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Santiago, Chile (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - Chile elected its most right-wing president in 35 years of democracy on Sunday, with arch-conservative Jose Antonio Kast scoring a thumping victory over his leftist runoff rival.
Dec 15, 2025
Cambridge MA (SPX) Dec 15, 2025 - Say you want to listen in on a group of super-intelligent aliens whose language you don't understand, and whose spaceship only flies by Earth once an hour. It's not unlike what Harvard scientists an
Dec 15, 2025
Rabat (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - Flash-flooding caused by sudden, heavy rain killed at least 21 people in the Moroccan coastal town of Safi on Sunday, local authorities said.
Dec 15, 2025
Safi, Morocco (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - A flash flood in a Moroccan coastal town has killed at least 37 people, local officials said on Monday, as search and rescue operations continued.
Dec 15, 2025
La Paz (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - At least 20 people were killed and dozens remain missing after a major river in eastern Bolivia burst its banks at the weekend following heavy rains, authorities said Monday.
Dec 15, 2025
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday.
Dec 15, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 15, 2025 - Indonesia will revoke more than 20 forestry permits across the country, the forestry minister said Monday, after deadly floods and landslides devastated parts of the northwestern island of Sumatra.
Dec 15, 2025
Bogota (AFP) Dec 14, 2025 - Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday said security forces had been ordered to attack the ELN guerilla group, after it issued an ominous warning for civilians to avoid travel and stay away from military installations for three days.
Dec 14, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 - Researchers from China, Canada, and Japan have established a quantitative method to read the impact histories recorded in enstatite chondrites using micro X ray diffraction measurements. Enstatite c
Dec 14, 2025
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 14, 2025 - Truck driver Muhammad Afzal was not expecting to be stopped by police, let alone fined, as he drove into Islamabad this week because of the thick diesel fumes emanating from his exhaust pipe.
Dec 14, 2025
Colombo (AFP) Dec 14, 2025 - Sri Lanka's parliament will interrupt its recess to fast-track financial aid needed for rebuilding after Cyclone Ditwah, which killed nearly 650 people, officials said Sunday.
Dec 14, 2025
Yangon, Myanmar (AFP) Dec 14, 2025 - Myanmar's military government lashed back on Sunday at international criticism that branded upcoming elections undemocratic, but also hinted junta chief Min Aung Hlaing could have a leadership role in the post-poll government.
Dec 14, 2025
New York (AFP) Dec 13, 2025 - The United States and Mexico reached an agreement on water-sharing on Friday, after President Donald Trump threatened new sanctions.
Dec 13, 2025
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 13, 2025 - Women who have fought their way to the top of the male-dominated wine sommelier world say their profession is becoming less sexist and more open - even if men continue to win all the prizes.
Dec 13, 2025
Aceh Tamiang, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 13, 2025 - Devastating floods and landslides have killed 1,006 people in Indonesia, rescuers said Saturday as the Southeast Asian nation grapples with the huge scale of relief efforts.
Dec 13, 2025
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 - The former head of Pakistan's powerful spy agency will appeal a 14-year hard labour sentence on charges including abuse of power, his lawyer said Friday, decrying a sham military trial.
Dec 12, 2025
