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Vietnam’s Communist Party has named minister of public security To Lam as the new president in an unprecedented reshuffle of the country’s leadership, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. Lam has been public security minister since 2016 and has taken a hard…

Lebanon’s economy remains in a state of crisis, with the local currency plummeting to less than 10% of its pre-2019 value, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. According to the article, Savings have been wiped out, and over 80% of the population…

In a tragic incident, a Mazda truck plunged into a ditch on Panj Pir Manawan Road in Khushab district, Pakistan, resulting in the death of at least 14 people and leaving 12 others injured, Dawn online newspaper reported yesterday. According…

A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns of looming shortages in critical minerals essential for clean energy technologies, CNN reported yesterday. The world is on track to meet only 70% of global copper demand and 50% of…

Torrential rains and flooding have claimed the lives of at least 50 people in central Afghanistan’s Ghor province, Reuters reported today. According to the news agency citing the provincial information department, the extreme weather conditions that began on Friday have…

Five Pakistani medical students were injured in a mob attack on foreign students in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, Arab News reported today. The violence appears to have been sparked by the online sharing of videos depicting a brawl between…

Dubai’s Warsan Waste Management plant is revolutionizing waste management by converting 45% of the city’s trash into electricity, CNN reported yesterday. Processing 2 million metric tons of waste annually, the world’s largest waste-to-energy facility generates enough power to supply around…

Scientists are urging European governments to take action as climate change takes hold, increasing heat-related deaths across the continent, Euronews said citing a new report. Europe is the fastest-warming continent with temperatures rising roughly twice the global average, according to…

Proteins in the blood could warn people of cancer more than seven years before it is diagnosed, according to research. Scientists at the University of Oxford studied blood samples from more than 44,000 people in the UK Biobank, including over 4,900 people who…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday said in a statement that at least 56 people died in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, between last Friday and Wednesday, as “deadly fighting escalates,” The CNN reported. At the…