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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
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
London (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - A suspected Chinese spy who became a confidant of disgraced royal Prince Andrew is only the tip of the iceberg of Beijing's espionage activities in the UK, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith claimed Monday.
Dec 16, 2024
Saint-Denis De La Reunion (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - France's President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he would soon visit Mayotte in the aftermath of a cyclone that ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory, with hundreds feared dead.
Dec 16, 2024
Paris (AFP) Dec 16, 2024 - The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper into uncharted territory - and scientists are still trying to figure out why.
Dec 16, 2024
London, UK (SPX) Dec 16, 2024 - An international team of scientists, including a glaciologist from Newcastle University, has uncovered remarkably preserved glacial landforms buried nearly 1 km beneath the North Sea. The discovery
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
Damascus (AFP) Dec 15, 2024 - It has been a week since Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other rebels toppled longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad.
Dec 15, 2024
Maputo (AFP) Dec 15, 2024 - Cyclone Chido claimed at least three lives in northern Mozambique on Sunday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain that destroyed several buildings, according to a provisional toll, after inflicting major death and destruction in France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte.
Dec 15, 2024
Kampala (AFP) Dec 15, 2024 - Uganda will relocate more than 5,000 households in landslide-hit east Uganda as a massive fissure threatens to trigger another deadly disaster, the government said on Sunday.
Dec 15, 2024
Dhaka (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - Few in the Jahan family's remote Bangladeshi village had seen a jackal up close before the morning one stalked Musqan through the paddy fields, pounced on her, and maimed the four-year-old for life.
Dec 14, 2024
Harare (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - Four white rhinos have died in Zimbabwe after drinking from a sewage-polluted lake that is also the main supplier of water to the nearby capital, the wildlife authority said Saturday.
Dec 14, 2024
Saint-Denis De La Reunion (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - Cyclone Chido obliterated shantytowns on the French island territory of Mayotte on Saturday, with French ministers fearing a heavy death toll from the destruction, which has already claimed two lives.
Dec 14, 2024
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Macau next week for a gathering marking 25 years since the former Portuguese colony's handover to China, state news agency Xinhua said Saturday.
Dec 14, 2024
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - Negotiators failed to produce an agreement on how to respond to drought at Saudi-hosted UN talks, participants said on Saturday, falling short of a hoped-for binding protocol addressing the scourge.
Dec 14, 2024
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 14, 2024 - The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, Tokyo and Washington said Saturday, after decades of mounting grievances among locals over America's military presence.
Dec 14, 2024
