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Washington DC (UPI) Jan 31, 2025 - The Democratic Republic of Congo's foreign minister on Friday accused Rwanda of illegally occupying part of its territory, after the M23 rebel group captured the eastern Congolese city of Goma.
Jan 31, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - US prosecutors announced Friday that they have charged a former Federal Reserve advisor with spying on behalf of China while posing as a part-time lecturer at a local university.
Jan 31, 2025
Lisbon (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - The Portuguese parliament on Friday took a first step towards banning deep-sea mining in the country's territorial waters, which would be a first in Europe.
Jan 31, 2025
Xiapu, China (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - A wizened farmer leads a buffalo through a misty copse of gnarled trees in eastern China, closely followed by a woman in a straw hat heaving pails of water.
Jan 31, 2025
Bangkok (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - Deforestation in Indonesia rose in 2024 for a third year running, a local environmental NGO said Friday, based on satellite image analysis and fieldwork.
Jan 31, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - US President Donald Trump - speaking as the bodies of 67 people were being pulled from Washington's Potomac River - launched a political attack Thursday blaming diversity hires for the midair collision between an airliner and a military helicopter.
Jan 31, 2025
Istanbul (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 - Turkey's military said Friday it had dismissed five trainee officers and three of their superiors for pledging allegiance to the founder of modern Turkey in front of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Jan 31, 2025
Caivano, Italy (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 - Father Maurizio Patriciello lost four relatives to cancers he blames on toxic waste dumps operated by the mafia in southern Italy, but despite death threats he has never stopped campaigning for justice.
Jan 30, 2025
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially tra
Jan 30, 2025
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals al
Jan 30, 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, carries his frustration as visibly as he carries his passport. To travel across the continent he calls home, he needs 35 visas - each a bureaucratic hurdle
Jan 30, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - Scientists at the University of Otago have uncovered valuable insights into the dynamics of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, a crucial finding for understanding potential climate chan
Jan 30, 2025
Redon, France (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 - Residents of a flooded French town on Thursday waited for the water to drain away from its streets, after a nearby river did not rise out of its bed quite as high as expected.
Jan 30, 2025
Frankfurt, Germamy (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state
Jan 30, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 - An international team of researchers, led by the University of Gottingen, has uncovered how forces from the Zagros Mountains in Iraq have influenced the deformation of the Earth's surface over the p
Jan 30, 2025
N'Djamena (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 - The French army has handed over its last base in Chad in a military ceremony in the capital N'Djamena, the general staffs of both countries announced Thursday.
Jan 30, 2025
