UK PM Truss resigns after 44 days in office

LONDON (Oct 20): British Prime Minister Liz Truss today dramatically announced her resignation just six weeks after taking office. Truss bowed to the inevitable after her right-wing platform of tax cuts disintegrated and as many MPs among the ruling Conservatives revolted. Speaking in Downing Street, Truss said she would stay on as prime minister until... Read More

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October 14, 2022

Floods swallow cars, swamp houses in ‘major’ Australian emergency

Melbourne (AFP) – Flash floods swamped hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia and thousands of people were warned to flee surging waters threatening towns across three separate states Friday. A major flooding emergency was unfolding in Victoria — Australia’s second most populous state — where rapidly-rising waters forced evacuations in the Melbourne suburb of... Read More

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September 27, 2022

When art changes its form, currency becomes art

LONDON: The latest show by Damien Hirst displays thousands of the provocative British artist’s colourful spot paintings… many of which he will set on fire after selling them in digital form as NFTs. The exhibition, “The Currency”, which opens Friday in London, is Hirst’s first project involving NFTs, a new technology growing in popularity as... Read More

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September 27, 2022

At least four dead after boat sinks off Galapagos

QUITO: At least four people died after a boat sunk off the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, officials said Monday. Two Ecuadorans, a Colombian and an American-Israeli died in the sinking, which happened overnight from Sunday to Monday, Ecuador’s foreign affairs ministry said. The ministry said it was working with the consulates of those countries... Read More

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September 27, 2022

Cuba, Florida brace for Hurricane Ian

HAVANA: Cuba declared an emergency alert in multiple provinces Monday as fast-approaching Hurricane Ian strengthened rapidly, with Florida also ramping up preparations ahead of a likely hit. Some 50,000 people in Cuba’s western Pinar del Rio province moved to safer locations, 6,000 of them to state-run shelters and the rest to the homes of relatives... Read More

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September 26, 2022

Syrian ex-prisoners haunted by horrors of ‘salt rooms’

GAZIANTEP, Turkey: When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt. On that day in the winter of 2017, the terrified young man had already been locked up for two years in war-torn Syria’s largest and most... Read More

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September 23, 2022

Taiwan to scrap Covid quarantine for travellers in October

TAIPEI: Taiwan will fully reopen its borders by ending mandatory Covid quarantine for arrivals next month, the government said Thursday. The island has largely kept its borders closed and implemented strict quarantine rules throughout the coronavirus pandemic, keeping infection numbers low at the expense of being internationally cut off. The government started to move away... Read More

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September 19, 2022

Evacuation warnings after typhoon makes landfall in Japan

IZUMI, Japan: Millions of people in Japan were under evacuation warnings on Monday as Typhoon Nanmadol brought strong winds and heavy rain to the southwest of the country after making landfall overnight. The powerful system has weakened since arriving on land Sunday evening around Kagoshima city in the southwestern region of Kyushu, but it has... Read More

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September 19, 2022

9 killed after bus plunges into Costa Rican ravine

SAN JOSÉ: At least nine people were killed and four left missing when a bus and two other vehicles plunged into a ravine in a mountainous part of Costa Rica, the Red Cross reported Sunday. The bus, car and motorcycle slid into the 75-metre-deep ravine on Saturday when heavy rain caused a landslide at the... Read More

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September 18, 2022

Camilla hails Queen Elizabeth, a ‘solitary woman’ in a man’s world

LONDON: Britain’s new Queen Consort Camilla paid tribute Sunday to Queen Elizabeth II for carving her own role as a “solitary woman” in a world dominated by men. In her first public comments broadcast since Queen Elizabeth’s death, King Charles III’s wife said it must have been so difficult for the late monarch, who inherited... Read More

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UK PM Truss resigns after 44 days in office

Floods swallow cars, swamp houses in ‘major’ Australian emergency

When art changes its form, currency becomes art

At least four dead after boat sinks off Galapagos

Cuba, Florida brace for Hurricane Ian

Syrian ex-prisoners haunted by horrors of ‘salt rooms’

Taiwan to scrap Covid quarantine for travellers in October

Evacuation warnings after typhoon makes landfall in Japan

9 killed after bus plunges into Costa Rican ravine

Camilla hails Queen Elizabeth, a ‘solitary woman’ in a man’s world

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