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Brasilia (AFP) Sept 3, 2021 - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a seminal case over the scope of the constitution's protection of indigenous land.
Jun 26, 2026
La Paz (AFP) Sept 27, 2011 - Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's interior minister and a top official in leftist President Evo Morales' government, resigned Tuesday over a violent weekend crackdown on protesting Amazon natives.
Jun 26, 2026
Mogadishu (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - As flies buzz over his tiny body, two-year-old Sadak Ibrahim barely whimpers, too weak to cry or shoo them away - a heartbreaking glimpse of the hunger crisis gripping Somalia.
Jun 26, 2026
Rome (AFP) Sept 13, 2025 - Children across Italy are returning to classrooms after a traditional three months off school - the longest summer holiday in Europe.
Jun 26, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 - As a Tokyo court pronounced three former executives not guilty in the only criminal trial over the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a woman's voice cut through the silence from the gallery: Unbelievable!
Jun 26, 2026
Nuku'Alofa, Tonga (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - A volcano north of Tonga's main island has erupted eight times in the past 48 hours, according to the Pacific nation's geological service, which has warned mariners to keep their distance Tuesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 7, 2023 - An unprecedentedly violent volcanic eruption that triggered a tsunami off the Pacific island nation of Tonga in 2022 unleashed the fastest underwater currents ever recorded, according to a study published on Thursday.
Jun 26, 2026
Kampala (AFP) Sept 4, 2008 - A hepatitis E epidemic has killed 121 people in northern Uganda, where it erupted in October last year, a health ministry official said Thursday.
Jun 26, 2026
Manila (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 - The death toll from a landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 29, police said Friday, as rescuers frantically dug for survivors of the latest tragedy in the storm-hit nation.
Jun 26, 2026
Juba (AFP) Sept 17, 2012 - South Sudan's military on Monday raised to as many as 40 the death toll from a friendly fire incident last week in which it sank one of its own river boats at night.
Jun 26, 2026
Manila (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 - The death toll from a monsoon landslide in the central Philippines has risen to 22, officials said Friday, as rescuers dug through the night in a frantic search for survivors of the latest tragedy in the storm-hit nation.
Jun 26, 2026
Niamey (AFP) Sept 3, 2021 - An epidemic of cholera that has struck six regions in southern Niger has claimed 104 lives, the health ministry said on Friday.
Jun 26, 2026
Solola, Guatemala (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 - The death toll from multiple landslides in Guatemala rose to 44, officials said Monday as rescuers took advantage of a brief window of good weather to search for victims and survivors.
Jun 26, 2026
Madrid (AFP) Sept 29, 2012 - Ten people, including a young girl and an elderly woman, have died in Spain as a result of floods brought on by downpours, regional officials said on Saturday.
Jun 26, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 7, 2018 - Japanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs scrabbled through the mud Friday to find survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 18.
Jun 26, 2026
Palamas Karditsa, Greece (AFP) Sept 10, 2023 - The toll from flooding that has ravaged villages in central Greece has risen to 15 people dead, rescue workers said Sunday.
Jun 26, 2026
