country's largest export by far
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Gulf states warn Netflix over content that ‘contradicts’ societal values
Riyadh--Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Gulf countries on Tuesday accused streaming giant Netflix of broadcasting content that "contradicts Islamic and societal...
- A statement issued jointly by the Saudi media regulator and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, headquartered in Riyadh, did not specifically identify the offending content.
- Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia have repeatedly locked horns with US film distributors over content related to sexual minorities, especially in films.
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Deadly chaos at Gaza aid distribution as WHO renews hospital warning
UN agencies have warned repeatedly that northern Gaza is on the verge of famine and called it a man-made crisis...
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Sticky-fingered journalists on Air Force One put on notice
Media outlets pay for the journalists to fly on the government plane with US president, along with the meals and...
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WHO says 9,000 patients need emergency evacuation from Gaza
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Death toll in Israeli strikes on Syria climbs to 52, says monitor
Beirut, Lebanon - The death toll in Israeli air strikes on Syria has risen to 52, including 38 government soldiers and...
- They targeted "a rocket depot belonging to Lebanon's Hizbollah" near the Aleppo airport in northern Syria, the war monitor said.
- Israeli strikes on targets in Syria have increased since Israel's war against the Hizbollah-allied Hamas group in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7.
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Polish PM Tusk warns Europe has entered ‘pre-war era’
Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago upended European leaders' sense of unshakeable post-war peace, prompting many countries...
- War is no longer a concept from the past, It is real, and it started over two years ago, Tusk said in an interview with the European media
- It sounds devastating we have to get used to the fact that a new pre-war era has begun, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said
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Climate change is slowing heat waves, prolonging misery
While previous research has found climate change is causing heat waves to become longer, more frequent and more intense, the...
- "If a heatwave is moving slower, that means heat can stay in a region longer, so that has effects on communities," senior author Wei Zhang of Utah State University told
- Researchers used climate models to determine what the results would have looked like absent human-caused climate change, and found manmade factors loomed large