AFP Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 Updated 29 mins ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email The crater of Mount Ruang flamed with lava against a backdrop of lightning bolts overnight after erupting five times Handout The eruptions forced authorities to close a major airport and issue a warning about...
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On July 9, 2022, Sri Lankans protesting the regime of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa shocked the world when they stormed the executive mansion in Colombo. Live-streaming on Twitter and YouTube, dissidents ransacked the presidential palace and celebrated in the streets as state security struggled to...
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Sugnu, India – Ratan Kumar Singh, a 58-year-old high school teacher, never imagined he would be happy to see armed fighters, or “revolutionaries” as he called them. But on May 28 last year, Singh welcomed them to his town of Sugnu in Manipur, a state in India’s northeast corner bordering Myanmar....
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Lightning and heavy rains have killed at least 36 people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities in the country&aposs southwest declared a state of emergency. Most of the deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat and rains...
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BEIJING — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in China on Sunday on a visit focused on the increasingly tense economic relationship between the sides and differences over Russia&aposs invasion of Ukraine. Scholz&aposs first destination was the industrial hub of Chongqing, where he and his...
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