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Sydney (AFP) April 10, 2025 - Pacific nation Palau will not cave to diplomatic pressure from China and will remain an ally of Taiwan until death do us part, President Surangel Whipps said Thursday.
Apr 10, 2025
Sydney (AFP) April 10, 2025 - Papua New Guinea will immediately lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told AFP on Thursday, opening up its vast wilderness to offset global emissions.
Apr 10, 2025
Bergen, Norway (AFP) April 10, 2025 - Companies are raring to explore the Arctic seabed off Norway, which could become the first country in Europe to allow deep-sea mining - much to the dismay of environmentalists.
Apr 10, 2025
Washington (AFP) April 10, 2025 - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order lifting water-pressure restrictions on showerheads, a move the White House said would make America's showers great again.
Apr 10, 2025
Bucharest (AFP) April 10, 2025 - A census of brown bears using DNA for the first time has revealed that up to 13,000 of the protected species are living in Romania, much more than the 8,000 previously estimated, the government announced on Thursday.
Apr 10, 2025
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) April 9, 2025 - EU countries and lawmakers on Wednesday reached a deal on plans to curb plastic pollution - an issue that had laid bare tensions within the bloc over Brussels's push to cut red tape.
Apr 9, 2025
Yakutsk, Russia (AFP) April 9, 2025 - Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.
Apr 9, 2025
Laguna Grande (AFP) April 9, 2025 - In a drought-hit Mexican border region at the center of growing competition with the United States for water, conservationists are working to bring a once-dying river delta back to life.
Apr 9, 2025
Taipei (AFP) April 9, 2025 - A magnitude-5.0 earthquake hit northeastern Taiwan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, causing buildings to shake in the capital Taipei.
Apr 9, 2025
Washington (AFP) April 9, 2025 - US President Donald Trump brushed off global market panic Wednesday after China and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs, telling Americans to stay cool despite his spiraling trade war.
Apr 9, 2025
New York (AFP) April 9, 2025 - A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice's first commercial contract - by appealing to US President Donald Trump.
Apr 9, 2025
Sarnia, Canada (AFP) April 9, 2025 - Like many Canadian border cities, Sarnia has seen a surge of patriotism in response to President Donald Trump's aggressive behavior, but residents of the community on Lake Huron have focused on one threat in particular: local waters.
Apr 9, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) April 9, 2025 - France is struggling to find a new home for an orca mother and her son after a marine park on the French Riviera closed down over a law banning shows featuring marine mammals.
Apr 9, 2025
Kinshasa (AFP) April 9, 2025 - A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across the globe Wednesday from the DR Congo capital, to raise awareness about migration due to climate change.
Apr 9, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) April 9, 2025 - A dry winter is intensifying wildfires in Nepal, experts said Wednesday, as the capital Kathmandu continued to suffer from hazardous air quality that ranks it among the most polluted cities globally.
Apr 9, 2025
Santo Domingo (AFP) April 9, 2025 - Rescue workers in the Dominican Republic said Wednesday they will wind down the search for survivors of the nightclub roof collapse that left scores of people dead after they found more bodies under the rubble.
Apr 9, 2025
