2025 • Aug 29
Weather tracker: Typhoon Kajiki lashes south-east Asia with fatalities in Vietnam
Duration of torrential rains from Typhoon Kajiki lead to elevated landslide risk across Laos and Thailand
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2025 • Aug 29
Taiwan has ‘right to remain free’, US senator says in visit criticised by China
Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer meet island’s president in Taipei as Beijing says trip sends ‘gravely wrong signal’A visit to Taiwan by tw...
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2025 • Aug 29
Civil rights groups alarmed over Quebec’s move to ban prayer in public
Announcement follows statements from Quebec premier, who expressed frustration over public prayers in MontrealQuebec says it will ban prayer in public, a move that civil rights groups descri...
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2025 • Aug 29
Sixty-nine people drown as migrant boat capsizes off coast of Mauritania
Coastguard reports boat carrying about 160 people capsized in sight of town 50 miles north of NouakchottSixty-nine people drowned when a vessel full of migrants overturned off the coast of M...
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2025 • Aug 29
New Zealand fugitive and one of his children spotted on CCTV after four years on the run, police believe
Footage from a small North Island town store is the first confirmed sighting of Tom Phillips in a year, nearly four years after he disappeared with his three childrenNew CCTV footage believe...
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2025 • Aug 28
Uncontacted Peruvian tribe on deadly collision course with loggers, group says
Survival International says Mashco Piro seen in nearby Amazon village in alarming sign group is under stressMembers of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid...
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2025 • Aug 28
Brawl erupts in Mexico’s senate after debate over US military intervention to fight drug cartels
Alejandro ‘Alito’ Moreno and Gerardo Fernández Noroña grabbed and shouted at each other over the presence of foreign troopsMexico’s sen...
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2025 • Aug 28
Beach returned to First Nation after 170 years following Canada legal battle
Stretch of Lake Huron shore was promised to Saugeens in 1854 treaty with Crown but wrongly omitted from mapA stretch of beach will be returned to a First Nation in
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2025 • Aug 28
Putin and Kim to join Xi at Chinese military parade in show of defiance to the west
The Victory Day parade in Beijing on 3 September will mark the formal surrender of Japan during the second world war. No western leaders will attendVladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are among t...
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2025 • Aug 27
Rightwing ‘parents’ rights’ groups gain ground in Canada as Alberta book bans target LGBTQ+ titles
Two such groups claim they persuaded Alberta to institute sweeping public school book banSocially conservative “parents’ rights” groups that have
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2025 • Aug 27
Old master painting looted by Nazis disappears from home in Argentina
Search for artwork seen in estate agent’s photo continues after police raid on house finds tapestry hanging in its placeArgentinian police have said they will continue hunting for an old mas...
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2025 • Aug 27
Brazil judge orders round-the-clock surveillance of ‘flight risk’ Bolsonaro
Pre-trial monitoring ordered after police reported former president had drafted request for asylum in ArgentinaJair Bolsonaro must be under constant police surveillance, a supreme court just...
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