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Japan envoy pursues quiet diplomacy as Myanmar youth seek a break from 80 years of conflict

Japan’s Special Envoy for National Reconciliation in Myanmar, Yohei Sasakawa, says he remains committed to his quiet diplomacy for a federal democratic Myanmar as young people are speaking up against

25 killed in bus crash on Cape Verde’s Fogo Island

At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde’s islands in the Atlantic Ocean

Nepali woman found alive days after family began mourning rites

Believing she had perished in Nepal’s deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman’s death. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive

Meloni government becomes Italy’s longest-lasting

Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government on Friday becomes the longest-lasting in Italy’s postwar history — a notable record that belies considerable challenges ahead of elections next year. In a country once

UN says world must navigate ‘reality’ of 1.5 degrees Celsius overshoot

The United Nations outlined Wednesday how the world might bring global temperatures back to 1.5 degrees Celsius once the milestone target is breached in a first-of-its-kind assessment that drew criticism

Women survivors face sanitation woes in Nepal relief camp

Scores of women queued at a school sheltering Nepal flood victims, jostling to receive personal-care supplies, as concerns over sanitation and menstrual hygiene mount days after the catastrophic disaster. Thousands

China penalises 10 people for misinformation over deadly mudslide

Chinese authorities penalised 10 people accused of spreading misinformation online about a deadly mudslide along the Nepal border, police said Monday, as rescuers scour for hundreds missing at a border

Nepal buries dead bodies; rescuers keep searching for missing people

Nepal was burying on Monday some of the hundreds of bodies retrieved after a deadly, tsunami-like flood crashed through the Himalayan region, sweeping away villages and leaving thousands still missing.