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Previously little-known in Europe, the Midea PortaSplit has become a household name this summer.
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Previously little-known in Europe, the Midea PortaSplit has become a household name this summer.

The US vice president says he thinks some Israeli politicians are trying to detail efforts to end the conflict.

More than 50 defendants have been on trial in Italy over the 2018 bridge collapse which killed 43 people.

The same area devastated by floods last year – causing more than 130 deaths – is once again being targeted by life-threatening floods.

The US Vice-President writes in his new book that a visit to north Wales in 2013 changed his perspective.

Wildfires in Ontario have blanketed US and Canadian cities with dangerous smoke.

Polish security services say the aim was to incite ethnic tensions between Poland and Ukraine.

The ex-head of Italy’s motorway operator Giovanni Castellucci was handed a 12-year term over the 2018 bridge collapse.

President Macron said there would be no leniency for arsonists, as France – along with much of Europe – deals with a series of unusual heatwaves.

The air quality in large parts of Michigan, Minneapolis and Minnesota is deemed “hazardous” by authorities.

Companies are now required to verify a person’s identity electronically to curb theft and forgery.

Most of the recent cases were among travellers from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The company says it will create “high-tech, high-paying jobs”, and raises its total commitment to the US to $265bn.

A US Navy Blue Angels jet sent some beach items up in the air as it flew at a low altitude over a crowd in Pensacola Beach, Florida.

Blanche faces a bipartisan grilling as he seeks to assume the role of US attorney general permanently.

A former Canadian government nuclear bomb shelter in rural Nova Scotia may soon be home to the country’s first large-scale luxury survival shelter.

A Tshwane University of Technology alumnus is using artificial intelligence to help young South Africans prepare for one of the most challenging aspects of entering the workplace — the interview process. Banele Mgwevu, a software developer from Etwatwa on the East Rand, studied Information and Communication Technology at TUT’s Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, […]

Ghana has launched a joint programme with the World Health Organization and the United Nations Development Programme — funded by the Government of Japan through the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security — to harness artificial intelligence in improving health outcomes, strengthening system resilience and protecting vulnerable populations. The programme is implemented in collaboration […]

Linen scarves, cotton aprons and dishtowels adorn the entrances to souvenir shops, many of which are run by Bangladeshis whose home country shares Portugal’s rich tradition of textile manufacturing.

Ukrainian drones struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as the city hosted an annual economic forum promoted by President Putin.

The U.S. military said that Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the U.S. launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response.