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Sprinter Animesh Kujur has confirmed his berth for the World Championships with a gold medal in the men’s 200m at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Chennai on Saturday. The 22- year-old from Chhattisgarh clocked 20.63s to improve his ranking further in the Road to Tokyo rankings and is on course of becoming the first-ever Indian male sprinter to feature in the bi-annual World Athletics Championships start from 13th September in Tokyo. Animesh has breached both 100m and 200m national records this season along with winning a bronze medal at the Asian Athletics Championships and running in the U23…

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The end of an exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages coming into the United States is causing multiple international postal services to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the rule.The exemption, known as the “ de minimis” exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the US duty free. A total of 1.36 billion packages were sent in 2024 under this exemption, for goods worth $64.6 billion, according to data from the US Customs and Border Patrol Agency. It is set to expire on Friday. On Saturday, postal services around Europe announced that they are…

UN chief Antonio Guterres says famine in Gaza is ‘a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself’.Famine in Gaza from Israel’s deliberate starvation policy has pushed more than half a million people into immediate danger.Yet Israel is intensifying its war, backed by the United States and other Western allies.How can an engineered famine be allowed happen in the 21st century?Presenter:Adrian FinighanGuests:Dr Tarek Loubani – Emergency physician and medical director at the Glia ProjectTess Ingram – Spokesperson for the UN children’s agency, UNICEFMichael Fakhri – UN special rapporteur on the right to food

NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Politico’s Ankush Khardori about what legal checks remain as the Trump administration flexes presidential power.

With its mishmash of architectural influences, bohemian attitudes, and deep roots in the textile industry, Melbourne has long been defined by its sense of style. Visitors can tap into the city’s aesthetic sensibilities at shops packed with homegrown talent, which include everything from First Nations Australian streetwear labels to eclectic boutiques crafting bespoke jewelry. Consider beginning your explorations at The StandardX, Melbourne, a hotel located in culturally rich Fitzroy: Its retro terrazzo-floored lobby and lipstick red walls are a good match for the vintage-clothing stands that pop up on the sidewalks outside the store on weekends.Sales reps at Flâner Fragrances…

A pilgrim on her way to Santiago de Compostela covers her mouth as she walks past a wildfire near the village of Mougas, in Oia municipality, northwestern Spain on August 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Spain has almost beaten back wildfires that have swept across the country this month, killing four people and ravaging huge swathes of land, the head of its civil protection and emergencies service said Saturday (August 23, 2025).”There are fewer of them, and the end is a lot nearer,” the official, Virginia Barcones, told state television network TVE.The ones remaining were still very “treacherous”, she…

Offshore wind blades and other equipment in New London, Conn. President Trump is a longtime critic of the wind industry. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island. The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a letter to one of the developers, a Danish firm called Ørsted, that the government was halting work on the almost-finished project in order to “address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of…

A scene from the Palestinian anthology film ‘From Ground Zero’ One of the thoughts that constantly runs through the mind while watching From Ground Zero, an anthology of 22 short films and documentaries by Palestinian filmmakers, is on whether all those whom we see on screen are alive now. Going by the data of over 60,000 killed in the past two years in Gaza, in what human rights organisations have accused Israel of executing genocide, there is a possibility that at least some of them have perished already.The 2024 anthology, the opening film of the 17th International Documentary and Short…