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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 13, 2021 - Dozens of critically endangered orangutans in Malaysia have been tested for the coronavirus, with vets in protective suits undertaking the tricky task of giving the apes nasal swabs.
Jun 26, 2026
Tbilisi (AFP) Sept 1, 2011 - Taliban insurgents killed a Georgian soldier serving with NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, Georgia's tenth fatality in the conflict, the defence ministry said on Thursday.
Jun 26, 2026
Yucumo, Bolivia (AFP) Sept 24, 2011 - Hundreds of indigenous demonstrators in Bolivia's Amazon basin region forced the country's foreign minister to join their protest march Saturday, using him to break through a police blockade.
Jun 26, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 - Fresh from a landslide election win, Japan's next government faces signs of an emerging rift with big business, which fears some of its policies could hinder a recovery in the recession-hit economy.
Jun 26, 2026
Santa Rosa, United States (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 - Tens of thousands of Californians fled their homes in the Napa and Sonoma wine regions in the face of wildfires, emergency officials said, as a new blaze in the north of the state killed three people.
Jun 26, 2026
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) Sept 20, 2024 - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Germany Friday to demand greater climate action, organisers said, but turnout for the Fridays for Future protests was smaller than in past years.
Jun 26, 2026
Karangasem, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 24, 2017 - More than 34,000 people have fled from a rumbling volcano on the resort island of Bali as the magnitude of tremors grows, prompting fears it could erupt for the first time in more than 50 years, an official said Sunday.
Jun 26, 2026
Karachi (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2011 - The bodies of 10 miners have been pulled from a flooded mine in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media reported Saturday, adding two more remain trapped underground.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2023 - A gas leak in northern China has killed 10 people and left three injured, state media said on Friday.
Jun 26, 2026
N'Djamena (AFP) Sept 19, 2020 - Ten Chadian soldiers were killed while attacking a base of the Boko Haram Islamist group in the Lake Chad region, the province's secretary-general told AFP on Saturday.
Jun 26, 2026
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 27, 2013 - A UN panel said Friday it was more certain than ever that humans were causing global warming and predicted temperatures would rise by 0.3 to 4.8 degrees Celsius (0.5-8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century.
Jun 26, 2026
Samburu, Kenya (AFP) Sept 20, 2015 - As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.
Jun 26, 2026
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 5, 2019 - Facebook said technology firms and US officials met at its Silicon Valley headquarters on Wednesday to collaborate on protecting next year's presidential election from cyber threats.
Jun 26, 2026
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 2, 2021 - A major tech conference has dropped plans to move to Malaysia and will remain in Hong Kong, organisers said Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation faces a serious coronavirus outbreak.
Jun 26, 2026
Cairo (AFP) Sept 6, 2025 - In the remote mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan's western Darfur, three successive landslides struck without warning last week.
Jun 26, 2026
