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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
Sydney (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - China set off alarm bells in New Zealand when it dispatched powerful warships on unprecedented missions in the South Pacific without explanation, according to military documents obtained by AFP.
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
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
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
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is being removed, a senior defense official said Friday - the latest in a series of top officers to be fired this year. The removal of L
Aug 22, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 - A Southwest Research Institute study of near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu provides compelling evidence that both objects originated from the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt be
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
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - National Guard troops will soon carry weapons in Washington, DC, where President Donald Trump ordered their deployment as part of a crackdown on crime, a US defense official said Friday. Tru
Aug 22, 2025
Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2025 - The head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is being removed, a senior defense official said Friday - the latest in a series of top officers to be fired this year. The removal of L
Aug 22, 2025
Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - Hurricane Erin brought coastal flooding to parts of North Carolina and Virginia as it made its closest approach to the US mainland early Thursday. High waves washed over Highway 12 that link
Aug 21, 2025
Conakry (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - At least 15 people were killed in a landslide near the Guinean capital, Conakry, a hospital source told AFP on Thursday. The landslide happened on Wednesday night in the Maneah area after he
Aug 21, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - Taiwan's government plans to increase its 2026 defence budget to more than three percent of GDP, the premier said Thursday, as it faces US pressure to invest more in its own protection. Tai
Aug 21, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - President Xi Jinping attended a grand ceremony in Lhasa on Thursday during a rare visit to Tibet, where he urged ethnic unity and religious harmony in a region where China is accused of rights
Aug 21, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Aug 21, 2025 - Taiwan's government plans to increase its 2026 defence budget to more than three percent of GDP, the premier said Thursday, as it faces US pressure to invest more in its own protection. The
Aug 21, 2025
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 - In a towering aquarium in a darkened laboratory, moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) hover as if floating in space. The glow of neon lights illuminates their translucent, bell-shaped bodies as the
Aug 21, 2025
