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The US space agency NASA has called off the launch of its largest and most powerful rocket ever after it suffered an engine leak.
The unmanned Artemis 1 was set to travel to the moon on a weeks-long journey, kicking off a new phase of space exploration, with hopes that astronauts will be able return to the lunar surface by 2025.
Benji Hyer has the latest.
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Correspondent Tesem Akende reports from Jos.
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More than 1,000 people have been killed since mid-June in floods in Pakistan, as rescue workers continue to evacuate residents in what is being described as a climate catastrophe.
Pakistan has been appealing for financial aid to help manage the crisis.
Our correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports.
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Japan is pushing to rebuild Africa's financing development, as the two day Tokyo International Conference on African Development comes to an end in Tunisia.
The Japan-led conference, which discusses aid and investment in the horn of Africa, is eyeing curbing China's influence in the region.
Thisanka Siripala reports in Tokyo.
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Tensions continue to escalate in the Taiwan Strait as two US warships pass through the sea, in what Washington calls a "demonstration of freedom of navigation through international waters."
China views such action as provocative, and has been holding military drills in the region in retaliation to a series of visits this month by US delegations to the self-governing island democracy, which Beijing claims as its territory.
Our US Correspondent Benji Hyer has been following the ships' progress.
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The US Justice Department has made public a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the FBI's search of Donald Trump's Florida home earlier this month.
The former President of the United States is being investigated for removing and storing classified files from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence, a potential violation of the Espionage Act.
Our US Correspondent Benji Hyer's been taking a look at the papers.
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Foreign Secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Lizz Truss is in hot water over a remark she made about French President Emanuel Macron.
She was asked at a hustings event whether she saw him as a friend or a foe.
Truss replied: "The jury is still out."
Chris Jones has more details from London
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The UK's energy watchdog has announced the new, elevated, limit at which energy prices will be set for the next three months. The hike, which campaigners fear will push households into fuel poverty, could see annual bills hit more than $4000. Laura Makin-Isherwood reports.
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Japan is preparing to hold diplomatic talks with India to focus on China's growing military assertiveness in the East and South China Seas.
Both countries have pledged to increase military cooperation to pursue a rules-based free and open maritime order in the Indo-Pacific region.
Thisanka Siripala reports from Tokyo.
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Floods triggered by incessant rains have battered parts of the central region, destroying crops and paralysing normal life.
Around 300 villages have been affected.
Authorities say more than 7,500 people from severely affected districts have been relocated for safety.
Ishan Garg tells us about the government's efforts from New Delhi
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A US federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to unseal a redacted version of the document used to justify the search of Donald Trump's Mar a Lago residence.
The affidavit may reveal more about the investigation into the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents.
US correspondent Ira Spitzer reports
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California regulators are set to approve a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-only powered vehicles by 2035 in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It is the only US state with the ability to set its own emissions rules.
Ira Spitzer has more from San Francisco.
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