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In recent years heatwaves have become more frequent in many parts of the world, including India and the US. At a time when strict actions are required to control global temperature rise, major economies are still scrambling to put in place an effective climate policy.
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Sri Lankan lawmakers chose six-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as president on July 20 to succeed the ousted leader who fled the country in a vote that risks reigniting political turmoil in the troubled South Asian island nation.
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Ranil Wickremesinghe has been the face of the government’s handling of the economic crisis and is deeply unpopular among the general public, which sees him as a holdover from the Rajapaksa government that led the country into economic catastrophe.
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A punishing heatwave fuelling ferocious wildfires in western Europe pushed temperatures in Britain over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time on July 19 and regional heat records tumbled elsewhere.
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In only his second trip abroad since Russia launched the military action in February, Putin conferred with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the conflict in Syria, and he used the trip to discuss a UN-backed proposal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain to ease the global food crisis.
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Young cygnets and swans are counted and have their health assessed during the 'swan upping' census on Britain's River Thames, in a tradition that dates back to the 12th century when swans were an important food source.
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A heatwave boiling Europe spilled northward on July 18 to Britain and fuelled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder-dry forests.
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Ukraine's homes sit empty after millions displaced by fighting. Thousands of homes are destroyed and large swathes of neighborhood are uninhabitable, displacing millions of residents across Ukraine.
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This year's Bastille Day parade was designed to demonstrate France’s commitment to NATO and to European allies touched most closely by Russia's military campaign against Ukraine.
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Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations met on the Indonesian island of Bali on July 15 seeking strategies to counter the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.
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Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on July 14, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others far from the front lines, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in locations without military value.
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The heatwave sweeping across southwestern Europe is expected to peak on July 14 in Spain, with blistering temperatures already fueling wildfires across the Iberian Peninsula and France.
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Originally from tropical waters, some Pacific katsuo migrate northward on a warm ocean current every spring, making the arc-shaped bay in Kochi prefecture in southwest Japan a fertile fishing ground. The average surface temperature of the bay in winter has risen by two degrees Celsius in the four decades to 2015, local fisheries lab data shows, and the fatter katsuo may be due to ample prey in the warmer sea.
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One name for Wednesday’s full moon is the “Buck moon”--a reference to the time of year when new antlers are growing on male deer, or bucks.
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Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency on July 13 after the president fled overseas to escape anti-government protests.
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A long-overlooked destination, Greenland -- an Arctic island territory nine times the size of the UK -- welcomed more than 100,000 tourists in 2019, nearly double its population, before COVID cut the momentum.
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled early on July 13. The prime minister will serve as president until a replacement is chosen—an arrangement that is sure to inflame protesters who want Wickremesinghe out as well
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Moscow and Kyiv are battling for control of Donbas, a fertile and industrial region in eastern Ukraine where a conflict with Russia-backed separatists has raged since 2014. In recent weeks, Russia has made significant gains and is poised to fully occupy Luhansk province, which along with Donetsk province makes up the region. Attacks on key cities like Kramatorsk and Sloviansk have increased dramatically, killing and wounding scores of civilians weekly.
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Japanese bid their final goodbye to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 12 as a family funeral was held at a temple days after his assassination that shocked the nation.
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The strike on an apartment block in Chasiv Yar in Donetsk comes as Moscow's seeks to consolidate its control over the Donbas region
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Several people protesting in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou over the freezing of deposits by some rural-based banks said they were injured on July 10 when heavy-handed security personnel dispersed the crowd.
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After storming the gates of the presidential palace, a throng of protesters walked through its rooms, with some among the boisterous crowd jumping into the compound's pool.
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Elon Musk weasels way out of Twitter deal, Xiaomi announces CyberDog, ED raids Vivo, and more.
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Shinzo Abe, 67, passed away on July 8 after sustaining bullet injuries in an attempted assassination while he was campaigning in the Nara region of Japan. The country’s longest-serving prime minister, he is credited with bringing a degree of stability to Japan following a period of economic malaise.
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The 74-year-old films everything himself for his channel "Watercolor by Shibasaki" using tripods, lighting and a smartphone or DSLR camera. He is also active on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, and says being directly connected to the world is "like a dream".
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on July 7 agreed to resign as Conservative Party leader, after he was abandoned by ministers and his Conservative Party's lawmakers who said he was no longer fit to govern. With eight ministers, including two secretaries of state, resigning in the last two hours, an isolated and powerless Johnson was set to bow to the inevitable and declare his was stepping down later. Here are some of those who could be in the frame to replace him:
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Thousands of revellers wearing white clothes and red scarves filled the streets of Spain’s Pamplona on July 6 as the bang of a firecracker kicked off the first San Fermin bull-running festival since the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
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Two years of coronavirus, a lower quota of pilgrims from Indonesia and an age limit of 65 have ruled out Haj for many Indonesians, leaving them disappointed
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At an Islamic boarding school in a sleepy neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Koranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly with their hands, learning to recite the Koran in Arabic sign language.
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Cook, 25, produces his work in a studio in London, surrounded by typewriters and artwork, with the white dome of the O2 arena visible outside. He began producing typewriter art in 2014 when he was in college studying art and came across an artist from the 1920s who produced similar work.
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As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything from medicines to gas, people are returning to cooking with firewood. The switch began at the beginning of the year when more than 1,000 kitchens exploded across the country, killing at least seven people and injuring hundreds more.
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The governor of the last remaining eastern province partly under Ukraine's control urged his more than 350,000 residents to flee as Russia escalated its offensive and air alerts were issued across nearly the entire country.
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Started in the 1360s by Sultan Orhan to keep his soldiers battle-ready, the contest requires wrestlers to cover themselves in olive oil, making it difficult for opponents to grab each other. The winner is the one who makes his opponent’s back touch the ground—or go belly up
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One million people, including 850,000 from abroad, are allowed at this year's hajj after two years of drastically curtailed numbers due to the pandemic. The pilgrimage is one of five pillars of Islam, which all able-bodied Muslims with the means are required to perform at least once.
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A ceremonial hanging of the kiswa, huge pieces of black silk embroidered with gold patterns, over the cubic structure that is the centrepiece of the Grand Mosque symbolises the launch of the annual Haj pilgrimage, which starts this week
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Experts at London's Kew Gardens on July 4 revealed they have discovered the first new giant waterlily species since the mid-19th century -- after it was initially mistaken for another. Specimens of the new species had lain undiscovered at the botanical garden for 177 years and in the National Herbarium of Bolivia for 34 years.
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Karnataka’s Sini Shetty was crowned Femina Miss India World 2022 at JIO World Convention Center in Mumbai. On July 3, taking to the official Instagram handle of Femina Miss India, the winners of the star-studded Femina Miss India 2022 were announced revealed with the caption, which read, “Congratulation, Let’s pop the champagne!.”
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Rapidly rising rivers swamped swathes of rain-lashed Sydney on July 4, forcing thousands to flee "dangerous" floods as the city's largest dam spilled torrents of water.
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Cash-strapped Sri Lanka on July 3 extended school closures for one week because there isn't enough fuel for teachers and parents to get children to classrooms, and the energy minister appealed to the country's expatriates to send money home through banks to finance new oil purchases.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) achieves a record-extending eleventh consecutive year as world number one. The QS World University Rankings 2023 include almost 1,500 institutions from around the world. A total of 41 Indian universities have been featured in this year's QS World University rankings. Indian Institute if Science (IISc) is the top research university in the world and was placed at 155th rank globally this year. Let's take a look at the top 10 universities in the world for 2023.
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Odd and unusual images from around the world this week.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping defended his vision of the “one country, two systems" framework against accusations by the U.S., U.K. and others that Beijing has undermined the freedoms and autonomy promised to Hong Kong for 50 years.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on June 30 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the British handover and after a two-year transformation bringing the city more tightly under Communist Party control. It is Xi’s first trip outside of mainland China in nearly 2 and half years.
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China's Tianwen-1 successfully reached the Red Planet in February 2021 on the country's inaugural mission there. A robotic rover has since been deployed on the surface as an orbiter surveyed the planet from space.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a visit to Germany to attend G7 Summit, presented its leaders with various gifts displaying India’s rich art and craft, especially those related to Uttar Pradesh’s one district one product scheme.
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In recent years, dozens of migrants have died due to suffocation while being smuggled across borders in trucks and containers. In the wake of migrant deaths in Texas, here’s a look at some of the deadliest suffocation incidents involving illegal immigrants.
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PM Modi was received by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of UAE. The Prime Minister reached UAE after attending the G7 Summit held in Schloss Elmau, Germany.
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Group of Seven leaders wrapped up the summit in Kruen on June 28 with intentions to send a strong signal of long-term commitment to Ukraine's future, ensuring that Russia pays a higher price for its invasion.
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Human smuggling is a thriving business that preys on undocumented migrants. The death of 46 people in Texas is the latest in a long list of such incidents as migration turns deadly
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Modi attended this year’s G7 Summit being held under German presidency.
