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Ein Gedi, Israel (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international tourists to float in the world-famous waters of the Dead Sea.
Jan 29, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - President Donald Trump's nominee to head the US Environmental Protection Agency was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday, drawing cheers from the fossil fuel industry and sparking alarm among green groups.
Jan 29, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 - A new experimental vaccine developed by researchers at MIT and Caltech could offer protection against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related coronaviruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that
Jan 29, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 - RoGO Communications has introduced DropBlock 2.0, a satellite-enabled GPS tracking solution designed to enhance safety and operational efficiency for wildland firefighters and their equipment.
Jan 29, 2025
Moscow (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - January 2025 is on track to be one of the warmest in Moscow on record, meteorologists reported on Wednesday, with two of the past days breaking all-time daily temperature highs.
Jan 29, 2025
Beijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - Hundreds of millions of people across Asia celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families on Wednesday, as they bid farewell to the Year of the Dragon and usher in the Year of the Snake.
Jan 29, 2025
Manila (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 - The Philippines and New Zealand have begun negotiating an agreement that would allow them to deploy troops on each other's soil, the two countries said Wednesday, as concerns over maritime tensions with China grow.
Jan 29, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - The United Nations confirmed Tuesday it had received notification from Washington of its withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, a key campaign pledge of US President Donald Trump.
Jan 28, 2025
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of London - could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals.
Jan 28, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2025 - Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term.
Jan 28, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - The doomsday clock symbolizing how close humanity is to destruction ticked one second closer to midnight Tuesday as concerns on nuclear war, climate and public health were jolted by US President Donald Trump's return.
Jan 28, 2025
Gogotinkpon/Gogotinkpon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and rare wild birds - and some are deemed sacred.
Jan 28, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.
Jan 28, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, protecting a pristine expanse of tropical Pacific Ocean home to deep-sea sharks and green turtles.
Jan 28, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought conditions and powerful Santa Ana winds, according to an analysis published Tuesday.
Jan 28, 2025
Wellington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - New Zealand is reviewing aid to the climate-threatened Pacific nation of Kiribati after a high-level diplomatic snub, the foreign minister's office said.
Jan 28, 2025
