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Hurricane Ian pounds Florida as monster Category 4 storm

Video footage shows floodwaters surging into beachfront homes, submerging roads, sweeping away vehicles

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US finds monkeypox vaccine highly effective in early data

CDC says shot protects people as early as two weeks after first dose

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Gunmen kill six police in northern Mexico

This comes as rival cartels fight over drug trafficking routes

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Iran police to oppose protests with ‘all their might’

Command warns they will clamp down hard on ‘enemies of the Islamic republic’

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Urgent action needed to improve workers’ mental health: UN

Depression, anxiety cost global economy almost US$1 trillion, report says 

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India bans Islamist group for alleged ‘terrorist’ links

Govt detains over 200 PFI members, says group working secretly to ‘increase radicalisation’

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Pakistan FM warns of consequences to Taliban isolation

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari cautions against creating ‘parallel governance’

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Sri Lanka puts civil servants on social media ban after child hunger posts

Officials expressing opinions on social media could face disciplinary action

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Typhoon Noru tears across Vietnam

Over 300,000 people in country seek refuge in shelters overnight  

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Cyberattacks rife in Ukraine, impact stays in the dark

NGO tracks almost 450 attacks carried out by 57 entities on either side since February

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Search team finds body of US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson in Nepal

This comes two days after she disappeared on slopes of world’s eighth-highest peak, Manaslu

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Neighbours see massive arrivals of Russians fleeing draft ‘chaos’

Georgia, Kazakhstan say tens of thousands have flooded in after Moscow’s partial mobilisation

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Singapore scrambles fighter jets after false bomb threat on flight SQ33

37-year-old man assaulted crew, claimed he had explosive in hand-carry bag, police say