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At least 31 dead in Iran coal mine blast

A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran’s South Khorasan Province killed at least 31 people and injured 16, the country’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni told state media.

September 23, 2024 12:20 pm

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UN 'Pact for the Future' to save global co-operation

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a ‘Pact for the Future’, which Secretary-General Antonio Guterres describes as a “step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism”.

September 23, 2024 11:20 am

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Musk's SpaceX to send five uncrewed Starships to Mars

SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk has said in a post on social media platform X.

September 23, 2024 10:16 am

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Trump won't run again if he loses, 'that will be it'

Republican Donald Trump said that he will not make a fourth consecutive run for the US presidency if he loses the November 5 election, saying “that will be it”.

September 23, 2024 9:34 am

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Polls show Harris gaining on Trump

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in an NBC News poll released on Sunday that found that respondents have come to see her more favorably since she emerged as the Democratic candidate for president.

September 23, 2024 7:13 am

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Harris targets voters with abortion rights bus tour

An intimate crowd gathered around a blue bus and listened intently while Hadley Duvall, an abortion rights advocate and a supporter of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, told how she was raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 12.

September 23, 2024 6:15 am

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Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire after deadly Israeli strike

Israel and Lebanon exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, with Israeli warplanes carrying out the most intense bombardment in almost a year of war across Lebanon’s south, while Hezbollah claimed rocket attacks on military targets in Israel’s north.

September 22, 2024 4:40 pm

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US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles

The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, two sources told Reuters.

September 22, 2024 12:16 pm

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Israel's strike on Beirut killed 37, Lebanon says

Rescuers in Beirut hunted on Saturday for people still missing in rubble after an Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah commanders the previous day killed at least 37 people in a suburb of the Lebanese capital, according to authorities.

September 22, 2024 7:50 am

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Sri Lanka votes to shape economic future

Millions of Sri Lankans were casting their votes on Saturday to select a president who will face the task of bolstering the South Asian country’s fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.

September 21, 2024 4:29 pm

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US officials meet Sikh activists before Biden-Modi talks

Senior U.S. officials met with Sikh advocates on Thursday to discuss threats facing Sikhs in the United States, including a foiled murder plot against a prominent activist last year, several attendees told Reuters.

September 21, 2024 1:00 pm

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Police operation kills two men in New Caledonia 

September 21, 2024 9:45 am