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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
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
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
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
Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2024 - China said Sunday it firmly opposed US President Joe Biden's approval of $571.3 million in defence assistance for Taiwan.
Dec 22, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 22, 2024 - China has reacted angrily to the White House's approval of $295 million in arms sales to Taiwan, according to a release Saturday from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Los Angeles.
Dec 22, 2024
Ain Draham, Tunisia (AFP) Dec 22, 2024 - On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on for their livelihoods, but droughts and rising temperatures are making it ever harder to find the precious plants.
Dec 22, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Dec 22, 2024 - A magnitude-6.1 earthquake rattled buildings on Vanuatu's main island early Sunday but did not appear to have caused major damage, five days after a more powerful quake wreaked havoc and killed 12 people.
Dec 22, 2024
Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - US President Joe Biden approved $571.3 million in defense assistance for Taiwan on Friday, the White House said, as the Democrat prepares to leave office ahead of the January inauguration of Donald Trump.
Dec 21, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Dec 21, 2024
Monrovia (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - The lawyer responsible for setting up Liberia's long-awaited war crimes court told AFP that the first trials will take place in the next five years, more than two decades after the brutal civil wars that left around 250,000 people dead.
Dec 21, 2024
Maputo (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - Cyclone Chido, which ravaged the French archipelago of Mayotte, has claimed 76 lives in Mozambique, the National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management said Saturday.
Dec 21, 2024
Port Vila, Vanuatu (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - Vanuatu said on Saturday it will lift a suspension on commercial flights to restart its vital tourism industry following an earthquake that killed at least 12 people.
Dec 21, 2024
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - Pakistan military courts have convicted and sentenced 25 people for involvement in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said Saturday, with the majority handed decade-long prison terms.
Dec 21, 2024
Freetown (AFP) Dec 21, 2024 - In his small Freetown workshop, engineering student James Samba tinkered with batteries and electrical parts he hoped could help clean up Sierra Leone's polluting public transport system.
Dec 21, 2024
Washington (AFP) Dec 20, 2024 - The United Arab Emirates has informed the United States that it will not arm paramilitaries in Sudan's brutal civil war, US lawmakers long critical of the Gulf power's role quoted the White House as saying on Thursday.
Dec 20, 2024
