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To get people reading, Denmark to end book tax 20 Aug 2025 - 12:46 pm
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More than 20 dead in fresh Pakistan monsoon rains 20 Aug 2025 - 11:33 am
Labourers work at a flooded construction site after heavy monsson rains in Karachi on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum / AFP)
Fireball lights up Japanese skies 20 Aug 2025 - 11:15 am
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Air Canada to resume flights after making deal to end cabin crew strike 20 Aug 2025 - 12:24 am
Passengers queue to check in as Air Canada flights are slated to resume as early as this evening at Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Airport in Montreal, Quebec, on August 19, 2025.  (Photo by Andrej Ivanov / AFP)
Saudi Arabia reiterates total rejection of Israeli occupation authorities' settlement, expansionist ideas, projects 19 Aug 2025 - 11:40 pm
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Spanish PM says 'difficult hours' left in wildfire fight 19 Aug 2025 - 09:18 pm
Picture shows a burnt area after a wildfire in the northwestern Spanish village of San Vicente de Leira in Ourense province, on August 19, 2025. (Photo by Miguel Riopa / AFP)
Trump rules out US troops but eyes air power in Ukraine deal 19 Aug 2025 - 08:41 pm
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky take part in a bilateral meeting in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP)
Algeria charges four over deadly bus accident 19 Aug 2025 - 08:13 pm
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Record number of aid workers killed in 2024, UN says 19 Aug 2025 - 07:31 pm
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More than 1,100 deaths linked to Spain's heatwave 19 Aug 2025 - 05:11 pm
This photograph shows sun rays shining through a handheld house thermometer reading 35 degrees Celsius, in Montreuil on the afternoon of August 14, 2025, amid a heatwave in Europe. Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP.
Finnish MP, 30, dies inside parliament building 19 Aug 2025 - 04:19 pm
(Files) This file photo taken on July 9, 2024 shows member of Finnish parliament Eemeli Peltonen of Finland's Social Democratic Party attending a plenary session in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Mikko Stig / Lehtikuva / AFP) /
UK drops demand for access to Apple user data 19 Aug 2025 - 04:17 pm
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'Skibidi' and 'tradwife': social media words added to Cambridge dictionary 19 Aug 2025 - 02:10 pm
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Google agrees to US$36m fine over Android search deals 19 Aug 2025 - 01:59 pm
(Files) A woman walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Sergei Gapon / AFP)
UN Spokesperson urges scaled-up humanitarian access in Gaza Strip 19 Aug 2025 - 01:46 pm
Palestinians gather to receive cooked meals from a food distribution center in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on August 18, 2025. Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP
Global footballers' union urges India to revive top league 19 Aug 2025 - 01:32 pm
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HK scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos 19 Aug 2025 - 10:33 am
This picture taken on July 30, 2025 shows several yellow-crested cockatoos resting atop a light pole in the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood in Hong Kong. (Photo by Yan Zhao / AFP)
Survivors claw through rubble after deadly Pakistan cloudburst 19 Aug 2025 - 09:32 am
Rescue workers and residents search for victims in the debris of collapsed houses after a cloudburst in Dolari village, Swabi district, in northern Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi / AFP)

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Mosanada Facility Management Services “Mosanada” shareholders approve application for the Company’s conversion into a Qatari public shareholding company