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High court divides 5-4 to leave Texas abortion law in place

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court is allowing a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in force, for now stripping most…

Long Covid Affects Up To 1 In 7 Children Months After Infection: Study

The study also found that 11- to 17-year-olds who tested positive for Covid were twice as likely to report three or more symptoms 15 weeks later than…

A Third Of Global Tree Species Threatened With Extinction: Report

Land clearance for farming -- both crops and livestock -- and logging are by far the biggest threats to trees, the State of the World's Trees report…

Google to invest $1.2B in Germany cloud computing program

Google has announced that it is investing $1.2 billion by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable…

Biden praises airlift defends Kabul departure from forever war

‘I was not going to extend this forever war...and I was not going to extend a forever exit,’ says the U.S. President

Addressing the nation,…

Sri Lanka receives $787 million SDR from IMF and $150 million swap from Bangladesh

The IMF distributed a total SDR allocation of equivalent to $650 billion among its member countries on August 23, in proportion to their existing quotas…

Israel lets building goods into Gaza easing postwar closure

Despite the tensions since last May, Israeli officials this week allowed the entry of the badly needed building materials for Gaza's private sector in…

Drone attack at Saudi airport wounds 8 damages plane

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the second such strike on the Abha airport in the last 24 hours

A bomb-laden drone on…