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Paris (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data.
Aug 25, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Indonesia and the United States launched joint military drills on Monday that will last more than a week, joining allies from 11 countries in exercises aimed at ensuring stability in the Asia-Pa
Aug 25, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Using a crutch to bear her weight, 85-year-old Molly Aluoch trudges from her mud-walled room on the outskirts of a sprawling Nairobi slum, shouldering a sack of used plastic to exchange for a sh
Aug 25, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 - A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that geological epochs and periods, while seemingly random, actually follow a hidden hierarchical structure. The wo
Aug 25, 2025
Lisbon (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Nearly 1,000 firefighters remained mobilised Monday in central Portugal to prevent flare-ups of what authorities said was the biggest forest fire the country has seen - ravaging an area more th
Aug 25, 2025
Vinh, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Vietnam evacuated tens of thousands of residents from coastal areas on Monday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Kajiki, which is expected to lash the country's central belt with gales of around 14
Aug 25, 2025
Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 - A Stanford-led study overturns a long-held belief that vegetation was solely responsible for transforming ancient braided rivers into meandering forms. Geologists had assumed land plants stabilized
Aug 25, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - China saw a surge in new coal power in the first half of the year even as the country added record levels of clean energy capacity, according to a report published Monday. Coal has been a pi
Aug 25, 2025
Shubra Balula, Egypt (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and th
Aug 25, 2025
Vinh, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Vietnam's central belt was lashed by Typhoon Kajiki on Monday, with at least one person killed by deluges and gales howling more than 130 kilometres per hour, as tens of thousands of residents w
Aug 25, 2025
Vinh, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Vietnam evacuated tens of thousands of residents from coastal areas on Monday as Typhoon Kajiki made landfall, lashing the country's central belt with gales of more than 130 kilometres per hour.
Aug 25, 2025
Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 - Over 180 current and former employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) expressed outrage on Monday at Trump administration policies, in an open letter marking the twentieth a
Aug 25, 2025
Mexico City (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 - Two people died in central Mexico from flooding caused by heavy rains, local authorities said Saturday, as severe downpours continued to batter parts of the country. Two bodies were found in
Aug 24, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 - The chirping of birds echoed through a packed lecture hall in Hong Kong, though there wasn't a feather in sight. Residents, some pressing the sides of their throats or contorting their bodie
Aug 24, 2025
Lagos (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 - Nigeria's police service said Sunday it had extradited a Chinese gang leader wanted in his home country for organised violent crime, in an operation conducted with Interpol. A police statem
Aug 24, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 - A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was the most intense on record, the national meteorological agency said on Sunday. With forest fires still burning across northern and western S
Aug 24, 2025
