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Jurel hits 95 not out as India reach 475-8 at tea in Sri Lanka Test

IUX Launches New Education Webinar Series to Support Traders’ Financial Literacy

Ingebrigtsen buoyed by fourth in Diamond League comeback

Dutch say won't participate in 'no longer' neutral Eurovision

Kenyans get creative to join manga cosplay craze

Kenyan farmers turn to bugs as organic demand grows

Pant, Jurel half-centuries take India past 400 in Sri Lanka Test

'His feet are his pillars': Nepal para swimmer gives all for Asian glory

Migrants, rescue ships face threats, harassment at sea: aid group

New Zealand moves to ban social media for under-16s

UEFA's Ceferin tells Infantino to go, but 'not interested' in replacing him

Hyundai union back in wage talks after rare full-day strike

Oil falls as Trump pledges economic war on Iran

Shein grapples with EU backlash, but clients keep coming

Marcos Jr says Philippines to uphold South China Sea ruling

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Thursday he would uphold an international ruling against Beijing over the disputed South China Sea, insisting he would not let China trample on Manila's maritime rights.

Australia bidding to host UN climate summit, set new emissions target

Australia will present a more ambitious UN emissions target "very soon" and is bidding to co-host a COP summit with Pacific island neighbours, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Thursday, signalling a ground shift in climate policy.

Hundreds stranded after ransomware attack on Indian airline

Hundreds of Indian air travellers were stranded inside their planes after the low-cost airline SpiceJet cancelled or delayed flights due to an "attempted ransomware attack", the company has said.

Asian markets mostly down as Li remarks overshadow Fed minutes

Asian markets mostly fell Thursday as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned the world's number two economy was in some ways worse off now than during the early days of the pandemic.

Mathews, Chandimal give Sri Lanka lead over Bangladesh

Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal shared 103 in an unbroken sixth-wicket stand to give Sri Lanka a narrow first-innings lead in the second Test against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Thursday.

For Ukraine's Roma, discrimination adds to agonies of war

Forced to flee fighting, Lyudmyla was assured the authorities would rehouse her in a town in western Ukraine. But when she arrived, they took one look at her and turned her away.

In a village near Kharkiv, life under constant shelling

"This is how we live, running to our cellars. Maybe we should leave," cries retired nurse Larysa Kosynets, heading for safety before Russian shells start slamming into her village near the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv.

Marcos says Philippines to uphold South China Sea ruling

Australia's ousted conservatives eye China hawk as leader

Australia's conservatives appear poised to install hardline China hawk Peter Dutton as the country's new opposition leader, after the party was swept from power at last weekend's election.

'The pandemic won't stop us': the Beijingers skirting Covid rules

Mothers hosting playdates near cordoned-off parks, mahjong maestros huddled in streets and youngsters slugging night-time beers on barricaded sidewalks -- Beijingers are making the most of the small spaces available as China's coronavirus controls close in.

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