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So far, around 2,000 have made the switch to microbial solutions -- a fraction of the province's 100,000 rice farmers, but a start

Thai farmers pin hopes on microbes to end annual burning crisis

A protester is helped after police deployed pepper spray to disperse demonstrators taking part in a Pro-Palestinian rally against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia in Sydney on February 9, 2026

Legal provisions 'constitutionally impermissible'

Australian court overturns protest limits after Bondi Beach attack

The Strait of Hormuz, vital for world energy supplies, has become a key point of the US-Iranian negotiations

War in the Middle East: latest developments

TSMC is the world's biggest contract maker of chips

Massive global demand

AI demand drives chipmaker TSMC's net profit to fresh record

De Lëtzebuerger Ausseminister Xavier Bettel bei senger Arrivée zu Bréissel de 16. Mäerz 2026

'Good military music'

FM Xavier Bettel tackles Donald Trump with wit on BBC interview

Supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye hold a rally on February 24, 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya to demand his release

At least 54 countries

'Transnational repression' worsened last year: report

A woman walks past a mural depicting a football and the flag of Curacao in Willemstad, capital of the Dutch Caribbean island which is gripped by World Cup fever

Smallest country, by population, to qualify

Curacao, tiny island with big dreams of World Cup glory

Brazil's electoral court has imposed new regulations restricting chatbots from providing advice about who to vote for in upcoming elections

Could cause 'contamination' of October vote

Chatbots at the ballot box: AI skirts Brazil election rules

This handout photo taken and released by Giuliana Elakis on April 16, 2026 shows a fire at the Viva Oil Refinery in Geelong

Fuel supply fears after blaze tears through crucial Australian refinery

Airlines may soon be forced to cancel flights due to a lack of jet fuel

Risk grows each day

Threat of grounded planes nears as jet fuel supplies dwindle

An Afghan man scours for gold using the traditional gold-panning technique allowed by authorities

'We have created work for ourselves'

Afghans comb riverbed in search of gold dust

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attends an economic conference in Washington

Despite Middle East war

Iran participating in World Cup, FIFA president confirms

The Strait of Hormuz, vital for world energy supplies, has become a key point of the US-Iranian negotiations

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Director Coerte Voorhees (left) and producer John Voorhees premier the trailer of their film "As Deep as the Grave"

With family's consent

Val Kilmer returns via AI as filmmakers test Hollywood's red line

The killings have shocked Turkey, where school shootings are rare

Second attack in two days

Teenager kills nine, wounds 13 in Turkey school shooting

Police said two people approached the synagogue in north London and 'threw two bottles suspected to contain petrol' which did not ignite

Amid upsurge in antisemitic incidents

Police arrest two over London synagogue arson attempt

"Unregistered" Kurds, who have been stateless since a controversial 1962 census, have been flocking to registration centres across Syria

'We suffered greatly'

Syria's Kurds register for citizenship after decades of marginalisation

This handout from the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration taken and released on April 16, 2026 shows smoke from a building fire after a Russian strike in Dnipro

Child pulled from rubble

Strikes kill three in Ukraine, two in Russia, including children

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks during a press conference in Beijing on April 14, 2026

Bolsters image as left-wing hero

Trump turmoil sees Spain's Sanchez emerge as progressive star

Khushwant Singh, author of Maharaja in Denims and co-founder of AI-driven production house Intelliflicks Studios

Set for cinematic release this summer

India's 'Maharaja in Denims' stakes claim in AI film race

A supporter of Daniel Duggan, a former US Marines pilot accused of illegally training China's military, holds a placard outside the Federal Court of Australia in Canberra on April 16, 2026

US ex-Marine loses extradition appeal in China pilots case

LIV Golf signage prior to LIV Golf Mexico City at Club de Golf Chapultepec

Amid reports about possibility of collapse

LIV Golf reassures players over Saudi withdrawal rumors

New research has cast doubt on Alzheimer's drugs once hailed as a gamechanger

Some experts criticise the research

Much-hyped Alzheimer's drugs do not help patients, review finds

President Claudia Sheinbaum is seeking to potentially expand the controversial practice of fracking in Mexico

To reduce dependence on US fossil fuels

Mexican farmers raise alarm over Sheinbaum's fracking proposal

This handout image taken on July 23, 2024 and released by the Australian Defence Force shows a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft (top R) in formation flight with an RAAF EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft (bottom R), RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornet (top C), a Spanish Navy AV-8B Harrier II (bottom C), an F-35 Lightning II (top L), a Japan Air Self-Defense Force Mitsubishi F-2 (bottom 2nd L), and a Philippine Air Force FA-50 Golden Eagle (bottom L) over northern Australia during Exercise Pitch Black 2024. Australia will deploy a long-range military reconnaissance plane to the Gulf to protect civilians, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on March 10, 2026

To 3.0% of GDP by 2033

Australia to boost defence spending citing growing threats

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shows off an artist's rendering of President Donald Trump's planned Triumphal Arch

'United States Triumphal Arch'

Trump's triumphal arch gets official name

Arsenal reached the Champions League semi-finals after a tense draw with Sporting Lisbon

Riding their luck

Arsenal survive tense Sporting stalemate to reach Champions League semis

Cartoonish pro-Iran video memes are emerging as an effective tool in an intensifying information war

Sparking online criticism

YouTube suspends pro-Iran channel posting Lego-style clips mocking Trump

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