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Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - Palestinian officials denounced the partial burning of a historic mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, which they said had been carried out during a raid by Israeli armed forces.
Mar 7, 2025
Strasbourg, France (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - Wolves became less protected in most of Europe on Friday as new conservation regulations came into force, except in three countries that objected to the move including the United Kingdom, the Council of Europe said.
Mar 7, 2025
Nairobi (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - Man-made climate change increased the likelihood of the heatwave gripping South Sudan, a study said Friday, saying soaring temperatures were disproportionately affecting women and girls.
Mar 7, 2025
Tijuana, Mexico (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - On one side of the border, US soldiers unfurled barbed wire. On the other, Mexican soldiers monitored a gap in the border wall. Both had the same objective: to curb irregular migration.
Mar 7, 2025
Dakar (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - France on Friday began handing over military bases in Senegal, as part of a withdrawal of troops from the west African nation where it has had a presence since 1960.
Mar 7, 2025
Buenos Aires (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 - Six people died and hundreds were evacuated in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca Friday as torrential rains flooded homes and hospitals, destroyed roads and forced authorities to cut the power.
Mar 7, 2025
Manila (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila.
Mar 6, 2025
Gold Coast, Australia (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - An erratic tropical cyclone lingered off Australia's eastern coast on Thursday, bringing drenching rains and record-breaking waves to a heavily populated region rarely hit by typhoons.
Mar 6, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Lawmakers from Tibet on Thursday hailed recent economic progress and vowed to keep high pressure on alleged separatists in the region, where Beijing stands accused of widespread repression of minorities.
Mar 6, 2025
Conakry (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Guinea's anti-graft court on Thursday began hearing the appeal of Mohamed Diane, a highly influential defence minister under former president Alpha Conde as he fights to overturn a five-year jail term for embezzlement.
Mar 6, 2025
Paris (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Global sea ice cover hit a historic low in February as the world endured exceptional heat, with temperatures near the North Pole soaring 11 degrees Celsius above average, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday.
Mar 6, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Japan's top court said Thursday it had finalised the acquittal of two former executives from the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant charged with professional negligence over the 2011 meltdown.
Mar 6, 2025
Lima (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - A Peruvian farmer suing a German energy giant in a David and Goliath battle over climate change damage, says he has full confidence in the legal process in Germany.
Mar 6, 2025
Istanbul (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Outlawed Kurdish group PKK and all groups allied with it must disarm immediately, a Turkish defence ministry source said on Thursday, apparently referring to Kurdish forces in Syria.
Mar 6, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Rain appears to have halted the spread of Japan's worst wildfire in more than half a century, officials said Thursday, as residents expressed relief the smoke was gone.
Mar 6, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Hong Kong's top court quashed the prison terms of three Tiananmen vigil activists on Thursday, saying it was a miscarriage of justice to jail them for refusing to submit information to national security police.
Mar 6, 2025
