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Earth 'can no longer sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
AFP, Published on 08/11/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said Earth cannot sustain humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and without confronting this reality the climate fight will be lost.
'Finally back home': Rebel octogenarian nuns reclaim Austrian convent
AFP, Published on 21/09/2025
» ELSBETHEN (AUSTRIA) - Three rebel nuns in their 80s have taken back their Austrian convent after fleeing from their care home, with supporters flocking to the nunnery Saturday in a show of solidarity.
UK court gives govt green light to reach Chagos Islands deal
AFP, Published on 22/05/2025
» LONDON — A British court on Thursday paved the way for a government deal on returning the remote Chagos Islands to Mauritius, lifting a temporary ban which had forced an 11th-hour halt to an accord being signed.
Sinead O'Connor, a troubled Irish icon
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» LONDON - Sinead O'Connor will forever be remembered as the Irish singer who made Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U" her own, turning it into an anthem for the broken-hearted.
Victims wash ashore after deadly Italy shipwreck
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» CUTRO, Italy: Italy's coastguard on Monday searched the sea and beaches for bodies following a shipwreck off Calabria, as the death toll rose to 62 and charities cared for children who witnessed loved ones drowning.
UN biodiversity talks open, billed as 'last chance' for nature
AFP, Published on 07/12/2022
» MONTREAL: High-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.
Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.
Questions mount about how Florida building could have crumbled
AFP, Published on 28/06/2021
» SURFSIDE (UNITED STATES) - Questions mounted Monday about how a residential building in the Miami area could have collapsed so quickly and violently last week, killing at least nine people with more than 150 still unaccounted for, as desperate families feared the worst.
Still 'hope' as rescuers race fire to find Florida collapse survivors
AFP, Published on 26/06/2021
» SURFSIDE (UNITED STATES) - Florida officials continued to hold out hope Saturday for survivors of a high-rise apartment building that partially collapsed three years after an engineer had warned of "major structural damage."
Brazil captures fugitive Italian mob boss
AFP, Published on 25/05/2021
» BRASíLIA: Italian mob boss Rocco Morabito was arrested Monday in northeast Brazil, police said, almost two years after his escape from a prison in Uruguay where he was awaiting extradition to Italy.