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Toronto, Canada (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 - Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China.
Jan 26, 2026
Paris, France (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 - Nearly 3.8 billion people could face extreme heat by 2050 and while tropical countries will bear the brunt cooler regions will also need to adapt, scientists said Monday.
Jan 26, 2026
Paris, France (AFP) Jan 26, 2026 - The threat posed by plastic production, usage and disposal to human health will skyrocket in the coming years unless the world does something to address this global crisis, researchers warned Tuesday.
Jan 26, 2026
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 - Panda lovers in Tokyo said goodbye on Sunday to a hugely popular pair of the bears that are set to return to China, leaving Japan without the beloved animals for the first time in half a century.
Jan 25, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 - The shooting death of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, by federal agents Saturday in Minneapolis has spurred a new kind of debate around gun rights in the United States.
Jan 25, 2026
Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 - A life-threatening winter storm brought hazardous conditions to a wide swath of the United States on Sunday, from Texas to New England, prompting warnings to stay off roads, along with mass flight cancellations and power outages.
Jan 25, 2026
Mandalay, Myanmar (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 - Voting concluded in Myanmar's month-long election on Sunday, with the dominant pro-military party on course for landslide victory in a junta-run poll critics say will only prolong the army's grip on power.
Jan 25, 2026
Tirana, Albania (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 - A luxury Albanian island resort project by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has sparked outrage from dozens of environmental NGOs calling for its suspension, a statement seen Saturday by AFP said.
Jan 24, 2026
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 - Iraq's main Shiite alliance, which holds a parliamentary majority, endorsed on Saturday former prime minister and powerbroker Nouri al-Maliki as the country's next premier.
Jan 24, 2026
Kabul (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 - Snow and heavy rain have killed 61 people in Afghanistan in the past three days, disaster officials said on Saturday, with a major road and power also cut in several provinces.
Jan 24, 2026
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 - Efforts to rescue at least six people buried alive by a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park ended Saturday, with police shifting their focus to recovering human remains.
Jan 24, 2026
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 24, 2026 - Women are the main victims of abuse in Sudan's war, facing the world's worst sexual violence and other crimes committed with impunity, a rights activist turned social affairs minister for the army-backed government told AFP.
Jan 24, 2026
Kabul (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 - Children sliding around on plastic bags, boys engaging in lively snowball fights, and families taking selfies on white-covered streets: residents of Kabul rejoiced on Friday at the long-awaited first snowfall of the winter.
Jan 23, 2026
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 - NATO chief Mark Rutte and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen agreed Friday the alliance should boost work on Arctic security, after US President Donald Trump backed off his threats to seize Greenland.
Jan 23, 2026
Khartoum (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 - At a freshly renovated hospital in Khartoum the medical team are beaming: nearly three years after it was wrecked and looted in the early days of Sudan's war, the facility has welcomed its first patients.
Jan 23, 2026
Erbil, Iraq (AFP) Jan 23, 2026 - Women in Iraqi Kurdistan and beyond have taken to the streets and social media to braid their hair in a show of solidarity after a Syrian soldier bragged in a video about cutting off a Kurdish fighter's braid in Raqa.
Jan 23, 2026
