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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
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
Beijing (AFP) June 7, 2025 - Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing test centre on Saturday, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly competitive university entrance exam.
Jun 7, 2025
Sao Paulo (AFP) June 7, 2025 - A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's pledge to protect the Amazon rainforest, official figures showed Friday.
Jun 7, 2025
Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP) June 7, 2025 - A 5.3-magnitude earthquake on Saturday rocked the Greek Orthodox religious enclave of Mount Athos in northern Greece, Athens' Institute of Geodynamics said.
Jun 7, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 7, 2025 - The U.S. Army celebrates its 250th birthday on June 14th in the nation's capital, which coincides with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, and will be marked by a parade expected to include tanks, rocket launchers and more than 100 military vehicles.
Jun 7, 2025
Taipei (AFP) June 6, 2025 - Taiwan on Friday condemned Beijing's provocative actions after China conducted a patrol around the island, a day after a call between US and Chinese leaders.
Jun 6, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) June 6, 2025 - Hong Kong charged prominent activist Joshua Wong again under the city's Beijing-imposed national security law on Friday, accusing him of collusion with foreign forces in a move slammed by rights groups.
Jun 6, 2025
New York (AFP) June 6, 2025 - The head of submarine mining pioneer The Metals Company told AFP he had no doubt the Canadian firm would be the first to to extract coveted minerals from the deep seas, with help from Donald Trump.
Jun 6, 2025
Bamako (AFP) June 6, 2025 - The Malian military withdrew from a major base in the centre of the country Friday after it came under a second deadly attack in less than a week, according to multiple sources, as the country faces an uptick in jihadist assaults.
Jun 6, 2025
Chile (AFP) June 6, 2025 - Before setting sail for the South Pacific, Chilean fisherman Rodrigo Gallardo blesses himself to invoke heavenly protection and luck in his pursuit of an increasingly elusive catch: hake.
Jun 6, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025 - A Japanese court overturned a $92 billion damages verdict on Friday against ex-bosses of the operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, thought to be the largest such award ever in the country for a civil lawsuit.
Jun 6, 2025
Oualata, Mauritania (AFP) June 6, 2025 - From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.
Jun 6, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Anti-aircraft missiles were fired on Thursday over Port Sudan in war-torn eastern Sudan, while drones flew over the city, witnesses said.
Jun 5, 2025
Pekon, Myanmar (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral homeland for lead ore.
Jun 5, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Coca-Cola produces 120 billion throwaway plastic bottles a year, Greenpeace Africa said at a protest in South Africa Thursday, urging the soda maker to use glass and tin packaging to cut back on plastic pollution.
Jun 5, 2025
