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Ermelo, South Africa (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 - Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer. Instead, he now spends his days underground, swinging a pickaxe against rock in a pitch-black illegal mine that snakes for kilometres beneath South Africa's coal heartland.
Dec 12, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 - Former Iraqi president Barham Salih is set to become the next United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according to a document seen by AFP on Friday, taking over an agency tackling swingeing budget cuts.
Dec 12, 2025
Hwange, Zimbabwe (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 - In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each morning on a mission to help his community coexist with the elephants and predators that roam nearby.
Dec 12, 2025
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Dec 12, 2025 - Gaza's civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Dec 12, 2025
Abuja (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 - Some 200 Nigerian and Ivorian troops are in Benin as part of a security mission supporting the government after a weekend coup attempt, the country's foreign minister said Thursday.
Dec 11, 2025
Hanoi, Vietnam (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 - Toxic smog has blanketed Vietnam's capital for more than a week, blotting out the skyline and leaving residents wheezing as Hanoi's air quality dipped to among the world's worst on Thursday.
Dec 11, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 - Yes to rethinking childhood vaccines, but no to more chemicals in agriculture: supporters of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are in open revolt over the Trump administration's approval of new, highly persistent pesticides.
Dec 11, 2025
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 11, 2025 - Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbour valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a geoc
Dec 11, 2025
Tehran (AFP) Dec 11, 2025 - Tehran's first rains of the autumn, rare so late in the year, have brought relief to inhabitants suffering from a nationwide drought that has caused water shortages and degraded air quality.
Dec 11, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 10, 2025 - At his store in Tokyo's ritzy Ginza district, Hajime Sasaki displays a disparate array of wares, from chopsticks to Buddha statues - including many made of ivory.
Dec 10, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 10, 2025 - The US federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has deleted facts from its website about how human activity drives climate change, media outlets reported Tuesday.
Dec 10, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) Dec 10, 2025 - Brazilian lawmakers moved closer Tuesday toward changing the constitution to limit Indigenous peoples' rights over their ancestral lands, despite expert claims that they are a key bulwark against global warming.
Dec 10, 2025
Gir National Park, India (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 - A powerful roar rocked the forest before the silhouette of a lioness appeared at an Indian reserve, a potent image of how conservation efforts have brought the creatures back from the brink.
Dec 9, 2025
Cotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 - Several people died in Benin during a thwarted coup attempt on the weekend, the west African country's government announced Monday after an emergency cabinet meeting.
Dec 9, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 - US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose an additional five percent tariff on Mexico, alleging it is violating a water-sharing treaty.
Dec 9, 2025
Cotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 9, 2025 - Benin's military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several dead as other west African countries mobilised to offer military support.
Dec 9, 2025
