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Tokyo (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 - Firefighters were Tuesday battling Japan's worst wildfire in half a century, which has left one dead and forced the evacuation of nearly 4,000 local residents.
Mar 4, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - The UN rights chief voiced deep concern Monday over the United States' fundamental shift in direction since Donald Trump returned to power, and decried the unchecked power of unelected tech oligarchs.
Mar 3, 2025
Manila (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - Soaring temperatures shut down schools in nearly half the Philippine capital on Monday, local officials said, as the torrid dry season started in the tropical Southeast Asian country.
Mar 3, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of severe climate consequences.
Mar 3, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - More than 2,000 firefighters are battling Japan's biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory.
Mar 3, 2025
Manila (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - The Philippines' ambassador to Washington said on Monday he was confident the two countries' military ties would remain strong under the Donald Trump administration, while also acknowledging the unravelling of the US-Ukraine relationship.
Mar 3, 2025
Stockholm (AFP) Mar 3, 2025 - Swedish police said Monday they had opened an investigation into suspected sabotage after power cables to a pump supplying the Baltic Sea island of Gotland with water were intentionally disconnected.
Mar 3, 2025
Mexico City (AFP) Mar 2, 2025 - An environmental activist was shot and killed in southern Mexico in the latest attack on an ecologist in that country, a rights group announced Sunday.
Mar 2, 2025
Kampala (AFP) Mar 2, 2025 - The Ugandan army confirmed Sunday it has sent troops to another town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo to fight local armed groups, amid fears a raging conflict could spiral into a wider war.
Mar 2, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Mar 2, 2025 - Nations failed to break a deadlock over the timing of the UN's next blockbuster assessment of climate change science after a marathon meeting in China that US envoys skipped.
Mar 2, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 2, 2025 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would not allow any further humanitarian aid into Gaza. Palestinian officials said Israeli fighters had killed some 116 people since the tenuous first phase of a ceasefire took effect in January.
Mar 2, 2025
Dehradun, India (AFP) Mar 2, 2025 - Rescuers recovered the eighth and final body from the site of an avalanche in a remote area of northern India, the army said Sunday, marking the end of a marathon operation in sub-zero temperatures.
Mar 2, 2025
Dehradun, India (AFP) Mar 2, 2025 - Indian rescuers hurried in sub-zero temperatures Sunday to dig out four missing workers presumed buried by an avalanche in a remote border area, with snowfall increasing the risk of more sliding snow.
Mar 2, 2025
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 - Tens of thousands rallied in the Spanish city of Valencia on Saturday in the latest protest demanding regional leader Carlos Mazon's resignation over his handling of October's deadly floods.
Mar 1, 2025
Dehradun, India (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 - At least four people died from their injuries after an avalanche hit a remote border area in India, officials said Saturday, as rescuers battled sub-zero temperatures in their search for five others missing.
Mar 1, 2025
Hanoi (AFP) Mar 1, 2025 - Toxic smoke billows from a burning mound of plastic bags and leaves on Le Thi Huyen's farm in Hanoi, a city battling an alarming air pollution surge that the communist government appears in no hurry to fix.
Mar 1, 2025
