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Jonas Brothers sing One Direction's 'Night Changes' after Liam Payne's death

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Chloe Fineman named 'SNL' host that made cast cry on the comedy sketch show. Chloe Fineman has recently come out and called the businessman Elon Musk for his time hosting on Saturday Night Live . In a now deleted TikTok video, the American actress claimed that the Tesla CEO made cast...




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Kate Middleton seizes opportunity for Royal guidance, after Meghan's alleged snub

Princess Kate has found a trusted mentor in the Duchess of Edinburgh, Sophie, 59, as she adjusts to her new role as Princess of Wales. Royal biographer Claudia Joseph revealed that Kate "jumped at the chance" to be mentored by Sophie, describing her as a "tower of strength" and a reliable...




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Meghan and Harry's past decisions begin to weigh heavily

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are facing fresh "cause for anxiety" following what royal commentator Lee Cohen calls a string of "bad judgments." Speaking to Nana Akua on GB News, Cohen, who has frequently criticized the Sussexes, suggested that the couple may be enduring "sleepless nights"...




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Why Hugh Jackman divorced wife Deborra-Lee Furness?

Hugh Jackman divorced Deborra-Lee Furness because of Sutton Foster affairHugh Jackman divorced his wife Deborra-Lee Furness because of his budding romance with longtime friend Sutton Foster.On October 26, gossip blogger Tasha Lustig shared new speculation on her Instagram account...




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Tanzanian Students Drive Climate Action Through Tree Planting



The act of planting trees offers more than shade and fruit. It symbolizes a deeper mission—restoring soil, preserving water, and, for these students, living in Tanzania’s northern Rorya district, delivering a form of climate justice. The reforestation efforts are in step with Tanzania's broader plans to fortify its agriculture and water systems against the advancing climate crisis.




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Is India Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Fast Enough To Achieve Its Emission Targets?

While India continues to rely heavily on coal, the south Asian economic giant is also aggressively pushing renewable energy production, especially after the costs of renewable energy production have fallen drastically in recent years around the world. But experts say that India—the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs)—has to face many headwinds for […]




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Voices from the Margins: Small-Scale Fishers Demand Rights, Recognition at COP16

Small-scale fishers play a fundamental role in feeding people—they use sustainable methods of catching and processing fish products and are a significant force in the employment and livelihoods of millions of people internationally—yet, until now, they have been excluded from climate and biodiversity conferences. For the first time at COP 16, which closed in Cali, […]




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Warmer climate, forest cover loss flood Bicol farmers’ plight

Days before Kristine (international name: Trami) developed into a severe tropical storm, the Philippine Sea was warmer than usual. Under the warming climate, the typhoon-prone Bicol Region is more vulnerable with decimated forests. Both Camarines Sur and Albay saw a net loss of tree cover from 2000 to 2020, according to Global Forest Watch.




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Empowering Women in Uzbekistan through Home Ownership

The Mortgage Market Sector Development Program aims to transform the government’s housing financing approach to a market-based mortgage system that can provide long-term and affordable housing loans to low- and middle-income households, with specific consideration to home ownership by women.




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By Investing in Technical Training, a Brighter Future Beckons for the Youth of Bhutan

The Asian Development Bank is ramping up investment in technical and vocational education and training in Bhutan, which is helping to train thousands




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Asian Development Blog: How to Advance Green, Inclusive Trade through E-commerce in Asia and the Pacific

To support e-commerce, public-private collaboration must prioritize closing the digital divide, supporting small businesses, and promoting environmental sustainability. Strengthening data governance, competition, and tax frameworks are also key to resilient and equitable e-commerce.




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People's Republic of China and Its Neighbors: Partners or Competitors for Trade and Investment?

How has the recent dramatic growth of PRC's exports affected its neighbors? Have they lost export markets and seen foreign investment diverted to PRC? This paper surveys the empirical evidence on these important questions.



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Tremors felt in KP, Islamabad as 5.1-magnitude quake jolts Afghanistan

Tremors were felt in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad on Wednesday after a quake jolted Afghanistan’s Badakhshan region.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1, while the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) reported it as having a 5.3 magnitude.

The USGS said the quake’s centre was located 37 kilometres west-southwest of Afghanistan’s Ishkashim town and had a 220.7km depth.

The earthquake struck at 10:13am (Pakistan time), both the USGS and PMD confirmed.

No casualties have been reported so far.

DawnNewsTV reported that the tremors were felt in Peshawar and its adjoining areas, as well as Islamabad.

Speaking to DawnNewsTV, two correspondents based in the cities said the quake caused people to evacuate buildings.


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2970/L8262-CAM: GMS Flood and Drought Risk Management and Mitigation Project[CAM2-ICB-W02- Upgrading of Damnak Chheukrom Irrigation System Main Canal]




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Meghna Energy-Efficient Flour Milling Project

The transaction involves a senior secured loan of up to $20,000,000 to Tanveer Dal Mill and Flour Mills Limited (Tanveer) for the Meghna Energy-Efficient Flour Milling Project in Bangladesh. Tanveer is part of Meghna group.




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Asialink Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Financing through Secured Vehicle Lending Project




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Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration through Economic Corridor Development: Proceedings of the 2023 Regional Cooperation and Integration Conference

This report shares insights on economic corridor development (ECD) from the 2023 Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) Conference, discussing how ECD can help diversify trade, cut costs, and support regional growth.




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Climate Adaptation through Irrigation Modernization Project

The project integrates crop diversification with the adoption of climate-smart irrigated agricultural practices that require modernization of irrigation systems and on-farm water management to improve irrigation efficiency and crop water productivity. It includes the following three outputs: (i) irrigation management services strengthened, (ii) modern irrigation and drainage infrastructure developed, and (iii) efficient on-farm water management practices adopted.




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How crocodiles were taught to stop eating deadly toxic cane toads

Invasive cane toads have decimated native freshwater crocodile populations in northern Australia, as the predators don't know they should avoid the toxic amphibians




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Consumer insecticides are useless for fighting cockroach infestations

Lab-reared German cockroaches are susceptible to consumer insecticide sprays, allowing manufacturers to pass US regulatory tests, but insects taken from real-world infestations are able to shrug off the products




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The surprising way sunflowers work together to get enough light

Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers wobble in seemingly random ways as they grow – but it seems that those movements actually optimise how much light each plant gets




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We now know that life began on Earth much earlier than we thought

A big rethink of our planet’s early years adds to growing fossil, chemical and DNA evidence that Earth was only a few hundred million years old when life began




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David Attenborough's latest explores the lives of an orangutan family

The veteran presenter adds authority to Secret Lives of Orangutans, a film about a family of endangered orangutans in Sumatra. File this new entry in his vast oeuvre under lovable but lightweight




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Breaching is a common behaviour in a wide range of sharks and rays, and it is thought to have functions related to courtship, birthing and hygiene




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Endangered wombat's rare encounter with echidna caught on camera

A camera trap at an Australian nature refuge has captured a boisterous interaction between a northern hairy-nosed wombat and an echidna




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Cleaner wrasse use their reflection to build a mental image of their body size, which they use to compare themselves to rivals before picking a fight




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A shark survived being stabbed through the head by a swordfish

Fishers in Albania caught a blue shark with an 18-centimetre fragment of swordfish bill embedded in its skull, in the first known case of a shark surviving such an injury




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During a fight between two male mice, one will often run to a female mouse to distract their aggressor, a bait-and-switch strategy that could help abate social conflicts




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Lights on surfboards and wetsuits could deter shark attacks

Experiments show that illuminating the underside of a decoy seal reduces attacks by great white sharks, revealing a possible strategy to protect surfers and swimmers




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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

Strange solids called temporal metamaterials finally make it possible to investigate the controversial idea of quantum friction – and push special relativity to its limits




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How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

Remote sensing, including lidar, reveals that the Amazon was once home to millions of people. The emerging picture of how they lived challenges ideas of human cultural evolution




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Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe

The first generation of stars changed the course of cosmic history. Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a real chance of spotting them




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How clues in honey can help fight our biggest biodiversity challenges

There are secrets aplenty in a pot of honey – from information about bees' "micro-bee-ota" to DNA from the environment – that can help us fight food fraud and even monitor shifts in climate