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In tonight's edition, Ebola is spreading beyond its original hotspot in the DRC as a new case has been detected nearly 600 kilometers away. And another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan around the besieged city of al-Obeid, the UN says.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has sent a message to a young Venezuelan earthquake survivor, recovering in hospital.
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After a genocidal war and famine, leading Israeli politicians say they are now ready to settle Gaza.
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Kleiber Moran, 2, was rescued on Wednesday, six days after last week's deadly earthquakes.
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Low-budget film-maker Uwe Boll sets Hammer up for a further fall from grace by cannibalising all manner of tired tropes in this incoherent schlocker Oh, Armie Hammer! Has it come to this? It doesn’t seem that long since you were in the Oscar-winning film Call Me By Your Name giving a sensitive liberal performance opposite Timothée Chalamet. Now here you are, striding around the streets and public parks of Zagreb, shooting Muslims, tasering teens and topping complicit deep-state judges to protest against what your character robustly describes as an “unfriendly takeover by Islamist extremists and the blind-sided woke left”. Much has happened to this once garlanded actor and great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer. His reputation plummeted after allegations of sexual assault by former partners in 2021, relationships that Hammer has maintained were consensual. Criminal charges were since dropped for lack of evidence, Hammer has now returned to the silver screen – and here he is in a very cheap, incoherent and embarrassingly badly acted schlocker, written, produced and directed by Germany’s low-budget exploitation maestro Uwe Boll, which cannibalises all manner of revenge tropes. More importantly, the film has been promoted and publicised globally online with monumental hypocrisy by Elon Musk who like JD Vance is very keen to divert America’s attention from its own issues to the fiercely imagined lawless migrant-caliphate of Europe-stan. It’s another piece of shit to flood the zone. Continue reading...
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A raging wildfire near Vouzela in central Portugal spread across several municipalities, driven by winds and heat
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Many survivors are sheltering in tents set up in public parks, after twin earthquakes destroyed rows of buildings.
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The Aspen Acres Fire, one of about 40 wildfires burning across western US, has destroyed homes and forced evacuations.
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Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said on Tuesday that the death toll from the two powerful earthquakes that recently struck the country has risen to 1,943, with more than 10,000 injured.
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3 firefighters killed battling Colorado wildfire
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Washington is tying itself closely to a government that faces public anger over its response to devastating earthquakes
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The humanitarian cargo includes tents for the temporary accommodation of displaced people, food, medicines needed under the current circumstances
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Heavy monsoon rains have inundated parts of Mumbai, India's financial capital, causing widespread flooding.
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A treatment trial for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo enrolled its first patient on Thursday, marking a milestone in efforts to combat the epidemic, WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
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Argentina fans flood Miami for Cape Verde match
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Two weeks after the #earthquakes that devastated #Venezuela, #rescue teams are looking for the last signs of life as hope of finding any more #survivors fades. More than 2,500 people have died so far. FRANCE 24's Maxime Pluvinet tells us about how the country still looks for its missing.
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Rescuers are continuing to dig through rubble in a search for survivors across Venezuela even as the hope of finding anyone alive eight days after two huge earthquakes struck the country become increasingly slim. Meanwhile, Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez rejected allegations that her government reacted too slowly to the disaster, which has killed more than 2,000 people, after days of widespread criticism of the official response.
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World Meteorological Organization forecasts more likelihood of heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall due to El Nino.
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Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday rejected allegations that her government reacted too slowly to destruction caused by two earthquakes which killed more than 2,000 people, after days of widespread criticism of the official response. Civilians of all stripes - including survivors, family members, volunteer paramedics and foreign rescue teams - have descended on disaster areas, especially the hardest-hit northern state of La Guaira, since the 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude quakes...
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Delcy Rodriguez says 80% of the buildings that collapsed in earthquakes were privately developed.
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Analysts’ expectations for S&P 500 earnings are rising at fastest rate since the rebound from Covid pandemic
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A demonstration wheat plot in China’s vast Taklamakan Desert has produced a harvest nearly double the national average yield recorded in 2025, according to a project announcement. The wheat, known as Jingmai 189, was developed by the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences to withstand drought, saline soil and nutrient-poor land. The trial on a managed, heavily saline plot produced a harvest of 768kg per mu (about 11.5 tonnes per hectare or 10,278lbs per acre) compared with the...
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Delcy Rodriguez separately said the government would announce economic measures aimed at rebuilding the country on Friday
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When the ground shook off Iwate prefecture at 9pm on Wednesday, the magnitude 6.0 jolt – the latest in a series of sizeable tremors – barely registered in a country still mopping up after two powerful typhoons and bracing for a fresh bout of torrential rain and landslides. Natural disasters have long been a fact of life in Japan, where schoolchildren rehearse earthquake evacuations the way other nations hold fire drills. Every September 1, in a ritual as much of collective memory as civil...
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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s weather forecaster will keep the No 1 typhoon signal in force until at least Friday evening, after which it will assess whether to issue the No 3 warning depending on the tropical storm’s intensity. The Hong Kong Observatory said Tropical Storm Maysak was estimated to be about 670km (416 miles) southwest of Hong Kong and was forecast to move...
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An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 400 people and continues to spread, with health authorities confirming a first case in the major city of Kisangani, hundreds of kilometres from the epidemic's epicentre in the northeast.
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WHO declares cruise-linked hantavirus outbreak over as final exposed person completes quarantine and tests negative.
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In tonight's edition, Algerians headed out to parliamentary elections in an exercise overshadowed by the sidelining of hundreds of would-be candidates. Also, dozens have died in severe flooding in Ivory Coast. And in Cameroon, a waterfront community once surrounded by black volcanic sands sees their environmental heritage swamped by tons of rubbish.
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Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated in southwestern France, as Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu sounded the alarm over an early outbreak of wildfires in the wake of a record-breaking heatwave. FRANCE 24's Juliette Brown reports.
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Attention has turned to the humanitarian response after at least 2,295 people are confirmed dead, and 13,000 homeless.
