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US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico brace for tropical storm

Islands in the northern Caribbean are bracing for a looming weather system which is expected to strengthen into the sixth named storm of the...

Hong Kong leader advocates retaliatory sanctions against West

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has backed legislation allowing retaliatory sanctions after the US and other Western governments punished city officials over the ongoing...

Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart among stars to perform at 9/11 benefit show

Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Amy Schumer are part of a star-studded group of comedians that will perform for one night only...

China punishes 30 officials over pandemic ‘failure’

More than 30 Chinese officials have been sacked or received other punishments over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of...

Vaccine maker BioNTech sees profits soar in second quarter

German pharmaceutical maker BioNTech, which developed the first widely used coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer, has seen its profits surge in the second quarter of...

Saudi Arabia to pay families of medical workers

Saudi Arabia says it is giving half a million riyals, the equivalent of £96,000, to the family of each medical worker who died fighting...

Afghan government’s media director shot dead by Taliban

The Taliban has killed the director of Afghanistan’s government media centre in the capital Kabul just days after an assassination attempt on the country’s...

Caribbean island’s PM in hospital after being hit by rock at protest

The prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has been treated in hospital after a demonstrator threw a rock at his head during...

Belarus sprinter: Grandmother advised me not to return home

A Belarusian Olympic sprinter who feared reprisals at home after criticising her coaches at the Tokyo Games said on Thursday that her grandmother had...

Turkish wildfire contained after reaching coal-fired power station

A wildfire that reached the compound of a coal-fuelled power station in south-west Turkey and forced nearby residents to flee in boats and cars...

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