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Global youth unemployment to slip to 73 million

The total global number of unemployed youths should fall to 73 million in 2022, down by two million from the year before, the United Nations said Thursday.However, the figure is still six million higher than the pre-pandemic level of 2019, with the recovery in youth unemployment lagging behind the bounceback in other age groups, the UN's International Labour...
A general view of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, situated in the Russian-controlled area of Enerhodar, seen from Nikopol. AFP file photo

Shelling at Ukraine nuclear plant as UN issues warning
An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica.

World's largest ice sheet crumbling faster
Friends react during the funeral of Palestinian child Lian al Shaer, after she succumbed to her injuries sustained in last week's Israeli air strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday. - AFP

UN slams 'unconscionable' killing of Palestinian children
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Norwegian woman on track to break 'super peaks' record
Members of the media and other people stand together outside the Federal Bank of Lebanon where a man, who security sources said is armed, holds the staff hostage while demanding the return of his bank deposits, in Hamra, on Thursday. - Reuters

Armed client holds Lebanon bank staff hostage to access savings
Protesters march through Khartoum during a rally against military rule following the last coup, in Khartoum, on Thursday. - Reuters

Thousands protest Sudan military rule
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Tropical depression 600km from Ras al Hadd

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Citizen, 2 sons drown at Sawadi beach

A general view of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, situated in the Russian-controlled area of Enerhodar, seen from Nikopol. AFP file photo

Shelling at Ukraine nuclear plant as UN issues warning

An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica.

World's largest ice sheet crumbling faster

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
Friends react during the funeral of Palestinian child Lian al Shaer, after she succumbed to her injuries sustained in last week's Israeli air strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday. - AFP

UN slams 'unconscionable' killing of Palestinian children

GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm on Thursday at the number of Palestinian children killed and wounded this month and demanded those responsible be brought to account.Last week saw three days of intense conflict between Israel and Islamic...

Members of the media and other people stand together outside the Federal Bank of Lebanon where a man, who security sources said is armed, holds the staff hostage while demanding the return of his bank deposits, in Hamra, on Thursday. - Reuters
Armed client holds Lebanon bank staff hostage to access savings
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Kabul airport, a symbol of chaotic US exit
Mourners carry the body of Palestinian fighter of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade Hussein Taha, who was killed in an Israeli raid, during a funeral procession in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday. - AFP

3 Palestinians killed, 69 shot in Israeli West Bank raid
This handout video grab taken and released on Tuesday by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. - AFP

Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concerns
A Palestinian woman looks for salvageable items amid the rubble outside her home, heavily damaged in Israeli air strikes. -- AFP

Gaza counts cost of conflict as truce holds
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Americas
An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica.

World's largest ice sheet crumbling faster

Blinken says backing for armed groups in DRC must 'cease'

Trump declines to answer questions in New York civil probe

Biden signs ratification of Finland, Sweden NATO bids

Trump says Florida home 'raided' by FBI
Africa
Protesters march through Khartoum during a rally against military rule following the last coup, in Khartoum, on Thursday. - Reuters

Thousands protest Sudan military rule

Dead heat for Kenya presidency as poll results trickle in

'A dirty game': Young Kenyans shun election hype

Blinken kicks off Africa tour to counter Russian influence

Kenya candidates make final bid for votes as campaigning closes
Europe
A general view of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, situated in the Russian-controlled area of Enerhodar, seen from Nikopol. AFP file photo

Shelling at Ukraine nuclear plant as UN issues warning

Norwegian woman on track to break 'super peaks' record

Wildfires burn, farmers struggle as heatwave bakes western Europe

Satellite images show destruction at Russian air base in Crimea

Global youth unemployment to slip to 73 million
Asia
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un greets health workers and scientists struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic during a photo session in Pyongyang, in this undated photo released on Thursday by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency. - Reuters

North Korea declares victory over Covid, suggests leader Kim had it

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared victory over Covid-19 and his sister indicated that he too caught the virus, while vowing "deadly retaliation" against South Korea, which the North...
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Several cities in China add Covid curbs

A man looks at flooded Han river from an observation platform in Seoul on Thursday. - Reuters

South Korea’s capital seeks to ban basement flats after flooding deaths

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Sri Lanka's ousted president arrives in Thailand

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Wednesday. -- AFP

Japan PM shuffles cabinet as anger deepens over ties to Unification Church

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
In a Kyiv basement, 19 surrogate babies are trapped

KYIV, Ukraine — Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim background noise of Ukraine’s capital, Ludmila Yashenko fusses with the babies. There are 19 of them, sleeping or cooing in...

Some of a group of 19 babies born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers, now being cared for by nannies and sheltered during the Russian invasion at a basement nursery with numbered cribs and names given to them by staff, in Kyiv, March 11, 2022. (Lynsey Addario/The New York Times)

Putin orders troops to Ukraine rebel regions

Colin Powell: war hero, historymaker haunted by Iraq

Delhi's autorickshaws become ambulances
Australia
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Sri Lankan family wins long battle to stay in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia — Four years ago, immigration officers arrived at dawn to rip a Sri Lankan family away from the life they had built in the tiny Australian town of Biloela.The authorities had...
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Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback

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Australian PM outlines draft Indigenous recognition vote

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Australian teenager feared dead in Syrian jail

People walk on Lambton Quay street in Wellington, New Zealand. -- Reuters File

As New Zealand reopens, exodus worsens labour crunch

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