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In Egypt's Wadi al-Gemal, where swimmers share a glistening bay with sea turtles, a shadowy tourism deal is threatening one of the Red Sea's last wild shores.
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
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
Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2025 - Mississippi will send some 200 National Guard personnel to Washington, its governor said Monday, where they will join hundreds more from other Republican-led states to double the number of troop
Aug 18, 2025
Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling on Canberra to do more for those who remain jailed.
Aug 17, 2025
Seven villages on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula flanking the Dardanelles Strait were evacuated as firefighters battled a raging wildfire propelled by high winds, officials said.
Aug 17, 2025
Next to small bundles of belongings, Maruf waited for a car to take him and his family away from their village in northern Afghanistan, where drought-ridden land had yielded nothing for years.
Aug 17, 2025
More than 250 people were evacuated overnight as a wildfire raged on the Gallipoli peninsula flanking the Dardanelles Strait, where Turkish firefighters were battling Sunday to quench the blaze, officials said.
Aug 17, 2025
Over four decades of war, Afghanistan wielded limited control over five major river basins that flow across its borders into downstream neighbouring nations.
Aug 17, 2025
A flash flood in Inner Mongolia killed eight people and left four missing, Chinese state media said Sunday.
Aug 17, 2025
A flash flood in Inner Mongolia killed nine people and left three missing, Chinese state media said Sunday.
Aug 17, 2025
In a remote Afghan village, women strap yellow plastic jerry cans to donkeys and travel every day down a dusty canyon to collect as much water as they can.
Aug 17, 2025
More than 150 people are missing in northwest Pakistan, the head of the provincial disaster authority said Sunday, after flash floods that have killed at least 344 people in the country.
Aug 17, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2025 - For many earthquake scenarios in Alaska, an early warning system could deliver at least 10 seconds of advance notice before hazardous shaking begins, according to researchers at the University of Al
Aug 16, 2025
Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 321 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Saturday.
Aug 16, 2025
