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Rafah battles intensify as Israel takes over Gaza-Egypt border strip
Rafah residents have reported intense artillery shelling and gunfire in Gaza’s far-southern city after Israel said it had seized a strategic corridor on the P
Photos: Volcano puts on fiery spectacle near Iceland’s Grindavik
A volcano in southwestern Iceland has erupted for the fifth time this year. It is Sundhnukagigar’s most powerful eruption since the volcanic system became act
Photos: South Africans vote in a pivotal election
South Africans are voting at schools, community centres, and in large white tents set up in open fields in an election seen as the country’s most important in
Photos: Weeks of heatwave scorch northern India, record 52.3C in…
People in northern India are struggling with an unrelenting, weeks-long heatwave, with temperature in India’s capital soaring to a national record-high of 52.
Photos: Palestinians flee Tal as-Sultan area in Rafah amid Israeli…
Hundreds of people braved roads in Rafah in southern Gaza on Tuesday as they fled Israel’s expanding ground assault, with increased shelling, tanks in the cit
Photos: Submerged homes and heatwaves fuel Mexico climate angst
Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village slowly being swallowed by the sea; a symbol of the climate change effects being felt by the major fossil fu
Photos: Palestinian children draw memories of bombed historical buildings
In a bid to keep Palestinian culture alive, children sheltering in Rafah, southern Gaza, have created stunning pictures of historical buildings destroyed in the
Photos: Israel hits Rafah camp killing 45 Palestinians in new…
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says the death toll from an overnight Israeli attack on the tents of displaced Palestinians in Rafah has risen to 45 as th
Photos: Deadly cyclone in Bangladesh, India leaves millions without power
A cyclone has flooded coastal villages, blown away thatched roofs and left hundreds of thousands of people without power in southern Bangladesh and eastern Indi
Photos: Up close and personal, cicadas display nature’s artwork
A once-in-221-year convergence of two broods of periodical cicadas are emerging at the same time in the United States. The big effect of the cicadas is the shee
Photos: Africa’s cholera crisis is worse than ever
Extreme weather events that have relentlessly hit parts of Africa in the last three years have caused crises of hunger and displacement. The storms, floods and
Photos: Indian election casts spotlight on Modi lookalikes
Muslim electric rickshaw driver Rashid Ahmed is fondly called “Our Modi” in his Delhi neighbourhood for his striking resemblance to Indian Prime Minister Na
