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Manila (AFP) May 12, 2025 - A volcano in the central Philippines erupted early Tuesday morning, sending a massive grey plume of ash up about three kilometers (1.8 miles) into the sky and launching ballistic projectiles.
May 12, 2025
Amman (AFP) May 11, 2025 - Shahd Tahrawi was wounded in an Israeli strike on Gaza, Hossam Abd al-Rahman suffered burns in an explosion in Iraq and bombardment in Yemen has left Mohammed Zakaria in need of multiple surgeries.
May 11, 2025
Poonch, India (AFP) May 11, 2025 - A ceasefire appeared to hold on Sunday between India and Pakistan, hours after the nuclear-armed rivals accused each other of violating a truce that brought them back from the brink of all-out war.
May 11, 2025
Bukavu, Dr Congo (AFP) May 10, 2025 - Raging floods rushing through a village during the night killed more than 100 people, many of them children as they slept, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, local officials told AFP on Saturday.
May 10, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) May 10, 2025 - At least 14 members of the same family were killed in an air strike on a displacement camp in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, a rescue group said Saturday, blaming paramilitaries.
May 10, 2025
Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2025 - Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traore on Saturday called for deeper military and scientific links with Russia while on a visit to Moscow.
May 10, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) May 10, 2025 - Myanmar's junta chief met China's president for the first time since seizing power, state media reported Saturday, the highest-level meeting with a key ally for the internationally sanctioned military leader.
May 10, 2025
Karachi (AFP) May 10, 2025 - With the risk of dangerous escalation between India and Pakistan the highest in decades, only international mediation can stop a spiral into all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed foes, analysts say.
May 10, 2025
London (AFP) May 9, 2025 - Two men were on Friday found guilty of the deliberate and mindless felling of one of the UK's most iconic trees in a case that sparked national outrage.
May 9, 2025
Bogota (AFP) May 9, 2025 - At least five people were killed and two are missing after a landslide near Colombia's second-largest city Medellin on Thursday, local authorities said.
May 9, 2025
Srinagar, India (AFP) May 9, 2025 - India said Friday it had repulsed a wave of Pakistani drone and artillery attacks overnight, and Islamabad insisted it had not struck targets across the border, as the latest conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours showed no signs of relenting.
May 9, 2025
Dubai (AFP) May 9, 2025 - The United Arab Emirates on Friday denied an Amnesty International report accusing it of providing Chinese-made weapons to Sudanese paramilitary forces at war with the regular army.
May 9, 2025
Srinagar, India (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire overnight in Kashmir, New Delhi said Thursday, a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades.
May 8, 2025
by Robert Schreiber - Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 12, 2025 New research from the University of Helsinki provides fresh insights into the prolonged and severe droughts that affected North America thousands of years ago dur
May 8, 2025
Paris (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Brazil's UN COP30 president on Thursday said he wanted this year's conference to mark a new era of global progress on climate change and was hopeful that countries would deliver more ambitious carbon-cutting plans.
May 8, 2025
Paris (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU's climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an unprecedented heat streak and raising questions about how quickly the world might be warming.
May 8, 2025
