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Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2025 - New fossil evidence from Australia has pushed the origin of reptiles on Earth back by up to 40 million years, significantly revising the timeline of vertebrate evolution. Researchers from Flinders U
May 15, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) May 15, 2025 - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touted his country's defence cooperation with Indonesia during a visit to Jakarta on Thursday, his first trip abroad since his re-election.
May 15, 2025
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) May 15, 2025 - Deforestation slowed in all of Brazil's nature biomes for the first time in six years in 2024, according to a report issued months before the country hosts a major UN climate conference.
May 15, 2025
Sydney (AFP) May 15, 2025 - An Australian author jailed in China has detailed his unbearable prison suffering in a letter to supporters, saying he still dreams of returning home one day.
May 15, 2025
Geneva (AFP) May 15, 2025 - A UN expert said on Thursday he was investigating credible reports that Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy vessel into the Andaman Sea, in what would be an unconscionable act.
May 15, 2025
Madrid (AFP) May 14, 2025 - Spanish police on Wednesday said they had broken up a Chinese-Arab ring that laundered $21 million of proceeds from people and drug trafficking through the informal hawala money transfer system.
May 14, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) May 14, 2025 - Stocks fluctuated Wednesday, with investors struggling to track a strong day on Wall Street as euphoria over the China-US trade detente petered out.
May 14, 2025
Montreal (AFP) May 14, 2025 - A major wildfire burning in central Canada has killed two people, police said Wednesday, and forced 1,000 more to evacuate their homes, kicking off a fire season authorities warn could prove challenging.
May 14, 2025
London (AFP) May 14, 2025 - England has seen the driest start to spring for 69 years, the UK government's environment agency said, amid concerns over possible drought in coming months.
May 14, 2025
Washington (AFP) May 14, 2025 - President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday moved to scrap limits on several toxic forever chemicals in drinking water, reversing what had been hailed as a landmark public health victory.
May 14, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) May 14, 2025 - Pakistan returned a captured border guard to India on Wednesday, in a fresh sign of detente after a ceasefire ended four days of conflict between the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals.
May 14, 2025
London (AFP) May 14, 2025 - France will contribute 10 million euros to help fix a radiation cover at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine allegedly hit by a Russian drone, Europe's development bank announced Wednesday.
May 14, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 14, 2025 - The EU on Wednesday voiced shock at a deadly air strike on a school in central Myanmar, warning the perpetrators must be held accountable for this atrocity.
May 14, 2025
Triabunna (AFP) May 14, 2025 - It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches.
May 14, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 14, 2025 - An international team of researchers from New Zealand's Antarctic Science Platform undertook a significant expedition to the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica in late 2021. Their mission aimed to ex
May 14, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 14, 2025 - The EU unveiled plans to slash red tape and simplify environmental requirements for farmers Wednesday, offering a carrot to a sector that has vociferously protested Brussels' rules in recent years.
May 14, 2025
