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Running wild: stray dogs threaten rare Balkan lynx
AFP, Published on 03/08/2023
» MAVROVO (MACEDONIA) - For years, the Balkan lynx has struggled to survive as deforestation destroyed its habitat and poachers targeted the elusive mountain cat along with the animals it relies on for food.
Boom and bust: Quakes define legacy of Turkey's 'Erdonomics'
AFP, Published on 07/05/2023
» ISTANBUL - The earthquake's frightening rumble came deep in the night. Its ferocity killed thousands of people in their sleep and helped bring down a Turkish government.
UK cost-of-living crisis pushes mothers to the brink
AFP, Published on 26/01/2023
» LONDON: At an east London church on a bitterly cold winter's day, Beautine Wester-Okiya picks her way through boxes of donated baby clothes, toys and other assorted items destined for local people battered by the UK's cost-of-living crisis.
Mould and red tape: Ukrainians hosted in UK struggle to find own housing
AFP, Published on 29/11/2022
» LONDON - Viktoriya arrived in the UK in March after fleeing war-torn east Ukraine with her two sons and their cat and dog.
Swiss mull banning factory farms
AFP, Published on 22/09/2022
» GENEVA: The Swiss will vote Sunday on whether to ban intensive livestock farming in the largely rural country, which already has some of the world's strictest animal welfare laws.
Billionaire Icahn steps up campaign against McDonald's pig farm practices
AFP, Published on 21/02/2022
» NEW YORK - Billionaire Carl Icahn has nominated two allies to the board of McDonald's, the company confirmed Sunday, part of the activist investor's campaign against pig-farming practices used in the fast-food giant's supply chains.
Australia warns koalas 'endangered' as numbers plunge
AFP, Published on 11/02/2022
» SYDNEY - Australia officially listed koalas across a swathe of its eastern coast as "endangered" on Friday, with the marsupials fighting to survive the impact of bushfires, land-clearing, drought and disease.
US Democrats agree on $3.5 trillion budget target
AFP, Published on 14/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - Top US Senate Democrats agreed late Tuesday on a $3.5 trillion package to implement President Joe Biden's vast plans to fund climate initiatives, health insurance and human infrastructure programs like child care, social welfare and housing.
Biden, Congress face infrastructure uncertainty
AFP, Published on 12/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - A months-long negotiation on infrastructure between the White House and US lawmakers is coming to a head, with President Joe Biden desperate to woo Republicans while also keeping centrists and climate-concerned progressives in his party on board.
'World's loneliest elephant' lands in Cambodia, greeted by Cher
AFP, Published on 30/11/2020
» SIEM REAP, Cambodia: An elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" landed in Cambodia Monday from Pakistan, receiving a warm welcome from American superstar Cher who will accompany him to a sanctuary housing potential mates.