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Harbin, China (AFP) Dec 31, 2024 - Animal ears and pom-poms on fuzzy hats adorn tourists' heads on the streets of the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, which is enjoying a surge in visitors driven by social media.
Dec 31, 2024
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 31, 2024 - Heavy snow in Japan's northern region cancelled dozens of flights Tuesday as millions of families were returning home to spend the New Year holiday with their loved ones.
Dec 31, 2024
Dakar (AFP) Dec 31, 2024 - Senegal's President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye said that 2025 would see an end to all foreign military presence in the west African country, in a speech on Tuesday to mark the new year.
Dec 31, 2024
London (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Adverse weather on Monday looked set to hit UK New Year festivities, as the organisers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party cancelled the event on public safety grounds.
Dec 30, 2024
Rabat (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Four activists advocating for victims of the 2023 earthquake in Morocco appeared in court on Monday to face charges including defamation, their lawyer told AFP.
Dec 30, 2024
Lima (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Three deaths have been blamed on large waves up to 13 feet (four meters) pummeling Ecuador, Chile and Peru, where nearly 100 ports have been closed because of the rough conditions.
Dec 30, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet.
Dec 30, 2024
Wajima, Japan (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Before the earthquake changed everything, 83-year-old Sueko Naka from Japan's remote Noto Peninsula wished to live out her life at home, watched over by an altar to her ancestors.
Dec 30, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging the world to pull back from the road to ruin.
Dec 30, 2024
Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - Joe Biden led US presidents and other world leaders in paying tribute to Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday aged 100.
Dec 30, 2024
Mamoudzou (AFP) Dec 30, 2024 - French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou promised relief for Mayotte on Monday, saying he aimed to rebuild the Indian Ocean territory ravaged by Cyclone Chido within two years.
Dec 30, 2024
Wajima, Japan (AFP) Dec 29, 2024 - Lacquerware maker Takaho Shoji hunches over his desk in the disaster-hit city of Wajima in central Japan, applying another layer of coating to a dark, wooden box.
Dec 29, 2024
Lima (AFP) Dec 29, 2024 - Massive waves of up to 13 feet (four meters) are pummeling the coasts of Ecuador and Peru, leaving scores of ports closed and at least one person dead on Saturday, authorities said.
Dec 29, 2024
Marienberg, Cameroon (AFP) Dec 29, 2024 - Adolescent chimps are, in some respects, rather similar to their human counterparts.
Dec 29, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Dec 29, 2024 - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in Valencia, hit hard by recent floods, in the latest such protest over the government response to the unprecedented natural disaster.
Dec 29, 2024
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Dec 28, 2024 - A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan's forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes.
Dec 28, 2024
