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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 30, 2012 - Giving gifts is crucial if you want to get ahead in Chinese politics or business, but what do you do when you don't know whether your boss is about to be promoted or tossed out of a job?
Jun 26, 2026
Mexico City (AFP) Sept 22, 2017 - Erika Albarran, a 33-year-old street vendor, was feeding her baby when the 7.1-magnitude quake struck Mexico City.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - The pristine turquoise waters of Lake Geneva may appear serene, but lurking below are piles of bombs, cartridges and possibly even chemical weapons discarded decades ago.
Jun 26, 2026
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - The high seas treaty aims to protect marine life in ocean waters worldwide that no country can claim as its own.
Jun 26, 2026
Miami (AFP) Sept 9, 2017 - The biggest threat to human life during a hurricane is often the storm surge, which occurs when sea level rises dramatically during a storm, sending a wall of water gushing over land.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 - A once-exotic word that has now entered everyday use as a term tinged with fear, a tsunami refers to a shock of water propagated through the sea, usually after an undersea quake.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 13, 2012 - The world's all-time heat record lowered a tad on Thursday, as the World Meteorological Organisation declared a phenomenal 58 degrees Celsius (136.4 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded in Libya 90 years ago was wrong.
Jun 26, 2026
Portoroz, Slovenia (AFP) Sept 18, 2014 - The world's whaling watchdog agreed Thursday to toughen scrutiny of Antarctic hunts which Japan conducts in the name of science, but rejected a bid to expand protection in the South Atlantic.
Jun 26, 2026
Portoroz, Slovenia (AFP) Sept 15, 2014 - The International Whaling Commission (IWC) gave aboriginal Greenlanders the go-ahead Monday to kill hundreds of whales even as Iceland came under fire for contravening a ban on commercial hunting.
Jun 26, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 1, 2008 - Japan, under fire overseas for whaling it justifies as research, has released its findings -- whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce.
Jun 26, 2026
Florianopolis, Brazil (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 - Supporters and opponents of whale hunting were at loggerheads late Wednesday at a meeting of the 89-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Brazil.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 13, 2014 - Nations will square off in Slovenia next week over the fate of hundreds of whales in the crosshairs of Japanese and Greenland hunters accused of sidestepping a commercial killing ban.
Jun 26, 2026
Sammu Khan Bhanbro, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 3, 2022 - Pakistan's farmers are still counting their losses from the devastating floods that have put a third of the country under water, but the long-term impact is already clear.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 - Wetlands, among the world's most valuable and biodiverse ecosystems, are disappearing at alarming speed amid urbanisation and agriculture shifts, conservationists said Thursday, calling for urgent action to halt the erosion.
Jun 26, 2026
Mogadishu (AFP) Sept 29, 2008 - US Navy ships Monday surrounded a ship seized by Somali pirates carrying tanks and other weapons, amid confusion about the cargo's destination and reports the ship's captain had died.
Jun 26, 2026
Hemet, United States (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 - A ferocious heat wave scorching the western United States could finally begin to wane in the coming days, forecasters said Wednesday, but they warned of dangerous fire conditions as howling winds sweep through the bone-dry region.
Jun 26, 2026
