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Zurich (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Wednesday.
Aug 6, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - China has extended a months-long investigation into whether beef imports had harmed the domestic industry, the commerce ministry said Wednesday.
Aug 6, 2025
Cesme, Turkey (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Ali Alyanak and his neighbours in Turkey's tourist hub Izmir now have to draw water from a shrinking aquifer 170 metres underground even as hotel pools remain full - a sign for many of the region's dire water crisis amid prolonged drought.
Aug 5, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - China said on Tuesday it would introduce free pre-school education from the autumn, as the world's second most populous nation seeks to boost childbirth in the face of a looming demographic crisis.
Aug 5, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025 - The Department of the Interior announced Tuesday it has approved a mining plan modification for the Rosebud Mine in Montana.
Aug 5, 2025
Helsinki (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - A record-long heatwave in Finland has caused suffering and even deaths of reindeer, prompting alarm among herders as temperatures remained above 25C on Tuesday.
Aug 5, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025 - Argentine scientists have identified about 40 marine species - many previously unknown to science - while leading one of the most significant oceanographic expeditions in the South Atlantic.
Aug 5, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Countries were to start the clock Tuesday on 10 days of talks aimed at hammering out a landmark global treaty on combating the scourge of plastic pollution.
Aug 5, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Thousands of families trapped in a besieged city in war-torn Sudan's west are at risk of starvation, the World Food Programme warned on Tuesday.
Aug 5, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Japan logged two new heat records in a day on Tuesday, with the mercury hitting 41.6C and then 41.8C, the weather office said, warning temperatures may rise further still.
Aug 5, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - The 184 countries gathering to forge a landmark treaty on combating plastic pollution were told Tuesday they must find a way to tackle a global crisis wrecking ecosystems and trashing the oceans.
Aug 5, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, after the highest-tier rainstorm warning was issued for the fourth time in eight days.
Aug 5, 2025
Hanoi (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Northern Vietnam is sweltering under a blistering heatwave, with 17 places across seven provinces reporting record highs for the month of August and electricity demand spiking as people try to stay cool, authorities said Tuesday.
Aug 5, 2025
Villebois-Les-Pins, France (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Carrying staffs like shepherds, Sophie Morice-Couteau and Geoffroy Galliot inspect the nets of a sheepfold on a steep slope in the Baronnies massif, part of their daily mission to keep wolves away.
Aug 5, 2025
Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Israel said it culled 200 crocodiles at an abandoned farm on a settlement in the occupied West Bank, reporting the animals had resorted to cannibalism and posed a significant risk to humans.
Aug 5, 2025
Kharo Chan, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother's grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan's Indus delta.
Aug 5, 2025
