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Rome (AFP) June 29, 2025 - Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing temperatures from Spain to Portugal, Italy and France climbed higher in the summer's first major heatwave.
Jun 29, 2025
Islamabad (AFP) June 29, 2025 - Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 45 people in just a few days since the start of the monsoon season, disaster management officials said Sunday.
Jun 29, 2025
Taipei (AFP) June 29, 2025 - Taiwan's vice president said she would not be intimidated by Beijing after the government accused Chinese embassy staff of planning to ram her car during an official visit to Europe.
Jun 29, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 28, 2025 - With the of peak hurricane season looming, forecasters will be without key information starting Monday because the Defense Department said it will no longer provide them with data from the weather satellites.
Jun 28, 2025
Washington (AFP) June 28, 2025 - US sanctions on Sudan's government - imposed over what Washington says was the use by Khartoum's military of chemical weapons in the country's bloody civil war last year - have taken effect.
Jun 28, 2025
Venice (AFP) June 28, 2025 - At least 500 protesters marched through Venice on Saturday, condemning Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's wedding to journalist Lauren Sanchez, a lavish affair that has drawn backlash in the historic Italian city.
Jun 28, 2025
Islamabad (AFP) June 28, 2025 - A magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck central Pakistan on Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
Jun 28, 2025
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) June 28, 2025 - Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 32 people including 16 children since the start of the monsoon season this week, disaster management officials said.
Jun 28, 2025
Marseille (AFP) June 28, 2025 - Southern Europeans braced Saturday for their first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world's fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.
Jun 28, 2025
Bogota, Colombia (AFP) June 27, 2025 - Colombia's new justice minister told AFP on Thursday that some key drug extraditions to the United States will be suspended, even if it worsens already frayed ties with Washington.
Jun 27, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) June 27, 2025 - Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats, one of the city's last remaining opposition parties after a five-year political crackdown by Beijing, said on Friday that it will disband.
Jun 27, 2025
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2025 - All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld.
Jun 27, 2025
Bonn (AFP) June 27, 2025 - This year's UN COP30 summit in Brazil was hotly-anticipated as a pivotal moment for the planet, as the world fast approaches a key global warming threshold.
Jun 27, 2025
Dehradun, India (AFP) June 27, 2025 - Tibetans in exile celebrate the 90th birthday of spiritual leader the Dalai Lama next week, an occasion overshadowed by uncertainty about the future of the role and what it means for their movement.
Jun 27, 2025
Madrid (AFP) June 27, 2025 - As dangerously high temperatures sweep across parts of the United States and southern Europe this week, emergency workers are racing to mitigate the public health risk of heatstroke.
Jun 27, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 27, 2025 - The United Nations summit on financing for development gets underway Monday in Seville under a grim cloud: multiple conflicts, humanitarian crises and the shock disengagement of the United States.
Jun 27, 2025
