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SAN ISIDRO, PHILIPPINES/KUNIRAN, INDONESIA: When Madam Gina Fabiano first considered leaving her wooden home in the Philippines’ Rodriguez municipality to…

FENI, Bangladesh: Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday (Aug 24) from floods that inundated vast…

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania: Taiwan starter Lai Cheng-Xi struck out 12 batters and allowed just three hits as the Asia-Pacific representative…

WASHINGTON: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accepts the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday (Aug 21) with 11 weeks to…

Mpox cases and deaths are surging in Africa, where outbreaks have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi,…

The Singapore-Johor Causeway is one of the world’s busiest land crossings, with more than 300,000 people crossing the border daily.…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is ramping up pressure on the regional government of West Bengal, in the wake…

KATHMANDU: A bus carrying 43 Indian tourists and crew members plunged into a rain-swollen river in neighbouring Nepal on Friday…

A separate Israeli strike on the village of Aita, approximately 14 km north of the border with Israel, killed a…

In India’s hard-hit Tripura state, more than 23 people have died in the floods since Monday.Bangladesh’s disaster management ministry said…

WHAT MIGHT MR JOKOWI BE TRYING TO DO? Describing the Jokowi-Prabowo alliance as “tenuous”, Professor Vedi Hadiz, director of the…

The displaced have gathered in 450 camps, the officials said, with a total of about 1.7 million affected, along with…