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Kabul (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - The death toll from recent heavy rain and hail in three Afghan provinces has risen by 10 to 39, disaster management officials said on Wednesday.
Feb 26, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - The Cook Islands' prime minister survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, blaming misinformation from former colonial ruler New Zealand for destabilising his Pacific country.
Feb 26, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - Vanuatu's climate minister said Wednesday his low-lying Pacific nation is vexed by the potential impact of President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.
Feb 26, 2025
London (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - BP plans to increase production of its more profitable oil and gas business and slash investment in cleaner energy, the British energy giant announced Wednesday to the dismay of environmentalists.
Feb 26, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - In a workshop tucked away in Beijing's historic Forbidden City, a restorer hunched over a centuries-old figurine, using a cotton bud to delicately clean its dusty crevices after years hidden in storage.
Feb 26, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2025 - Taiwan's Defense Ministry said Wednesday that a Chinese military joint air-sea drill, including live fire and warplanes, crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait without warning.
Feb 26, 2025
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 - The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office has significantly downgraded the risk posed by asteroid 2024 YR4, reducing its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 to a negligible 0.001
Feb 26, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, forcing residents to flee outside but with no damage or casualties reported.
Feb 26, 2025
Manila (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - A young kidnap victim clad in pajamas and missing a finger was rescued from the side of a busy Manila thoroughfare this week after his abductors ditched him during a police pursuit, Philippine authorities said Wednesday.
Feb 26, 2025
Yellowknife, Canada (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - In the mess hall of a Canadian military base a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, Brigadier-General Daniel Riviere pointed to a map highlighting the region that is becoming a national priority.
Feb 26, 2025
Qamishli, Syria (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 - Kurdish-led forces that control large areas of northern and northeastern Syria said 12 people were killed Wednesday in air strikes it blamed on Turkey.
Feb 26, 2025
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 - NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the
Feb 26, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 - A Sudanese military plane crashed on Tuesday on the outskirts of the capital Khartoum, killing a number of officers and civilians, the army said, with pro-democracy activists saying at least 10 people were killed.
Feb 25, 2025
Rome (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 - Global talks to protect nature restarted Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to sustain life on the planet and overcome a fight over funding that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray.
Feb 25, 2025
Rome (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 - The world's biggest nature conservation conference will restart on Tuesday after negotiations collapsed in disarray last year, with the head of the meeting warning that increasing global polarisation was frustrating efforts to protect the planet.
Feb 25, 2025
Herat, Afghanistan (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 - Twenty-nine people died in two provinces in Afghanistan due to hail and heavy rain, officials said Tuesday.
Feb 25, 2025
