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Beijing (AFP) Nov 16, 2024 - Eight people were killed and 17 others wounded Saturday in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China, and the suspect - a former student - has been arrested, police said.
Nov 16, 2024
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - From banning tuk-tuks and barbecues to demolishing old brick kilns, Pakistan's government is pushing a series of measures to fight record-breaking smog.
Nov 15, 2024
Colombo (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis.
Nov 15, 2024
Berlin (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats grapple with plummeting support ahead of a snap election in February, dissenters in the party are looking to popular defence minister Boris Pistorius to rescue them from a poll rout.
Nov 15, 2024
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Friday extended school closures in smog-hit major cities by a week, with thousands hospitalised as the country battles record air pollution.
Nov 15, 2024
Manila (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Typhoon Usagi blew out of the Philippines early Friday as another dangerous storm drew closer, threatening an area where scores were killed by flash floods and landslides just weeks ago, the weather service said.
Nov 15, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - The head of the Spanish region devastated by the country's deadliest floods in decades admitted to mistakes and apologised on Friday but rebuffed calls for his resignation.
Nov 15, 2024
Johannesburg (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered Friday a large-scale inspection of tuck shops and informal corner stores after the deaths from food poisoning of more than 20 children, some linked to an agricultural raticide.
Nov 15, 2024
Dadu, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Before monsoon rains broke over Pakistan, 14-year-old Shamila and her 13-year-old sister Amina were married off in exchange for money, a decision their parents made to help the family survive the threat of floods.
Nov 15, 2024
Hula Valley, Israel (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Across northern Israel's lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.
Nov 15, 2024
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - Tropical Storm Sara dumped heavy rains with the potential to cause disastrous flooding Thursday as it churned inland along the northeastern coast of Honduras.
Nov 15, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Nov 15, 2024 - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, striking off the country's eastern coast.
Nov 15, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - Taiwan will keep strengthening its military capabilities, a senior security official said, in an apparent signal to US President-elect Donald Trump that the island is serious about shoring up its own defences.
Nov 14, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 14, 2024 - China launched a new satellite designed to detect ocean salinity on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province, northern China, as reported by the China National Space Admi
Nov 14, 2024
Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - US president-elect Donald Trump's expected climate rollbacks will likely have a small impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, new research found Thursday.
Nov 14, 2024
Manila (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - The Philippines raised its highest storm alert and evacuated thousands of people on Thursday, as Super Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards its already disaster-ravaged north.
Nov 14, 2024
