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Thiaroye, Senegal (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former colonial master acknowledged this week had been a massacre.
Dec 1, 2024
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - For Caleb Justin Smith-White, negotiations in South Korea on a landmark global deal to curb plastic pollution are about more than the environment. They are about saving lives.
Dec 1, 2024
Kabul (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - An Afghan environment official on Sunday said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban officials attended for the first time.
Dec 1, 2024
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing a self-imposed deadline, and agreed to extend their talks.
Dec 1, 2024
Athens (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - A storm sweeping through Greece has killed two people on the island of Lemnos, and damaged roads and buildings in Rhodes, authorities said on Sunday.
Dec 1, 2024
Oslo (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - Norway has suspended plans to start giving licences for deep-sea mining next year that had faced opposition from environment groups and international institutions, a party allied with the centre-left government said on Sunday.
Dec 1, 2024
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - Greenpeace said Sunday its activists had been detained by South Korean police after boarding a tanker to draw attention to calls for a treaty to curb plastic pollution.
Dec 1, 2024
Antananarivo (AFP) Dec 1, 2024 - Several dozen lemurs and more than 900 tortoises endemic to Madagascar that were trafficked to Thailand will be returned home this week, the Indian Ocean island-nation's environment ministry said on Sunday.
Dec 1, 2024
Bengaluru, India (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - Schools in India's south were shut and hundreds of people moved inland to storm shelters ahead of a powerful cyclone storm set to hit the region on Saturday.
Nov 30, 2024
Pristina (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - An explosion on Friday damaged a canal supplying water to Kosovo's two main coal-fired power plants, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said, blaming a terrorist attack by neighbouring Serbia.
Nov 30, 2024
Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - The United States has approved the proposed sale of spare parts for fighter jets and radar systems as well as communications equipment to Taiwan, in deals valued at $385 million, a US agency said Friday.
Nov 30, 2024
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - More than 122,000 people have been forced out of their homes as massive floods caused by relentless rains swept through Malaysia's northern states, disaster officials said Saturday.
Nov 30, 2024
Sainyabuli, Laos (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - Slow and silent, former logging elephant Mae Khoun Nung emerges from a forest in northern Laos and follows her guide to an animal hospital for a check-up.
Nov 30, 2024
Seoul (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - Greenpeace activists boarded a tanker off South Korea on Saturday in an action intended to draw attention to calls for a treaty to curb plastic pollution, the environmental group said.
Nov 30, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Nov 30, 2024 - Some 100,000 people marched on Saturday to protest against the authorities' handling of Spain's floods in Valencia, whose eastern region bore the brunt of the tragedy's 230 deaths.
Nov 30, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2024 - Georgia has suspended its bid to join the European Union, prompting thousands of protesters to take to the streets, where they clashed with police in the capital of Tbilisi.
Nov 29, 2024
