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Published on 06/04/2024
» MALÉ, Maldives — To live in the Maldives is to live in one of two worlds. Either you belong to the capital — Malé, a micro-Manhattan in the Indian Ocean — or you are out in “the islands,” among the quietest and most remote villages this side of the Arctic tundra.
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/01/2024
» NEW YORK - A typical one-litre (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments have historically gone undetected, the researchers determined, suggesting that health concerns linked to plastic pollution may be dramatically underestimated.
AFP, Published on 22/12/2023
» BEIJING - Air pollution in China worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, according to study released on Friday.
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» CERRITO (COLOMBIA) - A group of condors rip into the carcass of a calf at the top of a Colombian mountain which rises 4,200 metres above sea level.
AFP, Published on 06/12/2023
» NOUMEA - Beach lovers were able to take a dip in New Caledonia's capital Noumea for the first time in months Wednesday, after the French Pacific territory installed a controversial net to keep sharks out.
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» KAMPALA: For nearly three decades, the chaotic, overcrowded Owino secondhand market in Uganda's capital has been the cornerstone of Hadija Nakimuli's life, helping the widowed shopkeeper build a house and raise 12 children.
AFP, Published on 24/11/2023
» SHERBROOKE (CANADA) - A chill has fallen over the three English-language universities in Canada's Quebec province, as winter arrives with students and administrators worried about plans to nearly double tuition by next school year.
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» CHENGDU (CHINA) - At an upmarket restaurant in the hotpot-loving Chinese city of Chengdu, diners plunge sliced meat and vegetables into cauldrons of spicy, oily broth, largely unaware that their leftovers are set to take on a second life as jet fuel.
AFP, Published on 07/11/2023
» BEIJING - China is owed more than a trillion United States dollars through its Belt and Road project, making it the biggest debt collector in the world, a report said this week, with an estimated 80% of the loans supporting countries in financial distress.
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - The enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital's new "Green War Room" is battling air pollution that is cutting lives of residents by over a decade.