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Yangon (AFP) April 22, 2025 - A Myanmar ceasefire declared after last month's devastating earthquake was due to expire on Tuesday, after aid groups and international mediators called for an extension to ease relief efforts.
Apr 22, 2025
Paris (AFP) April 22, 2025 - Through magisterial Vatican pronouncements about the dangers posed by the warming planet, Pope Francis gave the Roman Catholic church a voice that influenced climate change talks, experts said.
Apr 22, 2025
Yangon (AFP) April 22, 2025 - Myanmar's junta on Tuesday prolonged a ceasefire declared after last month's devastating earthquake to April 30, after aid groups and international mediators called for an extension to ease relief efforts.
Apr 22, 2025
Berlin (AFP) April 22, 2025 - German chemicals giant BASF said Tuesday it had exited two joint ventures in China's Xinjiang region after its local partner was alleged to have participated in rights abuses against the local Uyghur minority.
Apr 22, 2025
Manila (AFP) April 22, 2025 - Kindergarten teacher Lolita Akim fires up five standing fans with three more at the ready as she fights to hold the attention of her pint-sized pupils in Manila's soaring heat.
Apr 22, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2025 - The U.S. government is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the leader of foreign terrorist organization MS-13, the State Department announced Monday.
Apr 22, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) April 22, 2025 - Burkina Faso's military junta claimed Monday to have foiled a major plot in the making aimed at sowing total chaos, saying it believed the masterminds were in neighbouring Ivory Coast.
Apr 22, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) April 22, 2025 - Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
Apr 22, 2025
Paris (AFP) April 22, 2025 - From responding to weather disasters to rising competition in the fast-warming Arctic, militaries are exposed to climate change and cannot let it become a strategic blind spot, security experts say.
Apr 22, 2025
Islamabad (AFP) April 21, 2025 - Snowfall in Asia's Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water, scientists warned in a report on Monday.
Apr 21, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) April 20, 2025 - A lion has killed a 14-year-old girl outside the capital Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Sunday.
Apr 20, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) April 20, 2025 - Thai authorities said they have arrested a Chinese executive at a company that was building a Bangkok skyscraper which collapsed in a major earthquake, leaving dozens dead.
Apr 20, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) April 20, 2025 - Greater military influence in government, reporters under threat and a stuttering economy - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's first six months in power have triggered alarm bells for activists worried about a return to the country's authoritarian roots.
Apr 20, 2025
Bissau (AFP) April 20, 2025 - Women protesters in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday attacked a Chinese-run site in the northwest of the country mining zircon, setting fire to equipment, the interior minister and witnesses told AFP.
Apr 20, 2025
Sydney (AFP) April 20, 2025 - A fisherman died after being swept off rocks near Sydney on Sunday, stretching the Easter weekend death toll of drownings to six as huge waves battered Australia's east coast.
Apr 20, 2025
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories (AFP) April 19, 2025 - With food scarce in the besieged and war-battered Gaza Strip, some desperate families have turned to eating sea turtles as a rare source of protein.
Apr 19, 2025
