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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2025 - A massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami off Russia in late July tested an experimental detection system that had deployed a critical component just the day before. A recent tsunami trigger
Sep 17, 2025
Missoula, United States (AFP) Sept 16, 2025 - Smoke-choked air that fills their lungs, floods threatening their homes and debilitating heat: a group of young Americans testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump's fossil-fuel push is trampling their inalienable rights.
Sep 16, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 16, 2025 - Australia and Papua New Guinea will not sign a long-awaited mutual defence treaty as expected on Wednesday, the two countries said.
Sep 16, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 16, 2025 - President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Monday to deploy U.S. National Guard troops into Tennessee to restore law and order in the city of Memphis.
Sep 16, 2025
Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - Roughly 100 days after Elon Musk's dramatic departure from the Trump White House, federal workers are still grappling with the lasting damage from his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Sep 15, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - Rising oceans and flooding caused by climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of more than a million Australians by 2050, while deaths from heat-related illness will soar, a landmark report warned Monday ahead of Canberra's release of emission reduction targets this week.
Sep 15, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - Denmark's defence minister attended a military exercise in Greenland on Monday with his Icelandic and Norwegian counterparts, the Danish defence ministry said, but the United States, which covets the Danish autonomous territory, was absent.
Sep 15, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people's health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday.
Sep 15, 2025
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - Brazil's Amazon rainforest has shrunk by an area as big as Spain over four decades and is nearing a dangerous tipping point, according to monitoring data released Monday.
Sep 15, 2025
Naousa, Greece (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 - In a small persimmon orchard in northern Greece, scientists carefully open paper bags to release thousands of flies, in an experiment aimed at blunting the destructive impact of invasive new species.
Sep 15, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) Sept 14, 2025 - Nepal's new leader vowed Sunday to follow protesters' demands to end corruption as she began work as interim prime minister, after Gen Z youth demonstrations ousted her predecessor.
Sep 14, 2025
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 14, 2025 - Multiple paramilitary drones attacked key army positions and civilian infrastructure in Sudan's south on Sunday, an army official told AFP, just a week after similar strikes hit the capital.
Sep 14, 2025
Kaliakra, Bulgaria (AFP) Sept 14, 2025 - Faced with rising Black Sea temperatures that suffocate his mussels, Bulgarian farmer Nayden Stanev has been forced to change his ways - shifting his seeding schedule and harvesting at cooler depths.
Sep 14, 2025
Macau (AFP) Sept 14, 2025 - Macau's first patriots only legislative polls on Sunday saw one of the worst turnout rates in recent years, preliminary results showed, after authorities disqualified a dozen candidates and arrested a former opposition lawmaker.
Sep 14, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2025 - China has condemned the passage of US and British warships through the Taiwan Strait, shortly after announcing its new aircraft carrier had transited through the sensitive waterway.
Sep 13, 2025
Sankt-Anna Am Aigen, Austria (AFP) Sept 13, 2025 - On a meadow in southeastern Austria near the border with Slovenia, Josef Hadler is working his tractor to mow several acres of land in a bid to better preserve the plot's biodiversity.
Sep 13, 2025
