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Bangkok (AFP) April 3, 2025 - The world added the smallest amount of new coal capacity in two decades last year, a report said Thursday, but use of the fossil fuel is still surging in China and India.
Apr 3, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 03, 2025 - How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some surprisingly long-distance dives. MIT oceanographers have found that big fi
Apr 3, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 3, 2025 - NASA said that an asteroid previously believed to be destined for Earth is the size of a 10-story building and is now more likely to make impact with the moon.
Apr 3, 2025
Cochabamba, Bolivia (AFP) April 3, 2025 - Health officials in Bolivia's fourth-biggest city raised disease concerns Wednesday as tons of rubbish have accumulated on the streets due to a 12-day-old protest by residents blocking access to its main landfill.
Apr 3, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) April 3, 2025 - Nepal's capital was blanketed in acrid smog Thursday as wildfires across the country pushed air pollution levels to among the worst in the world.
Apr 3, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2025 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing it to be roughly 60 meters in diameter-about the height of a 15-story building-and confirming it poses no significant thre
Apr 3, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2025 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have identified a geological process currently underway beneath North America: segments of deep continental rock are detaching and descending into th
Apr 2, 2025
Metuktire, Brasil (AFP) April 2, 2025 - You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire.
Apr 2, 2025
Taipei (AFP) April 2, 2025 - The Chinese military announced new exercises Wednesday in sensitive waters near Taiwan, in a second consecutive day of drills around the self-ruled island it claims as its own.
Apr 2, 2025
Myanmar (AFP) April 2, 2025 - Myanmar's junta said Wednesday its troops had fired warning shots when a Chinese Red Cross convoy failed to stop while approaching a conflict area to deliver aid to earthquake victims.
Apr 2, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) April 2, 2025 - Equity markets were mixed Wednesday as nervous investors brace for Donald Trump's wave of tariffs later in the day, with speculation about what he has in store stoking uncertainty on trading floors.
Apr 2, 2025
Washington (AFP) April 2, 2025 - US lawmakers moved Tuesday to rename the street next to Hong Kong's Washington office after Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy activist and media mogul jailed as China clamps down on the financial hub.
Apr 2, 2025
Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2025 - China's military drills around Taiwan this week aim to send a clear message to the island's leadership, analysts say - in the event of war, Beijing can cut them off from the outside world and grind them into submission.
Apr 2, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) April 2, 2025 - China's embassy in Bangkok called on Chinese companies operating abroad to comply with local laws after a Chinese construction firm came under scrutiny for a deadly building collapse in last week's earthquake.
Apr 2, 2025
Mandalay, Myanmar (AFP) April 2, 2025 - Bare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city five days ago.
Apr 2, 2025
Pingtan, China (AFP) April 2, 2025 - Chinese tourists visiting the country's closest point to Taiwan wished for the democratic island's return to Beijing's rule, as their leadership called its president a parasite and unleashed ships and jets in drills to encircle it.
Apr 2, 2025
