The fire was extinguished after three hours of intense effort, with the cause still under investigation, officials said.

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Irie Perera was visiting Colombo for a family wedding but says she has since sheltered about 25 people at her home in Gampola in the central province. The 61-year-old, who lives in Southend-on-Sea, ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November ...

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Indigenous women leaders don’t only sustain life in their territories; they are also active defenders of water, seeds, ...

Netflix's new western stars Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey as a pair of adversarial matriarchs fighting over land.