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Ankara (AFP) Jan 10, 2026 - Water cuts for the past several weeks in Turkey's capital were due to the worst drought in 50 years and an exploding population, a municipal official told AFP, rejecting accusations of mismanagement.
Jan 10, 2026
Lyon (AFP) Jan 10, 2026 - Two separate avalanches claimed the lives of three off-piste skiers in the French Alps Satuday, local officials said.
Jan 10, 2026
Bangkok (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - China is moving against the cyberscam tycoons making fortunes in Southeast Asia, driven by mounting public pressure and Beijing's desire to keep control of judicial processes, analysts say.
Jan 9, 2026
Sydney (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - Bushfires destroyed houses and razed vast belts of forest in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said, as hot winds fanned hectic conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.
Jan 9, 2026
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - NATO chief Mark Rutte on Friday discussed efforts to bolster Arctic security with US top diplomat Marco Rubio, after President Donald Trump insisted he wants to take control of Greenland.
Jan 9, 2026
London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 - Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a study showing that iron-rich asteroids can withstand much higher energy inputs than expected without breaking apart, a result that affect
Jan 9, 2026
Bogota (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Friday urged Venezuela to jointly fight drug-traffickers operating across the two countries' border, after the United States threatened further armed action in the region.
Jan 9, 2026
Yayang, China (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - A church in east China was scaffolded and had its cross removed, AFP reporters saw Friday, with residents and rights groups saying multiple members had been arrested as a national crackdown on unofficial Christian organisations grows.
Jan 9, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - Japan embarks Sunday on what it says is the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at a depth of 6,000 metres - greater than the height of Mount Fuji - to curb dependence on China.
Jan 9, 2026
Brest, France (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 - The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, and coral death.
Jan 9, 2026
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic part
Jan 8, 2026
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - The Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission has delivered a 10 year record of how ice flows from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets into the ocean, providing a consistent, high resolution view of a key driver
Jan 8, 2026
London, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new experimental study that shows iron rich asteroids can withstand far more energy than previously estimated before breaking apart. The
Jan 8, 2026
Tirana, Albania (AFP) Jan 8, 2026 - The body of a man was pulled from floodwaters in Albania on Thursday, police said, as swollen rivers in the country's south forced more evacuations following days of heavy snow and torrential rain across the Balkans.
Jan 8, 2026
Sydney (AFP) Jan 8, 2026 - Firefighters warned millions of Australians of catastrophic bushfire dangers on Thursday as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a heatwave blanketing the country.
Jan 8, 2026
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 - As part of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising about our Solar System, about 1900 of which have
Jan 8, 2026
