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Sydney (AFP) May 3, 2025 - Australia's left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese triumphed Saturday in national elections, crushing his conservative rival in a contest swayed by economic upheaval and US President Donald Trump.
May 3, 2025
Washington (AFP) May 3, 2025 - Hawaii lawmakers have passed a first of its kind bill that increases the US state's hotel tax to fund climate change relief efforts, the governor's office said.
May 3, 2025
Juba (AFP) May 3, 2025 - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of its hospitals in South Sudan had been bombed early on Saturday, with at least seven people killed by airstrikes in the area.
May 3, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) May 3, 2025 - Two private nonprofit organizations announced that they would team up to publish climate-related research to further a congressionally mandated assessment that had been gutted by the Trump administration.
May 3, 2025
Ternate, Indonesia (AFP) May 2, 2025 - Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly over the prized crop. Today farmers say the gravest threat to their plants is climate change.
May 2, 2025
Geneva (AFP) May 2, 2025 - The United Nations decried Friday continuing deadly attacks by Myanmar's military despite a ceasefire declared following a devastating earthquake that killed nearly 3,800 people.
May 2, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) May 2, 2025 - A former Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker on Friday recounted her surreal experience being jailed for more than four years under the city's national security law.
May 2, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) May 2, 2025 - More than 45,000 people have been affected by flash floods in Somalia since mid-April, the United Nations said, with at least four people killed in the rapidly rising waters.
May 2, 2025
Dubai (AFP) May 2, 2025 - The United Arab Emirates endured its hottest April on record with an average daily high of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.7 Fahrenheit), the National Center of Meteorology (NCM) said.
May 2, 2025
Tunis (AFP) May 2, 2025 - Tunisian environmentalist Semia Labidi Gharbi, awarded a global prize for her role exposing a major waste scandal, has a message for wealthy nations: developing countries are no dumping ground.
May 2, 2025
Lagos (AFP) May 2, 2025 - Nigeria's northeast is facing a brutal resurgence of jihadist attacks, which have killed at least 100 people in April.
May 2, 2025
Ushuaia, Argentina (AFP) May 2, 2025 - A strong offshore earthquake caused a tsunami scare in the far south of Chile and Argentina on Friday, with authorities evacuating residents of coastal areas for hours before scaling back the threat level.
May 2, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) May 2, 2025 - President Donald Trump revealed the White House budget request for Fiscal Year 2026 Friday, which requests cuts to foreign aid, education and health care but boosts to the military and border control.
May 2, 2025
Washington (AFP) May 1, 2025 - The last time these thrumming, red-eyed bugs burrowed out of the ground across America's suburbs and woodlands was the early summer of 2008.
May 1, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) May 01, 2025 - The ocean's deep-sea bed is scattered with ancient rocks, each about the size of a closed fist, called polymetallic nodules. Elsewhere, along active and inactive hydrothermal vents and the deep oc
May 1, 2025
Reykjavik (AFP) May 1, 2025 - An Icelandic whaling company plans to hunt minke whales this summer in a first for the country since 2021, a decision denounced Thursday by animal rights activists.
May 1, 2025
