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Wellington (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - Microplastics were found in a third of hundreds of fish surveyed in the coastal waters of several Pacific Island nations, researchers said in a study published Thursday.
Jan 28, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - President Donald Trump's contentious deployments of troops in multiple US cities cost nearly $500 million in 2025, according to an estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published Wednesday.
Jan 28, 2026
Bogota (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - Colombian security forces killed five members of the country's largest drug cartel, including a regional kingpin, the government said Wednesday ahead of a meeting in Washington between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump.
Jan 28, 2026
Manhiça, Mozambique (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique.
Jan 28, 2026
Paris, France (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday.
Jan 28, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - A life-threatening freeze is gripping large swaths of the United States after a monster storm caused at least 38 deaths from the Deep South to the Northeast, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands and sent air travel into chaos.
Jan 28, 2026
Windsor, United Kingdom (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - King Charles III has warned the world is rapidly going backwards in curbing climate change and biodiversity loss, in an Amazon Prime documentary getting a Windsor Castle premiere Wednesday.
Jan 28, 2026
Aboard Oceanxplorer, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - A dome-fronted submersible sinks beneath the waves off Indonesia, heading down nearly 1,000 metres in search of new species, plastic-eating microbes and compounds that could one day make medicines.
Jan 28, 2026
Kathmandu Jan 28, 2026 - Nepal's Election Commission said Wednesday it is ready to hold elections as planned, despite concerns over weather conditions in high-altitude Himalayan regions when the vote takes place on March 5.
Jan 28, 2026
Paris, France (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday a standoff with the United States over Greenland was a strategic wake-up call for all of Europe as he hosted the leaders of Denmark and the Danish autonomous territory for talks.
Jan 28, 2026
Lisbon Jan 28, 2026 - Storm Kristin killed at least four people overnight as it barrelled through central and northern Portugal, authorities said Wednesday.
Jan 28, 2026
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - Iraq's main candidate for the premiership Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday denounced Washington's blatant interference, after President Donald Trump threatened to end all support to the country if Maliki took the post.
Jan 28, 2026
Moscow (AFP) Jan 28, 2026 - A volcano in Russia's far east on Wednesday spewed ash several kilometres into the sky, authorities said, putting on a spectacular display in its latest eruption.
Jan 28, 2026
New York (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 - More than half a million Americans woke up without power Tuesday, as freezing temperatures gripped swathes of the country in a monster storm that has killed at least 30 people.
Jan 27, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 - Hundreds gathered to say farewell to two popular pandas departing Tokyo for China on Tuesday, leaving Japan without any of the beloved bears for the first time in 50 years as ties between the Asian neighbours fray.
Jan 27, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the alliance between Tokyo and Washington would collapse if Japan failed to act in the event of an attack on the US military during a conflict in Taiwan.
Jan 27, 2026
