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Damaged Moai statues are seen after a wildfire at a local park in Easter Island, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on October 7, 2022. Rapa Nui Municipality/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES NO ARCHIVE.

Famed Moai statues damaged by wildfires

The more than 1,000 statues on Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, make it a Unesco World Heritage site

The AmericasOctober 07, 2022

Canada declares Iran's IRGC a ‘terrorist organisation’

The decision bars Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leadership from Canada and imposes sanctions

WorldOctober 07, 2022

A new art exhibition featuring artists from the UAE has opened in Washington. Photo: UAE Embassy

How Washington DC is getting a caffeine hit from the UAE's female artists

Pieces in a variety of mediums focus on spaces that build community among women

WeekendOctober 07, 2022

US President Joe Biden speaks at an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York, US, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. IBM Corp. announced $20 billion in investments during Biden's visit that will go toward research and development and the manufacturing of semiconductors, mainframe technology, artificial intelligence and quantum computing in the Hudson Valley. Photographer: Dana Ullman / Bloomberg

Biden warns of nuclear 'Armageddon'

Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats have brought the world closer to Armageddon than at any other point since the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s, says US President Joe Biden

USOctober 07, 2022

US President Joe Biden speaks in a neighborhood impacted by Hurricane Ian at Fisherman’s Pass in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 5, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

Biden surveys Hurricane Ian damage in Florida

The US President visited Fort Myers, one of the cities hardest hit by the storm

USOctober 05, 2022

Opec+ cuts output by 2 million barrels a day

White House is concerned with price rise before midterm elections

WorldOctober 05, 2022

Britain's Kate, the Princess of Wales cradles baby Bianca as she speaks to her mother Sylvia Novak, during a visit to the Royal Surrey County Hospital's maternity unit, in Guilford, England, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Princess of Wales cradles premature baby during maternity ward visit

The princess, who is a mother of three, toured the Royal Surrey County Hospital maternity and baby ward

UKOctober 05, 2022

(FILES) In this file photo illustration taken on April 14, 2022 a phone screen displays the Twitter account of Elon Musk with a photo of him shown in the background, in Washington, DC. - Elon Musk has offered to push through with his buyout of Twitter at the original agreed price, reports said October 4, 2022, just weeks before the opening of a bitter court case over his effort to withdraw from the deal. Twitter told regulators on Tuesday that Elon Musk sent a letter saying he will go through the with deal he inked early this year to buy the tech firm for $44 billion. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in original $44bn deal

Billionaire and social media platform have been in legal battle over agreement

USOctober 04, 2022

'The National' joins stretch of 7,700-kilometre Cop baton relay

More than 10,000 people will help the baton travel from Glasgow to Sharm el Sheikh without the use of fossil fuels for Cop27

Cop27October 04, 2022

New Hindu temple opens in Jebel Ali

The temple is meant to better accommodate the growing Hindu population in the UAE

UAEOctober 04, 2022

Israeli security forces stand behind a makeshift barricade of flaming tires separating them from Palestinian youths during clashes at the northern entrance of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on October 3, 2022. - Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on October 3 during what the army called an attempted car-ramming attack on soldiers carrying out an arrest operation. The deaths came during one of the worst periods of unrest in years in the West Bank where Israeli forces have conducted near daily raids since March. (Photo by Abbas MOMANI / AFP)

Protests in West Bank after Israeli troops kill two Palestinians

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli raids this years

MENAOctober 03, 2022

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng delivers his keynote address on the second day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 3, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

UK chancellor backtracks on tax cut plan after 10 days of market turmoil

Kwasi Kwarteng told the annual Conservative Party conference, 'I know the plan has caused a little turbulence'

UKOctober 03, 2022

The Russian Consulate is covered in red paint, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)

Russian consulate in New York vandalised with red paint

Red paint was sprayed on to the building in a possible protest against Moscow's decision to annex Ukrainian territories

USOctober 03, 2022

US bill targets Syrian regime-linked Captagon drug trade

Bill needed to tackle Syrian ‘narco-state’

USOctober 03, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about the ongoing federal response efforts for Hurricane Ian from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh)

Biden: Hurricane Ian 'likely to rank among the worst' storms

US President Joe Biden urged those in the hurricane's path to follow all guidelines from authorities

USSeptember 30, 2022