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'1,000 Martyrs Cup' — With joy and grief, Palestinian football marks return

Sports September 6, 2026

Palestinian sports commentator Khalil Jadallah has spent the past three years mourning the athletes killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. As Palestinian football officially resumed this week, his return t...

'The flood is coming': How a Nepal principal saved 900 students

News September 6, 2026

Rajendra Dawadi was inside his school near Nepal’s Trishuli River with around 900 students last week when a colleague delivered an urgent warning. “My accountant came to the school and said, ‘Th...

Police in India's Gujarat publicly beat man accused of killing partner

News September 6, 2026

Indian police publicly thrashed a man accused of beating his partner to death, local media reported on Sunday, drawing mixed reactions after footage of the flogging spread online. Public parading and ...

UN agrees text on lethal autonomous weapons

News September 5, 2026

Nearly 130 countries on Saturday agreed on a text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) — “killer robots” to their critics — a first step towards talks on a possible international ...

Putin meets US envoys for Ukraine war talks

Business September 5, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin began talks with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on ending more than four years of war in Ukraine in the Kremlin Saturday, ahead of their first visit to Kyiv...

Fresh Yemen clashes kill more than 60: military, medical sources

News September 5, 2026

Fighting between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and the country’s Houthi rebels killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and military sources told AFP. The rene...

Trump envoys land in Moscow for Russia-Ukraine peace push

Business September 5, 2026

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow on Saturday to discuss a plan to end more than four years of war between Russia and Ukraine. After talks in Moscow, the pair, sent by US Pres...

Chinese national rescued from tunnel in Nepal 10 days after catastrophic flooding

Health September 5, 2026

Rescuers in Nepal pulled a Chinese national alive on Saturday from a tunnel buried by debris, as emergency response teams dug with new vigour in the search for missing people 10 days after catastrophi...

Bangladesh hospital wards crowded as measles toll nears grim 1,000-child mark

Health September 5, 2026

Bangladesh’s deadliest measles outbreak in decades is nearing the grim milestone of 1,000 child deaths, as a devastating epidemic sweeps through the country and crowded hospital wards fill with stru...

Bolivian army base blasts kill 2, wound dozens

News September 5, 2026

Two explosions at an army barracks in Bolivia killed at least two people and wounded 81 on Friday, authorities said. Defence Minister Ernesto Justiniano said “pyrotechnic material” was stored at t...


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