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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
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
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 28, 2025 - Between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, Earth's tectonic movement locked atmospheric carbon dioxide into carbonate minerals within oceanic crust, setting up conditions for oxygen-rich seas and evolvi
Oct 28, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Jamaican officials urged the public to get to higher ground and shelters ahead of Hurricane Melissa's expected landfall Tuesday, with the prime minister warning it could bring massive devastation.
Oct 28, 2025
Paris (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - The UN estimated Tuesday that nations' carbon-cutting pledges imply a far-from-sufficient 10-percent emissions cut by 2035, cautioning that it was unable to provide a robust global overview after most countries failed to submit their plans on time.
Oct 28, 2025
New Delhi Oct 28, 2025 - Heavy rain and gusty winds lashed India's southern coast as Cyclone Montha started to make landfall on Tuesday, officials said, disrupting flights and triggering waterlogging in low-lying areas.
Oct 28, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - China has opened a probe into Puma Shen, a prominent Taiwanese lawmaker it has previously sanctioned, for alleged criminal separatist activities, authorities said Tuesday.
Oct 28, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 28, 2025 - The U.S. military carried out strikes against four vessels in the Eastern Pacific, killing 14 people who were allegedly carrying drugs in known narco-trafficking routes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.
Oct 28, 2025
Quito (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa, a staunch US ally, said Tuesday the South American nation could host a foreign military base on the Galapagos Islands, famous for their unique flora and fauna.
Oct 28, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Zhao Yitang had always dreamed of playing football for China and this summer he finally did - not in boots on a pitch, but on a smartphone.
Oct 28, 2025
Yangon (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Parties approved to participate in Myanmar's junta-organised elections are set to start campaigning Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned at home and abroad as a ploy to legitimise military rule.
Oct 28, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Hurricane Melissa ripped up trees and knocked out power after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, inundating the island nation with rains that threaten flash floods and landslides.
Oct 28, 2025
Cuba (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Under sheets of rain and laden with possessions, residents of southeast Cuba fled inland Tuesday - escaping the peril of the coast before Hurricane Melissa's arrival.
Oct 28, 2025
Addis Ababa (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - The African Union chairman condemned on Tuesday alleged atrocities and reported war crimes in Sudan's strategic hub of El-Fasher and called for an immediate halt to fighting.
Oct 28, 2025
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Climate change will not lead to humanity's demise, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has said in a long memo in which he argued that tackling global disease and poverty will help prepare the planet's poorest for a warming world.
Oct 28, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Melissa could be the worst hurricane Jamaica has experienced since recordkeeping began - but some residents on the Caribbean island say they will believe it when they see it.
Oct 28, 2025
