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Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
ByReuters September 2, 2025September 2, 2025

Landslide destroyed a village in the Marra mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorMore than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide, which fo…

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Relics From an Ancient Egyptian ‘Party Town’ Are Pulled Out of the Sea
ByJenny Gross August 28, 2025

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might have been larger than thought.

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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis
ByOkba Mohammad and Tom Levitt August 27, 2025

An Algerian mother blames people smugglers and opportunists for the death of both her daughters. Now she cares for four grandchildren aloneEach morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ism…

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‘I sit alone and talk to myself’: a family ripped apart by Europe’s migration crisis
ByOkba Mohammad and Tom Levitt August 27, 2025

An Algerian mother blames people smugglers and opportunists for the death of both her daughters. Now she cares for four grandchildren aloneEach morning Zahia leaves the home she shares with her four grandchildren in the Algerian coastal city of Bou Ism…

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Weather tracker: Typhoon Podul pounds southern Taiwan
ByLauren Herdman for the MetDesk August 15, 2025

One person dies after storm whips up waves, while temperatures approach 50C as heatwave grips Middle EastTyphoon Podul crossed southern Taiwan on Wednesday with wind speeds of up to 110mph (177km/h), equivalent to a category 2 hurricane.Podul had devel…

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Weather tracker: Typhoon Podul pounds southern Taiwan
ByLauren Herdman for the MetDesk August 15, 2025

One person dies after storm whips up waves, while temperatures approach 50C as heatwave grips Middle EastTyphoon Podul crossed southern Taiwan on Wednesday with wind speeds of up to 110mph (177km/h), equivalent to a category 2 hurricane.Podul had devel…

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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 40 in a week as health centres overwhelmed
ByKat Lay, Global health correspondent August 14, 2025

MSF charity calls situation ‘beyond urgent’ as thousands seeking refuge from war rely on contaminated waterThe “worst cholera outbreak in years” has killed at least 40 people in the last week in Sudan, according to the medical charity Médecins Sans Fro…

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Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians
ByNesrine Malik August 13, 2025

A mutual alliance between oppressed people has been revived with Israel’s full-scale invasion of GazaDon’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here“Our freedom will be incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.” When Nelson …

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Harlem to Hebron: the long history of Black solidarity with Palestinians
ByNesrine Malik August 13, 2025

A mutual alliance between oppressed people has been revived with Israel’s full-scale invasion of GazaDon’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here“Our freedom will be incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinian people.” When Nelson …

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Migrants swim from Morocco to Ceuta as officials say enclave ‘overwhelmed’
BySam Jones in Madrid August 12, 2025

Seven children reach shore as dozens of people intercepted on risky route, which authorities say is now used more oftenAbout 100 people, including several children, risked their lives by trying to swim from Morocco into Spain’s north African enclave of…

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