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Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - The world's biggest nature protection conference gets a ceremonial kickoff in Colombia Sunday with host city Cali on high alert after threats from a guerrilla group.
Oct 20, 2024
Rome (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - An avalanche of water in northeast Italy claimed one life and left swathes of the Emilia-Romagna region under water Sunday, local officials said.
Oct 20, 2024
Havana (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - Hurricane Oscar made landfall on Sunday evening in Cuba, where residents were preparing for more chaos and misery as the country grapples with a nearly nationwide power outage that is in its third day.
Oct 20, 2024
Cali, Colombia (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - UN chief Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged significant investment in a fund created to safeguard Earth's biodiversity as he addressed delegates to the world's biggest nature protection conference in Cali, Colombia.
Oct 20, 2024
Marienmunster, Germany (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - Ever since the bluetongue virus struck nearly a year ago, German farmer Ortrun Humpert has cared for sick sheep to contain a crisis and feels increasingly abandoned by authorities.
Oct 20, 2024
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region headed to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament for the oil-rich region, where voters have expressed disenchantment with the political elite.
Oct 20, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2024 - The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th UN conference on biodiversity opens Monday in Colombia.
Oct 20, 2024
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - Prabowo Subianto will be sworn in Sunday as president of the world's third-largest democracy, Indonesia, with the wealthy ex-general accused of rights abuses taking over eight months after a landslide election win.
Oct 19, 2024
Washington (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - The US State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to any foreign person or entity engaging in election interference, it said just weeks before Americans select their next president.
Oct 19, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - World-respected British primate expert Jane Goodall wants a coming United Nations summit on biodiversity to lead to action rather than words and false promises.
Oct 19, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - King Charles was granted five-star rank in each branch of Australia's armed forces Saturday, a ceremonial gesture to mark the first full day of his landmark tour Down Under.
Oct 19, 2024
Bento Rodrigues, Brazil (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - Emanuele Vitoria was at home with her father and brother when a torrent of toxic mud tore threw the quiet village of Bento Rodrigues in the mountains of southeast Brazil nine years ago.
Oct 19, 2024
Bangkok (AFP) Oct 19, 2024 - China's consulate in Myanmar's city of Mandalay was attacked with an explosive device, local media said Saturday, adding that no deaths or injuries were reported.
Oct 19, 2024
Kampala (AFP) Oct 18, 2024 - A Ugandan court on Friday charged three former city officials with manslaughter and criminal negligence over a landslide at a vast garbage dump that killed 35 people.
Oct 18, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Oct 18, 2024 - South Africa has ordered Taiwan's representative office to relocate outside of the capital Pretoria, a Taipei foreign ministry official said Friday, blaming Chinese pressure for the decision.
Oct 18, 2024
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 18, 2024 - ESA has signed a euro 63 million contract with OHB Italia SpA to initiate preparatory work for its proposed Ramses mission, which aims to study the asteroid Apophis. On 13 April 2029, Apophis
Oct 18, 2024
