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Mawlid festivities cancelled in Ethiopia's Tigray region over fears of drone strikes
In Ethiopia, festivities marking Mawlid, the Muslim holiday celebrating the birth of the Prophet Mohammed, have been cancelled at the last minute over fears of drone strikes. The cancellation comes just days after another major Tigrayan festival, Ashenda, was also called off at the last minute for the same reason. Drone strikes hit northern Ethiopia in recent days, as tensions between the Tigray P...
Manchester City sign teenage Moroccan midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille
Sought-after Bouaddi joins the Premier League club on a five-year deal worth $117m.
Manchester City sign teenage Moroccan star Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille
Sought-after midfielder Bouaddi joins the Premier League club on a five-year deal worth $117 million.
Manchester City sign teenage Moroccan football star Ayyoub Bouaddi
Sought-after midfielder Bouaddi joins the Premier League club from Lille on a five-year deal worth $117 million.
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A new chapter for Syria’s Kurds: What integration really means
The integration of the Kurdish administration within Syria's state institutions is now complete, Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi said on Thursday, marking the end of the Kurds' long-held dream of autonomy. The announcement follows months of negotiations between the two sides after a January agreement that called for the full integration of Kurdish civil and military institutions into the state ...
French flight attendant's breast cancer is recognised as occupational disease
A former Air France flight attendant has had her breast cancer recognised as an occupational illness, a first in France. Judges pointed to night shifts, ionising radiation and second-hand smoke.
France: flight attendant's breast cancer is recognised as occupational disease
A former Air France flight attendant has had her breast cancer recognised as an occupational illness, a first in France. Judges pointed to night shifts, ionising radiation and second-hand smoke.
At least 14 infants killed in Islamabad hospital fire
At least 14 infants were killed in a fire at a state-run hospital in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Wednesday, the prime minister said, with the health minister attributing the tragedy to a blast in the nursery ward. The incident is among the deadliest hospital fires in recent years in the country, where government healthcare is subsidised but facilities are under-resourced and overburdened. ...
Wolf sightings rise in Italy after suspected attacks
Several people, including children, have been injured in recent incidents as authorities step up efforts to track and capture animals in populated areas.
German airport worker dies of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
Five other airport workers are also receiving treatment following the rare outbreak at German's busiest airport.
French astronaut Adenot takes part in second spacewalk
French astronaut Sophie Adenot began a second spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday, as she and NASA astronaut Anil Menon were set to continue work on a space-to-ground communications antenna. Adenot, a European Space Agency astronaut, was scheduled to help Menon retrieve and install a spare antenna on the station’s Z1 truss, above the Unity module, and make electrical and data c...
1898 Porter's House: Boutique heritage hotel set to open in the heart of Ghent
The property takes its name from its former role as the porter house of the nearby Hotel des Postes et des Télégraphes.
US proposes expanding UN Sudan arms embargo to entire country
The United States urged the UN Security Council on Monday to expand an arms embargo on the Sudanese region of Darfur to cover all of Sudan, saying the nation's brutal conflict risks regional expansion. The Darfur arms embargo, in place for over two decades, is set to expire on September 12, 2026 if a new agreement is not reached. Expanding the restrictions to all of Sudan would require a vote of t...
Mpox is back – and in new countries. How can this outbreak be contained?
The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affectedA fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed?Since 2022, there have been almost 190,000 lab-confirmed cases of mpox reported worldwide in 145 ...
Groups sue Trump’s EPA over fast-track approval of toxic datacenter chemicals
Exposure to two compounds approved can result in ‘sudden death’ and range of other serious health risks, lawsuit warnsThe Trump administration has approved two new datacenter chemicals to which exposure can result in “sudden death” and a range of other serious health risks, like cancer, eye corrosion, neurological damage and reproductive harm, a new lawsuit warns.The two compounds approved by the ...
Mpox is back – and in new countries. How this outbreak can be contained
The public health emergencies in 2022 and 2024 saw the virus reported in 145 countries, but in the new cases children appear particularly affectedA fresh outbreak of mpox in Guinea Bissau – the country’s first – means the virus formerly known as monkey pox is back in the headlines. So what has changed?Since 2022, there have been almost 190,000 lab-confirmed cases of mpox reported worldwide in 145 ...
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it.The site g...
On scraps of land and under constant threat, Gaza farmers struggle to survive
Efforts to rebuild domestic food production face severe challenges and have come at deadly costAs Gaza’s population of 2.1 million has been hemmed into an ever smaller slice of the territory, farmers are using every last remaining patch of unspoiled earth, no matter how tiny, in their struggle to survive.With severe shortages of water, fertiliser and pesticide, and with more than 80% of greenhouse...
China targets hi-tech pillars by 2030 to fuel economic growth
Beijing has vowed to develop emerging industries such as 6G and robotics into new drivers of economic growth by the end of the decade, while pledging renewed efforts to curb cutthroat competition in the domestic automotive industry. Vice-minister of Industry and Information Technology Xin Guobin outlined plans through 2030 to develop a range of hi-tech industries as new pillars of the economy and ...
At least 160 dead and hundreds missing after floods strike Nepal-China border
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
At least 98 dead and hundreds missing after floods strike Nepal-China border
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
At least 95 dead and more than 380 tourists missing after flash flooding in Nepal
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
At least 19 dead and more than 380 tourists missing after flash flooding in Nepal
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
At least eight dead and more than 380 tourists missing after flash flooding in Nepal
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
Nepal flash floods kill eight at China border and cause 'major casualties' in Tibet
Monsoon rains from June to September regularly trigger deadly floods and landslides across South Asia.
So long, West? Why South Asian students are rethinking where to go for university
For years, South Asian students – particularly from India – treated an overseas undergraduate degree as the default springboard to an international career. That assumption is now changing. Students across the region are still drawn to prestigious Western institutions, but tightening visa restrictions, rising costs and uncertain post-graduation job markets in countries like the United States are pr...
Woman bought family farm in 1908, spent decades painting and birdwatching, then left it as sanctuary
Mabel Norman Cerio turned her 1908 purchase of Paradise Farm in Middletown, Rhode Island, into a lifelong connection with art, wildlife and conservation. An artist and birdwatcher, she planned a bird sanctuary during her lifetime and later left the property to the community through her trust. After her death in 1949, the land became the Norman Bird Sanctuary, which today protects 300 acres of coas...
Péter Nádas, giant of contemporary Hungarian literature, dies aged 83
The author, often named as a Nobel contender, died peacefully at his home in Gombosszeg on the morning of 26 August 2026.