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In London, son's agonising wait for news of parents missing in Nepal-Tibet floods

Norway's King Haakon VIII pays tribute to late father in first speech

Ivory Coast captain Kessie snubs Juventus to rejoin Atalanta

South Africa survive onslaught to beat New Zealand and level series

Strasbourg fight back to beat Lens in Ligue 1

BJP Rejects Caste Allegation Over Haldwani Venue Ritual

Maharashtra Accepts Tribal Students’ Demands After 17-Day Protest

Nepal Flood Death Toll Reaches 675 as Rescuers Confront Rain and Tunnel Crisis

Sixteen Keralites Return From Flood-Hit Nepal as Seven Remain Uncontactable

Madurai Students Join Walkathon Promoting Drug-Free Lives

Chirag Paswan Defends Caste-Based Reservations Amid NDA Dispute

Tamil Nadu BJP Chief Accuses Assembly Speaker of Religious Bias

Tamil Nadu Seeks Public Input on List of Agamic Temples

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Toll from Bulgaria flooding rises to three

The toll from torrential rains and flooding on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast has climbed to three as the bad weather left tourists stranded, officials said Wednesday.

French actor Kassovitz sends message to fans from hospital bed

French actor Mathieu Kassovitz, director of the 1995 film "La Haine", on Wednesday thanked fans for their support following his serious motorbike accident which left him with a broken femur and ankle.

Sacked Spain coach Vilda says dismissal 'unjust'

Sacked Spain women's coach Jorge Vilda says he has a clear conscience and his dismissal 16 days after La Roja's World Cup triumph was unjust.

'Ant-Man' Edwards emerges as US superhero at Basketball World Cup

Anthony "Ant-Man" Edwards doesn't wear a cape but he has emerged as the United States' superhero at the Basketball World Cup.

China warns against 'new Cold War' as big powers meet in SE Asia

China's premier said on Wednesday major powers must oppose a new Cold War, a thinly veiled reference to Washington as top Asian and US officials gathered for talks in Indonesia.

Fiji suffer blow as fly-half Muntz ruled out of World Cup

Fiji fly-half Caleb Muntz, who scored 15 points in the historic Test win over England last month, has been ruled out of the Rugby World Cup due to a knee injury, said coach Simon Raiwalui.

Climate change worsening heatwaves, air quality: UN

Climate change is driving more intense and more frequent heatwaves, which in turn generate a "witch's brew" of pollutants, threatening the health of humans and other living things, the UN warned Wednesday.

2023 likely to be hottest year on record: EU monitor

2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Wednesday.

UK air traffic control outage '1 in 15 million' event: boss

The head of British air traffic control on Wednesday blamed a "one in 15 million" event that caused the country's worst systems failure in almost 10 years, stranding thousands of passengers.

State-backed tourism booms in China's troubled Xinjiang

Chinese travellers throng the bazaars of old Kashgar, munching mutton kebabs and soaking up heavily commodified Uyghur culture -- part of a government push to remould troubled Xinjiang into a tourism paradise.

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