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Antakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - At first glance, it's a happy image - hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. But these are ghosts, victims of the 2023 earthquake in Turkey that claimed more than 53,000 lives.
Feb 6, 2025
Jerusalem (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that he had ordered the army to formulate a plan to allow Palestinians to leave Gaza.
Feb 6, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - The Cook Islands prime minister will agree on a plan for a strategic partnership with China on a state visit starting Monday, his office has confirmed, despite a public rebuke from close partner New Zealand.
Feb 6, 2025
Athens (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - A fresh series of quakes hit the Aegean island of Santorini early on Thursday, part of an unprecedented seismic wave that has baffled scientists and led to a mass exodus of residents.
Feb 6, 2025
Lilongwe, Malawi (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - Malawi has ordered its military to prepare to withdraw from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group has launched a new offensive, the president's office said.
Feb 6, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 06, 2025 - The global release of carbon dioxide (CO2) from microbial decomposition of soil organic carbon is estimated to be roughly five times greater than human-induced CO2 emissions. Given this substantial
Feb 6, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - The UN's climate chief, seeking to shore up solidarity on combating global warming as the United States retreats from its leadership role, appealed to nations' self-interest in a speech Thursday.
Feb 6, 2025
Daejeon, South Korea (SPX) Feb 06, 2025 - A new study led by the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University, South Korea, explores the potential consequences of a medium-sized
Feb 6, 2025
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - Drone strikes killed a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander and two fighters in northern Iraq on Thursday, Kurdish authorities said, blaming Turkey for the attack.
Feb 6, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - The United Nations warned Thursday that two southern Sudan states were on the brink of catastrophe after a recent eruption of violence reportedly killed at least 80 people in one city.
Feb 6, 2025
Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler La Nina conditions to finally start quelling a long-running heat streak.
Feb 6, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - Indonesia's environment ministry has backed Jakarta's participation in the landmark Paris climate deal after the country's climate envoy suggested the agreement was irrelevant given Washington's withdrawal.
Feb 6, 2025
Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - France's government tried to appeal to the conscience of drug consumers on Thursday as it revealed what it said were record drug seizure figures for last year.
Feb 6, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Feb 6, 2025 - France will hand back to Ivory Coast its only military base in the west African country in a ceremony on February 20, sources with knowledge of the talks told AFP on Thursday.
Feb 6, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2025 - Researchers from Flinders University and New Zealand have successfully integrated artificial intelligence and 3D laser scanning to map radiata pine plantations across much of New Zealand's North Isl
Feb 6, 2025
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2025 - For countless engineers, converting sunlight into easily stored chemical energy stands as an enduring goal. Yet nature perfected this challenge billions of years ago. A recent study reveals that qua
Feb 5, 2025
