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Internally displaced children sit inside a tent along the roadside in a temporary makeshift camp after fleeing from flood-hit homes at Shikarpur in Sindh province on August 30, 2022. - Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on August 30 to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)

16:08:32

Pakistan's displaced ask for more aid after devastating floods

Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains have triggered floods that have killed more than 1,200 people

AsiaSeptember 02, 2022

KHARTOUM, 1st September, 2022 (WAM) -- The UAE is continuing its humanitarian and relief efforts in Sudan, by supporting the Sudanese people and helping them overcome the dire conditions caused by the floods that hit many areas of the country. The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) field teams have established three new shelter camps in the affected villages in the River Nile State, and are supervising the evacuation and sheltering of local residents, according to the highest safety and security standards. Wam

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UAE builds three camps to help Sudanese affected by floods

Emirates Red Crescent teams are also supervising the evacuation of local residents from flood-hit areas

UAESeptember 01, 2022

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 09, 2022 US House of Representatives candidate Sarah Palin speaks on stage during a "Save America" rally before former US President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska. - Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on August 31, 2022 lost her bid to fill the state's vacant seat in the US House of Representatives. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)

17:06:29

Sarah Palin loses race for US Congress

The former US vice president hopeful, who was also governor of Alaska, was beaten by Democrat Mary Peltola in a special election

USSeptember 01, 2022

This image captured from bodycam video released by the Childersburg (Ala. ) Police Department and provided by attorney Harry Daniels shows Michael Jennings, right, in custody in Childersburg, Ala. , on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Jennings was helping out a friend by watering flowers when officers showed up and placed him under arrest within moments. (Childersburg Police Department via AP)

28:14:34

Black US pastor arrested while watering neighbours' flowers

Michael Jennings says he plans to sue the Alabama town of Childersburg, after white police officers placed him in handcuffs after he refused to identify himself

USSeptember 01, 2022

An handout picture released by the Saudi Interior Ministry on August 31, 2022, shows a security officer pilling bags of amphetamine pills at a warehouse in a undisclosed location. - Saudi officers thwarted an attempt to smuggle 47 million amphetamine pills into the country, state media reported, describing it as the largest ever drug trafficking operation in the kingdom. Six Syrians and two Pakistanis were arrested in a raid after the pills, concealed in a flour shipment, arrived at a dry port in the capital Riyadh. The report did not specify whether the pills were captagon -- the amphetamine wreaking havoc across the Middle East -- nor did it say where the pills came from. (Photo by SAUDI INTERIOR MINISTRY / AFP)

7:54:40

Saudi Arabia thwarts massive drug-trafficking operation

About 47 million amphetamine pills were seized in the capital Riyadh

Saudi ArabiaAugust 31, 2022

This undated image released by the US Department of Justice, shows a photo attached as evidence to a court filing by the US District Court Southern District of Florida, of documents allegedly seized at Mar-a-Lago spread over a carpet. - Documents at former US President Donald Trump's Florida home were "likely concealed" to obstruct an FBI probe into his potential mishandling of classified materials, the Department of Justice said in a court filing August 30, 2022. The filing provides the most detailed account yet of the motivation for the FBI raid this month on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which was triggered by a review of records he previously surrendered to authorities that contained top secret information. (Photo by Jose ROMERO / US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / US Department of Justice"- NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

14:00:32

Why US Justice Department may be investigating Trump for obstruction

Prosecutors say US government documents appear to have been moved from a storage room at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate and concealed

USAugust 31, 2022

This photo released by the U. S. Navy shows the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ship Shahid Bazair, left, towing a U. S. Navy Saildrone Explorer in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. The U. S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet said Tuesday that Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized and later let go of a U. S. sea drone in the Persian Gulf. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the incident, though it comes amid heightened tensions over Tehran's tattered nuclear deal with world powers. (U. S. Navy via AP)

12:40:32

Footage appears to show Iranian ship seizing US sea drone

US Navy says an IRGC ship temporarily took control of the Saildrone Explorer before letting it go in the Arabian Gulf

USAugust 30, 2022

Beachgoers head to their cars at Tiscornia Beach as a front moves in over Lake Michigan and St. Joseph, Mich. , Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (Don Campbell / The Herald-Palladium via AP)

11:19:06

More than 700,000 without power in US Midwest after severe thunderstorms

Two people were killed as heavy rain and gusts of wind left a trail of destruction, knocking down electrical wires and trees

USAugust 30, 2022

Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr gives a speech in Iraq's central holy shrine city of Najaf on August 30, 2022. - Iraqi supporters of powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr began withdrawing from Baghdad's Green Zone on August 30 after he demanded fighting end between rival Shiite forces and the army that left 23 dead and hundreds wounded. (Photo by Qassem al-KAABI / AFP)

24:08:32

Moqtada Al Sadr demands his supporters withdraw after night of violence in Iraq

The Iraqi cleric told his followers to leave their protests in central Baghdad and apologised to the Iraqi people

IraqAugust 30, 2022

Texas woman arrested after video showing racial abuse being hurled at Indian women goes viral

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Texas woman arrested after video showing racial abuse being hurled goes viral

Esmeralda Upton appeared to make racist comments about India and hit members of the group

USAugust 29, 2022

A building is submerged amid flooding in Canton, Mississippi, U. S. August 24, 2022 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Tommy Keith Grant/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY TOMMY KEITH GRANT

14:01:57

Flooding hits US state of Mississippi

Homes and land were submerged after heavy rainfall

USAugust 29, 2022

People navigate through flooded roads after heavy monsoon rains, in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. (AP Photo / Pervez Masih)

21:04:21

Drone footage shows extent of flooding in Pakistan

Historic monsoon rains have affected more than 30 million people in the country

WorldAugust 26, 2022

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE IMAGE RINGED AT SOURCE Handout image issued by Merseyside Police of aerial footage of the arrest by armed police of a 36-year-old Huyton man on suspicion of the murder of nine year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday August 25, 2022.

12:13:09

British police make arrest in Olivia Pratt-Korbel murder case

The nine-year-old Liverpool girl was shot by a gunman who chased his intended target into her family's home

UKAugust 26, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 28, 2015. REUTERS / Jonathan Crosby / File Photo / File Photo

9:37:04

US Federal Reserve chief warns of 'pain' in reducing inflation

Jerome Powell says there will be 'higher interest rates, slower growth and softer labour market conditions'

USAugust 26, 2022

91:47:12

Donald Trump's endorsement put to the test

Former US president picked more than 200 candidates in primary elections before midterm polls

USAugust 25, 2022