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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Hong Kong lawmakers are expected to vote Wednesday on whether to grant limited rights to same-sex couples, as fears grow in the LGBTQ community that even this narrow equality bid could be sunk by conservative pro-Beijing voices.
Sep 10, 2025
Honiara (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Pacific Island leaders issued a call for an ocean of peace on Wednesday, urging respect for their sovereignty at a summit clouded by China's alleged meddling and great power competition in the strategically vital region.
Sep 10, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - China said Wednesday it would establish a national nature reserve at the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, where it has repeatedly clashed with rival claimant the Philippines.
Sep 10, 2025
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Iraq's Euphrates river is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity in living memory.
Sep 10, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Fossil fuel and cement producers have contributed significantly to the growing number and intensity of climate-change-driven heatwaves, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature.
Sep 10, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Australian regulators have approved a chlamydia vaccine for koalas, researchers said Wednesday, as they seek to stamp out a sexually transmitted disease responsible for about half of all deaths of the fluffy marsupial in the wild.
Sep 10, 2025
The Hague (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - The main defence lawyer for Ugandan rebel chief Joseph Kony Wednesday urged International Criminal Court judges to freeze the case against his client, as he cannot challenge evidence in his absence.
Sep 10, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Earth's building blocks were far wetter than previously imagined, new analysis of tiny samples from a distant asteroid has suggested, overturning long-held assumptions about the early solar system.
Sep 10, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Nigerien authorities must do more to protect civilians against deadly attacks by the Islamic State Sahel Province, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Sep 10, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - A South African court sentenced seven Chinese nationals to 20 years in prison Wednesday for forcing more than 90 Malawians, some as young as 14, to work in a Johannesburg sweatshop.
Sep 10, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Flash floods swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, killing at least six people, with four others missing, the country's disaster agency said Wednesday.
Sep 10, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Conflict monitoring group ACLED said Wednesday its sources in Mozambique reported that troops shot and killed at least 16 fishermen in an area where they are chasing Islamist insurgents.
Sep 10, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), inaugurated on Tuesday, ranks 15th in the world for power generation with a capacity of 5,150 megawatts (MW), according to the US-based Global Energy Monitor.
Sep 9, 2025
Athens (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck off the Greek island of Evia early on Tuesday and was felt in Athens, authorities said.
Sep 9, 2025
Strasbourg, France (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - The EU's climate chief said Tuesday he was positive the bloc could agree on its 2040 climate plans before a key UN summit in November, despite divisions among states.
Sep 9, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday named defence minister Sebastien Lecornu as the new prime minister to replace Francois Bayrou and resolve a deepening political crisis as protests loom in the next days.
Sep 9, 2025
