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Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily put on hold a lower court's order directing National Guard troops to leave the US capital next week.
Dec 4, 2025
Bissau (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Guinea-Bissau's military authorities on Thursday justified taking power in the small west African nation by arguing the country faced the risk of ethnic civil war after last month's elections.
Dec 4, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - European lawmakers and EU member states announced late Wednesday they had reached an agreement on developing plants obtained by so-called new genomic techniques.
Dec 4, 2025
Kandy, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Electrician V. K. Muthukrishnan ran to help when a lightning-fast mudslide flattened his neighbour's home in rural Sri Lanka - only to see his own house swept away minutes later.
Dec 4, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Denmark, which last year introduced a pioneering carbon tax on livestock farming, on Wednesday announced an agreement to cut nitrogen emissions from agriculture and curb water pollution.
Dec 3, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - New Delhi recorded more than 200,000 cases of acute respiratory illnesses at six state-run hospitals between 2022 and 2024, government numbers showed, highlighting the adverse effects of toxic air on health.
Dec 3, 2025
Qandil Mountains, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - A Kurdish militant picks his way along a switchback road in Iraq's mountains before pulling over to alert his comrades in a nearby hidden bunker that they are about to have company.
Dec 3, 2025
Oslo (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Norway on Wednesday postponed the first licences to permit deep-sea mining in its Arctic waters for four years, a delay environmentalists hope signals the nail in the coffin of the plans.
Dec 3, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that a large-scale attack by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a refugee camp earlier this year must be investigated for war crimes.
Dec 3, 2025
Erbil, Iraq (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - The United States inaugurated a new mega consulate on Wednesday in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
Dec 3, 2025
Cairo (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - The already Herculean task of putting an end to the long-running war in Sudan is being further complicated by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's complex relationship with Islamists, whom he relies upon for support.
Dec 3, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Indonesia's government is resisting growing pressure to declare a national disaster over devastating floods that killed hundreds of people and laid waste to parts of Sumatra island.
Dec 3, 2025
London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 - Spire Global has been selected by GIST Research to supply satellite-derived Soil Moisture Insights for a project that links climate conditions to pastoralist movements and conflict risks in Ethiopia
Dec 3, 2025
Bogotá (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - The family of a Colombian man killed in a US military strike on his boat in the Caribbean has lodged a complaint against the United States with a Washington-based rights panel.
Dec 3, 2025
Abuja (AFP) Dec 2, 2025 - Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday nominated former top military commander General Christopher Musa as new minister of defence as the country grapples with a wave of mass kidnappings.
Dec 2, 2025
Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2025 - The United States has only just begun targeting alleged drug-trafficking boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Tuesday, despite a growing outcry over strikes that critics say amount to extrajudicial killings.
Dec 2, 2025
