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Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday said she had received strong support from Europe as she sought backing to counter US President Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland.
Jan 28, 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
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
Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - China said Monday it was extremely unlikely Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission.
Jan 27, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Taiwan has identified 52 suspicious Chinese-owned ships flying flags of convenience that require close monitoring if detected near the island, the coast guard said Monday, as Taipei seeks to protect its subsea telecoms cables.
Jan 27, 2025
Rennes, France (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - France placed swathes of Brittany in the west of the country on red weather alert Monday as a violent storm brought flood levels not seen in decades.
Jan 27, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Spain's Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia registered Monday its hottest January temperature of 26.9 degrees Celsius in records going back more than 150 years, the national weather agency said.
Jan 27, 2025
Buffalo NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2025 - In the quest to take the forever out of forever chemicals, bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them,
Jan 27, 2025
London (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Just two years ago, Lucas Cantero knew nothing about playing music.
Jan 27, 2025
Shantou, China (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Flinging her male teammate into the air, performer Lin Xinmeng practises China's world-famous lion dance with a troupe that is shrugging off centuries of patriarchal norms.
Jan 27, 2025
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Four people were killed on Monday in an air strike blamed on Turkey in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish sources said.
Jan 27, 2025
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday the military will keep assisting President Donald Trump's mass migrant deportations, as he arrived for his first formal day of work at the Pentagon.
Jan 27, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 27, 2025 - Denmark said Monday that it would spend 14.6 billion kroner ($2 billion) to bolster security in the strategic Arctic region near the United States and Russia.
Jan 27, 2025
Port Moresby (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 - Papua New Guinea's leader urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to rethink his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, calling it totally irresponsible and morally wrong.
Jan 26, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 - Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023.
Jan 26, 2025
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 26, 2025 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for combined regional efforts to combat outlawed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and neighbouring Syria during a visit to Baghdad on Sunday.
Jan 26, 2025
