PM faces first test as Singapore election campaign kicks off
Singapore's election campaign officially kicked off Wednesday, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong facing his first major test amid public frustration over rising living costs and a rejuvenated opposition.
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Indian security forces in Kashmir carried out a major manhunt Wednesday, a day after gunmen opened fire on tourists killing 26 people in the region's deadliest attack on civilians since 2000.
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Patients with leprosy face lasting stigma in Ethiopia
Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family.
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Still reeling a year on, Brazil's Porto Alegre fears next flood
Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
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Lakers level NBA playoff series, Pacers and Thunder win again
Luka Doncic scored 31 points and LeBron James added 21 as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 94-85 to level their NBA Western Conference playoff series at one game apiece on Tuesday.
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At night, crime and fear stalk DR Congo's M23-run areas
Every morning the Congolese city of Bukavu, now under the control of the Rwanda-backed M23 movement, counts its dead.
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Embalming and make-up: Pope's body prepared for lying-in-state
Ahead of his lying-in-state, Pope Francis's body was made ready to withstand Rome's warm spring weather with a temporary embalming and a touch of make-up, an expert told AFP.
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Prosecutors to make case against Harvey Weinstein at retrial
Prosecutors will begin to make their case against disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein to a majority-women jury on rape and sex assault charges Wednesday as opening statements begin in his retrial.
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Coral reefs pushed to brink as bleaching crisis worsens
An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned Wednesday.
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Vietnam village starts over with climate defences after landslide
Nguyen Thi Kim's small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year.
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