Pakistan floods wash away a family's marriage hopes
Truck driver and father-of-seven Mureed Hussain was planning for his daughter's October wedding when floodwater inundated his home, taking away the entire back wall and, with it, her hard-earned dowry.
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China's No. 3 leader to visit Russia next week
China's top legislator Li Zhanshu will visit Russia next week, state media reported Sunday, becoming the highest-ranking Communist Party politician to travel to the country since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Chile expected to reject overhaul of dictatorship-era constitution
Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to choose whether to adopt a new constitution that aims to shift its market-driven society into one that is more welfare-based, while enacting broad institutional reforms.
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Film opens debate on spy who leaked US nuke plans to Russia
The little-known story of a teenage scientist who passed US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union is the subject of a new documentary that premiered at the Venice Film Festival this week.
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NASA unsure next Moon rocket launch attempt possible this month
After scrapping a second attempt to get its new 30-story lunar rocket off the ground due to a fuel leak, NASA officials said Saturday it may not be possible to try again this month.
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US Open: Who said what on day 6
Who said what at the US Open on Saturday, the sixth day of the 2022 championships at Flushing Meadows:
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Norway's future CO2 cemetery takes shape
On the shores of an island off Norway's North Sea coast, engineers are building a burial ground for unwanted greenhouse gas.
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Money transfer firms replace banks in crisis-hit Lebanon
Like many people in crisis-hit Lebanon, Elias Skaff used to wait for hours to withdraw cash at the bank but now prefers money transfer companies as trust in lenders has evaporated.
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Barack Obama: president, Nobel laureate, and now an Emmy winner
Hollywood newcomer Barack Obama was awarded an Emmy for narrating his Netflix documentary series "Our Great National Parks," the Television Academy announced Saturday.
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Perfect Nadal, battling Swiatek into US Open fourth round
Rafael Nadal defeated close friend Richard Gasquet for the 18th time to reach the US Open fourth round on Saturday as world number one Iga Swiatek made the last 16 for a second successive year.
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