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New York (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - A New York businessman was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a plot to force a US resident to return to China.
Mar 19, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - Three cyclones have battered Mozambique in three months, pounding one of the world's most impoverished regions, pushing thousands of people into distress and leaving experts wondering whether more frequent storms will become the norm.
Mar 19, 2025
Bamako (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - A prominent figure in Mali's ethnic Fulani community who managed a livestock market in Bamako was murdered in front of his home by unknown assailants, his son told AFP on Wednesday.
Mar 19, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 - NASA's first Landsat satellite, launched in 1972, began a long-term effort to observe and document Earth's surface changes. Since then, eight more satellites have followed, with the most recent laun
Mar 19, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - Taiwanese troops will simulate possible scenarios for a Chinese invasion in 2027 during the island's annual war games, the defence ministry said Wednesday, as Beijing maintains military pressure on Taipei.
Mar 19, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee climate disasters last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for early warning systems covering the entire planet.
Mar 19, 2025
Omdourman, Sudan (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed at least 50 people in Khartoum during the past week, rescuers said Wednesday, as fighting with the army for control of the capital intensifies.
Mar 19, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 - A comprehensive review in *Meteoritics and Planetary Science* reveals how astronomers have traced the source of various meteorite types to specific, previously unknown regions within the asteroid be
Mar 19, 2025
Foix, France (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - A prosecutor on Wednesday demanded that an 81-year-old French hunter be handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for killing an endangered female bear that had attacked him in the Pyrenees in 2021.
Mar 19, 2025
Juba (AFP) Mar 19, 2025 - South Sudan has carried out another air strike against civilians in the northwest of the country, critically wounding a child, a local official and witness said on Wednesday, amid fears of renewed conflict.
Mar 19, 2025
Foix, France (AFP) Mar 18, 2025 - A 81-year-old French hunter went on trial on Tuesday, accused of killing an endangered female bear that had attacked him in the Pyrenees.
Mar 18, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Mar 18, 2025 - UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said Gazans were being subjected to an intolerable level of suffering following the most intense Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took effect.
Mar 18, 2025
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 - The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR), a pivotal milestone in the project, held from February 24 to 26 with participation from E
Mar 18, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Mar 18, 2025 - Taiwan detected 59 Chinese aircraft around the self-ruled island, the defence ministry said Tuesday, the highest tally since a record in October and days after Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called China a foreign hostile force.
Mar 18, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2025 - Earth Fire Alliance, a global nonprofit dedicated to transforming wildfire data and insight delivery, announced that the FireSat protoflight satellite has successfully launched and established conta
Mar 18, 2025
Phnom Tamao, Cambodia (AFP) Mar 18, 2025 - A motorbike rider inches slowly over bumpy terrain deep in Cambodia's Virachey national park, carefully adjusting the basket strapped behind him. Inside is precious cargo - a critically endangered Siamese crocodile.
Mar 18, 2025
