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Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - The European Union will seek to postpone by another year the implementation of a sweeping anti-deforestation law opposed by some businesses and trading partners, the bloc's environment chief said Tuesday.
Sep 23, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - He mocked renewables as a joke, praised clean, beautiful coal and declared climate change the greatest con job ever.
Sep 23, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - Hong Kong shut schools and cancelled flights on Tuesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa neared the financial centre with a force that officials warned would be among the most destructive in the city's recent history.
Sep 23, 2025
Singapore (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - A Singapore shipping company told AFP on Tuesday it will refuse to pay Sri Lankan court-ordered damages of US$1 billion for causing that country's worst case of environmental pollution.
Sep 23, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - Hotspots of water scarcity could emerge by the 2020s and 2030s across the Mediterranean, southern Africa, and North America, as climate change intensifies droughts, a new study said Tuesday.
Sep 23, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - Four people were killed in flooding in central Thailand, the nation's disaster agency said Tuesday, with more heavy rain forecast this week during the annual monsoon.
Sep 23, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - Vanuatu's interior minister has said China will donate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of police equipment to the Pacific island nation, local media reported Tuesday, as Beijing deepens its influence in the region.
Sep 23, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2025 - Chinese President Xi Jinping began a rare visit Tuesday to the northwest region of Xinjiang, home to numerous ethnic groups including Turkic-speaking Uyghurs, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Sep 23, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2025 - More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll climate change is having on the continent.
Sep 22, 2025
Manila (AFP) Sept 22, 2025 - Anxious Filipino parents braved the rain outside Manila's police headquarters Monday, after more than 200 people - including dozens of children - were arrested in clashes that erupted during weekend anti-corruption demonstrations.
Sep 22, 2025
Tours, France (AFP) Sept 22, 2025 - Two pandas at a zoo in central France will return to China in November after the female was diagnosed with kidney failure, the park's director told AFP on Monday.
Sep 22, 2025
Kinshasa (AFP) Sept 22, 2025 - Intense clashes between anti-government M23 fighters and armed forces have taken place in eastern DR Congo in recent days including over a gold mining town, locals and security sources said Monday.
Sep 22, 2025
Montreal (AFP) Sept 22, 2025 - Biodiversity in Canada has plunged 10 percent over the last half century, with hundreds of species facing extinction, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in a report Monday.
Sep 22, 2025
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 - Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other facilities worldwide have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the final target of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, is s
Sep 22, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2025 - The Taliban government has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to regain control of Bagram Air Base, which the United States abandoned to the Afghan government during its military withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country four years ago.
Sep 22, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 - A research team led by the University of Tokyo has discovered that liquid water flowed on the ancient parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than a billion years after its birth. The finding,
Sep 22, 2025
