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Iran snooker player Hossein Vafaei says the ongoing war in his country makes it difficult to focus on his job as he prepares to play a World Championship match on Wednesday.

The 'chill' follows the sacking of lead civil servant at the Foreign Office Sir Olly Robbins by the prime minister.

An Australian billionaire's plan to burn rubbish for energy in Fiji amounts to "waste colonialism" and risks spoiling a "beach paradise", villagers and the Pacific nation's UN ambassador said.

Myanmar’s military-backed rulers have shaved time off Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence and freed thousands of detainees, but analysts say the apparent goodwill gestures tell a story of a regime growing bolder, not more merciful. The government last week announced an amnesty for 4,335 prisoners, its third in six months, and reduced by a sixth the 27-year sentence of the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, who has not been seen in public since her criminal trials ended in December...

Traffic in Strait of Hormuz at standstill as US president says blockade of Iranian ports and shores will continue

The Manx treasury says plans are in place to protect essential services in the wake of the Iran war.

The ornate Cotofenesti helmet, which was stolen in January 2025 while on loan to a Dutch museum, was recovered last month.

Mexico's government is boosting security at tourist sites in preparation for the World Cup after a man opened fire at the Teotihuacan pyramids.

Florida on Tuesday announced a criminal probe into whether artificial intelligence played a role in a deadly mass shooting at a university in the US state. The decision to launch an investigation came after prosecutors reviewed exchanges between OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT and the suspected gunman, who opened fire at Florida State University last year, according to state Attorney General James Uthmeier. “If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder,” Uthmeier said. Florida law...

The couple say stronger safety measures including mandatory CCTV are "essential" at nurseries.

The MTR Corporation has sold HK$18.8 billion (US$2.4 billion) in green bonds, the largest and the company’s first public bond issuance in the Hong Kong dollar market, in its latest efforts to diversify funding sources for a string of projects. The rail giant said on Wednesday that it sold five-year, 10-year and 30-year bonds, with the size of each tranche also representing the largest for their respective tenors to date. The overall order book of the issue exceeded HK$60 billion, or three times...

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