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Washington (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Hurricane Erin weakened to Category 2 on Tuesday but continues to threaten part of the US East Coast with life-threatening flooding, forecasters said. The storm, which underwent historically
Aug 19, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - More than 1,100 deaths in Spain have been linked to a 16-day heatwave that ended Monday, according to an estimate released Tuesday by the Carlos III Health Institute. Officials reported 1,14
Aug 19, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Australia was Tuesday investigating whether Pacific microstate Nauru breached a security treaty by inking a lucrative business deal with a Chinese company. Nauru last week announced it had s
Aug 19, 2025
San Salvador (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - El Salvador's new education minister Karla Trigueros - a military officer with a flair for camouflage - ordered the country's public schools on Monday to mandate clean uniforms and appropri
Aug 19, 2025
London (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Hotspots of bacteria and phosphorus at England's most famous lake must be addressed urgently, the authors of a study into its water quality warned on Tuesday. Volunteers collected 1,020 samp
Aug 19, 2025
Bar Dalori, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Rescuers and residents resumed searching on Tuesday for survivors as the death toll from five days of torrential rain rose to almost 400, with authorities warning monsoon downpours would continu
Aug 19, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree
Aug 19, 2025
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region handed down a new prison term on Tuesday to jailed investigative journalist Sherwan Sherwani, his lawyer said, just before he was due to complet
Aug 19, 2025
Bar Dalori, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - In the middle of the night, by the glow of their mobile phones, rescuers and villagers dug through the concrete remains of flattened houses after massive rocks crashed down on a remote Pakistani
Aug 19, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Spain still faces difficult hours ahead in its fight against wildfires that have ravaged a record area of land, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned Tuesday, despite the onset of cooler weather
Aug 19, 2025
Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan.
Aug 18, 2025
Rain on Monday halted search and rescue operations in northern Pakistan after flash floods that have killed nearly 350 people with around 200 still missing, officials said.
Aug 18, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 18, 2025 - New research using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed that water in comet 12P/Pons-Brooks closely matches the composition of Earth's oceans, bolstering theories tha
Aug 18, 2025
Hong Kong prosecutors on Monday began closing arguments in the trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, arguing he had shown "unwavering intent" to ask for foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China.
Aug 18, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 18, 2025 - Hong Kong police said Monday they have arrested two people over a suspected scam involving a water supplier that may have cheated the government in a contract worth nearly $7 million. A comp
Aug 18, 2025
London (AFP) Aug 18, 2025 - Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city's independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, has been granted asylum in the UK.
Aug 18, 2025
