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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
Paris Aug 5, 2025 - Record heat, massive fires, deadly floods... August has barely begun, but the summer of 2025 is already marked by a cascade of destructive and deadly weather in the northern hemisphere.
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
London (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - High-speed winds disrupted trains and blew over trees in Scotland and northern England where residents were advised against travelling as an unusually fierce summer storm hit the UK on Monday.
Aug 4, 2025
Rome (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - Italy's competition watchdog said Monday it has fined the company responsible for Shein's websites in Europe one million euros ($1.15 million) for false and confusing claims about the e-commerce giant's efforts to be environmentally green.
Aug 4, 2025
Helsinki (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - Nordic countries are relieved after battling an exceptional heatwave which shattered the hopes of foreigners seeking to cool off in the far north - a disappointment meteorologists warn is likely to be repeated.
Aug 4, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - A replica of Auguste Rodin's famous sculpture The Thinker outside the United Nations headquarters was being slowly submerged in plastic rubbish Monday as countries gathered in a bid to finalise a global treaty on plastic pollution.
Aug 4, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - Spanish police said on Monday they had seized dozens of carvings made from the ivory tusks of endangered African and Asian elephants as part of a smuggling and environmental crimes investigation.
Aug 4, 2025
Prato, Italy (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy's storied textile hub of Prato.
Aug 4, 2025
Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - Atop air strikes, displacement and hunger, an unprecedented water crisis is unfolding across Gaza, heaping further misery on the Palestinian territory's residents.
Aug 4, 2025
Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - Plastic pollution is a grave, growing and under-recognised danger to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.
Aug 4, 2025
Algiers (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 - At a beach near Algiers, brown algae native to the Pacific Ocean cover the golden sand, posing a threat to ecosystems native to the area and their stench repelling swimmers at the peak of summer.
Aug 4, 2025
Moscow (AFP) Aug 3, 2025 - A volcano erupted for the first time in 450 years in Russia's eastern Kamchatka region, the nation's emergency authority said Sunday, days after one of the strongest earthquakes on record hit the region.
Aug 3, 2025
Mogadishu (AFP) Aug 3, 2025 - International peacekeepers are battling radical Islamist fighters to retake a strategic Somali town, the African Union mission in the country said on Sunday.
Aug 3, 2025
Barcelona (AFP) Aug 3, 2025 - Spain and Portugal on Sunday braced for a fresh heatwave set to sweep the Iberian peninsula, with Lisbon warning of a very high risk of wildfires.
Aug 3, 2025
Lisbon (AFP) Aug 2, 2025 - Portugal's government on Saturday issued an alert warning of a heatwave with a high risk of fires in large parts of the country in the coming days.
Aug 2, 2025
