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Jalalabad, Afghanistan (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 - A series of strong aftershocks from a deadly earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan at the weekend injured at least another 10 people and caused further damage, Taliban authorities said on Friday.
Sep 5, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 - China said Friday it would impose temporary anti-dumping duties on European Union pork imports, delivering another blow to shaky ties between the economic powerhouses as Brussels vowed to protect its producers.
Sep 5, 2025
Seoul (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 - An unprecedented drought has led a South Korean coastal city to significantly restrict water use in many people's homes, close public restrooms and scrap sports events, officials said Friday, underscoring the country's climate woes.
Sep 5, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 5, 2025 - Rising sea levels could flood more than 50 archaeological sites on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, by 2080 - including the iconic Ahu Tongariki, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii
Sep 5, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 5, 2025 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched five small, uncrewed research vessels off the U.S. Virgin Islands to better understand how hurricanes develop and behave.
Sep 5, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - Two blockbuster events in China this week were a successful exposition of President Xi Jinping's vision of a new world order - one that puts him and his country firmly at its centre while sidelining his rival the United States.
Sep 4, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - One of Australia's most decorated soldiers on Thursday lost his final legal bid in a years-long defamation case against three national newspapers which had implicated him in war crimes while serving in Afghanistan.
Sep 4, 2025
Geneva Sept 4, 2025 - France and Switzerland on Thursday signed two agreements on how to manage their shared waters of Lake Geneva and the River Rhone - an increasingly pressing issue as climate change takes its toll.
Sep 4, 2025
Bamako (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - Mali said Thursday it had filed an application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Algeria, accusing it of having shot down one of its military drones.
Sep 4, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - Human-caused climate change made the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled deadly wildfires in Spain and Portugal last month 40 times more likely, researchers said Thursday.
Sep 4, 2025
San Pedro, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock in the Port of Los Angeles, silently converting the power of the sea into usable electricity.
Sep 4, 2025
Nurgal, Afghanistan (AFP) Sept 4, 2025 - Volunteers and rescuers were pulling more bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, four days after an earthquake that inflicted a death toll that was already at nearly 1,470 people, Taliban authorities said.
Sep 4, 2025
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - A judge in Honduras ordered three men to stand trial for the murder last year of an enviromental activist who opposed the digging of a strip mine in a nature reserve.
Sep 3, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade of military might in Beijing on Wednesday, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West.
Sep 3, 2025
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - Hope faded Wednesday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend's powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as emergency services struggled to reach remote villages.
Sep 3, 2025
Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - A winged lion sculpture that symbolises the Italian city of Venice was made in China and went on a remarkable journey that possibly involved explorer Marco Polo's father and the court of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, researchers suggested Thursday.
Sep 3, 2025
