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Asheville, United States (AFP) Oct 6, 2024 - Nicole Crane, exhausted, tearful and unwashed after a week of searching for a neighbor swept away by the raging waters of Hurricane Helene, dreams of taking a shower.
Oct 6, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Two people who went missing amid the destructive wind and torrential rains of Typhoon Krathon were found dead Saturday in Taiwan, doubling the death toll for the storm that lashed the island this week.
Oct 5, 2024
Rome (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Blocking a road to protest inaction against climate change could soon be punishable with prison in Italy as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's hard-right government cracks down on demonstrations, even peaceful ones.
Oct 5, 2024
Pensacola, United States (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - The only road to Pensacola, in the remote mountains of western North Carolina, is now a muddy path through deep, twisting gorges. Its main bridges were swept away last week in floods fueled by devastating Hurricane Helene - and a cold winter is coming.
Oct 5, 2024
Wellington (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - New Zealand said Sunday it had rescued all 75 sailors from a wrecked and burning navy vessel that ran aground and sank off Samoa while conducting a reef survey.
Oct 5, 2024
Budapest (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Several thousand demonstrators waving Hungarian flags rallied in Budapest on Saturday, demanding an end to what they called propaganda by the nationalist government in the media.
Oct 5, 2024
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Honduran authorities said Friday they had arrested the alleged murderer of an environmental activist whose death drew international condemnation.
Oct 5, 2024
Addis Ababa (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Ethiopian army forces have deployed in large numbers in the past fortnight to Amhara state, scene of a year-long insurgency, a security source told AFP on Saturday.
Oct 5, 2024
Jablanica, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - The search for dozens of people reported missing in floods that have claimed at least 17 lives in Bosnia continued on Saturday, after torrential rains inundated towns and triggered landslides.
Oct 5, 2024
Kathmandu (AFP) Oct 5, 2024 - Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognise his once beautiful settlement.
Oct 5, 2024
London, UK (SPX) Oct 04, 2024 - Researchers from Heriot-Watt University have released new high-resolution images of the Nadir Crater, an asteroid impact site buried deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. The crater, located about 300 me
Oct 4, 2024
Freetown (AFP) Oct 4, 2024 - When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon, it also crushed Fatima Samuella Tholley's hopes of returning home to Sierra Leone to escape the spiralling violence.
Oct 4, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 4, 2024 - A European court on Friday overturned a French government ban on makers of plant-based meats calling their products steak or sausage, which Paris had imposed to protect livestock farmers.
Oct 4, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Oct 4, 2024 - Workers removed felled trees and swept up shattered glass in southern Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Krathon was downgraded to a tropical depression after killing two people and injuring hundreds more.
Oct 4, 2024
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 04, 2024 - Large-scale afforestation and reforestation efforts could lower global temperatures and reduce the duration of exceeding the 1.5C global warming target, according to new simulations conducted by sci
Oct 4, 2024
Geneva (AFP) Oct 4, 2024 - Some migrant domestic workers in Lebanon have been locked in homes while their employers flee from Israel's air strikes, the United Nations said Friday.
Oct 4, 2024
