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Strasbourg, France (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - EU lawmakers are to give a final green light Tuesday to a law on slashing back the mountains of food wasted in Europe each year, and curbing the environmental impact of so-called fast fashion.
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
Washington (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - Locked up for more than four years and ailing, Hong Kong's pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai would only become a greater symbol if he died in prison, his son said.
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
Geneva (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - Uyghurs and rights advocates on Tuesday decried lame global action over a damning 2022 UN report detailing torture and sweeping abuses in China's Xinjiang region.
Sep 9, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, inaugurated in Ethiopia Tuesday, had to overcome financial, logistical and war-related challenges, the Italian construction magnate behind the scheme told AFP.
Sep 9, 2025
Guba, Ethiopia (AFP) Sept 9, 2025 - Ethiopia was set to inaugurate Africa's largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday that has promised to revolutionise the country's energy sector but sparked diplomatic rows with downstream neighbour Egypt.
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
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 9, 2025 - The world's 45-nation strong search and rescue system is being highlighted this week during the inaugural Global Search and Rescue Day, a time set aside to honor the many humanitarian efforts under the COSPAS-SARSAT global operations.
Sep 9, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - Spain will pay tribute to the victims of last year's floods with a state funeral marking the anniversary of its deadliest such disaster in decades, government sources said Monday.
Sep 8, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - People consuming more sugary drinks and ice cream on warmer days, particularly those with less money could pose a growing threat to health as climate change drives up temperatures, new research warned Monday.
Sep 8, 2025
Aegina, Greece (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - Four farmhands whacked a pistachio tree with sticks, and ripe nuts rained down onto tarps. The bounty seemed plentiful but the crew was unimpressed.
Sep 8, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 08life, 2025 - Using a new dataset covering more than 415 million buildings across 50 sub-Saharan nations, University of Chicago scientists have introduced a method to study urban growth at block level detail. The
Sep 8, 2025
Rabat (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - Survivors of Morocco's 2023 earthquake that killed nearly 3,000 people rallied in Rabat on Monday, demanding their houses be rebuilt as part of the government's reconstruction programme.
Sep 8, 2025
Washington (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth made surprise visits to Puerto Rico and a US Navy ship Monday as the United States employs military assets in the Caribbean to target drug cartels.
Sep 8, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - China on Monday announced its first ever sanctions against an individual Japanese lawmaker, targeting China-born Hei Seki for spreading fallacies on issues such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and disputed islands, prompting a protest from Tokyo.
Sep 8, 2025
