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Labour Tipped for Historic Win as UK Voters Go to the Polls
AFP/ APP
London: Britons headed to the polls Thursday in a general election widely expected to emphatically return the opposition Labour Party to power and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule.
The country's first…
Fighting Lassa Fever: Lessons from Ebola in Sierra Leone
News Desk
Sierra Leone: In eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga and his team are engaged in a critical mission to track and control Lassa fever, a viral haemorrhagic illness transmitted by infected rats.
Koninga, who has…
VP Harris Does High-Wire Act as Biden Wobbles
AFP/APP
Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris is engaged in a delicate balancing act, playing cheerleader for President Joe Biden while standing by as a leading contender to replace him if he ends his reelection bid.
Biden's…
French PM Urges United Front to Stop Far-Right Takeover
AFP/APP
Paris:France's prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning that the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was within reach of winning an absolute…
Hurricane Beryl Hammers Jamaica on Path to Caymans, Mexico
AFP/APP
Kingston: Powerful Hurricane Beryl churned along Jamaica's southern coast on Wednesday, battering the island with dangerous winds and sea surge after leaving a trail of destruction and at least seven people dead in the Caribbean.…
Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal Push Wetlands Community to Limit
AFP/APP
Brazil: A riverside community in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands narrowly escaped raging wildfires last month, but some say the record-setting blazes -- still burning nearby -- are compounding threats to their way of life.
"The…
White House Says Zero Chance Biden Will Withdraw
AFP/APP
Washington: Joe Biden is "absolutely not" pulling out of the White House race, his spokeswoman said Wednesday, as pressure mounted on the president following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump.
Panic has…
Thousands Told to Flee Raging California Wildfire
AFP/APP
United States:Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with a swathe of the United States in the grip of a "record-breaking and dangerous" heatwave that was…
Haiti Violence Leaves 300,000 Homeless: UNICEF
Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) issued a stark warning last week, revealing that violence in Haiti has led to the forced displacement of one child every minute, on average.
With over 300,000…
Six Dead as Floods Inundate Vast Swath of India, Bangladesh
AFP
India: Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said Wednesday.
Monsoon rains…