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Some orchards are harvesting just a 10th of their usual crop, and facing an uncertain future.

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The powerful blast registered as the equivalent of a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey.

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The FDA says contaminated lettuce has been removed from the market after nearly 13,000 linked cases.

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Daniel Belk turned a pandemic-era career setback into two businesses. Then, in January, he sold his stake in one of them for $1 million. His next move: spending the year trying to play America’s top 100 public golf courses. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson have praised the bowler’s exploits this summer, but question whether he can do it against better teams on flatter pitches There was a Pakistan fan walking around Edgbaston carrying a small blackboard on the second day. “Free Imran Khan … ” he’d written on it, “and get him in the team. ” He stopped to talk about it with a couple of the police officers standing guard around the back of the pavilion. “I’d like to report a crime,” he told them, “by the 11 players out there on the field. ” The officers chuckled. “Not much I can do about that for you, sorry. ” Even their supporters seemed to have reached the point where they just want this tour to be over. With dismal inevitability, the weather had turned by the time Pakistan actually got out to bat in their second innings and the bright sunshine that lit up England’s batting through the afternoon had been occluded by a bank of heavy grey cloud that had blown up from the south-west. They turned the floodlights on just in time for Saim Ayub and Azan Awais to go out and face up to another new-ball burst from Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer. The lights didn’t help anyone, if anything they only made it easier to see what was coming. Continue reading...

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Bayern Munich 5-0 Bodø/Glimt, Como 4-1 Leipzig Lens win 3-2 at Slavia Prague with last-gasp double Bayern Munich opened their Champions League campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of Norway’s Bodo/Glimt. The six-times winners were frustrated before half-time by Bodo/Glimt but cruised once Jamal Musiala smashed in the opener two minutes into the second period and the floodgates opened. Continue reading...

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Earthquake recorded after Israeli demolition of Lebanon's infrastructure A 4.1-magnitude earthquake was registered in southern Lebanon, the United States Geological Survey said, after massive explosions were reported in southern Lebanon amid Israeli attacks. Israel said it was destroying Hezbollah infrastructure. AFP journalists reported a huge explosion that caused tremors.

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DJI drones that already supply Mount Everest camps assist Nepal’s flood relief.

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Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino pattern grows stronger. Global temperatures over land and sea soared to all-time highs in August and capped an extreme summer of heatwaves and wildfires that ranked the hottest on record for western Europe and the contiguous United States.

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Pitched for the Massed Modular Aircraft program run by the Air Force and Defense Innovation Unit, General Atomics says its new drone design can exceed requirements set by the Pentagon to succeed the MQ-9A Reaper.

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“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.

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Part of the island of Montserrat, a UK Overseas Territory, was buried by a volcanic eruption in 1995. Today, caution is essential for those venturing on the mysterious island that is full of spectacular Caribbean landscapes. Our colleagues at France Télévisions and FRANCE 24's Florent Marchais report.

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Passengers queue for refunds at Airport in Indonesia, as Anak Krakatau ash closes eight airports, cancels 2,300 flights and strands over 268,000 travellers.

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Indonesia has more than 120 active volcanoes and frequently experiences eruptions due to its location along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," the ring of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where most global seismic activity occurs.

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Italian club to auction special 'Together for Nepal' shirts to be worn in the match against Fenerbahce.

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The migrants were at work, building homes and hotels, when the floods hit, sweeping three of them away.

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An unusually active typhoon season is disrupting shipping operations across Asia, with Shanghai particularly hard hit by snarled traffic and vessel delays.

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El Niño is expected to become a very strong event later this year, with impacts likely to vary across Africa. The Greater Horn of Africa is forecast to experience wetter-than-normal conditions, increasing the risk of flooding, while parts of Southern Africa face a higher risk of drought. Governments and humanitarian agencies are stepping up preparedness and anticipatory action.

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Regulators say they want listings to remain priced cheaply amid push to boost investors’ faith in stock markets

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More than 5,100 people remain missing

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Aston Villa launch their Champions League campaign with a 3-2 victory over Club Brugge in Belgium, ending their early-season goal drought.

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After the captain underscored his team’s new reality, a fast bowler he didn’t even know was coming gave fans a little of the old dream It was still morning when Babar Azam came in to bat at Edgbaston. The Test was only 45 minutes old but you could already see which direction it was heading in. Pakistan were three wickets down. The floodlights were on, a thick smear of black cloud was moving slowly over the ground, there were odd spots of rain in the air. Ollie Robinson was bowling from one end, with the keeper standing up and five slips spread in a line just behind, and Jofra Archer was on at the other, four overs into his spell and only just warming up. It was a hell of a time to be batting. But then it always seems to be, lately. Continue reading...

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French Champagne output may have been battered by heat waves and drought, but this year’s vintage is shaping up as one of “exceptional quality. ”

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Bangladesh faces its worst measles outbreak, killing 1,002 children and infecting nearly 190,000 since March.

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Indonesia is facing ⁠a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, with carbon dioxide readings currently the highest in the world, data has shown. Fire emissions from Indonesia from September 1 to September 7 reached 19.7 million metric tons, overtaking Russia this week and making up more than a third of the global total, according to Fire Emissions Watch, a portal developed by the European Union’s Copernicus...

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Kauai grapples with flooding and dangerous debris as Hurricane Lowell batters Hawaii’s western coastline overnight.

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The death toll from measles in Bangladesh topped 1,000 children since March, health officials said on Wednesday, admitting that failures in a vaccination drive could have fuelled the outbreak. The South Asian nation of 170 million has recorded 1,002 deaths and 187,484 infections among children, making this year’s outbreak the country’s deadliest in decades, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Measles is highly contagious, spreading through coughs and sneezes, and has...

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Journalists missing after Indonesian volcanic eruption

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Orion180 Insurance Group Inc. , a specialty homeowners and flood insurer, is seeking to raise as much as $340 million in an initial public offering.