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Paris (AFP) July 29, 2025 - French health experts and patient associations on Tuesday urged authorities to protect the public from a bee-killing pesticide, saying the chemical could also harm children and adults.
Jul 29, 2025
Cairo (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A ministerial meeting on the Sudan war between the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt was postponed on Tuesday after a disagreement over the final joint statement, two diplomatic sources told AFP.
Jul 29, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2025 - Citing unprecedented technological challenges, Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on Tuesday it has put off the removal of hundreds of tons of radioactive waste from the tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear power plant until 2037.
Jul 29, 2025
Conakry (AFP) July 29, 2025 - Fifteen people have died in Guinea since late June in flooding caused by torrential rain in the west African country, according to a government report.
Jul 29, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A massive operation to remove hundreds of tonnes of radioactive debris from Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed until at least 2037, the operator said Tuesday.
Jul 29, 2025
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 29, 2025 - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year to their highest level since Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Tuesday.
Jul 29, 2025
Miyun, China (AFP) July 29, 2025 - Heavy rain killed more than 30 people and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands as swaths of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that sparked landslides and flooding, state media said Tuesday.
Jul 29, 2025
Taipei (AFP) July 29, 2025 - Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has not been blocked from visiting the United States, Taipei's foreign ministry said Tuesday, insisting he has no plans to travel overseas in the near future.
Jul 29, 2025
Turkey (AFP) July 29, 2025 - Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: There were glaciers 10 years ago, he recalled under a cloudless sky.
Jul 29, 2025
Chiang Mai, Thailand (AFP) July 29, 2025 - Behind a car repair business on a nondescript Thai street are the cherished pets of a rising TikTok animal influencer: two lions and a 200-kilogram lion-tiger hybrid called Big George.
Jul 29, 2025
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2025 - President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday moved to reverse a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles and, more broadly, to combat climate change.
Jul 29, 2025
Hanoi (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A weekend flash flood in Vietnam's mountainous north killed five people, authorities said Tuesday, while another person remains missing after the deluge.
Jul 29, 2025
Tunis (AFP) July 28, 2025 - A towel draped over his head, Hamza Jabbari sets bags of plastic bottles onto a scale. He is among Tunisia's barbechas, informal plastic recyclers whose increasing numbers reflect the country's economic - and migratory - woes.
Jul 28, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 28, 2025 - The US administration's decision to destroy nearly $10 million worth of women's contraception products has sparked furious condemnation from doctors and aid groups, who have slammed the move as a wasteful attack on women's rights.
Jul 28, 2025
Colombo (AFP) July 28, 2025 - Sri Lankan investigators arrested a former navy chief on Monday over the abduction and disappearance of a suspect 15 years ago, a police officer told AFP.
Jul 28, 2025
Lisbon (AFP) July 28, 2025 - Four Spanish planes on Monday joined more than 250 Portuguese firefighters battling a blaze in an isolated mountain region near their border, authorities said.
Jul 28, 2025
