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Madrid (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 - A fourth Portuguese firefighter died of injuries sustained battling a wildfire Saturday as Spain slowly got the upper hand over fires that have scorched vast swathes of territory. Eight peop
Aug 23, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 - Spain has almost beaten back wildfires that have swept across the country this month, killing four people and ravaging huge swathes of land, the head of its civil protection and emergencies serv
Aug 23, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 - A journalist who works for Bloomberg News in Hong Kong said Saturday she has to leave the city after a foreign journalists' club revealed that authorities had denied renewal of her working visa.
Aug 23, 2025
Bamako (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 - Many civilians have fled the town of Farabougou in central Mali following a jihadist attack this week on a military camp, local and military sources told AFP on Saturday. Soldiers also evacu
Aug 23, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 23, 2025 - The Trump administration is deploying up to 1,700 National Guard troops to 19 states to assist with Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities.
Aug 23, 2025
New York (AFP) Aug 23, 2025 - Five passengers aboard a tourist bus were killed Friday when their driver got distracted and crashed on a New York state highway, police said. The wreck happened 25 miles (40 kilometers) eas
Aug 23, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Ten people were killed and four are missing after part of a bridge under construction collapsed on Friday in northwest China, state media reported. A video published by state broadcaster CC
Aug 22, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 - Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust orbiting our Sun. The asteroids we see today are some of the most complete artifacts of this formation le
Aug 22, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Niger's army has claimed to have killed Boko Haram leader Ibrahim Mahamadu, alias Bakura, without providing evidence, prompting caution from experts and a denial from the jihadist group. A
Aug 22, 2025
San Ciprián De Sanabria, Spain (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - As helicopters dump water over burning ridges and smoke billows across the mountains of northern Spain, residents from wildfire-stricken areas say they feel abandoned by the politicians meant to
Aug 22, 2025
Santiago (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - A 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled the Chilean Antarctic region and the southern Drake Passage on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said. There was no threat of a tsunami from the quake, wh
Aug 22, 2025
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Three members of the security forces in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region were killed and 19 wounded during the arrest of an opposition figure on Friday, security officials said. Lahur Shei
Aug 22, 2025
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Three members of the security forces in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region were killed and 19 wounded during the arrest of an opposition figure on Friday, two security officials told AFP.
Aug 22, 2025
Manila (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - The Philippines and Australia plan to sign a new pact to develop the Southeast Asian nation's military infrastructure, their defence chiefs said on Friday, as they seek to counter China's unila
Aug 22, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Taiwan's government aims to increase defence spending to five percent of GDP by 2030, President Lai Ching-te said Friday, as the United States pushes Taipei to invest more in its own security.
Aug 22, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - Rising global temperatures are having an ever-worsening impact on the health and productivity of workers, the United Nations said Friday, urging immediate action to tackle the dangers of heat st
Aug 22, 2025
