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Jakarta (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Footage of a seemingly confused orangutan roaming the desolate site of an Indonesian coal mine, metres from excavators, has sparked renewed concern about the future of the critically endangered species.
Feb 13, 2025
Oslo (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - An Oslo court on Thursday rejected a legal challenge by the WWF environmental group against Norway's bid to mine its seabed for minerals crucial to the green energy transition.
Feb 13, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - China began construction last year on projects with the greatest combined coal power capacity since 2015, jeopardising its goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030, according to a report published on Thursday.
Feb 13, 2025
Srinagar, India (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged fire across the heavily militarised Kashmir frontier that divides the two archrivals, with at least four casualties reported by the Pakistani side Thursday.
Feb 13, 2025
Athens (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago.
Feb 13, 2025
Vicenza, Italy (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Managers of a chemical plant accused of knowingly contaminating the water of hundreds of thousands of people are on trial in Italy, in one of Europe's biggest environmental disaster lawsuits.
Feb 13, 2025
Luliang, China (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Moments after registering their marriage, Zhang Gang and Weng Linbin posed in front of a red backdrop adorned with a Chinese government emblem, fanning out the wad of cash they had received as an incentive to wed.
Feb 13, 2025
Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - Pesticides are significantly harming wildlife across the planet, stunting growth, damaging reproduction and even causing behavioural changes in animals not meant to be targeted, according to a large-scale study published on Thursday.
Feb 13, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - A severe tropical cyclone was rapidly building strength off Australia's minerals-rich west coast on Thursday, whipping up destructive winds and forcing the closure of a global iron ore-shipping hub.
Feb 13, 2025
Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - A French magistrate has opened a fraud inquiry into mineral water giants Nestle and Sources Alma over suspicions of illegal processing of water, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
Feb 13, 2025
Bogotá (AFP) Feb 13, 2025 - President Donald Trump's freezing of development aid has quickly paralyzed numerous programs in Latin America that rely on US funds to combat drug trafficking, corruption, hunger and inequality, observers and NGOs say.
Feb 13, 2025
Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 - When President Donald Trump froze nearly all US foreign aid, Cambodia was forced to suspend workers removing dangerous mines from the country - until China stepped in with the necessary funding.
Feb 12, 2025
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 12, 2025 - The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets to the sea - and a change in their dynamics will contribute significantly
Feb 12, 2025
Nara, Japan (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 - As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone paths, collecting plastic waste that threatens the animals' health.
Feb 12, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 - In a few days, France will hand over its only military base in Ivory Coast, its former star colony in west Africa, and both sides say the run up is proceeding seamlessly without any rancour.
Feb 12, 2025
Budapest (AFP) Feb 12, 2025 - Since bursting onto Hungary's political scene as the leading critic of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former government insider Peter Magyar has been branded a wife-beater, a psychopath and a puppet of the European Union.
Feb 12, 2025
