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BYD growth slows as China auto price war takes its toll 28 Aug 2023 - 05:00 pm
Peninsula
Typhoon Saola lashes northern Philippines and heads toward Taiwan, southern China 28 Aug 2023 - 04:42 pm
A man braves heavy showers and winds while evacuating his cattle as Typhoon Saola brushes past Ilagan City, Isabela Province, north of Manila on August 27, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
After moon landing, India eyes the Sun 28 Aug 2023 - 04:35 pm
This handout screen grab taken and received from the live feed of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) website on August 23, 2023, shows the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft seconds before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the moon. (Photo by ISRO / AFP)
Wildfire in Greek national forest still 'out of control' 28 Aug 2023 - 03:09 pm
This photograph taken on August 24, 2023 shows a burned forest during wildfires in Kirki, a village near Alexandroupoli. Photo by Sakis MITROLIDIS / AFP
Foxconn billionaire Gou announces Taiwan presidential bid 28 Aug 2023 - 01:54 pm
Former Foxconn Founder Terry Gou salutes during a press conference in Taipei on August 28, 2023. Gou announced that he will run for president of Taiwan as an independent candidate. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)
Paris bids adieu to love-or-hate electric scooters 28 Aug 2023 - 01:27 pm
A couple uses battery-powered electric scooters from a sharing company on the banks of the river Spree in Berlin on August 27, 2023. (Photo by John MacDougall / AFP)
US Commerce Secretary meets Chinese counterpart in Beijing 28 Aug 2023 - 12:04 pm
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (R) speaks next to US Ambassador to China Nick Burns (L) during a meeting with China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on August 28, 2023. (Photo by Andy Wong / Pool / AFP)
Japan summons China ambassador over Fukushima crank calls 28 Aug 2023 - 11:53 am
A facility that pumps up seawater to dilute the treated water is pictured at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on August 27, 2023. Photo by JAPAN POOL / JIJI PRESS / AFP
Neolithic village discovered in France after 150 years of research 28 Aug 2023 - 11:51 am
Remi Martineau, researcher at the CNRS, stands at the mouth of a well, dating from the Modern Neolithic, around 3500-years-ago, from a settlement suggesting the presence of a village occupied by a structured population, at Val-des-Marais in the south of the Marne, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Francois Nascimbeni / AFP)
Eight US Marines in hospital after deadly Australia crash 28 Aug 2023 - 11:11 am
A woman rides a bicycle near the entrance to Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin on August 28, 2023, as investigations continue after three US Marines died on August 27 when an Osprey aircraft crashed on Melville Island, located north of Darwin. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)
Japan postpones 'Moon Sniper' launch for third time 28 Aug 2023 - 11:10 am
This handout photo taken on June 1, 2023 and released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the
Tropical Storm Idalia forms near Mexico, heads to Florida 28 Aug 2023 - 09:31 am
This image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows ropical Storm Idalia (C) off the coast of Mexico on August 279, 2023, at 21:20:20 UTC. Photo by NOAA/RAMMB / AFP
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US 28 Aug 2023 - 08:48 am
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France to ban wearing Islamic abayas in schools: minister 27 Aug 2023 - 11:51 pm
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Ancient priest's remains are a first-of-a-kind find for Peru team 27 Aug 2023 - 10:09 pm
Handout picture released by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture on August 27, 2023 showing archaeologists holding pottery pieces found at a 3,000-year-old priest's tomb, found by a group of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists under a ceremonial site at the Pacopampa archeological site, in Cajamarca, northeast of Peru. (Photo by Handout / Peruvian Ministry of Culture / AFP) 
Trump campaign says it raised $7.1 million after mug shot 27 Aug 2023 - 09:14 pm
This photo illustration created in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2023, shows the mugshot of former US President Donald Trump next to a website called Trump Save America JFC, a joint fundraising committee on behalf of Donald J. Trump for President 2024, which is selling merchandise bearing his mugshot. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP)
Members of US Congress make rare visit to northwest Syria 27 Aug 2023 - 08:09 pm
A delegation of US representatives poses for a picture with orphaned children during their visit to a hospital in Syria's border town of Azaz, in the north of Aleppo province, on August 27, 2023. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem / AFP)
Pastor urges sadness, not rage, after white shooter kills 3 Black people in Florida 27 Aug 2023 - 07:18 pm
This video grab shows police cars on the site of a shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, August 26, 2023. (Photo by AFP)