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Jakarta (AFP) June 5, 2025 - The Indonesian government is allowing environmental damage including deforestation and violations against Indigenous people to go unchecked around a multi-billion dollar industrial park on a once-pristine eastern island, a report said Thursday.
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
Escuintla, Guatemala (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Guatemalan authorities said Thursday they were evacuating more than 500 people after Central America's most active volcano spewed gas and ash.
Jun 5, 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
London (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Six UK water companies were banned Friday from paying bonuses to senior executives, which the government said would be inappropriate given their failure to clean up their massive sewage discharges.
Jun 5, 2025
Cotonou (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Three soldiers and two police officers were killed in a suspected jihadist attack in northwestern Benin, locals and military sources told AFP on Thursday.
Jun 5, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) June 5, 2025 - The European Union Thursday unveiled a new roadmap on marine conservation - addressing climate and pollution threats to biodiversity as well as challenges for coastal livelihoods - ahead of a UN summit on preserving the world's oceans.
Jun 5, 2025
Khemisset, Morocco (AFP) June 5, 2025 - As the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha approaches, Fatima Kharraz can't seem to find the usual sense of celebration after drought-stricken Morocco urged people to forego the traditional sheep sacrifice this year.
Jun 5, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) June 5, 2025 - Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles said Thursday that security anxiety over China was partly driving deepening ties with Indonesia in a region riven by rivalry between Beijing and Washington.
Jun 5, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 - Two NASA-developed technologies are key components of a new high-resolution sensor for observing wildfires: High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector (HOT-BIRD), developed with support fr
Jun 4, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) June 4, 2025 - UN Security Council members criticized the United States Wednesday after it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, which Washington claimed undermined ongoing diplomacy.
Jun 4, 2025
Sydney (AFP) June 4, 2025 - Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.
Jun 4, 2025
Lagos (AFP) June 4, 2025 - A week after floods flattened over 250 houses and killed at least 200 people in north-central Nigeria, aid is only just beginning to reach survivors of the disaster.
Jun 4, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 4, 2025 - Nations are spending less than 10 percent of what is needed to meet a global target on marine conservation and must commit more at next week's UN oceans summit, NGOs said on Thursday.
Jun 4, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 - The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning over two millennia, from 221 BC to 1911 AD, and providing detailed insight
Jun 4, 2025
London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 - In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days - and was then repeated a month later. Almost a year later, two scientific studies prop
Jun 4, 2025
