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Alcaraz beats Sinner to win US Open and reclaim No.1 ranking
AFP, Published on 08/09/2025
» NEW YORK - Carlos Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner in four sets on Sunday to win the US Open as loud boos - mixed with a smattering of cheers - greeted President Donald Trump at the final in New York.
Australia halts logging for koala haven on eastern coast
AFP, Published on 07/09/2025
» SYDNEY - Australia halted logging in a large stretch of woodland on the country's eastern coast Sunday to create a retreat for koalas and save the local population from extinction.
Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» GENEVA - Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday.
Afghan quake death toll approaches 1,500
AFP, Published on 04/09/2025
» NURGAL, Afghanistan - Volunteers and rescuers were pulling more bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, four days after an earthquake that inflicted a death toll that was already close to 1,500 people, Taliban authorities said.
Hope dwindles for survivors days after deadly Afghan quake
AFP, Published on 03/09/2025
» JALALABAD — Hope faded Wednesday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend's powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages.
'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of water
AFP, Published on 26/08/2025
» CHIBAYISH (IRAQ) - Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his millennia-old way of life is threatened.
Vietnam plans mass evacuation, China's Sanya shuts as Typhoon Kajiki intensifies
Published on 24/08/2025
» HANOI/BEIJING - Vietnam plans to evacuate more than half a million people and has ordered boats to stay ashore, while the southern Chinese city of Sanya closed businesses and public transport on Sunday as the two countries braced for an intensifying Typhoon Kajiki.
PK queen of green in Mixed finale
Sports, Published on 23/08/2025
» Phetchaburi: Patcharajutar Kongkraphan produced a dazzling final-round 61 to defeat four-time Asian Tour champion Poom Saksansin by two strokes and become the first female winner in three years as the five-million-baht TrustGolf Asian Mixed Match 3 concluded at Lake View Resort and Golf Club in Cha-am yesterday.
The world needs a new approach to water crisis
Oped, Mariana Mazzucato, Published on 21/08/2025
» As African leaders gather in Cape Town for the African Water Investment Summit, there can be no equivocation: the world faces an unprecedented water crisis that demands a paradigm shift in how we value and govern our most precious resource.
Alternative crops sandbox in the offing
Business, Phusadee Arunmas, Published on 19/08/2025
» The Commerce Ministry is collaborating with the Agriculture Ministry to develop a sandbox project to address unsuitable rice-growing areas.