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New Delhi (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - The toxic smog season in India's capital has just begun, but those unable to escape cancer-causing poisonous fumes say the hazardous impact on health is already taking its toll.
Nov 5, 2024
Jerusalem (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defence minister Tuesday after public differences over the war in Gaza, replacing him with the country's former top diplomat.
Nov 5, 2024
Lille, France (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - A French court on Tuesday issued prison terms of up to 15 years to 18 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, convicted of forming a vast gang to smuggle migrants aboard small boats across the Channel to England.
Nov 5, 2024
La Paz (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - The Bolivian government said at the weekend that 200 soldiers were being held hostage by supporters of ex-president Evo Morales, who have been blockading roads for over three weeks to try to prevent his arrest on charges of statutory rape.
Nov 5, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Azerbaijani rights defender and climate advocate Anar Mammadli was picking up his son from kindergarten when police arrested him in front of his children.
Nov 5, 2024
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has been born in Indonesia, officials said Tuesday, another rare birth that has given renewed hope to conservation efforts.
Nov 5, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 5, 2024 - The Taurid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky for the next week for the phenomenon's annual appearance.
Nov 5, 2024
Tehran (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Iranian armed forces killed four jihadists after a deadly attack on a police station in the restive southeast, state media reported Tuesday, bringing the death toll to eight.
Nov 5, 2024
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024 - Imagining a vast ice sheet sprawling over Canada and extending down into what is now the northern United States, reaching as far south as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, helps
Nov 5, 2024
Johannesburg (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Britain's Prince William announced financial support and training for African rangers during a visit to South Africa on Tuesday.
Nov 5, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Spain announced Tuesday an aid package worth 10.6 billion euros ($11.5 billion) to rebuild regions devastated by its worst floods in a generation that have killed 219 people.
Nov 5, 2024
Goma, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan foreign ministers affirmed Tuesday the need for warring parties to respect a ceasefire in eastern DRC, AFP noted.
Nov 5, 2024
Karachi (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Two Chinese nationals were wounded in Pakistan's largest city on Tuesday, a hospital official said, after a spate of targeted attacks prompted Beijing to demand tighter security for its citizens.
Nov 5, 2024
Maniitsoq, Denmark (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - A frozen landscape with breathtaking views, Greenland wants to attract more tourists, but its remote location and fragile environment - which make it a unique destination - also pose challenges.
Nov 5, 2024
Nuuk (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - A new runway at Greenland's Nuuk airport that can accommodate international flights is expected to lift the tourism sector, at the risk of inundating the Arctic island's infrastructure and fragile ecosystem.
Nov 5, 2024
Madrid (AFP) Nov 5, 2024 - Spain's deadliest floods in a generation ravaged one of the nation's key economic regions and will leave an enormous bill for the state and the insurance sector.
Nov 5, 2024
