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Families in Pakistan seek refuge from monsoon floods

Sakrand (Pakistan) (AFP) – Families carry belongings salvaged from homes destroyed by monsoon rains in Pakistan, as they wade through floods to reach safety. The country’s Climate Change Minister says authorities will launch an appeal for international help to cope with the floods. According to one NGO, Pakistan is eighth on a list of countries deemed most vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change.

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Ukraine’s Zelensky warns of ‘radiation disaster’ as nuclear plant cut from Ukraine grid

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says in his daily address that Russia has put Ukrainians as well as all Europeans one step away from radiation disaster due to its actions at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. The plant is under occupation by Moscow’s troops and was disconnected from the national power supply on Thursday, according to Ukraine’s energy operator.

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Embalmed heart of Emperor Pedro I exhibited in Brasilia

Brasília (AFP) – The embalmed heart of Emperor Pedro I, who declared Brazil’s independence from Portugal, is being exhibited at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia. The formaldehyde-soaked organ, kept in an urn, was transferred on loan from Porto, Portugal to Brasilia to celebrate Brazil’s declaration of independence 200 years ago.

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A dream encounter: Girl cycles 90km to meet French superstar Mbappe

Paris (AFP) – Eight-year-old Camille, who suffers from Vacterl association, a rare congential condition, arrives at PSG’s training ground in Paris where she is greeted by her idol, football star Kylian Mbappe. Camille was met with applause from crowds who had come to see her after she cycled 90km over three days for the dream meet. The PSG striker had come to Camille’s defense on Twitter after she was the target of insulting online messages from football fans.

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British-Belgian teen becomes youngest round-the-world solo flier

Radomir (Bulgaria) (AFP) – Mack Rutherford, a British-Belgian 17-year-old, becomes the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Five months and a day after taking off from Bulgaria in March, Rutherford returned to the small airport near the town of Radomir, an hour from the capital Sofia, to claim his record.

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Biden announces relief for university debts

Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden announces that most Americans trying to pay off university loans will get $10,000 forgiven in a bid to address the decades-old headache of massive educational debt across the country.

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‘Our children are starving’: Pakistan flood victims appeal for help

Fazilpur (Pakistan) (AFP) – In Pakistan’s Punjab province residents are fleeing deadly flooding triggered by record monsoon rains. The government is struggling to cope with the disaster which has already killed more than 900 people in the country since June. Pakistan’s climate change minister said on Wednesday that the floods were causing a “catastrophe of epic scale”, and announced an international appeal for help.

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Rohingya refugees mark fifth ‘Genocide Remembrance Day’

Kutupalong (Bangladesh) (AFP) – Rohingya refugees hold “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies across the huge network of squalid camps in Bangladesh where they live in dire conditions, marking five years since fleeing from a brutal military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed over the border from mostly Buddhist Myanmar from the onslaught, which is now the subject of a landmark genocide case at the UN’s top court. Today there are nearly a million Rohingya, half of them under 18, in rickety huts in a network of camps in southeastern Bangladesh where the mud lanes regularly become rivers of sewage during monsoon rains. IMAGES

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