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Rare footage of an uncontacted tribe shows its members face “humanitarian disaster” as loggers encroach on their territory, a British human rights group has warned.According to local campaigners, the Mashco Piro indigenous tribe have been sighted coming out of the rainforest in their remote part of the Peruvian Amazon in recent weeks in search of food. Survival International said the images highlighted the need to “throw out” loggers set to begin work in the tribe’s territory, a few miles from where these pictures were taken by the Las Piedras river.Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside the territory, while more…

Italy, Greece and several Balkan countries continue to struggle under a prolonged heat wave that has sparked wildfires and has led to a lake drying up in Serbia for the first time. With temperatures in Athens predicted to hit 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, the Greek Ministry of Culture ordered the closure of one of the country’s most famous landmarks, the Acropolis archeological site, from noon to 5 p.m. Authorities have warned people against extensive exposure to the sun during the hottest hours of the day and called on people to make sure they stay hydrated. The heat wave is expected to peak on Wednesday and…

At least six people have died in a fire at a shopping mall in southern China, state media reported on Wednesday. The incident occurred at a shopping complex in Zigong, a city in western Sichuan province. Another 30 people were rescued from the blaze. “By 8:20 pm (1220 GMT), the fire had been extinguished,” state broadcaster CCTV said. What do we know about the fire? The blaze broke out at the bottom of a 14-story building. Footage broadcast by CCTV showed thick black smoke towering above the building. Zigong, home to around 2.5 million people, is located in southwestern China. Fires are common…

Families of two British men missing in Sweden are appealing for information on their whereabouts amid fears they were victims of a double murder.It comes after a pair of bodies were found in a burning car in an industrial area of Malmo on Sunday afternoon.Emergency workers made the discovery after they put out the flames – with a possible bullet hole in one of the victims, according to local media.Police are yet to formally identify them but reports say they are British and may have been shot before the fire started.Juan Cifuentes, 33, and Farooq Abdulrazak, 37, travelled to Denmark…

Ramses II is documented as having been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you’re a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between humans and the gods. After he died, Ramses II was embalmed and preserved for eternity — but that’s not the only reason his legacy was seared into the memory of future generations. “Ramses was a great king who was a warrior. He made many battles and was the first one to have a peace treaty,” explains Zahi Hawass, a renowned archaeologist and former antiquities minister of Egypt. “And he’s a builder —…

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday vowed to punish those responsible for the deaths of six people, including anti-government protesters, after student protests saw campuses shutter around the country. Six people were killed in clashes between police and protesters on Tuesday, which was the most violent day so far in weeks of protests regarding public sector job quotas for the children of freedom fighters who fought in the 1971 War of Independence. “I firmly declare that those who carried out murders, looting and violence — whoever they are — I will make sure they will be given the appropriate punishment,” Hasina said in…

The streets of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, are changing. They’re still packed with many cars, mopeds and even horse-drawn carriages which are stuck in the countless traffic jams. But in the north of the city of four million people, in the socially deprived Parcelles Assainies district, a traffic revolution is taking place. Just three months ago, it took residents an hour and a half to get to work or school in the city center. Now, it’s only half of that. The new fast lane for electric buses only skip the traffic jams and bring Senegalese to their destination quicker.Traffic in…

More than a dozen students have been taken to hospital after they became ill from eating extremely spicy crisps, reportedly given out by a fellow pupil “for fun”, officials in Japan have said.Rokugo Koka High School in Tokyo called for help on Tuesday lunchtime after 13 girls and one boy, all first-year students, complained of nausea, as well as stomach and mouth pain, Japan Today said, quoting the city’s fire department and local police. Other reports, including by the Asahi Shimbun, said 15 students were affected.All those taken ill are believed to have been conscious and to have had minor…

Russia and Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two sides, officials in Moscow and Kyiv have announced. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Russian Defense Ministry each said 95 of their soldiers had been freed after the United Arab Emirates acted as an intermediary. Zelenskyy said that the freed Ukrainian prisoners were members of the Ukrainian armed forces, the national guard and the border guard service. In his post on X, formerly Twitter, Zelenskyy thanked the United Arab Emirates for its help in facilitating the swap. Among the released Ukrainians were…

When Usha Vance, met her husband, JD Vance, at Yale Law School, the now US vice presidential candidate described her as his “spirit guide” at the prestigious institution. “She instinctively understood the questions I didn’t even know to ask, and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn’t know existed,” wrote JD Vance in his bestselling 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” The couple were married in 2014 and were blessed by a Hindu priest in a separate ceremony. They have three children, two boys and a girl. Vance was born Usha Chilukuri in 1986 to Indian immigrants from the…