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Critics say pandemic treaty text is 'step backwards'
AFP, Published on 30/05/2023
» GENEVA: As negotiations towards a new pandemic treaty pick up pace, observers warn of watered-down efforts to ensure equitable access to the medical products needed to battle future Covid-like threats.
Business tough in China as national security trumps all
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» SHANGHAI - Doing business in China has become harder and potentially more perilous as the government prioritises an ever-widening definition of national security over all else, despite insisting the country has reopened for trading.
Private satellites give boost to public sector in climate fight
AFP, Published on 18/05/2023
» WASHINGTON - From satellites that can pinpoint the sources of industrial pollution, to others that track hurricane movements by the hour, space has emerged as a key front in the fight against climate change.
Dead rivers, flaming lakes: India's sewage failure
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» NEW DELHI - Mohammed Azhar holds his baby niece next to a storm drain full of plastic and stinking black sludge, testament to India's failure to treat nearly two-thirds of its urban sewage.
Out of gas in orbit? This US space company is here to help
AFP, Published on 27/04/2023
» COLORADO SPRINGS (UNITED STATES) - The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to "gas stations" in space, its CEO tells AFP, hoping its refueling technology will make the surging satellite industry more sustainable -- and profitable.
'Steel heart of Ukraine' steps in to battle
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/04/2023
» Inside the gloom of the vast Zaporizhstal steel plant, a towering blast furnace wheezes like a giant black lung, inhaling chunks of iron ore, thermal coal and limestone, blending them at temperatures reaching several thousand degrees with oxygen-enriched air, and then exhaling vapour and molten metal.
Biden concerned by US leaks, as details of source's identity emerge
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden voiced concern Thursday over the leak of a cache of classified military documents, as details emerged of a military base employee who may have first posted the papers online.
Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» STOCKHOLM - "Old ladies need more money!" a group of grey-haired women chants in front of Sweden's parliament, as their recurring protest against the country's pension system enters its 10th year.
Tough-talking Erdogan lashes 'imperialist' West
AFP, Published on 12/04/2023
» ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday condemned "global imperialists" and played up Turkey's might as he unveiled his Islamic-rooted party's manifesto in next month's knife-edge parliamentary and presidential polls.
Doctors in England start historic four-day strike
AFP, Published on 11/04/2023
» LONDON: Doctors working in England's public health service on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the most disruptive strike in its history, in a dispute over pay and working conditions.