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Kut, Iraq (AFP) July 17, 2025 - A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday as grief-stricken families buried their loved ones.
Jul 17, 2025
Taipei (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Taipei came to a brief standstill on Thursday when air raid sirens forced people off the streets and into underground shelters in a rehearsal for a Chinese attack.
Jul 17, 2025
Sao Paulo (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Brazil's Congress passed a controversial reform loosening environmental licensing rules on Thursday, prompting backlash from environmentalists as the country prepares to host the COP30 climate summit in November.
Jul 17, 2025
London (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Britain and Germany signed landmark deals on Thursday to boost defence ties and crackdown on people smuggling gangs on the first official visit to the UK by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Jul 17, 2025
Rawalpindi, Pakistan (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Heavy rains have been linked to 54 deaths in the past 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the toll to about 180 since the arrival of the monsoon in late June, the government's disaster agency said on Thursday.
Jul 17, 2025
Svishtov, Bulgaria (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Bulgarian villager Rumyana Tsoneva keeps opening the tap in her yard in Gorna Studena near the Danube - and keeps finding it dry.
Jul 17, 2025
Seosan City, South Korea (AFP) July 17, 2025 - At least three people were killed and more than 1,000 evacuated Thursday after South Korea was hit by torrential rains, officials said, with one region pummelled by the most rainfall per hour since full records began.
Jul 17, 2025
Colombo (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned and injured elephants to the wild on Thursday after nursing them back to health under a long-running conservation project, officials said.
Jul 17, 2025
Laurel, Philippines (AFP) July 17, 2025 - Divers searching for dozens of murdered cockfighters in a lake south of Manila were forced to exit the water Thursday when the volcanic island in its centre erupted unexpectedly.
Jul 17, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) July 17, 2025 - More than a dozen independent Hong Kong publishers, some of whom had been barred from a government-run book fair, took part in a separate literary festival on Thursday for books primarily on social issues.
Jul 17, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) July 16, 2025 - Brazil insisted Wednesday it will have enough rooms for the tens of thousands of people expected to attend the COP30 UN climate conference in the Amazonian city of Belem in November.
Jul 16, 2025
Isfara, Tajikistan (AFP) July 16, 2025 - Tajik apricot farmer Uktam Kuziev is worried about the future now that climate change is threatening Central Asia's vital fruit harvest.
Jul 16, 2025
Reykjavik (AFP) July 16, 2025 - A volcano erupted on Wednesday in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula in the southwest, weather authorities said, the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023.
Jul 16, 2025
Washington (AFP) July 16, 2025 - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles, roughly halving the contentious deployment in the city, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Jul 16, 2025
New York (AFP) July 15, 2025 - Two people were killed in New Jersey following flash flooding in the northeastern United States that caused travel chaos, authorities said Tuesday, as the region braced for more heavy rain.
Jul 15, 2025
Jerusalem (AFP) July 15, 2025 - An Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish party has come under fire for its decision to quit the ruling coalition in a long-running struggle over military service exemptions as the army looks for manpower for Gaza.
Jul 15, 2025
