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Santiago De Cuba, Cuba (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Hurricane Melissa bore down on the Bahamas Wednesday after cutting a path of destruction through the Caribbean, leaving 30 people dead or missing in Haiti and parts of Jamaica and Cuba in ruins.
Oct 29, 2025
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - The United States said Wednesday it has mobilized disaster relief teams to head to the Caribbean as Hurricane Melissa caused devastation in multiple island nations.
Oct 29, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - A US appeals court has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, as part of his sweeping crackdown on crime and immigration.
Oct 29, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - One year after historic floods killed 229 people in Valencia, the Spanish region's leader Carlos Mazon has faced mounting criticism over his handling of the disaster and defied calls to resign.
Oct 29, 2025
Yangon (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - One of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed opposition factions has agreed to a China-brokered withdrawal from a lucrative ruby mining hub, the group said on Wednesday.
Oct 29, 2025
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Pakistan said Wednesday that peace talks with Afghanistan had failed, in a blow to hopes for a lasting truce after the South Asian neighbours' deadliest border clashes in years.
Oct 29, 2025
Hanoi (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Flooding triggered by record heavy rains in central Vietnam this week killed at least four people and inundated more than 100,000 homes, the environment ministry said on Wednesday.
Oct 29, 2025
Paris (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Wealthy countries are failing to meet their promised targets to provide a funding lifeline to help poorer nations prepare for worsening climate calamities, the UN warned Wednesday.
Oct 29, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Hurricane Melissa ripped a path of destruction through Jamaica after making landfall as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record Tuesday, lashing the island nation with brutal winds and torrential rain before heading towards Cuba.
Oct 29, 2025
Washington (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - US President Donald Trump claimed victory Wednesday over what he called the hoax of climate change, after billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said a warming world would not end civilization.
Oct 29, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - Despite plummeting relations between Beijing and Washington, Shanghai resident Huang is determined that her daughter will complete her costly education in the United States.
Oct 29, 2025
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 29, 2025 - Sinking land is quietly destabilizing urban infrastructure in India's largest cities, putting thousands of buildings and millions of people at risk, according to Virginia Tech scientists. Grou
Oct 29, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 29, 2025 - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group engaged in a civil war with Sudan's military, has reportedly killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher after seizing the capital of the state of North Darfur on Sunday.
Oct 29, 2025
Cuba (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - A downgraded Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early on Wednesday after ripping a path of destruction across Jamaica, which authorities have designated a disaster area.
Oct 29, 2025
Miami (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a subsea human habitat.
Oct 29, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - High above Sydney's beaches, drones seek one of the world's deadliest predators, scanning for the flick of a tail, the swish of a fin or a shadow slipping through the swell.
Oct 29, 2025
