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Washington (AFP) June 10, 2025 - US President Donald Trump has invoked emergency powers to deploy National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles to quell protests against federal immigration raids.
Jun 10, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Indonesia revoked permits on Tuesday for four of the five mining companies operating in the eastern archipelago of Raja Ampat after activists shared videos of islands damaged by nickel extraction.
Jun 10, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Seven people died in flooding caused by severe winter weather lashing eastern areas of South Africa and school children are missing after a minibus was swept away, the government said Tuesday.
Jun 10, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) June 9, 2025 - India deployed coast guard aircraft and a warship on Monday after a Singapore-flagged container ship caught fire off the southern coast, the defence ministry said, with four crew members missing.
Jun 9, 2025
Ottawa (AFP) June 9, 2025 - Canada's military used aircraft to help evacuate members of a remote Indigenous group Monday as wildfires spread eastward from the Prairies region and into the country's most populous province Ontario.
Jun 9, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 9, 2025 - President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the arrest of California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday during a war of words, as the administration authorized the deployment of 700 Marines to Los Angeles to quell anti-ICE immigration protests that turned violent over the weekend.
Jun 9, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 9, 2025 - World leaders on Monday called for strict rules to govern deep-sea mining and warned against racing to exploit the ocean floor in a thinly veiled rebuke of US President Donald Trump.
Jun 9, 2025
Sydney (AFP) June 9, 2025 - Wildlife rescue teams scoured Australia's east coast on Monday to find and free a distressed humpback whale tangled in a rope.
Jun 9, 2025
Moscow (AFP) June 9, 2025 - Moscow wants to enhance its military ties in Africa, the Kremlin said Monday, after reports that the Russian paramilitary group Wagner was leaving Mali.
Jun 9, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) June 9, 2025 - South Africa's coal-dependent economy could lose billions in export revenue and thousands of jobs as more countries and companies seek carbon-free imports, the Net Zero Tracker watchdog said Monday.
Jun 9, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 9, 2025 - A global summit on the dire state of the oceans kicks off Monday in France, with calls to ban bottom trawling and bolster protections for the world's overexploited marine areas.
Jun 9, 2025
Mexico City (AFP) June 9, 2025 - The first hurricane of the eastern Pacific season formed Monday off the coast of Mexico, but was expected to dissipate without hitting land, forecasters said.
Jun 9, 2025
Colombo (AFP) June 9, 2025 - Sri Lanka is withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, because data collected from some farmers appeared unrealistic, a minister said on Monday.
Jun 9, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 9, 2025 - The amount of farmed seafood we consume - as opposed to that taken wild from our waters - is soaring every year, making aquaculture an ever-more important source for many diets, and a response to overfishing.
Jun 9, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 8, 2025 - France is hosting world leaders this week to confront what the United Nations calls a global emergency in the oceans - but what is expected, and can the summit make a difference?
Jun 8, 2025
London (AFP) June 8, 2025 - The UK on Monday outlined plans to extend its ban on destructive seabed trawling to more than half of protected English seas, launching a consultation involving marine and fisheries stakeholders.
Jun 8, 2025
