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Cordova, Maryland, United States (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - The US soybean harvest is underway and in rural Maryland, farmer Travis Hutchison cracks open a pod to show how a field is nearly dry enough for reaping.
Oct 13, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - Three appeals' court magistrates in Burkina Faso and two senior journalists from leading private daily newspapers have been kidnapped or reported missing, a media organisation, a friend and a legal source said Monday.
Oct 13, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
Oct 13, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2025 - Madagascar's president has fled the country, according to reports, after thousands of protesters converged on the capital Monday to demand his resignation.
Oct 13, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors.
Oct 13, 2025
Huauchinango, Mexico (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - Standing near the lifeless body of her sister, Rosalia Ortega was grateful to have found her in the river of mud that suddenly swept away her house as torrential rains pounded her Mexican mountain town.
Oct 13, 2025
Kon Chukurbashi, Tajikistan (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting - yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last?
Oct 13, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis.
Oct 13, 2025
St.Petersburg, FL (SPX) Oct 13, 2025 - A team of scientists has uncovered a rare isotope in microscopic fossils, offering fresh evidence that ocean ecosystems may be more resilient than once feared. In a new study co-led by Patrick
Oct 13, 2025
Wellington (AFP) Oct 13, 2025 - Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand's government of full-blown climate denial after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
Oct 13, 2025
Antananarivo (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - Madagascar's armed forces minister on Sunday recognised as new head of the army an officer chosen by a military contingent siding with protesters demanding the departure of President Andry Rajoelina.
Oct 12, 2025
Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.
Oct 12, 2025
Harwich, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United States withdraws.
Oct 12, 2025
Tunis (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - Activists in Tunisia on Sunday called for the closure of facilities at a chemical factory in Gabes, in the country's south, amid protests by local residents over dozens of cases of poisoning linked to the site.
Oct 12, 2025
Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - France's President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a new government on Sunday, after marathon talks to cobble together a cabinet and prevent the country from slipping deeper into a political crisis.
Oct 12, 2025
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 12, 2025 - Key border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan were closed on Sunday after fierce clashes erupted overnight following Taliban accusations that Islamabad had carried out air strikes this week, officials said.
Oct 12, 2025
