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LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Authorities say massive overcrowding, insufficient exits and other factors have contributed to a deadly stampede at religious festival in northern India, killing at least 121 people. Another five people died On Wednesday morning, local official Manish Chaudhry reported that 28 people were still being treated in hospital. The stampede took place […]

By Fransiska Nangoy and Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) on Wednesday opened Indonesia’s first electric vehicle battery cell production plant, with an annual capacity of 10 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of battery cells. The plant is part of a commitment by Hyundai Motor and LGES to invest

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese government has finally phased out the use of floppy disks in all its systems, 20 years after their heyday, marking a long-awaited milestone in its campaign to modernize its bureaucracy. By mid-last month, the Digital Agency had withdrawn all 1,034 regulations governing the use of these technologies,

One of the world’s most famous photo festivals, in the French town of Arles, returned this week with a timely ode to diversity at a time when France is increasingly leaning towards the far right. The Rencontres festival, which runs until September 29, takes place in 27 venues in the old cobbled streets of this

PAARL, South Africa (AP) — Freya, a 6-month-old lion cub rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon, curiously poked her nose out of her transport crate and sniffed the air. Contentedly, she took her first tentative steps into her new permanent home at a sanctuary in South Africa. Freya’s move to Drakenstein Lion Park is

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday issued its first new banknotes in two decades, yen notes equipped with 3D hologram technology to prevent counterfeiting. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hailed as “historic” the state-of-the-art anti-counterfeiting features of the new 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen notes. “I hope people will like the new bills and

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have been given permission to work by the Taliban. She was supposed to graduate from university this year to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor, but the Taliban have women excluded from higher education And excluded them from many jobs. Now,

By Irene Wang and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Wednesday began issuing the first new banknotes in two decades, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial institutions and women’s educational institutions in an effort to crack down on counterfeiters. The banknotes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the portraits that face

About 2,500 years ago, a massive earthquake struck the Indian subcontinent, causing the Ganges to change course. The 2,575 km long river flows through northern India and Bangladesh to the Bay of Bengal. Within days or weeks of the catastrophe, the exact course changed to a new channel about 45 km away. It happened near

In an indoor pool in Dubai, three rowers battle artificial rain and simulated waves as they train for a trip to the Arctic that aims to highlight the dangers of marine pollution. Their search takes the team from one extreme to the other. The country is home to the United Arab Emirates, notorious for its