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Hilla, Iraq (AFP) July 25, 2025 - Hundreds of Iraqis protested Friday against severe water shortages exacerbated by the summer's sweltering heat in the central province of Babylon, an AFP correspondent said.
Jul 25, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 - Over the last 100,000 years, Australia's largest animals have undergone dramatic shifts due to waves of extinction and the arrival of invasive species, according to new research from Flinders Univer
Jul 24, 2025
Port Vila, Vanuatu (AFP) July 24, 2025 - The paramount chief of a volcanic island in Vanuatu said Thursday he was very impressed by a global court's declaration that countries must tackle climate change.
Jul 24, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 24, 2025 - Seismic data can distinguish between intact and fragmented fireball meteoroids during atmospheric entry, according to a new study published in Seismological Research Letters. Researchers led by Iona
Jul 24, 2025
Damascus (AFP) July 24, 2025 - Syria has rejected Kurdish demands to keep their weapons, a government source said Thursday, as a new round of talks on the Kurds' integration into the state was set to begin.
Jul 24, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) July 24, 2025 - President Mohamed Bazoum has been languishing for two years along with his wife in Niger's presidential palace since his ouster by a junta, which is using them as human shields to avert foreign military intervention to free them, according to the couple's lawyers.
Jul 24, 2025
Beijing (AFP) July 24, 2025 - China said Thursday it was deeply concerned over deadly clashes between Cambodia and Thailand, which mark a dramatic escalation of a long-running border row between the two neighbours.
Jul 24, 2025
Koatinemo, Brasil (AFP) July 24, 2025 - A ceramic pot and the shell of a turtle, once hunted for its meat, are the most recent traces of an Indigenous community thought to live deep in the north Brazilian Amazon.
Jul 24, 2025
Yangon (AFP) July 24, 2025 - Myanmar's junta claimed on Thursday to have ousted anti-coup rebels from a gold mining hub after a year-long battle, its second declared recapture of a key town in a week.
Jul 24, 2025
Manila (AFP) July 24, 2025 - The Philippines shut down schools and cancelled flights Thursday as typhoon-driven rains pounded the northern island of Luzon, a situation President Ferdinand Marcos called the new normal.
Jul 24, 2025
Rarotonga, Cook Islands (AFP) July 24, 2025 - Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.
Jul 24, 2025
Athens (AFP) July 24, 2025 - As temperatures inched towards 40C in Athens, a vegetable seller spontaneously handed a bottle of water to street musician Anna Gardere Nikolaki, a regular at this Athens food market.
Jul 24, 2025
Sydney (AFP) July 24, 2025 - A founding father of the Pacific climate movement on Thursday welcomed an international court's decision on global warming but said he fears for the future of his almost 30 grandchildren on low-lying Kiribati.
Jul 24, 2025
Colombo (AFP) July 24, 2025 - Sri Lanka's highest court on Thursday ordered a Singaporean shipping firm to pay US$1 billion in damages for causing the island's worst marine pollution when its vessel sank four years ago.
Jul 24, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) July 23, 2025 - Japan's northern island of Hokkaido sweltered on Wednesday as temperatures hit record highs in several towns and authorities issued heat stroke alerts across the country.
Jul 23, 2025
Washington (AFP) July 23, 2025 - Is drill, baby, drill compatible with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Jul 23, 2025
