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The Arab region was being pushed to its limits by intense heatwaves and severe droughts, the latest World Meteorological…

Hong Kong authorities rushed on Thursday (December 4, 2025) to remove mesh netting on all buildings undergoing renovation across the city after the material was blamed for fanning a blaze last week that has killed at least 159 people.

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Facebook and Instagram began shutting down half a million accounts of users under 16 years old on Thursday as the deadline for the Albanese government’s social media ban looms. The Young Nationals have urged Labor to scrap the…

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron has warned of the risk of the “disintegration of the international order” as he…

The Middle East is a place that most American presidents want to avoid. Yet inevitably, they find themselves mired in its quarrels. Despite periodic calls for a pivot toward other geostrategic challenges, the perception that its core interests…

HONG KONG — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city’s deadliest blaze in decades, as a debate…