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The Hague (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 - Halfway through marathon climate change hearings at the world's top court, battle lines are being drawn between developed countries urging judges to stick to current legal obligations and vulnerable nations pleading for more.
Dec 9, 2024
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2024 - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have demonstrated that agricultural land near river confluences can significantly reduce flood risks. Their study highlights the benefits of Eco-DRR (D
Dec 9, 2024
Bogotá (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 - Four suspected members of Colombia's biggest drug cartel were killed last week in airstrikes on their bases, President Gustavo Petro announced Monday.
Dec 9, 2024
College Station TX (SPX) Dec 09, 2024 - Pesticides can be made more effective and environmentally friendly by improving how they stick to plant surfaces, thanks to new research led by Dr. Mustafa Akbulut, professor of chemical engineering
Dec 9, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 - Spain's King Felipe joined hundreds of mourners in a memorial mass on Monday for victims of the devastating floods that killed 230 people in the east of the country.
Dec 9, 2024
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 09, 2024 - Amid all the changes in Earth's climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an odd exception. The maximum winter sea ice cover remained steady or even
Dec 9, 2024
Seoul (AFP) Dec 8, 2024 - South Korea's former defence minister was arrested Sunday, local media reported, a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote over his calamitous attempt to impose martial law.
Dec 8, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2024 - Recent research overturns the assumption that older adults are the primary victims of heat-related deaths as the climate warms. A study focusing on mortality in Mexico reveals that 75% of heat-relat
Dec 8, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 08, 2024 - An astronomical observatory in Yunnan Province, southwest China, has successfully documented the rare event of a near-Earth asteroid falling to Earth, according to an announcement by the Chinese Aca
Dec 8, 2024
Seoul (AFP) Dec 8, 2024 - South Korea's main opposition party said Sunday it will try again to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after his declaration of martial law.
Dec 8, 2024
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Dec 8, 2024 - Brandishing the flag of the opposition, dozens of Syrian refugees in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Sunday celebrated the fall of Bashar al-Assad, dubbing the Syrian president's fall a victory for the revolution.
Dec 8, 2024
Mogadishu (AFP) Dec 7, 2024 - Somali pirates who hijacked a Chinese fishing boat have demanded a ransom payment for the vessel and its 18 crew members, police and local officials said on Saturday.
Dec 7, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Dec 7, 2024 - A long-abandoned Papua New Guinea mine once operated by Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto poses environmental and safety concerns for nearby communities, who live under the threat of landslides, a new report shows.
Dec 7, 2024
Phnom Penh (AFP) Dec 7, 2024 - A Cambodian journalist died on Saturday after he was shot this week while investigating illegal logging in the country's northwest, police said.
Dec 7, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Dec 7, 2024 - A giant snow slab broke away and barrelled down a mountainside, briefly burying three people out of dozens participating in an avalanche course in the Swiss Alps Saturday, rescue services said.
Dec 7, 2024
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Dec 6, 2024 - A Sudanese military air strike on a north Khartoum mosque killed seven civilians on Friday, pro-democracy lawyers said, in the 19th month of a war marked by widespread abuses.
Dec 6, 2024
