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World - / Jul 6, 2026 - 'Strategically aligned': Singapore, Indonesia pledge to keep Strait of Malacca open and free - Singapore and Indonesia have pledged to keep the Strait of Malacca open, safe and accessible to all, elevating maritime security to the forefront of a bilateral relationship that both countries see as critical to regional stability. The commitment

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World - / Jul 6, 2026 - 23,000-year-old footprints in White Sands are rewriting the story of the first humans in the Americas - In the scrubby expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a set of impressions pressed into ancient mud has continued to unsettle assumptions about when people first moved through the Americas. The markings, preserved in layers of sediment

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A US county welcomed 37 data centres. Now its schools are being told to dim lights as power bills jump 25%

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'Demanded $100,000 for our release': Pakistan gang rape victim names deputy PM Ishaq Dar's kin

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BLA claims over 30 Pakistani security personnel killed in 'fidayee' attack in Balochistan's Gwadar

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'Undermining freedom of belief': Speakers at UNHRC event call out Pakistan over safety of religious minority women

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Pakistan bus tragedy: 40 killed after vehicle loses control, plunges into ditch in Balochistan

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Unesco warns Pakistan over 'reconstructions' at Taxila, the Vedic-era city

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'Closest neighbour': Jamaat chief says Bangladesh seeks trust-based ties with India

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11:44 - Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan kill 36 civilians; Kabul vows retaliation

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Forgotten Punjabi soldiers of British Indian Army finally get WWI recognition after a century: Report

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Manchester weather forecast: Overcast skies, 22°C high, 85% humidity today, July 6

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London heatwave: 34°C forecast for July 6 with sunny skies

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Leeds weather forecast: Sunny intervals and mild temperatures expected July 6

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Quote of the day by King Charles: "Whatever may be your background or beliefs, I shall..."

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Quote of the day by Winston Churchill: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

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YouTube alerts UK creators over govt's proposed algorithm changes; Nigel Farage calls it 'state censorship'

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'We have no stake in it': Pakistan refuses to take back grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed as UK seeks deportation

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Three acquitted of 2019 murder of Irish journalist Lyra McKee; family vows to keep fighting for justice

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King Charles congratulates Trump, Americans on US' 250th Independence Day, hails enduring UK-US ties

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Serbian proverb of the day: "Do not mix frogs with grandmas"- A funny way to say stop comparing things that don't belong together

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Nearly all of Russia's 83 regions face fuel supply disruptions amid Ukrainian strikes

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Watch: Man arrested for climbing Eiffel tower to hang US flag

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'Restraining order needed': Donald Trump shares meme on his feud with Italy PM Meloni ahead of Nato summit

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Putin & Zelenskyy hold separate calls with Trump

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Russia launches fresh missile, drone attack on Kyiv ahead of Nato summit in Turkey

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Spanish proverb of the day: 'Don't look at the teeth of a gifted horse' — Value the gesture more than the material quality of what you receive

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'Biological terrorism' in occupied Ukraine? Kyiv accuses Russia of creating anthrax outbreak risk

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Donald Trump offers to help end Ukraine war during 90-minute call with Putin, Zelenskyy

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Ukraine hits Russian oil terminal; smoke rises over St Petersburg facility - watch

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Uyghur groups escalate global campaign against China's Ethnic Unity Law

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Xi Jinping says ready to work with Kim Jong Un for 'long-term, sound and stable' China-North Korea ties

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China's Xi Jinping promotes two PLA generals after anti-corruption purge thins top military ranks

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Beijing pushes for a China-Pakistan-style economic corridor with Bangladesh and Myanmar

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Chinese proverb of the day: 'The toad wants to eat the swan' delivers a blunt reality check on overreaching ambition

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Chinese proverb of the day on the passing of time: 'Light travels like an arrow, and time like a shuttle'

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'Will never forget this gesture of friendship': Iran thanks India for attending Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral

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UAE Central Bank fines foreign bank Dh1.82 million over customer liability letter delay

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16 Yemen troops killed as Houthis unleash 'deadliest attack in years' on government forces

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Successor in hiding? Three of Ali Khamenei's sons attend funeral, Mojtaba skips

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'People can be killed but ideals cannot': Iran condemns Donald Trump's 'one shot' threat against leaders at Khamenei funeral

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Bermuda has no rivers or freshwater lakes, yet a 400-year-old roof design supplies water to 65,000 people

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Greenlandic proverb of the day: 'The weather decides for the hunter'— Nature sets the rules, and every decision must adapt to its uncertainty

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Why do some villages in China build circular homes: The remarkable story behind Fujian Tulou earthen fortresses

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Taiwan brings back 'anti-communist' classes after 25 years amid rising China tensions

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Proverb of the day: The cobbler's children have no shoes—Why the experts we trust are often the last to apply their own expertise

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Thailand in the 1950s planted millions of leucaena trees for fodder and reforestation, but scientists now say they have spread into natural forests, replacing native vegetation with dense single-species stands

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China spent decades planting 66 billion trees; scientists found they now outgrow natural forests by 66%

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Lost for 50 years, Japan's WWII gold submarine was finally found nearly 3 miles underwater

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Nato 3.0: From security club to wartime coalition that can take on Russia - can the bloc pull off its biggest reset since Cold War?

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The United States in the 1800s planted thousands of tamarisk trees to stabilise riverbanks, but scientists now say they have spread across the American West, replacing native cottonwood forests and reshaping entire river ecosystems

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US pressured countries to skip Khamenei funeral, at least 13 withdrew or reduced participation: Reports

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Israel in the early 1900s planted millions of pine trees to green barren hills, but ecologists later found many native Mediterranean habitats had disappeared beneath them

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