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Major rains drive widespread flooding in southern MozambiqueLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 Weeks of intense rain in December and January swelled rivers and overwhelmed key reservoirs in southern Mozambique, sending floodwaters across broad floodplains and into heavily populated areas alon ... more 
Airbus and Hisdesat extend deal to market next generation PAZ-2 radar imageryMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 Airbus Defence and Space and Hisdesat have signed a new agreement to commercialize imagery and applications from the future PAZ-2 radar satellites, reinforcing their long standing cooperation in the ... more  
Cuddly Olympics mascot facing life or death struggle in the wildRome (AFP) Jan 30, 2026 Tina and Milo, the ermine and stoat mascots of the upcoming 2026 Olympic Games in Italy, are already everywhere - smiling on stuffed animals, posters, mugs and T-shirts. ... more  
'Pesticide cocktails' pollute apples across Europe; 'Forever chemicals' could cost Europe up to 1.7 tn euros by 2050Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Environmental groups Thursday raised the alarm after finding toxic "pesticide cocktails" in apples sold across Europe, in a new study highlighting widespread contamination. ... more |
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Portugal storm death toll climbs, 450,000 without powerLisbon (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Storm Kristin has claimed five lives and left nearly 450,000 clients without power on Thursday, more than 24 hours after it barrelled through central and northern Portugal, authorities said. ... more  
Moscow records heaviest snowfall in over 200 yearsMoscow (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Russia's capital Moscow has this month seen the largest snowfall in more than 200 years, Moscow State University meteorologists said on Thursday. ... more  
G.Bissau junta leader promoted to highest army rank as Uganda army chief apologises X postBissau (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Guinea-Bissau's junta leader General Horta N'Tam has been promoted to the rank of major general - the highest in the country's armed forces, according to a decree he signed and published himself on Thursday. ... more  
Argentina declares emergency over Patagonia wildfiresCholila, Argentina (AFP) Jan 30, 2026 Argentina's government on Thursday declared an emergency in Patagonia, where wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of forest since the start of the Southern Hemisphere summer. ... more |
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China executes 11 linked to Myanmar scam compoundsBeijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 China executed 11 people linked telecom scam operations, on Thursday, state media reported, as Beijing toughens its response to the sprawling, transnational industry. ... more |
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NASA advances space based tracking of marine debrisLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026 Detergent bottles and other litter can travel thousands of miles across the ocean before washing up on remote islands like Kaho'olawe in Hawaii, highlighting how persistent plastic pollution has bec ... more  
Trump-era trade stress leads Western powers to ChinaTokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Britain's Keir Starmer is the latest Western leader to thaw trade ties with China in a shift analysts say is driven by US tariff pressure and unease over Donald Trump's volatile policy playbook. ... more  
Trump troop deployments in US cities cost nearly $500 mn in 2025Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 President Donald Trump's contentious deployments of troops in multiple US cities cost nearly $500 million in 2025, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published Wednesday. ... more 
'I wanted to die': survivors recount Mozambique flood terrorManhica, Mozambique (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique. ... more |
 
Climate setbacks mount as king warns, court acts, and floods worsen in AfricaWindsor, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 King Charles III has warned the world is "rapidly going backwards" in curbing climate change and biodiversity loss, in an Amazon Prime documentary getting a Windsor Castle premiere Wednesday. ... more
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Deadly storms and landslides strike Portugal, Indonesia, and Italy as risks continue to growLisbon Jan 28, 2026 Storm Kristin killed at least four people overnight as it barrelled through central and northern Portugal, authorities said Wednesday. ... more  
South Africa embraces water tastings as Washington reels from sewage leakStellenbosch, South Africa (AFP) Jan 29, 2026 Most tourists to Stellenbosch come for the wine but this small group was here for the water, sampling a selection of the world's finest varieties in an experience new to South Africa. ... more  
Microplastics in one-third of surveyed Pacific Island fishWellington (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 Microplastics were found in a third of hundreds of fish surveyed in the coastal waters of several Pacific Island nations, researchers said in a study published Thursday. ... more
What to know about America's colossal winter stormWashington, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 A life-threatening freeze is gripping large swaths of the United States after a monster storm caused at least 38 deaths from the Deep South to the Northeast, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and sent air travel into chaos. ... more |
Jihadist attacks kill Nigerian troops as US ramps up strikes in SomaliaKano, Nigeria (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 At least nine Nigerian soldiers were killed and over a dozen are missing after IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military patrol in northeast Borno state, military and militia sources told AFP Tuesday. ... more 
Sudan army says breaks RSF siege on southern city DillingKhartoum (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 The Sudanese army said on Monday it had broken a long?running siege of Dilling, a city in the country's south, where paramilitary forces had choked off access for more than a year and a half. ... more 
Lightning strike injures 89 at rally for Brazil's former presidentBrasilia (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 Lightning struck near a rally of supporters of Brazil's former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Sunday, injuring 89 people, according to the fire department. ... more 
Fans bid farewell to Japan's only pandasTokyo (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 Panda lovers in Tokyo said goodbye on Sunday to a hugely popular pair of the bears that are set to return to China, leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century. ... more |
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Snow, heavy rain kill 61 in three days in Afghanistan Kabul (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 Snow and heavy rain have killed 61 people in Afghanistan in the past three days, disaster officials said on Saturday, with a major road and power also cut in several provinces. ... more 
Uganda army chief says 30 opposition supporters killed, 2,000 arrestedKampala (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 Uganda's army chief and son of newly re-elected President Yoweri Museveni said Friday that 30 opposition supporters had been killed and 2,000 detained in the wake of the vote. ... more
Sudan hospital welcomes first patients after war forced it shutKhartoum (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 At a freshly renovated hospital in Khartoum the medical team are beaming: nearly three years after it was wrecked and looted in the early days of Sudan's war, the facility has welcomed its first patients. ... more  
Danish PM backs NATO 'permanent presence' around GreenlandBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 22, 2026 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Thursday that NATO states backed having a "permanent presence" in the Arctic, including around Greenland, after US President Donald Trump claimed a framework deal was struck to satisfy his demands. ... more |
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South Africa's Kruger park suffers 'devastating' damage from floodsCape Town (AFP) Jan 22, 2026 South Africa's iconic Kruger National Park suffered major damage to critical infrastructure in recent flooding, with the cost of repairs estimated to run over 30 million dollars, officials said Thursday. ... more |
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Nigeria turns illegal loggers, poachers into park rangersOkomu, Nigeria (AFP) Jan 22, 2026 James Leleghale Bekewei knows the Okomu forest well: he used to make a living illegally logging trees in the Nigerian national park. ... more
US monster storm kills 30New York (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 More than half a million Americans woke up without power Tuesday, as freezing temperatures gripped swathes of the country in a monster storm that has killed at least 30 people. ... more 
World not ready for rise in extreme heat, scientists sayParis, France (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday. ... more  
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolutionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bound compartments whose behavior depended mainly on ... more |
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