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Almost half of Kyiv without heat, power after Russian attack
AFP, Published on 20/01/2026
» KYIV - An overnight Russian aerial attack left thousands of residential buildings in Kyiv without heating and water in -14C temperatures on Tuesday — another blow to a capital already reeling from strikes that have knocked out vital utilities.
'Hobbit houses' that might just save a Moldovan village
AFP, Published on 16/01/2026
» ROGOJENI — They call Rogojeni the "hobbit village", and its little half-buried houses, built to resist Moldova's cold winters and hot summers, do look like something from "The Lord of the Rings".
UN conference seeks foreign aid rally as Trump cuts bite
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» MADRID - Spain will host a UN conference next week seeking fresh backing for development aid as swingeing cuts led by US President Donald Trump and global turmoil hinder progress on fighting poverty, hunger and climate change.
Brazil mine disaster trial ends with claimants hopeful of justice
AFP, Published on 13/03/2025
» LONDON - A trial as to whether Australian mining giant BHP is liable for one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters concludes in London on Thursday, with hundreds of thousands of victims demanding billions in compensation.
Pope kicks off Christmas under shadow of war
AFP, Published on 25/12/2024
» ROME - Christmas revellers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles on Wednesday, as Pope Francis launched observation of the global holiday with a sombre mass in the Vatican.
US revives abandoned Pacific airfield
AFP, Published on 30/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - In the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived.
Navalny's 'disappearance' alarms UN expert
AFP, Published on 18/12/2023
» GENEVA - A United Nations rights expert said on Monday the "enforced disappearance" of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was alarming, and demanded that Moscow release him immediately.
Thousands protest Spanish amnesty law
AFP, Published on 18/11/2023
» MADRID - Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to denounce a proposed amnesty law for Catalan separatists and activists, which was key for the left-wing government to retain power.
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon down 22% in a year
AFP, Published on 10/11/2023
» BRASíLIA - Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell 22.3 percent in the year through July, hitting a five-year low, officials said Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government fights to curb destruction of the world's biggest rainforest.
10% of dolphins killed as Amazon drought hits lake: study
AFP, Published on 18/10/2023
» RIO DE JANEIRO - An estimated 10 percent of the dolphins in a picturesque lake in the Brazilian Amazon were killed in a week as a record drought and searing temperatures devastate the region, researchers said Tuesday.