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June 27, 2024 4:55 PM

Girl dies of malnutrition in Gaza as Israel bombs north and south

Another child died of malnutrition in northern Gaza overnight and six people were killed and several wounded in renewed Israeli bombing of residential areas of Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said on Thursday. In the southern city of Rafah...

June 26, 2024 4:21 PM

Sri Lanka signs debt deal with creditor nations in Paris

Sri Lanka signed a deal with creditor nations to restructure about $5.8 billion in bilateral debt, the office of the country's president said on Wednesday, in a move that would help stabilise its crisis-hit economy. Officials from the cash-strapped ...

June 26, 2024 4:02 PM

Glastonbury music festival opens and revellers start pouring in

Thousands of people began pouring into Worthy Farm in southwest England as the Glastonbury music festival kicked off on Wednesday (June 26) , with hundreds of artists including Dua Lipa, Coldplay and Shania Twain set to enthral fans. "I'm super exci...

June 26, 2024 1:07 PM

UN warns of overdose deaths after Afghan opium production plummets

The Taliban-ordered crash in opium production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier, could drive up overdose deaths as heroin users switch to synthetic opioids already proving deadly in Europe, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. The culti...

 

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