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AFP/APP Beijing: China on Tuesday issued its highest-level red rainstorm warning for parts of Guangdong, a local weather agency said, as the southern province was battered by downpours. The megacity of Shenzhen was among the areas…

AFP/APP New York: Fireworks illuminated skies over Paris, Rio, and Sydney to celebrate the entry of 2024, while in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, rockets and strikes marked the year's earliest hours. Much of the world's population—now…

Xinhua/APP Beijing/Hong Kong: Two separate earthquakes with a magnitude of 5.7 struck the Tonga Islands and Isangel with a 5.8-magnitude tremor during the last 24 hours. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reported a…

AFP/APP Singapore: Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deities in her shop, one of the last of its kind in Singapore. Facing competition…

News Desk Up to 15 million people face risk of catastrophic flooding from glacial lakes which could burst their natural dams at any moment, a new study finds. The study led by Newcastle University is the first global attempt to map…