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Samad launches Pakistan into first Asian Games men's cricket final

Cable car offers small hope for Mongolia's gridlocked capital

Yankees and White Sox advance, Phillies survive in MLB playoffs

Man City scandal risks damage to Premier League's booming brand

Asian stocks mixed as positive US data offset by elevated oil, bond yields

First-time Sepang F1 racers will master track 'from opening lap'

Rice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands

Japan tightens rules for foreigners wanting permanent residency

Russians join street choirs to sing away sorrows -- or show dissent

'Happiest moment': China's Mu first woman to win eSports Games gold

UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir's health service deal

EU talks deportations as five nations seek migrant centre in Africa

Empty nets in Latin America as fish flee El Nino

Kenneth Branagh examines the scars of Iraq war in 'Atonement'

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Markets fall on trade war fears after US, China tariffs

Markets fell in volatile trade Tuesday on fears of a trade war after China announced fresh tariffs on US imports in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest levies.

Saudi Aramco profits drop 12 percent on lower prices, volumes

Oil giant Saudi Aramco posted a drop in annual profits on Tuesday as lower prices and volumes hit the lynchpin of the kingdom's ambitious economic reform plans.

Pope slept all night, resting after two breathing attacks: Vatican

Pope Francis, hospitalised with pneumonia in both lungs, slept all night and was resting on Tuesday after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure the day before, the Vatican said.

Dolly Parton's longtime husband dies aged 82

The husband of Dolly Parton, Carl Dean, died Monday aged 82, the country music superstar said, after nearly 60 years of marriage kept out of the spotlight despite the singer's chart-topping fame.

Thai court accepts invasive fish case against food giant

A Thai court on Tuesday accepted a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of fishermen seeking $73 million in damages from a agribusiness giant over invasive blackchin tilapia, a representative of the Thai lawyers' council said.

Asian stocks pare their losses after China's retaliatory tariffs

Asian markets recouped some of their early losses in volatile trade on Tuesday after China announced fresh tariffs on US imports in retaliation to President Donald Trump's latest levies.

Pope 'slept all night' after two breathing attacks: Vatican

Pope Francis, hospitalised with penuemonia in both lungs, slept "all night long and continues to rest" after suffering two bouts of acute respiratory failure, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

Japan startup targets June 6 Moon landing

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its Moon lander, following the success of its rocket "rideshare" buddy, a spacecraft from a US firm.

Malaria deaths soar in shadow of Ethiopia conflict

Lema Tefera's voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month -- deaths that could likely have been prevented if not for the conflict in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

Plan B: Climate change forces Pakistan beekeepers to widen pursuit of flowers

Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck.

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