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Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Sara has caused widespread flooding along the northern coast of Honduras.More than 1,000 people have fled their homes to shelters, with the government declaring a national emergency and residents urged to avoid at-risk areas in the Central American country. Some trudged through waist-deep water along streets as they carried their belongings and pets. Image: A motorcyclist in a flooded street in La Ceiba, Honduras. Pic: Reuters Image: A bridge partially collapsed after the Cangrejal River overflowed its banks due to heavy rain. Pic: Reuters Between 15 and 25 inches of rain is expected to hit…

Donald Trump has vowed to raise US import tariffs and introduce a raft of new tax cuts when he returns to the White House for a second term on January 20. The plans, along with falling US interest rates, are expected to fuel a further rise in the US dollar, which surged to a one-year high when Trump was reelected. The dollar’s rise will have far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world, stoking producer import costs and fueling inflation. It will also make debt servicing among many low-income countries much harder, especially dollar-denominated loans payable from weaker local currencies. One continent where the effects of a…

It’s just before 6 p.m. on a fine fall weekday evening in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic (Czechia). A crowd has gathered near the Old Town Hall in the city center. It looks as if a huge protest march is about to get underway. But appearances are deceptive. The thousands of people standing close together have not come to demonstrate, but are waiting for Prague’s world-famous medieval astronomical clock to strike the hour. When it does, the tourists — who descend on Prague from all over the world — will whip out their cell phones to capture the…

Eder Militao’s scream as he tore a cruciate ligament in his knee for the second time in just over a year reverberated around the Bernabeu earlier this month. It also reverberated around the men’s football world as the horror of the player workload crisis was laid bare. His Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, said “the demands of the schedule sometimes do not allow players to get the rest they need, and that increases the risk of injuries. It is a problem for everyone, not just us.” The Brazil defender, who has now felt the dreaded snap in both knees, is just one victim…

A fire at a neonatal intensive care unit in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, killed 10 newborn babies and injured at least 16 other children. “My deepest condolences to those who have lost their innocent children in this. I pray to God to give them the strength to bear this immense loss,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X. How did the fire break out Local authorities said the fire broke out at Jhansi city’s Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College’s neonatal intensive care unit around 10:45 pm local time (0515 GMT) on Friday.  Fifty-five infants were being treated in the ward.…

US President Joe Biden on Friday sought to use the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru to shore up relations with key allies before Donald Trump reenters the White House in January.  “We have now reached a moment of significant political change,” Biden said as he met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of the summit in the Peruvian capital of Lima. “This is likely to be my last trilateral meeting with this important group, but I am proud to have helped be one of the parts of building this…

“Super high-IQ revolutionaries” who are willing to work 80+ hours a week are being urged to join Elon Musk’s new cost-cutting department in Donald Trump’s incoming US government.The X and Tesla owner will co-lead the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. And in a post on X, the official DOGE account put out a call to arms for people to sign up and help “dismantle government bureaucracy”.The post said: “We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE.”We don’t need more part-time idea generators. “We…

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, hosting the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro from Monday, will try to progress plans to tax the world’s richest billionaires, who often use complex loopholes to avoid tax. At a July meeting of G20 finance ministers in Rio, the world’s wealthiest nations agreed to start a “dialogue on fair and progressive taxation, including of ultra-high-net-worth individuals,” despite fierce resistance from the United States and within Germany’s now collapsed coalition government. While the world’s growing geopolitical issues — the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts, the prospect of a second Trump term in the US and China trade…

Berlin has inaugurated its first memorial site dedicated to decolonial resistance. The work of art, titled “EarthNest,” was designed by The Lockward Collective, and is installed in front of the Berlin Global Village, a center in the district of Neukölln that houses around 50 development policy and migrant-diasporic associations and initiatives working on various topics of global justice, sustainability and diversity. The decolonization monument will be opened to the public as of November 15 — a date that also marks a historical event that would forever shift international power relations: The Berlin Conference, also known as the “Congo Conference,” was held 140 years ago, on November 15, 1884.…

Authorities in France have launched a large-scale security operation in Paris ahead of a Nations League match between Israel and France on Thursday. The chief of police in France said that 4,000 police officers would be stationed in the capital and around the Stade de France stadium in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis. Another 1,500 officers are to be deployed on public transport. An elite police unit will guard the Israeli team and another 1,600 civilian security personnel will be on duty at the match. On Sunday, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said authorities “won’t tolerate” any violence at the…