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Sri Lanka seeks faster green energy shift after oil shocks

Sri Lankan turbine project fuels anger as fish hauls plunge

Riyadh airport resumes flights following Houthi attacks

No LeBron, no problem as Sixers roll on

'Call of Duty' North Korea invasion edition tops sales charts in South

Israel to close all land crossings with West Bank on election day

Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink's terms of service

'Tech debt coming due': AI-found flaw signals chaos ahead

Fed expected to hold rates steady days ahead of US midterms

Stop-motion 'Wildwood' showcases 'human creativity' in AI age

More Lula, or back to the Bolsonaros? Brazil votes in cliffhanger

Fresh clashes rock France as protesters march on

Obama blasts Trump's 'chaos and cruelty' while campaigning for Democrats

Jorge Martin out of Australian MotoGP with fracture: team

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First foreigners, wounded set to leave devastated Gaza

Hundreds of wounded Gaza residents and foreigners gathered at the Egypt border Wednesday, poised to flee the shattered territory that is still reeling from a deadly Israeli strike on a refugee camp.

King Charles says 'no excuses' for colonial abuses in Kenya

King Charles III begins the second day of his trip to Kenya on Wednesday after acknowledging there was "no excuse" for colonial-era abuses during Britain's rule of the East African country.

North China smog to last until mid-November: state media

Serious pollution is expected to remain over Beijing and surrounding areas until the middle of the month, Chinese state media said Wednesday.

Nigeria's Bubu Ogisi, fashion 'harbinger' with African tales

Wearing one of her trademark large hats and dark glasses, Nigerian designer Bubu Ogisi puts a group of models through final fittings in preparation days for Lagos Fashion Week -- one of the cultural highlights in Nigeria's economic capital.

Panic and mortar fire: Civilians flee M23 push in east DR Congo

A mother guided her bawling five-year old boy across rocks close to Bambo, a town in eastern DR Congo, as mortar fire rained down nearby.

Voices from Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray

One year after Ethiopia signed a peace deal with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending a brutal conflict that killed hundreds of thousands by some estimates, life in the northern region is slowly limping back to normal.

$One year on, peace holds in Tigray but Ethiopia still fractured$

One year on, peace holds in Tigray but Ethiopia still fractured

An accord signed a year ago between the rivals in Ethiopia's Tigray war has brought peace to the shattered region, but ignited yet another conflict in the increasingly fractured nation.

Russian aviation sector faces strong headwinds

Russia's aviation industry is facing heavy turbulence, as concerns for passenger safety mount in the face of poor maintenance, a lack of spare parts and regular breakdowns.

Icons of UK's industrial age enjoy cultural and economic revival

Once the epicentre of global trade, the awe-inspiring buildings of northern England's industrial age have reinvented themselves as cultural and economic hubs feted by artists from David Hockney to Noel Gallagher and Sting.

Albania tries to halt flight of young doctors

Seeking to stem the flight of its young doctors, Albania has brought in a law to make recent medical graduates work in their home country for up to five years, or until they pay back their tuition fees.

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