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Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster by AFP Staff Writers Colombo (AFP) July 24, 2025 Sri Lanka’s highest court on Thursday ordered a Singaporean shipping firm to pay US$1 billion in damages for causing the island’s worst marine pollution when its vessel sank four years ago. The Supreme Court

China starts construction of Tibet mega-dam by AFP Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2025 China started building a mega-dam Saturday on a river running through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony, state media said. Beijing approved the project in December on the river — known as Yarlung Tsangpo in

Sri Lanka returns orphaned elephants to the jungle by AFP Staff Writers Colombo (AFP) July 17, 2025 Sri Lankan authorities returned six orphaned and injured elephants to the wild on Thursday after nursing them back to health under a long-running conservation project, officials said. Two females and four males, aged between five and seven, were

Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India by AFP Staff Writers Patna, India (AFP) July 18, 2025 Lightning strikes during monsoon storms in eastern India this week killed at least 33 people and injured dozens, officials said Friday. The deaths in Bihar occurred during fierce storms between Wednesday and Thursday, a state disaster management

Nvidia’s Huang says ‘doing our best’ to serve Chinese market By Peter CATTERALL Beijing (AFP) July 16, 2025 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday his firm was “doing our best” to serve China’s vast market for semiconductors after it secured permission from the United States to sell chips to the world’s second-largest economy. Nvidia

Astronauts from US, India, Poland, Hungary on SpaceX capsule return to Earth by AFP Staff Writers Washington (AFP) July 15, 2025 A SpaceX capsule carrying astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary and the United States splashed down off the California coast Tuesday, completing Axiom Mission 4 and capping 20 days in space. The Ax-4 crew undocked

Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts by AFP Staff Writers Kathmandu (AFP) July 9, 2025 Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge linking the two countries, were caused by the release of water from a glacial lake, experts

Quantum Secure Space Tech Partnership Launched by Space TS and Synergy Quantum by Riko Seibo Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2025 In a strategic move to reinforce India’s space sovereignty in the quantum era, Space TS and Synergy Quantum have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-develop the nation’s first indigenous quantum-secure satellite systems and

China says BRICS not seeking ‘confrontation’ after Trump tariff threat by AFP Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) July 7, 2025 China said on Monday that BRICS, the grouping that also includes Brazil, Russia and India, was not seeking “confrontation” after US President Donald Trump vowed to impose an extra 10 percent tariff on countries aligning with

Stock markets struggle as Trump’s tariff deadline looms by AFP Staff Writers Hong Kong (AFP) July 7, 2025 Equities struggled Monday as countries fought to hammer out trade deals days before Donald Trump’s tariff deadline, with the US president saying he would begin sending letters to some capitals outlining the rates he had decided upon.