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Merzouga, Morocco (AFP) Oct 27, 2024 - In Morocco's southeastern desert, a rare downpour has brought lakes and ponds back to life, with locals - and tourists - hailing it as a gift from the heavens.
Oct 27, 2024
Bamako (AFP) Oct 27, 2024 - Mali's army on Sunday said it had killed some 40 terrorists and destroyed one of their bases in two operations in the centre of the jihadist-plagued country.
Oct 27, 2024
Manila (AFP) Oct 27, 2024 - Rescuers in the Philippines were diving into a lake and scouring isolated villages on Sunday to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami hit 100.
Oct 27, 2024
Tehran (AFP) Oct 27, 2024 - Iranian armed forces on Sunday killed at least four terrorists behind a deadly attack on police the day before in the country's southeast, Tasnim news agency reported.
Oct 27, 2024
Saint-Martin-Du-Puy, France (AFP) Oct 26, 2024 - After over a decade of snapping up Bordeaux wine estates, buying into a dream of elegant living in France and good earnings in their home market, many Chinese investors are now selling up.
Oct 26, 2024
Tarawa, Kiribati (AFP) Oct 26, 2024 - New Zealand congratulated Kiribati's Taneti Maamau after the pro-China president was elected on Saturday to a third term in charge of the low-lying Pacific island nation.
Oct 26, 2024
Vidauban, France (AFP) Oct 26, 2024 - Floodwaters lapped the shopfronts in the glitzy French resort of Saint Tropez on Saturday as torrential rains closed roads and train lines across the south of the country.
Oct 26, 2024
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 26, 2024 - Lumpy white globs washing up on the shores of Canada's Atlantic island province of Newfoundland for weeks have captivated the imagination of locals and are baffling scientists.
Oct 26, 2024
Manila (AFP) Oct 26, 2024 - Rescuers in the Philippines raced Saturday to reach people still stranded in areas made inaccessible by flooding from Tropical Storm Trami, which has killed at least 97 people.
Oct 26, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 26, 2024 - More than 120 people were killed and 200 more wounded after a paramilitary group in Sudan attacked a rural village, the deadliest in the 18-month conflict.
Oct 26, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - Crunch UN talks on ways to halt and reverse species loss by 2030 have made very good progress, officials said Friday, as the summit in Colombia marked its halfway point.
Oct 25, 2024
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - Canada's environment ministry said Friday that climate change had made nearly all the heat waves recorded this summer more likely, including in an Arctic area where temperatures hit 35 degrees Celcius.
Oct 25, 2024
Kinmen, Taiwan (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te visited an island off China on Friday for the 75th anniversary of a victory over communist forces, days after China and Taiwan held military drills in sensitive waters separating the two.
Oct 25, 2024
Quito (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - Ecuador on Friday lengthened scheduled electricity rationing from eight to 14 hours per day due to the worst drought it has faced in six decades, the energy minister announced.
Oct 25, 2024
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil's government to pay nearly $30 billion in compensation for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered the country's worst environmental disaster.
Oct 25, 2024
London (AFP) Oct 25, 2024 - UK government advisers on Saturday urged ministers to set an ambitious target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81 percent by 2035 to combat climate change.
Oct 25, 2024
