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Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Bitter Arctic air plunged more than half the United States into a deep freeze Tuesday, including New Orleans, where the heaviest snow in decades brought dangerous conditions to the famously festive Gulf Coast city.
Jan 21, 2025
Brasilia (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Brazil warned Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement would have a major impact on COP30 talks to be held in the Amazon in November.
Jan 21, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - At least 16 people have been killed and five more are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Indonesia's Central Java province, local police and disaster officials said Tuesday.
Jan 21, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2025 - Marine scientists from the University of Sydney have completed a significant peer-reviewed study documenting severe coral bleaching on the southern Great Barrier Reef during early 2024. This study i
Jan 21, 2025
Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - The UN's climate chief on Tuesday said that the science of global warming had been weaponised by politics, a day after Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement.
Jan 21, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Saving the world's shrinking glaciers is a survival strategy for the planet, the UN said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
Jan 21, 2025
Caconde, Brazil (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Brazilian coffee producer Moacir Donizetti first smelled the smoke, and then watched in desperation as a blaze consumed his family coffee plantation last year.
Jan 21, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2025 - A pilot project conducted in the Western Riverina has demonstrated how an innovative online mapping tool can assist pastoralists in making informed decisions about their livestock and land managemen
Jan 21, 2025
Libreville (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Gabon's transitional national parliament has adopted a new electoral code, a key step towards re-establishing civilian rule following a coup that ended decades of rule by the Bongo dynasty.
Jan 21, 2025
London (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - In hit 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister, bureaucrat Humphrey Appleby did everything in his power to ensure that the wheels of the civil service turned slowly.
Jan 21, 2025
Beni, Dr Congo (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - A mosque and military headquarters once teeming with fighters loyal to the Islamic State group lay empty in a desiccated field near the Democratic Republic of Congo's border with Uganda.
Jan 21, 2025
Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2025 - Climate change, political headwinds and diverging market dynamics around the world have pushed coffee prices to fresh records, jacking up the cost of your everyday brew or a barista's signature macchiato.
Jan 21, 2025
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2025 - As Los Angeles firefighters battle remaining hotspots more than a week into deadly blazes, scientists and engineers hope growing availability of satellite data will help in the future.
Jan 20, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 20, 2025 - Indonesia's plan to convert millions of hectares of forests for food and energy use is environmentally illogical and destructive, and risks irreversible environmental and biodiversity loss, activists warned Monday.
Jan 20, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 20, 2025 - Hong Kong's top court has seen an exodus of foreign judges and escalating geopolitical tensions, and coordinated harassment made it tougher to find replacements, the city's chief justice said on Monday.
Jan 20, 2025
Accra (AFP) Jan 19, 2025 - At least eight illegal miners were killed in Ghana overnight after clashes with soldiers guarding the AngloGold Ashanti mining site in central Obuasi, the army said Sunday.
Jan 19, 2025
