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Aalsmeer, Netherlands (AFP) April 16, 2025 - As Margriet Mantingh gazes at flowers stretching as far as the eye can see at the world's biggest flower market near Amsterdam, all she sees is a huge bouquet of pesticides.
Apr 16, 2025
Istanbul (AFP) April 16, 2025 - The Hagia Sophia of Istanbul is no stranger to change - through the centuries the city's architectural jewel has gone from church to mosque to museum, back to mosque again.
Apr 16, 2025
Yangon (AFP) April 16, 2025 - Heavy rains have lashed the Myanmar region stricken by last month's earthquake, aid officials said Wednesday, drenching homeless survivors and bogging down relief efforts.
Apr 16, 2025
Mexico City (AFP) April 16, 2025 - Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the United States seeking security coordination in response to Washington's plan for its military to control land along the border, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday.
Apr 16, 2025
Madrid (AFP) April 16, 2025 - Spanish police said Wednesday they have uncovered an illegal underground firing range they suspect was operated by a weapons trafficking ring that supplied assault rifles and other arms to drug gangs.
Apr 16, 2025
Sydney (AFP) April 16, 2025 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised on Wednesday to defend Australia's interests in its trade tangle with the United States, in a televised debate ahead of May 3 national elections.
Apr 16, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - Using a new method that triggers cells to produce molecules that generate unique combinations of color, MIT engineers have shown that they can read out these bacterial signals from as far as 90 mete
Apr 15, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - A comprehensive new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and Dona Bertarelli Philanthropy warns that deep-sea mining (DSM) could have profound negative repercussions across e
Apr 15, 2025
Khartoum (AFP) April 15, 2025 - Sudan on Tuesday marked two years of a war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis - with no sign of peace.
Apr 15, 2025
San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this time, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. T
Apr 15, 2025
Manila (AFP) April 15, 2025 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Apr 15, 2025
Paris (AFP) April 15, 2025 - Europe experienced its most extensive flooding in over a decade in 2024, the EU's climate change monitor reported on Tuesday, with almost one-third of its rivers swelling to bursting point.
Apr 15, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - A provocative research effort at the University of Rochester is exploring whether neurons might serve not only as conduits for electrical impulses but also as channels for light transmission. This w
Apr 15, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - Tropical cyclones are hurricanes that brew over the tropical ocean and can travel over land, inundating coastal regions. The most extreme cyclones can generate devastating storm tides - seawater tha
Apr 15, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 15, 2025 - The United States and a coalition of six other nations dedicated to disrupting terrorist financial networks have imposed sanctions against 15 accused leaders of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militant group.
Apr 15, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 - The longstanding narrative attributing the rise of the Tibetan Plateau and the India-Asia continental collision to continuous Cenozoic convergence and Indian underthrusting beneath Tibet is now bein
Apr 15, 2025
