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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2025 - A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University has revealed that the North Atlantic Ocean holds an estimated 27 million ton
Jul 14, 2025
Bushmills, United Kingdom (AFP) July 13, 2025 - Northern Ireland's Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks - to bring love or luck - is damaging the world-famous wonder.
Jul 13, 2025
Sydney (AFP) July 13, 2025 - Australia's government said Sunday it expects China to spy on major military drills it is conducting with the United States and other allies.
Jul 13, 2025
Santo Domingo (AFP) July 13, 2025 - Rescue teams on Saturday resumed their search in difficult conditions for some 20 migrants missing after a boat capsized off the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic.
Jul 13, 2025
Freetown (AFP) July 13, 2025 - Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island - a lush forest home to one of the world's highest concentrations of primates - landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency's World Heritage list.
Jul 13, 2025
Bissau (AFP) July 13, 2025 - The Bijagos Archipelago off the coast of west Africa was declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural agency on Sunday, in recognition of its exceptional biodiversity and rich local traditions.
Jul 13, 2025
Damascus (AFP) July 13, 2025 - Syria's civil defence agency on Sunday said wildfires in the country's west, which have burned vast tracts of forest and farmland and forced evacuations, had been brought under control after 10 days.
Jul 13, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 13, 2025 - French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that freedom in Europe was currently under a greater threat than at any point since the end of World War II.
Jul 13, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) July 12, 2025 - Fast-spreading wildfires have forced the evacuation of part of the Grand Canyon, with the US National Park Service ordering visitors and residents away from its northern rim.
Jul 12, 2025
Barcelona (AFP) July 12, 2025 - Barcelona adopted plans Wednesday to tighten safety rules to protect sanitation workers from heatwaves after a woman died in the searing temperatures that have hit Spain and much of Europe.
Jul 12, 2025
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) July 11, 2025 - Thirty PKK fighters destroyed their weapons at a symbolic ceremony in Iraqi Kurdistan on Friday, two months after the Kurdish rebels ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish state.
Jul 11, 2025
Klaipeda, Lithuania (AFP) July 11, 2025 - The grey seals slide out of their cages into the Baltic Sea near the Lithuanian coast, swimming off to new lives imperilled by climate change, pollution and shrinking fish stocks.
Jul 11, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2025 - Researchers at Zhejiang University have leveraged AI to reconstruct the chemical composition of Earth's earliest continental crust, offering a rare glimpse into the Hadean eon over 4.4 billion years
Jul 11, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 11, 2025 - Scientists believe an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.
Jul 11, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 11, 2025 - War crimes are likely being committed in Sudan, with rape and sexual violence being used as weapons, the International Criminal Court said in a report to the United Nations.
Jul 11, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2025 - A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has delivered the first images of an uncharted section of the seafloor near the Mariana Trench, in a mission led by the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Instit
Jul 11, 2025
