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Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2024 - TikTok and Facebook approved advertisements containing blatant US election falsehoods just weeks ahead of the vote, a watchdog investigation revealed Thursday, calling into question the tech platforms' policies to detect harmful disinformation.
Oct 17, 2024
N'Djamena (AFP) Oct 17, 2024 - Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has removed several high-ranking defence and security officials from their posts, days after dismissing the security minister.
Oct 17, 2024
San Salvador (AFP) Oct 17, 2024 - El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday approved the legalization of unregistered firearms held by citizens of the Central American nation, whose president has cracked down hard on criminal gangs.
Oct 17, 2024
Azufral Volcano (AFP) Oct 17, 2024 - In the crater of a semi-dormant volcano in southwest Colombia lies a sacred lake of startling green which used to draw a steady stream of garbage-tossing tourists before Indigenous leaders took back control.
Oct 17, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Oct 17, 2024 - The mothers of four French Islamists who disappeared after going to areas of Syria controlled by the Islamic State group asked the UN anti-torture committee Thursday to pressure Paris to bring them home.
Oct 17, 2024
Kathmandu (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Climate change, along with rapid urbanisation and deforestation, turbocharged floods in Nepal that killed more than 240 people last month, scientists said on Thursday.
Oct 16, 2024
Athens (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Greek marine protection groups warned Wednesday that the country was badly failing its conservation targets despite government promises.
Oct 16, 2024
Yangon (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to close ally China next month, two sources close to the military told AFP Wednesday, in what would be his first known trip there since he led a coup in 2021.
Oct 16, 2024
Port Hardy, Canada (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Viewed from above, Canada's newest Marine Protected Area (MPA) is deceptively simple: stretches of blue Pacific Ocean waters and a few patches of green forest.
Oct 16, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.
Oct 16, 2024
San Juan (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Plans to remove stray cats from a historic site in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan have hit a snag, after animal rights groups cried foul.
Oct 16, 2024
Shengjin, Albania (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - A navy boat carrying migrants intercepted in Italian waters docked at Shengjin port in Albania Wednesday, AFP journalists saw, the first arrivals under a new deal between Rome and Tirana.
Oct 16, 2024
Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Myanmar has tied China for the world's worst record on internet freedom, with declines reported in a number of other countries led by Kyrgyzstan, a study said Wednesday.
Oct 16, 2024
Bengaluru, India (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Intense rain lashed southern India on Wednesday, with weather officials issuing a red alert warning of flash floods and landslides.
Oct 16, 2024
Bogota (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - The Colombian government said Tuesday it had granted the country's Indigenous groups new environmental authority on their lands, just days before hosting the UN's COP16 conference on biodiversity.
Oct 16, 2024
Dakar (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Mali's junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita and five other key figures in the military administration have been promoted to general, according to a statement released after a cabinet meeting Wednesday.
Oct 16, 2024
