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US finalizes rule to remove lead pipes within a decade 08 Oct 2024 - 08:08 pm
File: The White House has made the policy a key plank of its environmental justice agenda, since lead pipes disproportionately impact lower income communities and racial minorities. (Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images via AFP)
Over 40,000 dengue cases reported in Sri Lanka so far in 2024 08 Oct 2024 - 08:06 pm
File: A worker sprays insecticide to prevent mosquito breeding at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 13, 2023. (Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua)
Libya's oil production rebounds as political accord eases crisis 08 Oct 2024 - 08:01 pm
File photo: The National Oil Corporation in Tripoli, Libya.
Boeing delivers 27 MAX jets in September despite strike 08 Oct 2024 - 06:45 pm
The Boeing company logo is displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on September 04, 2024 in New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP.
Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, researcher says 08 Oct 2024 - 06:20 pm
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Samsung issues rare apology for poor results in tech 'crisis' 08 Oct 2024 - 06:08 pm
A man walks past a signboard of Samsung Electronics outside the company's Seocho building in Seoul on October 8, 2024. Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP
13-year-old in Belgrade school killings testifies at parents' trial 08 Oct 2024 - 05:58 pm
File photo. A parent escorts her child following a shooting at a school in the capital Belgrade on May 3, 2023. (Photo by Oliver Bunic / AFP)
Michelin pauses some French tyre factories as demand falls 08 Oct 2024 - 05:40 pm
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American States sue TikTok, claiming its platform is addictive and harms the mental health of children 08 Oct 2024 - 05:34 pm
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Sorrow and anger as families farewell Thai school bus fire victims 08 Oct 2024 - 05:18 pm
Grieving family members hold portraits of their loved ones during the cremation ceremony for the victims of a school bus fire, which marks the last Buddhist funeral rites at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School in Uthai Thani on October 8, 2024.
Stay and 'you are going to die': Florida braces for next hurricane 08 Oct 2024 - 05:02 pm
This handout satellite image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) shows hurricane Milton churning over the Gulf of Mexico on October 7, 2024. Photo by HANDOUT / NOAA / AFP.
UN warns Lebanon could face same 'spiral of doom' 08 Oct 2024 - 03:19 pm
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Abou Al Ainain / AFP)
Duo wins Physics Nobel for key breakthroughs in AI 08 Oct 2024 - 01:45 pm
A screen shows the laureats of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, US physicist John J Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey E Hinton on October 8, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
Turkiye to evacuate nationals from Lebanon by sea on Wednesday 08 Oct 2024 - 12:35 pm
This picture shows a view of destruction following an overnight Israeli air strike on the neighbourhood of Kafaat in Beirut's southern suburbs, on October 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Hungary next to seek EU asylum rules opt-out 08 Oct 2024 - 12:18 pm
Refugees sit on the pavement close to their former shelter in Kocs village, about 70 km north-west from the Hungarian capital Budapest, on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek / AFP)
Bangladesh's Yunus says no elections before reforms 08 Oct 2024 - 11:29 am
Bangladesh's Chief Adviser of the interim Government Muhammad Yunus speaks during a joint press conference with Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, in Dhaka on October 4, 2024. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman / AFP)
Over 1,000 evacuated from Crimea oil terminal fire: mayor 08 Oct 2024 - 11:18 am
A view shows a fire on the Kerch bridge at sunrise in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022. File photo for representation purposes only. Reuters/Stringer
Five Russians killed climbing mountain in Nepal: tourism official 08 Oct 2024 - 11:05 am
Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika Deupala/File Photo