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A wolf-like robot, the "Super Monster Wolf", stands beside a rice field to drive away wild animals that cause damage to crops in Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture, on August 25, 2017

Howlingly scary

Japan 'robot wolves' in high demand to scare off bears

A massive corruption scandal in Malaysia saw top officials loot billions from state fund 1MDB

Fugitive financier sought in Malaysian fund scandal seeks Trump's pardon

A United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) armoured vehicle patrols the southern Lebanese border area of Marjayoun

Trump says Iran 'militarily defeated'

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Human Rights Watch warns

Gig work treaty must ensure fair pay and conditions

Ukraine's economy faces severe labour shortages amid the Russian invasion

Despite high unemployment

'Short of blue-collar workers': Ukraine's battle for labour

With help of EU Most Wanted

Hungarian child abuser detained while hiding in Spain

One mayor compared the local forests to a 'real powder keg'

'Real powder keg'

After winter storms, fires now threaten Portugal's forests

The Nisshin Cricket Ground at Korogi Sports Park, outside Nagoya, hosted international cricket for the first time just four months before it will be home to event at the Asian Games

Ahead of Asian Games

'Don't understand it, but it looks fun': cricket bowls Japan over

Philippine Senator Ronald Dela Rosa is wanted by the ICC over his role in former president Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war

'Appealing for peaceful support'

Philippine senator seeks military support to block ICC drug war arrest

Morning Roundup

Recession warning, Trump heads to China, and virologist says no hantavirus panic

Bangladesh's family planning system is faltering, with government clinics running out of basic contraceptives after procurement failures and administrative disruption left supplies depleted

'Due to administrative setbacks'

Poor planning fuels Bangladesh contraceptive crisis

Many in the US town of Kearny say the World Cup is unaffordable for them

'Monumental betrayal'

World Cup comes to 'Soccer Town USA,' but locals priced out

Grass on the pitch at the Kino Sports Complex, where Iran's national football team will train is trimmed to FIFA regulation height

Amid shaky ceasefire

Don't mention the war: Tucson prepares to welcome Team Iran for World Cup

The legendary Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, where Pele and Diego Maradona both won the World Cup, has been refurbished in time to stage matches at this year's tournament

'Giving it everything'

Hosting World Cup evokes powerful memories for Mexico, and raises expectations

The White House recently accused Chinese entities of "industrial-scale" efforts to steal US technology on artificial intelligence

Concerns around arms race

AI rivalry overshadows push for guardrails at Xi-Trump talks: experts

I would never let him go: a Sudanese rape survivor holds her child

Double injustice

'Not my son's fault': The women bearing the children of Sudan's war rapes

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on a state visit to China with President Donald Trump

Rubio, with new Chinese name, heads to Beijing despite sanctions

Some people have described 'spiralling' into delusion while using ChatGPT, a phenomenon mental health experts are racing to understand

'I applied to be pope': Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has launched a new plan to fight organized crime ahead of October's election

Security seen as main concern

Brazil's Lula launches plan to fight organized crime ahead of elections year

The Pacific microstate of Nauru, one of the world's smallest countries, is planning to change its name

In a referendum

Pacific nation Nauru to change name in break from colonial past

Greek artist Akylas has been gaining traction with Eurovision fans

Tainted by boycotts

Favourites Finland, Israel through at Eurovision semis

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is expected to defend himself against fellow tech titan Elon Musk's accusations of misusing early investments in the AI behemoth

Triggered by Elon Musk

Musk 'wanted 90%' of OpenAI, Altman tells feisty tech titan trial

Inter Miami's Argentine forward Lionel Messi celebrates a goal

Messi still highest-paid player in MLS

Jannik Sinner easily beat Andrea Pellegrino to reach the Italian Open quarter-finals

World number one

Sinner dismisses Pellegrino to reach Italian Open quarters, Zverev out

Iran's chief negotiator said Tuesday that the United States must accept Tehran's latest peace plan or face failure

Growing tensions

Iran says US must accept its peace plan or face 'failure'

Tuesday's protest was the fourth major demonstration over university budgets since Milei took office in December 2023

Fourth major protest since 2023

Tens of thousands demonstrate in Argentina over Milei university cuts

Police arrested a former mayor accused of orchestrating the killing of Honduran environmental activist Juan Lopez, here on the Guapinol River

Denies allegations

Former Honduras mayor arrested over murder of environmental activist

During Marty Makary's tenure atop the sprawling body responsible for overseeing vaccines, medicine and food, he managed to upset figures across industry, politics and public health

Trump announces departure of food and drug regulation chief

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