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Bolivia bus crash kills 14, leaves 18 injured 17 Aug 2024 - 09:19 pm
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Thousands without power as Ernesto makes landfall in Bermuda 17 Aug 2024 - 06:27 pm
This satellite image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Ernesto at 12:50 Zulu on August 16, 2024. (Photo by Handout / NOAA/GOES / AFP)
Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall on Bermuda as a category 1 storm 17 Aug 2024 - 12:42 pm
This satellite image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Ernesto (C) at 12:10 Zulu on August 14, 2024. Ernesto was moving through the Caribbean on August 14, and was forecast to become a hurricane as it passed north of Puerto Rico, the National Hurricane Center said. Photo by Handout / NOAA/GOES / AFP.
Thousands of wildfire evacuees return to Jasper, Canada 17 Aug 2024 - 09:35 am
This photo taken and handout on July 12, 2024 shows an aerial view of an out-of-control wildfire near the northeastern town of Wabush in Canada. Photo by Simon Contant / AFP
Stars and 'unscrupulous doctors': Perry death highlights toxic history 17 Aug 2024 - 09:31 am
Actor Matthew Perry attends the ABC Disney summer TCA press tour at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on August 1, 2010. Photo by Chris Delmas / AFP
Hurricane Ernesto barrels toward Bermuda as wealthy British territory preps for storm 16 Aug 2024 - 06:28 pm
This satellite image obtained from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Ernesto at 13:40 Zulu on August 15, 2024. Photo by Handout / NOAA/GOES / AFP
Prince Harry and Meghan arrive in Colombia to promote mental health, combat cyberbullying 15 Aug 2024 - 11:20 pm
Britain's Prince Harry (2nd right), Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle, Colombia's vice-President Francia Marquez (2nd left) and her partner Yerney Pinillo, and the director of the National Centre for the Arts Xiomara Suescun attend a performance at the centre in Bogota on August 15, 2024. (Photo by Raul Arboleda / AFP)
Record number of forest fires in Brazil Amazon 14 Aug 2024 - 11:53 pm
(FILES) Aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest, near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Douglas Magno / AFP)
Prince Harry and Meghan will visit Colombia for the first time. Here’s what they will be doing 14 Aug 2024 - 11:01 pm
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US Consumer Price Index up 0.2% in July 14 Aug 2024 - 10:36 pm
Shoppers browse in a supermarket in north St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 2020. File Photo / Reuters
Videos show fatal shooting of pregnant Black woman was justified: Officer's attorney 14 Aug 2024 - 10:28 pm
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NASA still deciding whether to keep two astronauts at space station until next year 14 Aug 2024 - 10:18 pm
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Tropical Storm Ernesto hits Puerto Rico, likely to become hurricane 14 Aug 2024 - 10:12 pm
Police block a flooded road in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, as Tropical Storm Ernesto passes through the area on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Jaydee Lee SERRANO / AFP)
US judge rejects Trump's bid to unseat him in hush money case 14 Aug 2024 - 08:12 pm
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves after casting his vote in Florida's primary election on August 14, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)
Tropical Storm Ernesto pummels northeast Caribbean and leaves hundreds of thousands in the dark 14 Aug 2024 - 02:05 pm
This photograph shows waves crashing against the shoreline in the aftermath of tropical storm Ernesto, in the town of Basse-Terre, on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Brian NOCANDY / AFP)
Biden is announcing $150 million in research grants as part of his 'moonshot' push to fight cancer 14 Aug 2024 - 12:14 am
US President Joe Biden speaks at a Biden Cancer Moonshot Event at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
There's an apostrophe battle brewing among grammar nerds. Is it Harris' or Harris's? 13 Aug 2024 - 11:34 pm
A rally for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) in Philadelphia on June 6. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
New York court bars RFK Jr. from state's presidential ballot 13 Aug 2024 - 09:59 pm
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