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Lightning bolt strikes Mecca’s clock tower

Lightning bolt strikes Mecca’s clock tower Dramatic video captured the moment a powerful lightning bolt struck the top of Mecca’s famous clock tower amid turbulent weather and intense lightning activity. Published On 27 Aug 2026 Lightning bolt strikes Mecca’s clock tower Dramatic video captured the…

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5 days ago Business

Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s ‘queen of polka dots’, dies at 97

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist known for her polka-dot paintings, pumpkin sculptures and immersive “Infinity Mirror Rooms”, has died at the age of 97. Announcing her death on Thursday, Kusama’s company said she died from multiple organ failure at a hospital in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, on Aug…

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5 days, 1 hour ago Politics

Ben Shapiro’s anti-Muslim film is nothing new

Ben Shapiro, prominent pro-Israel blogger and co-founder of the far-right news site The Daily Wire, claims Hollywood has spent the last three decades refusing to tell the story of “the threat of radical Islam”. As an American Muslim woman, an avid movie-goer, and a human with eyes, I must say that …

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5 days, 1 hour ago Politics

Israel is not heading for civil war

On August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was discovered. The ship, which belonged to the right-wing Zionist paramilitary organisation Etzel, was shelled by the newly formed Israeli military in 1948.…

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More than 1,300 missing in Nepal and China after deadly Himalayan flood

More than 1,300 people, including more than 700 foreign nationals, are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a huge collapse of mud and rock into a Himalayan river triggered catastrophic flooding across local towns and valleys, authorities have said. Nepalese police and tourism offici…

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5 days, 1 hour ago Business

NFL champions Seattle Seahawks sold to Khosla Group for record $9.6 billion

The owners of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States have unanimously approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks for a league-record price of $9.6bn to a group led by the Khosla family. The sales agreement was announced on July 11 and awaited approval at a special meeting of the own…

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5 days, 2 hours ago Politics

OpenAI says it detected malign activity months before Hugging Face attack

OpenAI detected its artificial intelligence models communicating with each other and gaining internet access without authorisation months before they hacked the start-up Hugging Face, the creator of ChatGPT has announced following an internal probe. In a report released on Wednesday, OpenAI said it…

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Palestinian children return to school under threat of Israel demolition

Farah, Mohammed and Jawad are getting ready for the new school year in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank. The children, aged 17, 8, and 7 respectively, attend Shaab al-Butum school in a village with the same name. But the building they’ll return to will be missing two administrative …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago Politics

US diplomat calls Israeli settler siege of West Bank homes ‘act of terror’

The United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has said a days-long siege of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers amounts to “terror”. Huckabee, a staunch ally of Israel who has voiced support for Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, made the unusually critical comments on Thursd…

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2 weeks, 5 days ago Business

How to stay safe during an earthquake: A visual guide

When an earthquake happens and the ground starts moving, what you do next can make a big difference to your safety. This visual guide lays out five practical steps, from making your home more earthquake-safe and preparing an emergency survival kit to protecting yourself during the shaking and after…

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2 weeks, 5 days ago Technology

Part of children’s hospital collapses in Colombia earthquake

Part of children’s hospital collapses in Colombia earthquake Security cameras captured the moment part of a children’s hospital in Cali collapsed during Colombia’s deadly magnitude 7.4 earthquake on Monday. Authorities say at least 265 people have been killed and hundreds more remain missing.

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2 weeks, 5 days ago Politics

‘We harvested more than half the winter wheat crop before the end of July’

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom – Tom Pearson looks down at a crack in his own field, wide enough to plunge his fingers into. Beneath the stubble of a freshly combined oat crop on his Manor Farm in Caxton, near Cambridge, the ground has split, the soil having lost so much moisture that it has torn a…

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Three US states to hold executions on same day for first time since 2010

Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are set to execute inmates via lethal injection in what would be the first time since 2010 that three people are put to death on the same day in the United States. The three inmates, who were all sentenced to death for murders, are scheduled to be put to death on Thu…

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2 weeks, 5 days ago Sports

Swiatek sinks Svitolina to set up Rybakina title clash in Toronto

Iga Swiatek outlasted Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 to book a Toronto title showdown with world number two Elena Rybakina. Australian Open champion Rybakina delivered another gutsy comeback on Wednesday, beating fourth-seeded Coco Gauff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to reach Thursday’s final in the hard …

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US defence secretary says drug cartels will be ‘targeted like ISIS’

US defence secretary says drug cartels will be ‘targeted like ISIS’ US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says the US military will target drug traffickers in the same way it targets groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. The US has been accused of acting illegally with its strikes on suspected drug boat…

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Malawi shock Algeria and Cameroon beat Morocco to reach WAFCON final

Upstart Malawi will face footballing giants Cameroon in the final of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) on Sunday. Malawi beat Algeria 3-1 in the first semifinal match on Wednesday, led by Tabitha Chawinga with a pair of goals. Cameroon won a penalty shootout 3-1 against Morocco after …

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1 month, 1 week ago Politics

Indian activist Wangchuk ends 26-day hunger strike

Indian activist Wangchuk ends 26-day hunger strike Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended a 26-day hunger strike over leaked medical entrance exams after Prime Minister Modi has vowed to set up fast-track courts to punish those involved in the leaks.

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Tehran slams Trump’s threat to use frozen Iranian assets as ‘incendiary’

United States President Donald Trump has pledged to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for any damage to ships and cargo in the Strait of Hormuz, garnering strong condemnation from Tehran. Tensions between Iran and the US have escalated since the beginning of July as the two sides trade attacks and T…

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1 month, 1 week ago Politics

‘Collapsed’: Roadblocks, internet blackout leave Pakistani Kashmir in limbo

Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir — Zaheer Iqbal remembers exactly how much fuel it took to save his brother’s life. First, 2.5 litres to drive from his hilltop village of Keri Kot to the government hospital in Hajira, more than 10km (6 miles) away, a journey that took an hour. Then anoth…

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1 month, 1 week ago Politics

Mykhailo Drapatyi: Can new Ukraine army chief alter Russia war’s direction?

Kyiv, Ukraine — Ukrainian Colonel Mykhailo Drapatyi drove an armoured vehicle at breakneck speed through a barricade built by pro-Russian separatists who had just taken over the southeastern city of Mariupol. Another armoured vehicle followed Drapatyi’s to save police officers taken hostage by the …

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