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By Colleen Howe BEIJING – Rows of what appear to be thin, white shipping containers stand lined up on a barren stretch of land in China’s Shandong province. The batteries together form a 795 megawatt (MW) power plant that can store up to 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power 150,000 homes for […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have taken a creative approach to connectivity. They use mosques as bill and cash drop-off points, a “pay and pray” system. Now the national postal service wants to phase it out by installing

The coast guard in Mauritania on Monday recovered the bodies of 89 migrants from a boat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. Nine people, including a five-year-old girl, were rescued, but dozens of others are still missing. Survivors say the vessel, a traditional fishing boat, left the Senegal-Gambia border area last week with 170 people

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man who stabbed South Korean opposition leader was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this year for being stabbed in the neck, court officials said. The knife-wielding man attacked Lee Jae-myung, leader of the liberal Democratic Party, South Korea’s largest political party, in January after approaching him to

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations and partners say increasing numbers of migrants and refugees in Africa are heading north toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing dangerous routes through the Sahara Desert where criminal gangs subject them to slavery, organ harvesting, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses. A report published Friday by the UN

A photo of Cho Kuk, a minor third-party leader in South Korea, has been doctored to falsely depict him holding a banner calling for a boycott of Japanese imports. Posts with the doctored image have been circulated in Facebook groups supporting the sitting president Yoon Suk Yeol and said it showed Cho trying to gain

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s second-largest party withdrew from government on Thursday to join its longtime rival in a new coalition, as pressure mounts on the prime minister to step down. The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), the second largest party, has announced that it is withdrawing its support for the prime minister

Other EU leaders have expressed concern over media reports that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban may meet the Russian president. Vladimir Putin Friday in Moscow. Orban, whose country now holds the EU’s rotating presidency, is the bloc’s only national leader to have maintained close ties with the Kremlin after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in

The Labour Party is expected to secure a landslide victory on Thursday night, ending the Conservative Party’s 14-year reign in the UK. Labour is on course to win 410 seats in the British House of Commons, a significant margin above the 326 seats needed for a majority, according to a report from the British party.

Mahrang Baloch during a public appearance. The 30-year-old has become a prominent figure in the Baloch movement. Credit: Mehrab Khalid/IPS by Karlos Zurutuza (Rome) Thursday, July 4, 2024 Inter Press Service ROME, Jul 4 (IPS) – A 30-year-old woman speaks to tens of thousands of people gathered in southern Pakistan. Men of all ages listen