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US federal court blocks Trump administration’s four-year visa rule for international students, researchers, blocking Sept 15 implementation. In a major reprieve for international students, researchers, academics and foreign journalists, a US federal district court has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would replace the longstanding ‘duration of status’ system with fixed…

A former airport in Athens is now the site of one of the continent’s most ambitious urban greening projects. Called the Ellinikon Park, the planned project will not only add an unforgettable attraction to the city but also provide a shaded refuge for residents of the continent’s hottest city. The park will stretch over 400…

Sheep under solar panels in Lanai, Hawaii. Images Credit: Wikipedia Chad Raines, a fourth-generation Texas cotton farmer, stopped planting cotton after years of losses and found a very different way to make a living from his land and livestock. Instead of relying on crops, he began moving sheep between solar farms, where the animals graze…

When the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was abandoned after the 1986 nuclear disaster, it was not expected to become part of the future of a horse that had already vanished from the wild. Yet, more than a decade later, Przewalski’s horses were brought into the largely empty landscape in an effort to establish a free-ranging population….

Arab states in the Gulf called off a meeting with Iran planned for Monday, while Yemen’s Houthis launched a new attack on Saudi after fighting that has extended the war in West Asia to another theatre.The Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen said they fired dozens of missiles and drones on Monday at a Saudi military airbase…

The Kremlin said Monday it would keep striking targets across the “whole” of Ukraine, when asked about a rare drone attack on the Polish border. Nato-member Poland said Sunday that Russia had hit a railway locomotive inside Ukraine, about 2 km from their shared border, just days after Kyiv said it had hit a crossing…

DHAKA: A fresh political row erupted at Dhaka University Monday over the display of photos of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and former Jamaat-e-Islami chief and 1971 war crimes convict Ghulam Azam at the renovated DUCSU museum, with critics accusing hardline Jamaat’s student body Shibir of seeking to alter the institution’s historical narrative.The pictures were…

At 84, ‘Nan Barb’ drives more than 2,000km through remote Western Australia each month delivering donated clothes (Image Credit: ABC South West WA/ Jon Daly) For 84-year-old Barbara Carroll, long-distance driving has become part of a monthly mission to help people living in some of Western Australia’s most remote communities. Known affectionately as “Nan Barb,”…

The property at 6101 Shoup Ave. covers about 4,675 square feet and sits behind gates on a nearly 28,000-square-foot lot A Los Angeles home that has hosted 173 commercial productions since 2021 has been listed for $3.245 million, along with the filming business built around the property. The Woodland Hills residence, known as the Rum…

The Panama-flagged vessel was also struck on Sunday (Representative image: AP). The US military on Monday rejected a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that an oil tanker collided with a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz.According to US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees American military operations in the Middle East, the Panama-flagged vessel was…