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Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on proteins 

Scientists David Baker, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on prot...

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Haiti’s gangs are recruiting child soldiers, rights group says 

Haiti’s powerful armed groups are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks amid a growing humanitarian crisis...

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UN calls for action as famine and disease stalk Sudan 

United Nations agencies have warned that famine and disease threaten to cause “countless” deaths in war-torn Sudan u...

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What’s a Category 5 storm and why is it so dangerous? 

09 October 2024

EXPLAINER News|Weather Preparations and evacuations are under way on Florida’s west coast, where Category 5 Hurricane ...

Hurricane Milton timeline: Where and when will it make landfall in Florida? 

09 October 2024

Hurricane Milton, now an intense Category 4 storm, is moving towards Florida. It weakened from a Category 5 storm on Wed...

Is Israel deliberately targeting Lebanon’s first responders? 

09 October 2024

Beirut, Lebanon – On Monday, Israel killed 10 firefighters in a strike on the southern Lebanese town of Baraachit, nea...

Israeli offensives in Lebanon and Gaza kill dozens, displace millions 

09 October 2024

An Israeli offensive in northern Gaza has killed several dozen people and trapped thousands over the past 24 hours, whil...

EU officials blast Hungary’s Orban over Ukraine stance, democratic decline 

09 October 2024

Top European Union officials have slammed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over democratic backsliding at home and ...

Ukraine claims drone hit on North Korean weapons cache in Russia 

09 October 2024

News|Russia-Ukraine war The Ukrainian army says it has struck a weapons arsenal in western Russia that was storing missi...

Russian troops grind towards Pokrovsk, take second Ukrainian town in a week 

09 October 2024

Russia has seized a second town in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk within a week in a months-long offensive that s...