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Wildlife rescue workers attempt to release a humpback whale tangled in ropes in Australia's Sydney Harbour on August 23, 2024.

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Whale tangled in fishing debris freed in Sydney Harbour

Plane carrying 9 people crashes in forest near Thailand’s capital

Children are drinking from puddles and wading through sewage pools, as Israel pummels water systems in Gaza

Parents hide children from mandatory evacuations as Ukraine says Russia advancing fast on key city

Deadly floods impact millions in Bangladesh and northeast India

Volcano spews red-hot lava in new eruption on volatile Iceland peninsula

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday.

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Modi meets Polish leaders ahead of ‘landmark’ trip to Ukraine

‘There are no longer places to go’: Thousands in Gaza forced to flee again after Israeli evacuation orders

Indonesia?scraps plan to change election law amid protests

Humanitarian aid resumes in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur after 6-month border closure

Israeli hostage families to boycott October 7 memorial as ceasefire talks drag on

Russia’s Putin and China’s No. 2 official praise deepening ties as Ukraine war grinds on

Map: The countries where women lead

How Gaza’s hospitals became battlegrounds

How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

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Europe

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The fire broke out on a Ferris wheel at the Highfield Festival in the German state of Saxony Saturday evening.

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More than 20 injured after Ferris wheel catches fire at music festival in Germany

Israeli strike kills 7 members of same family as Blinken lands to make fresh push for truce

How Ukraine turned the war on its head with surprise attack on southern Russia

Safety at Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is deteriorating, IAEA warns

Blaze erupts at London’s historic Somerset House

Russia?‘rapidly approaching’?key Ukraine?city despite Kursk setback

Middle East

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Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public

Questions mount over six hostages’ fate in Gaza after IDF finds gunshot wounds

Greek-flagged oil tanker poses ‘environmental hazard’ after attack in Red Sea

Iran says it will not take ‘hasty action’ against Israel for killing of Hamas political leader

Bodies of six Israeli hostages retrieved from Gaza, Israel says

She says Israeli military killed her husband and daughter. Then soldiers brought her to an Israeli hospital

World in photos

TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows customers having dinner during an event organised by Polish restaurant service of Belgian origin 'Dinner in the Sky', which uses a crane to hoist its guests, table, and waiting staff 50 meters into the air, in Warsaw on August 17, 2024. (Photo by Sergei GAPON / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

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The week in 33 photos

People in Stockholm, Sweden, watch the super blue moon rise behind Nacka on Monday, August 19.

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In pictures: The rare super blue moon

People watch as a Super Blue Moon rises behind Nacka, in Stockholm, on August 19, 2024. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo by JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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In pictures: The rare super blue moon

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People we’ve lost in 2024

Africa

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Patients stand at an mpox treatment centre at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 17, 2024.

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African health officials hopeful mpox shots will start within days as WHO says outbreak is ‘not the new Covid’

Man suspected of murdering 42 women escapes from police custody in Kenya

Sudanese government agrees to reopen key border crossing for humanitarian aid

North Darfur’s remaining hospital risks closure as Sudan’s civil war intensifies

Americas

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A member of the Tactical Aeronaval Operations (OTA) group monitors during a deportation process of migrants to Colombia at Albrook 'Marcos A. Gelabert' International Airport in Panama City, Panama, 20 August 2024. The Panamanian government deported the first group of 29 migrants who crossed the Darien illegally, as established by a memorandum of understanding between the governments of Panama and the US.
Panama deports 29 migrants who crossed the Darien to Colombia, Panama City - 17 Aug 2024

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Panama to launch deportation flights to China and India, as well as regional neighbors

Brazil will restrict entry of some Asian migrants, aiming to curb flows to US and Canada

Canada’s Conservative Party removes patriotic video mistakenly showing Russian fighter jets

Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close

Asia

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Riot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024, in Southport, England. Rumours about the identity of the 17-year-old suspect in yesterday's deadly stabbing attack here have sparked a violent protest. According to authorities and media reports, the suspect was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, but the person cannot be named due to his age. A false report had circulated online that the suspect was a recent immigrant who crossed the English Channel last week and was "on an MI6 watchlist." (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Man arrested in Pakistan for alleged role in spreading disinformation linked to UK riots

Modi to visit Ukraine, weeks after Kyiv condemned Indian PM for hugging Putin in Moscow

Thailand’s king endorses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as new prime minister

Oldest first-time panda mom gives birth to twins

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Travel

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Hundreds of sea lions at San Carlos beach on August 20, 2024.

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Sea lions take over popular California tourist beach

16 all-inclusive resorts you can book for free using travel rewards

The must-have items to make flying more comfortable, according to airline crew

The sleeper train that’s a wild ride to another world

Titanic newspaper article discovered in wardrobe after 112 years

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Huge 2,492-carat diamond, believed to be world’s second-largest, unearthed in Botswana

Beyoncé launches whiskey inspired by ‘moonshiner’ great-grandfather

Thin eyebrows are back, but should they be?

How the lobster became an unlikely status symbol — and a ‘cultural icon’

In photos: The best outfits of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour so far

Weather

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In this NOAA image taken by the GOES satellite, Hurricane Lee crosses the Atlantic Ocean as it moves west on September 8, 2023. Lee reached Category 5, but then weakened slightly to Category 4 as it expected to be a dangerous storm as it moves over the southwest Atlantic. It is too early to know if it will directly affect the United States.

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2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Fast Facts

New forecast reveals when and where hurricane season could get active after Ernesto

Ernesto restrengthens to a hurricane as dangerous beach conditions continue along East Coast

Extreme weather in parts of Canada causes major flooding, power outages

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The Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters next to a tower of the Kremlin in Moscow in 2023.

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Ukraine advances in Russia as Moscow mayor accuses Kyiv of ‘one of largest ever’ drone attacks

TOPSHOT - A woman uses her smartphone walking past a mural depicting members of Russia's Young Army patriotic movement in Moscow on May 14, 2024.

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Quit dating apps, Russia tells border region citizens over security fears

The country's coat of arms hangs on the facade of a government building in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Prime Minister Keith Rowley announced on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, that the country is redrawing the island's coat of arms to remove references to European colonization, replacing Christopher Columbus' three ships with the steelpan, a popular percussion instrument. (AP Photo/Ash Allen)

Trinidad is redrawing its coat of arms to remove Columbus’ three famous ships

A Colombian migrant, with his hands and feet handcuffed, climbs a plane at the Albrook Gelabert airport in Panama City on August 20, 2024, during his deportation. Panama on Tuesday deported 29 Colombians with criminal records who had entered the country through the inhospitable Darien Gap, applying for the first time a deal on migrant repatriations signed with the United States in July. (Photo by ARNULFO FRANCO / AFP)

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Panama deports 29 Colombian migrants on first US-funded repatriation flight

President Michel Joseph Martelly of Haiti waits to address attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, in October 2015.

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US sanctions former Haitian President Martelly over drug trafficking allegations

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Russian soldier defects to Ukraine after spying for resistance group for months

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"I am old, very old, but not an idiot," reads the Twitter bio of María Branyas Morera (USA/Spain), who is now confirmed to be the world's oldest woman living and oldest person living, following the death of 118-year-old Lucile Randon (France).
Mrs Morera is 115 years 321 days old, as of 19 January 2023.
She was born in San Francisco, California, on 4 March 1907, one year after her parents emigrated to the country. Eight years later, they decided to return to Spain, where they settled in Catalonia.
María has called the region home ever since. She has resided in the same nursing home - Residència Santa María del Tura -- for the past 22 years.

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Architecture around the world

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Is it possible to build cities that are resilient to earthquakes and flooding? Architecture firm Foster + Partners hope to do just that with their masterplan for the city of Antakya, in southeastern Turkey (pictured here in a rendering).

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An earthquake ravaged this city ‘beyond imagination.’ Now it’s being rebuilt to withstand any natural disaster

Why turning cities into ‘sponges’ could help fight flooding

Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery

How this fashion designer transformed a ‘tragic disaster’ into a picturesque home

Sports

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Chicago Bears safety Douglas Coleman III is treated on the field after being injured during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday in Kansas City.

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Chicago Bears’ Douglas Coleman III carried off field on a stretcher during preseason game against Chiefs

New York Yankees defend Aaron Judge after Little League World Series coach says he ignored team

NWSL and players association agree to abolish draft, raise player pay in new CBA

Three years after the fall of Kabul, this Paralympian hopes to inspire women around the world through her act of defiance

Tech

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Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake images of Trump, Harris and Biden

ChatGPT on App Store displayed on a phone screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on June 5, 2024.

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OpenAI worries people may become emotionally reliant on its new ChatGPT voice mode

Chief Technology Officer of X Elon Musk speaks onstage during the "Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk" session in Cannes, France on June 19, 2024.

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