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AFP/APP Havana: Seventy percent of Cuba's population has power again as the island recovers from a nationwide blackout and a hurricane that left seven people dead, the government said Tuesday. The lights went out across the…

News Desk Cape Town: In a decisive move to protect endangered waterfowl, South Africa has announced a plan to bomb Marion Island with pesticide-laden pellets to eliminate invasive rats that have been attacking and eating the island's…

AFP/APP Los Angeles: Hurricane Hone, a Category 1 storm, brushed past Hawaii's largest island on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and dangerous swells, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The Pacific storm, with maximum…

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…

News Desk Peshawar: Former lawmakers from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly belonging to different political parties vowed to continue supporting and advancing KP’s policy of prioritising girls’ education regardless of political affiliation.…