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Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | Muharram 17, 1444 H
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An aerial view shows the peninsula of Sirmione on Lake Garda, northern Italy, as the lake's waters recede due to severe drought. -- AFP
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Land And Sea

Rare white elephant born in Myanmar

Yangon - A rare white elephant has been born in western Myanmar, state media said on Wednesday, unveiling what many in the Buddhist-majority country believe to be an auspicious creature.Born last month in western Rakhine...

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Dried up mangrove trees along an embankment in the village of Gobardhanpur, India, March 6, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
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This picture taken on June 10, 2021 shows an aerial view of Libya's Farwa Island, about 170 kilometres west of the capital and close to the border with Tunisia. Once famed for its exceptional wildlife, Libya's Farwa island risks becoming just another victim of lawlessness in the war-ravaged North African nation, activists struggling to save it warn. An uninhabited 13-kilometre-long (eight mile) sandbar cut off at high tide in far western Libya, Farwa appears picture-postcard idyllic, with scattered date palms on white sandy beaches and ringed by the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. (Photo by Mahmud TURKIA / AFP)
A deer is seen in Liberty State Park on June 24, 2021 in Jersey City, New Jersey. / AFP / Angela Weiss
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Wind speeds drop in Al Wusta, Dhofar: Met Oman Botanic Garden to be ready in late 2023 Tropical system in Arabian Sea may turn into depression Auditing and accounting firms told to report suspicious transactions

People and Culture

Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest 2022 opens for entries

MOSCOW: The 8th Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest (http://stenincontest.com) is now open for entries in Moscow. The contest bears the name of Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist at the Rossiya Segodnya media...

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Wind speeds drop in Al Wusta, Dhofar: Met Oman Botanic Garden to be ready in late 2023 Tropical system in Arabian Sea may turn into depression Auditing and accounting firms told to report suspicious transactions

Flora and Fauna

The Amazon: a paradise lost?

Seen from the sky, the Amazon is an endless expanse of deep green, a place where life explodes from every surface, broken only by the blue rivers snaking across it. Endless, that is until it isn't.Fly toward the edges of...

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Laly Joseph, plant conservationist and ecosystem gardener at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary (GBS), points to a lithophyte plant growing under a rock at the GBS in Kerala's Wayanad District.
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Wind speeds drop in Al Wusta, Dhofar: Met Oman Botanic Garden to be ready in late 2023 Tropical system in Arabian Sea may turn into depression Auditing and accounting firms told to report suspicious transactions
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