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Tug boats and ships battle the fire on MT New Diamond, off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. The fire on the large oil tanker off Sri Lankas coast has been brought under control but is still not extinguished, the navy said Saturday. The tanker, carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil, was drifting about 20 nautical miles (37 kilometers) from Sri Lankas eastern coast and on Friday evening a tug boat towed it to the deep sea away from land, said navy spokesman Capt. Indika de Silva. (AP)

Experts join efforts to salvage burning tanker off Sri Lanka

With engines shut down, the tanker carrying nearly 2 million barrels of crude oil drifted about 20 nautical miles from...

6 Sep 2020 4:28 AM GMT

Waves batter the coastline as Typhoon Haishen approaches in Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture on September 5, 2020. (AFP)

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Typhoon Haishen unleashes rain, strong winds in south Japan

Haishen is not only powerful equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane but also large in its reach in areas affected

6 Sep 2020 4:07 AM GMT

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, ousted as president of Mali last month in a military coup, has flown to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, the new junta said on September 5, 2020. Family and airport sources confirmed that Keita, who left hospital on September 3, 2020 after treatment for a mini-stroke, had flown out of the country on September 5, 2020. (AFP)

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Ousted Mali president Keita leaves country as transition talks begin

West African leaders, fearing the coup could set a precedent that would undermine their power, initially insisted Keita...

6 Sep 2020 3:40 AM GMT

Rescue workers use a tube to vacuum debris from a badly damaged building in Lebanons capital Beirut, in search of possible survivors from a mega-blast at the adjacent port one month ago, after scanners detected a pulse, on September 4, 2020. - Lebanese rescuers scoured rubble for a possible survivor in Beirut after the detection of a pulse drew crowds hopeful of a miracle one month on from a devastating explosion. (AFP)

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'No signs of life' in Beirut rubble after three-day search for blast...

The signs of life detected in the past two days were possibly breaths of fellow rescuers already inside the building,...

6 Sep 2020 3:24 AM GMT

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Portland police made 'multiple arrests' overnight as city nears 100...

Portland, in particular, has seen over three months of daily demonstrations calling for policing and social justice...

5 Sep 2020 10:22 AM GMT

$Francisco Espaata, 60, is surrounded by members of his medical team as he looks at the Mediterranean sea from a promenade next to the \Hospital del Mar\ in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. A hospital in Barcelona is studying how short trips to the beach may help COVID-19 patients recover from long and traumatic intensive hospital care. (AP)$ World

Spanish doctors hope beach trips can help ICU virus patients

A medical team at Hospital del Mar theHospital of the Seas is seeing if beach trips can help COVID-19 patients after...

5 Sep 2020 9:26 AM GMT

Police arrest a protester at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne on September 5, 2020 during an anti-lockdown rally protesting the states strict lockdown laws as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)

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Anti-lockdown protests erupt in Australia just as cases start to come...

Four men were arrested and charged with incitement over the so-called 'Freedom Day' protests planned for several...

5 Sep 2020 8:45 AM GMT

A man being rescued from a life raft by Japanese coast guards, about 2 kilometres north-northwest of Kodakarajima island of Kagoshima prefecture. -Japanese authorities are racing to find dozens of missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank in a typhoon found a second survivor on September 4, as another, much more powerful storm drew near. (AFP)

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Typhoon Haishen hampers search for ship survivors near Japan

The Japan coastguard found a second survivor after the Gulf Livestock 1 issued a distress call as Typhoon Maysak passed...

5 Sep 2020 8:06 AM GMT

Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (AP)

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Russia publishes virus vaccine results, weeks after approval

Developers said the vaccine appeared to be safe and to prompt an antibody response in all 40 people tested in the second...

5 Sep 2020 7:30 AM GMT

$A man holds a poster with a portrait of Alexei Navalny reading \Navalny was poisoned, we know who is to blame, Alexei you must live\ during an unsanctioned protest in Russia. Russian authorities have appeared reluctant to investigate what caused Navalnys condition, saying there had so far been no grounds for a criminal investigation. (AP)$ World

NATO agrees Russia's Navalny was poisoned using nerve agent

German authorities have said that tests showed that he had been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok...

5 Sep 2020 6:50 AM GMT

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, visits a western coastal area in South Hwanghae province, North Korea. (AP)

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'Severe' punishment for North Korea officials after typhoon casualties

Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact in North Korea due to its creaking infrastructure

5 Sep 2020 6:28 AM GMT

Doctors treat a burn Muslim worshipper in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, September 5, 2020. Dozens of Muslim worshipers suffered burn injuries critically during evening prayers after explosions of a gas pipeline installed underground near a mosque outside Bangladesh capital, officials said Saturday. (AP)

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Gas pipeline blast kills 11 praying at Bangladesh mosque

At least 37 people with up to 90% of burns on their bodies admitted to burn unit of a state-run hospital

5 Sep 2020 5:51 AM GMT