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Hundreds of firefighters are again fighting devastating wildfires on the Greek island of Evia on Sunday. Emergency services have evacuated thousands of people, and ferries are standing by to take even more people off the island as the fire…
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TikTok owner ByteDance plans to go public in Hong Kong next year. So the British business newspaper Financial Times writes, even as the Chinese authorities are cracking down on technology companies from their own country. The IPO…
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The Taliban have captured a provincial capital in Afghanistan for the second time in less than 24 hours. Local officials say Muslim extremists have overrun Sheberghan in northern Jowzjan province. Government forces are said to have…
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A Boeing 737 MAX has arrived in Shanghai to be subjected to test flights by the Chinese aviation regulator, reports Chinese news site The Paper. This is a step towards lifting the flight ban for that type of aircraft in China. The…
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Several villages north of the Greek capital Athens have been evacuated due to forest fires in the area. Emergency services went to all the houses in the area to make sure no one was left behind. A westerly wind fanned the flames…
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Disruptions in international supply chains affect the German industry. Industrial production in Germany fell for the third month in a row in June. At the same time, the number of factory orders placed and the delivery times of products…
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Tech giant Apple is going to scan iPhones to find out whether photos in iCloud contain child abuse. Critics see opening Pandora's box that takes away privacy allows for mistakes and abuses authoritarian regimes. In a statement,…
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The number of corona infections and deaths from the coronavirus has reached a new record in the Australian city of Sydney, despite a nearly six-week lockdown. The authorities, who are finding it difficult to control the outbreak…
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