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Strasbourg, France (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - The EU parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to delay the implementation of a sweeping anti-deforestation law by one year - ditching a late push to water down the controversial rules.
Dec 17, 2024
Maputo (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - Cyclone Chido claimed at least 34 lives after sweeping across Mozambique, the National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management announced Tuesday.
Dec 17, 2024
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - A Russian Black Sea resort town declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after oil spilled from two damaged tankers and washed up along the shoreline.
Dec 17, 2024
Quito (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - Ecuador announced Tuesday that it had converted part of its $1.5 billion of external debt into protection for the Amazon rainforest, the second so-called debt-for-nature swap in the South American country.
Dec 17, 2024
Beijing (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - China on Tuesday executed a former official for corruption, a court in the northern region of Inner Mongolia said, the latest development in Beijing's sweeping campaign against graft.
Dec 17, 2024
Macau (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - In the shadow of the Grand Lisboa, the Macau casino world-famous for its golden lotus design, fashion boutique owner Suzanne Leong wonders if the economic miracle that initially made her fortune has now cast her aside.
Dec 17, 2024
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - EU countries on Tuesday backed plans to curb plastic pollution by toughening rules for companies using the pellets that constitute the building blocks of most plastic products.
Dec 17, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2024 - A new study has produced the first comprehensive map of Arctic coastal settlements and infrastructure, revealing the extent of their vulnerability to climate change-driven threats. Coastal erosion r
Dec 17, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - Overconsumption and unsustainable farming are fuelling overlapping crises in nature and the climate, putting crucial ecosystems such as coral reefs at imminent risk of destruction, a landmark UN report said Tuesday.
Dec 17, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Tuesday, smashing buildings in the capital Port Vila including one housing the US and other embassies, with a witness telling AFP of bodies seen in the city.
Dec 17, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 17, 2024 - The dismal quality of housing across Mayotte has compounded the devastating impact of Cyclone Chido on the poverty-stricken French Indian Ocean territory where hundreds, or maybe thousands, are feared dead.
Dec 17, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - Taiwan has received 38 advanced Abrams battle tanks from the United States, the defence ministry said Monday, reportedly the island's first new tanks in 30 years.
Dec 16, 2024
Dakar (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - Mali's army on Monday claimed it had captured a top leader in the Sahel branch of the Islamic State group and killed several fighters in an operation a day earlier in the east of the country.
Dec 16, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2024 - For the first time, researchers have closely observed the catastrophic release of meltwater from a massive glacial lake in East Greenland, where 3,000 billion liters of water cascaded into the Score
Dec 16, 2024
Saint-Denis De La Reunion (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - Rescuers raced against time Monday to reach survivors and supply urgent aid after a devastating cyclone ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, destroying homes across the islands, with hundreds feared dead.
Dec 16, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2024 - A study from Karolinska Institutet reveals that long-term exposure to air pollution is a critical factor behind millions of deaths in India. Published in *The Lancet Planetary Health*, the research
Dec 16, 2024
