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Lagos (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 - During his first term as US president, Donald Trump sparked outrage over his remarks about African nations, but Africa leaders have been quick to congratulate him since his re-election.
Nov 11, 2024
Sao Paulo (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 - As the COP29 climate talks started Monday in Azerbaijan, an Indigenous leader half a world away is literally towering over Brazil with a warning about the fate of the Amazon rainforest.
Nov 11, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 - The Paris climate agreement's goals are in great peril and 2024 is on track to break new temperature records, the United Nations warned Monday as COP29 talks opened in Baku.
Nov 11, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 11, 2024 - The storm Boris recently caused significant flooding across Central and Eastern Europe, leaving at least 27 people dead and many displaced. A study by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has found
Nov 11, 2024
Manila (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 - Thousands of people sought shelter and ports shut down in the Philippines on Monday, officials said, as the disaster-weary nation was struck by another typhoon - the fourth in less than a month.
Nov 11, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2024 - Data from NISAR will improve our understanding of such phenomena as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides, as well as damage to infrastructure. Earth's surface is in a state of continuous mot
Nov 11, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2024 - A recent study published in 'Science' has provided new perspectives on the origins of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), a key shift in the Earth's glacial cycles that began about one million yea
Nov 11, 2024
Bamako (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - The CEO and two employees of Australian company Resolute Mining, which owns a gold mine in Mali, were detained while in Bamako to discuss disputes with the authorities, the firm said on Sunday.
Nov 10, 2024
Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - This year is virtually certain to be the hottest in recorded history with warming above 1.5C, EU climate monitor Copernicus said Thursday, days before nations are due to gather for crunch UN climate talks.
Nov 10, 2024
Havana (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - Two powerful earthquakes rocked southern Cuba in quick succession on Sunday, US geologists said, just days after the island was struck by a hurricane that knocked out power nationwide.
Nov 10, 2024
Abidjan (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - Burkina Faso's armed forces have begun a probe after a video showing people in army uniforms mutilating a human body spread online, the military-led country's general staff said on Sunday.
Nov 10, 2024
Beijing (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - Farmer Liu Bingyong used to make a tidy profit selling milk but is now leaking cash - the victim of a dairy sector crisis that embodies several of China's economic woes.
Nov 10, 2024
Havana (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 - Cuba's government said Saturday it arrested an unspecified number of people who staged demonstrations when a hurricane left the island without power for the second time in weeks.
Nov 10, 2024
Kabul (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 - An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.
Nov 9, 2024
East Flores, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 - A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) into the sky, days after it killed nine people and forced thousands of locals to evacuate.
Nov 9, 2024
New York (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 - Over a 100 firefighters battled a rare brushfire in New York City's Brooklyn borough as prolonged drought and unusually high temperatures have fuelled a series of blazes in the northeast United States, authorities said Saturday.
Nov 9, 2024
