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Maldives revokes shark fishing ban after decades 27 Aug 2025 - 12:50 pm
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Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35C or more 27 Aug 2025 - 12:37 pm
People cross a street outside Tokyo Station on a hot day in Tokyo on August 27, 2025. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki / AFP)
SpaceX answers critics with successful Starship test flight 27 Aug 2025 - 12:03 pm
SpaceX's Starship rocket lifts off from Starbase, Texas, as seen from South Padre Island on August 26, 2025, for its tenth test flight. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP)
US tariffs on Indian goods double to 50% over Russian oil purchases 27 Aug 2025 - 10:32 am
A freight train carrying cargo containers rides along a railway track in Ajmer on August 26, 2025. Photo by Himanshu Sharma / AFP
Russian-born panda "Katyusha" celebrates birthday with avid fans 27 Aug 2025 - 12:39 am
Giant panda Katyusha enjoys the ice birthday cake prepared by the caretakers at Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia, August 24, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)
Ukraine acknowledges for first time Russia entered Dnipropetrovsk region 26 Aug 2025 - 11:58 pm
File: Burned cars are seen outside a destroyed building following Russian shelling, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 16, 2022 / Reuters photo on file
UK to help dozens of Gazans study at British universities 26 Aug 2025 - 10:33 pm
File: People holding placards and flags of Palestine take part in a 'March For Palestine', part of a pro-Palestinian national demonstration, in London on October 14, 2023. (Photo by Adrian Dennis / AFP)
Lawyer for Fed Governor Cook says filing lawsuit to challenge Trump firing 26 Aug 2025 - 08:57 pm
This combination of pictures created on August 22, 2025 shows, L/R, Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook, in Washington, DC, on June 25, 2025 and US President Donald Trump on August 22, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Saul Loeb and Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
Kenya Airways banks on fleet restoration to boost revenues 26 Aug 2025 - 08:01 pm
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25 countries suspend postal services to the US over Trump tariffs: UN postal agency 26 Aug 2025 - 06:00 pm
US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
Train derails in north Nigeria 26 Aug 2025 - 05:36 pm
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Drones take on Everest's garbage 26 Aug 2025 - 04:48 pm
In this handout photograph taken on May 11, 2025 and released by Airlift Technology, a man operates a heavy-lift drone to clear trash dumped at the Everest Base Camp. Photo by Airlift Technology / AFP
VIDEO: Firefighting helicopter crashes into lake in France 26 Aug 2025 - 03:04 pm
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'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water 26 Aug 2025 - 12:57 pm
This aerial view shows water buffaloes drinking from a marsh in the drought-striken Chibayish marshes in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province on August 19, 2025. (Photo by Asaad Niazi / AFP)
Aid to famine-struck Gaza still 'drop in the ocean': WFP 26 Aug 2025 - 12:39 pm
A Palestinian youth stands on a street strewn with rubble following an explosion in the Saftawi neighbourhood, west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025. Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP
India's Election Commission under fire from opposition 26 Aug 2025 - 12:39 pm
(Files) Indian National Congress (INC) party leader Rahul Gandhi (L) addressing the media at the party headquarters in New Delhi on August 7, 2025. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)
Two police killed in eastern Australia shooting 26 Aug 2025 - 12:22 pm
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Japan cities deluged by complaints after false immigration claim 26 Aug 2025 - 11:35 am
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