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China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported. Beijing has ploughed billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years in an effort to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as the […]

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An explosive device killed six soldiers and wounded two others in a western Mexican region wracked by drug cartel violence, an official military report seen by AFP on Wednesday said. The blast late Tuesday destroyed the armored vehicle in which the troops were traveling, according to the internal document.

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Belarus will scale back military drills with Russia planned for September, cutting the number of soldiers taking part and moving them away from the western border, Minsk said Wednesday. Belarus is a key Russian ally and allowed its territory to be used as a staging post for Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv, as well […]

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Russian authorities said they had battled a major Ukrainian drone attack late Tuesday and early Wednesday, with at least two Moscow airports forced to suspend flights. The defence ministry said in a Telegram post that 112 Ukrainian drones had been “destroyed and intercepted” in six different regions in the three hours up to midnight. Moscow’s […]

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National Public Radio filed suit Tuesday against US President Donald Trump, seeking to block his order to end federal funding for it and the PBS television network. Since returning to power in January, Trump has heightened his long-running feud with mainstream US media, which he accuses of being biased against him. As part of an […]

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EU countries on Tuesday formally approved a new 150-billion-euro loan programme to help rearm in the face of Russia and worries over US reliability, according to the Polish presidency of the bloc. The SAFE borrowing scheme backed by the EU’s central budget was proposed by Brussels in March as the bloc rushes to boost its […]

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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was diagnosed Monday with “labyrinthitis, an ear condition that can cause vertigo, in the latest health setback for the 79-year-old. Lula, who was hospitalized last year for a hemorrhage under his skull caused by a bathroom fall, was examined Monday at a hospital in Brasilia before returning to […]

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A car ploughed into a crowd in Liverpool on Monday during a parade to celebrate Liverpool’s Premier League football title, emergency services said. Merseyside Police in northwest England said they were contacted just after 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) “following reports a car been in collision with a number of pedestrians”. “The car stopped at the […]

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One of the world’s most active volcanoes spewed columns of lava exceeding 1,000 feet above Hawaii, according to US vulcanologists and spectacular footage released Sunday. Activity at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island has been intermittent since an eruption on December 23, 2024. On Sunday, footage showed jets of lava spraying into […]

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US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “crazy” on Sunday after Moscow launched a deadly barrage of drones against Ukraine, even as the warring countries completed a large-scale prisoner exchange. At least 13 people were killed when Russia launched a record number of drones against Ukraine overnight to Sunday. “I’ve always had […]

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