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Washington (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Donald Trump's dream of hosting a grand military parade in Washington will come true on Saturday when tanks, helicopters and thousands of troops rumble through the capital on the US president's 79th birthday.
Jun 12, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Away from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries' prosaic problems in the here and now.
Jun 12, 2025
Zurich (AFP) June 12, 2025 - The deadly effects of extreme heat are a growing risk to people, reinsurance giant Swiss Re said Thursday, adding that heat killed more people than earthquakes, floods and hurricanes combined.
Jun 12, 2025
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Turkmenistan inaugurated its harvest season on Thursday by naming new high-yielding wheat varieties after its leaders, as climate change threatens food security in the predominantly desert Central Asian country.
Jun 12, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Communities across Asia's Himalayan Hindu Kush region face heightened disaster risks this monsoon season with temperatures and rainfall expected to exceed normal levels, experts warned on Thursday.
Jun 12, 2025
Xingyi, China (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Surrounded by the rubble of demolished homes, Chen Tianming's ramshackle tower of faded plyboards and contorted beams juts into the sky in southwestern China, a teetering monument to one man's stubbornness.
Jun 12, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Oil pollution forced the closure Thursday of beaches on a tourist island off eastern Denmark, authorities announced.
Jun 12, 2025
Colombo (AFP) June 12, 2025 - Sri Lanka counted more than seven million monkeys during a census of crop-destroying wildlife, authorities said Thursday, after a government minister called the figure unbelievable.
Jun 12, 2025
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (AFP) June 11, 2025 - After Muhammed Sajjad moved from India to the United Arab Emirates a decade ago, he missed his native Kerala's monsoon season, so he embarked on an unlikely quest: finding rain in the desert.
Jun 11, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped the ante - it asked the world's highest court if governments were legally obligated to do something about it.
Jun 11, 2025
Squamish, Canada (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Residents of a town near Vancouver were on stand-by to evacuate Wednesday as Canada's devastating wildfire season worsened, with officials warning weather conditions through the summer were ripe for further blazes.
Jun 11, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.
Jun 11, 2025
Freetown (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Deep inside a Sierra Leone national park, a mother of seven was about to set dozens of tree trunks ablaze to make charcoal.
Jun 11, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Global heating persisted as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according to the European Union's climate monitoring service.
Jun 11, 2025
Dartford, United Kingdom (AFP) June 11, 2025 - British strawberry farmers say this year's record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than usual.
Jun 11, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) June 11, 2025 - As global warming fuels heatwaves, more EU money is being spent on preventing wildfires - but not always effectively, auditors said on Wednesday, lamenting poor targeting and evaluation processes.
Jun 11, 2025
