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Kampala (AFP) June 3, 2025 - Uganda's army said it killed two armed terrorists in the capital Kampala on Tuesday after reports of a bomb explosion ahead of the country's annual Martyr's Day celebrations.
Jun 3, 2025
Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AFP) June 3, 2025 - Saudi authorities have asked pilgrims performing the hajj to remain in their tents for several hours during the high point of this week's pilgrimage, citing high temperatures.
Jun 3, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 3, 2025 - The Interior Department has eliminated 18 outdated or redundant Bureau of Land Management regulations that the Trump administration says stymied energy production on public lands.
Jun 3, 2025
Guna Yala Archipelago, Panama (AFP) June 3, 2025 - Streets once filled with children's laughter have fallen silent on a Panamanian island where almost all residents left a year ago due to the threat of the sea swallowing their homes.
Jun 3, 2025
Ottawa (AFP) June 3, 2025 - Canada's wildfires, which have already forced evacuations of more than 26,000 people, continued their stubborn spread Tuesday, with heavy smoke choking millions of Canadians and Americans and reaching as far away as Europe.
Jun 3, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - In 1984, an amateur fossil hunter in Scotland uncovered a near-complete specimen that reshaped scientists' understanding of early land vertebrates. The small creature, just 20 centimeters long, turn
Jun 2, 2025
Brest, France (AFP) June 2, 2025 - A global target of having 30 percent of the oceans become protected areas by 2030 is looking more fragile than ever, with little progress and the United States backing away, conservationists say.
Jun 2, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 - It is Islam's holiest pilgrimage, but the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which begins on Wednesday, has in recent decades been plagued by deadly disasters, from stampedes to militant attacks.
Jun 2, 2025
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and the British Antarctic Survey has uncovered previously unknown low-level wind jets (LLJs) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarct
Jun 2, 2025
Barcelona (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday.
Jun 2, 2025
Najaf, Iraq (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years.
Jun 2, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 - The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, most are expected to die.
Jun 2, 2025
Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ef
Jun 2, 2025
Champaign, IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes resear
Jun 2, 2025
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the AMOC, is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth's clim
Jun 2, 2025
Rome (AFP) June 2, 2025 - A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy's Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear of Europe's largest active volcano.
Jun 2, 2025
