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Andaman Sea, Thailand (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves - a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again.
Dec 24, 2024
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - The world's deadliest tsunami hit nations around the Indian Ocean two decades ago before social media platforms flourished, but they have since transformed how we understand and respond to disasters - from finding the missing to swift crowdfunding.
Dec 24, 2024
Madrid (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - King Felipe VI urged Spain to draw lessons from this year's catastrophic floods to strengthen society and make us grow in his Christmas message broadcast on Tuesday.
Dec 24, 2024
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - Hong Kong police announced bounties on Tuesday of HK$1 million (around $130,000) for information leading to the arrest of six democracy advocates based overseas and accused of national security crimes.
Dec 24, 2024
Sarajevo (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - Parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina were cut off and more than 170,000 people were left without electricity on Tuesday due to a snowstorm gripping the region.
Dec 24, 2024
Quito (AFP) Dec 24, 2024 - Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has ordered an intensified search for four adolescent boys who disappeared during a military operation, with public anger over the incident flaring weeks ahead of elections.
Dec 24, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 - The rugged surface of asteroid Vesta, studied extensively by NASA's Dawn mission, features craters and mysterious gullies whose formation has puzzled scientists. These deep channels, previously hypo
Dec 23, 2024
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - An oil slick from two damaged tankers off the coast of southern Russia this month may have polluted up to 200,000 tonnes of soil, Russia's minister of natural resources said on Monday.
Dec 23, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to drag the second-largest EU economy out of political crisis.
Dec 23, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - Taiwan's government warned on Monday that opposition-led amendments to next year's budget could put national security and defence funding at risk.
Dec 23, 2024
San Salvador (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - El Salvador's Congress on Monday approved a bill promoted by President Nayib Bukele to roll back a ban on the mining of gold and other metals, dismaying environmentalists.
Dec 23, 2024
East Lansing MI (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 - The war in Ukraine is causing hunger thousands of miles from the battlefields, according to a new study. Nearly three years of war in the breadbasket of the world has left croplands destroyed and
Dec 23, 2024
Santa Cruz, United States (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - A pier collapsed into the ocean and floated away off the US state of California on Monday, weather authorities said, as the region was pounded by a powerful storm.
Dec 23, 2024
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost-covered region of Yakutia.
Dec 23, 2024
Dhaka (AFP) Dec 23, 2024 - Bangladesh has launched a probe into the alleged $5 billion embezzlement connected to a Russian-backed nuclear power plant by ousted leader Sheikh Hasina and her family, the anti-corruption commission said Monday.
Dec 23, 2024
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 23, 2024 - As global warming accelerates the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, its contribution to rising sea levels and disruptions in global weather patterns underscores the need for precise monitoring. Fo
Dec 23, 2024
