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Fukushima, Japan (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have started dismantling water storage tanks to free up space for tonnes of nuclear debris, 14 years after the facility was hit by a devastating tsunami.
Feb 15, 2025
Accra (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - Ghanaian authorities and local organisations are upping their efforts to combat the poaching of pangolins, an endangered mammal whose meat and scales are among the most trafficked internationally.
Feb 15, 2025
Guayaquil, Ecuador (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime that has plunged this once-peaceful South American country into violence.
Feb 15, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 15, 2025 - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.
Feb 15, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - A Taiwanese-made military training jet crashed on Saturday due to dual engine failure, with the pilot safely ejecting from the aircraft, the island's air force said.
Feb 15, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - Hundreds filed into a Hong Kong church on Saturday to pay respects to the city's best-known advocate for prisoners' rights who galvanised the public to support jailed demonstrators.
Feb 15, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Feb 15, 2025 - Taiwan's air force grounded all training jets after one of the aircraft crashed on Saturday due to dual engine failure, with the pilot ejecting safely.
Feb 15, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - Cook Islands officials said Friday they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of its waters.
Feb 14, 2025
Berlin (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - German activists rallied on Friday to push the climate crisis up the agenda in an election campaign where the issue has been overshadowed by debates on immigration and the economy.
Feb 14, 2025
Zagreb (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - Croatia arrested 10 people suspected of illegally disposing at least 35,000 tonnes of hazardous waste from local sources and other European Union countries, the authorities said on Friday.
Feb 14, 2025
Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency over its refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
Feb 14, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2025 - A Russian attack drone struck the shelter surrounding the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said early Friday.
Feb 14, 2025
Concordia, Argentina (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - First a river ran blood red. Now Argentina's beloved giant rodent, the capybara, has been coated in Hulk-green slime as pollution turns the country's waterways traffic light colours.
Feb 14, 2025
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - Mudslides blocked roads around Los Angeles on Friday after heavy rain pounded areas burned by last month's wildfires, sending denuded hillsides tumbling.
Feb 14, 2025
Bordeaux (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - Cold weather, disease and capacity cuts pushed wine production in France's Bordeaux region last year to a low not seen in three-and-a-half decades, the local industry body said Friday.
Feb 14, 2025
Tunis (AFP) Feb 14, 2025 - Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia's capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country's mounting electronic waste problem.
Feb 14, 2025
