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Tokyo suffers longest streak of rainy days on record

STARTRADER Raises Lloyd's of London Client Fund Insurance to USD 30 Million in Aggregate

Indonesia charges train driver over crash that killed 16 women

North Korean DMZ landmine blasts 'violation of armistice': Seoul

Ruthless An makes history to retain Asian Games badminton crown

Sabalenka 'fresh' for first tournament since losing No.1 spot

Australian central bank lifts key interest rate to 15-year high

Myanmar airstrike death toll rises to 50: aid workers

Polo makes landfall in Mexico as Category 3 hurricane

North Korean DMZ landmine blast 'violation of armistice'

South Korea team latest to be bussed to wrong Asian Games venue

South Korea volleyball team latest to be bussed to wrong Games venue

Bears thrash Eagles 27-7 as third-string QB Keenum shines

Malaysia starts sending Myanmar migrants home

Europe’s arms money maze

Houthis and al-Qaeda

Brazil tests Milei’s gamble

Germany under Weidel

Steve McQueen's marathon documentary divides Cannes

Eyelids grew heavy and bums numb on Thursday at a four-and-a-half-hour screening of Steve McQueen's documentary on Amsterdam during World War II, which Cannes critics either adored or suffered through.

UK telecoms firm BT to axe up to 55,000 jobs by 2030

British telecoms group BT said Thursday it will axe up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade in the latest tech jobs cull in response to rampant inflation.

LGBTQ activists condemn Japan's 'meaningless' equality bill

A new bill submitted to Japan's parliament on Thursday aimed at "promoting understanding" of equality issues has been criticised as a "meaningless gesture" by LGBTQ campaigners because lawmakers watered down its language.

Indiana Jones swings on to red carpet at Cannes

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" gets its world premiere on the French Riviera on Thursday, with Harrison Ford due on the red carpet for one last crack of the whip as the world's favourite adventuring archaeologist.

Johnson called Macron a '4 letter word starting with C': aide

Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson called French President Emmanuel Macron a four-letter obscenity and "Putin's lickspittle" as tempers frayed over the war in Ukraine, according to a former Johnson aide.

Kyiv weathers 'unprecedented' wave of Russian missiles

Ukraine said Thursday it had downed nearly an entire barrage of Russian missiles overnight, the latest in an "unprecedented" wave of aerial attacks on the capital Kyiv.

Injury-hit Swiatek's French Open title defence on knife edge

French Open champion Iga Swiatek says she will know in the coming days how serious her thigh injury is and whether she can defend her title at Roland Garros which gets underway on Sunday week.

UK touts $22 bn in Japanese investment as Sunak visits Tokyo

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Thursday announced Japanese investment of more than $22 billion into the UK, but accepted carmakers' concern about Brexit trade rules as he confirmed talks with the European Union.

Sierra Leone leader urges end of Ukraine war for 'sake of humanity'

Sierra Leone's president expressed hope in an AFP interview that a new African mediation mission would help end Russia's war in Ukraine which has hit the "poorest of the poor" around the world.

Myanmar junta using imported arms to commit rights violations: UN expert

Myanmar's military has imported $1 billion in weapons since seizing power in a 2021 coup and used them "to commit atrocities," a United Nations expert said in a report released Wednesday.

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