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Azerbaijan is turning pomegranates, a fruit with 2,000 years of cultural history, into a global brand, with €48.2 million in exports and more than 200 cultivated varieties putting it in direct competition with Iran, Turkey and Spain
After a statement condemning Iran's use of the death penalty, tensions rose between senior diplomats. Paris accused Tehran of 'bloodshed' and Iran called France's stance 'blatant hypocrisy.'
Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain rubber-stamped their status as Europe's top team as they beat Aston Villa 2-1 in the UEFA Super Cup on Wednesday.
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level Donald Trump’s use of his second presidency to grow his personal fortune has alarmed legal and ethics experts and congressional Democrats as he has reaped an “unprecedented” $2.2bn in 2025 revenues by amassing big cryptocurrency holdings, benefitting from wealthy foreign interests,...
State is US’s largest user of pesticide that is virtually proven to cause Parkinson’s diseaseCalifornia is banning paraquat, a highly toxic, controversial herbicide used across millions of acres of American cropland.Public health advocates characterize it as a deadly substance that is virtually proven to cause Parkinson’s disease. It is already outlawed in more than 70 countries, including China, ...
The city of Buffalo is enhancing a fish passageway to facilitate the journey of emerald shiners to Lake Erie. By installing steel baffles along the seawall, this initiative aims to mitigate strong currents. This effort is part of a significant multi-million-dollar restoration project for the Niagara River Area, alongside transforming nearby industrial slips into crucial shallow-water habitats, all...
CK Hutchison Holdings has revealed the “forced termination” of operations at two strategic Panama Canal ports shaved 1 per cent off overall throughput in the first half of this year, even as the overall port portfolio performed better than a year ago. In its half-year financial results released on Thursday, the Li Ka-shing family-backed conglomerate for the first time quantified the impact of losi...
Jury selection began Wednesday in Meta's federal trial over claims its platforms have harmed youth mental health and also track children in violation of federal law. Our correspondent Wassim Cornet tells us more.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is on a nationwide tour to listen to the ‘financial concerns’ of the people.
Polls opened Thursday in an eastern England by-election that pits hard-right leader Nigel Farage - often touted as a potential future British prime minister - against perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a vote shunned by the country's main political parties."If Count Binface does well in this election, it's not going to look good for Nigel Farage", Philip Turle explains.
The US and Iran continue their standoff in the Strait of Hormuz as mediators try to coax talks.
Thursday morning will mark 72 hours since the quake in Colombia, where "people are surprised that the government didn't accept the help from foreign rescue teams", says our journalist Rosa Perez.
Ukrainian drones have struck a major refinery deep inside Russia, marking the fourth attack in three days
Indiana faced most outages at 267,000, about 8% of its customers, with severe thunderstorms and wind aheadPower supply was cut on Thursday to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data from PowerOutage.us showed.Indiana was the hardest-hit state, with more than 267,000 outages, representing about 8% of its roughly 3.3 million customers, ...
Officials in Pakistan say a team of local volunteers has recovered the body of a Pakistani climber who was among 10 mountaineers killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak nearly two weeks ago
Rescuers in Colombia were making last-ditch efforts to locate earthquake survivors early as the critical 72-hour window for rescue operations neared its end.
Under local regulations, "it is forbidden to needlessly disturb, attract or pursue a polar bear," which was declared a protected species in 1972.
A blast at a petroleum storage facility in the port of Rotterdam has killed one person and wounded six others, Dutch officials said.
A blast at a petroleum storage facility in the port of Rotterdam has killed one person and wounded six others, Dutch officials said.
A mysterious cosmic event uproots Oak Street from 80s suburbia to prehistoric times... It's the blockbuster surprise of the summer.
Disaster tests President Abelardo de la Espriella and his government as it scrambles to find survivors and provide aid.
Leavitt’s departure three months before midterms raises questions over who will communicate Trump’s messages as his approval rating falls to record low, says YouGov pollingICE’s plan to give officers electric shock gloves draws outrage and fears of misuseImmigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks faced criticism Wednesday from Democratic...
Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and in some places is ill-equipped to deal with hot weather.
Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and in some places is ill-equipped to deal with hot weather.
Tributes have been flooding in for former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, the reformist statesman who played a leading role in integrating China’s economy into the global system and charmed neighbouring countries with his candid diplomacy. In a deeply personal tribute posted on social media, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim described Zhu, who died on Wednesday at the age of 97, as “a good friend...
Tributes have been flooding in for former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, the reformist statesman who played a leading role in integrating China’s economy into the global system and charmed neighbouring countries with his candid diplomacy. In a deeply personal tribute posted on social media, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim described Zhu, who died on Wednesday at the age of 97, as “a good friend...
Tributes have been flooding in for former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, the reformist statesman who played a leading role in integrating China’s economy into the global system and charmed neighbouring countries with his candid diplomacy. In a deeply personal tribute posted on social media, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim described Zhu, who died on Wednesday at the age of 97, as “a good friend...
The Amondawa tribe structures their daily living around significant events and life phases rather than fixed numbers of weeks or years. Their language features an absence of abstract units of time, showcasing a unique relationship between age and identity rooted in transitional life stages. This inquiry prompts a reevaluation of conventional beliefs regarding human perceptions of time.
Israel carts away Gaza's rubble to destroy war crimes evidence and make the landscape unliveable, rights groups say.
