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Climate change fuels disasters, but deaths don't add up
AFP, Published on 21/01/2026
» PARIS (FRANCE) - Climate change is turbocharging heatwaves, wildfires, floods and tropical storms, but how deadly have extreme weather events become for people in their path?
Record-breaking US shutdown to end as political fallout begins
AFP, Published on 13/11/2025
» WASHINGTON - Congress looked set Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in US history -- 43 days that paralyzed Washington and left hundreds of thousands of workers unpaid while Donald Trump's Republicans and Democrats played a high-stakes blame game.
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.
Overshooting 1.5C climate target 'inevitable': UN chief
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» GENEVA - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday it was now clear that efforts to cap global warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels would fail in the short term.
OpenAI unveils search browser in challenge to Google
AFP, Published on 22/10/2025
» SAN FRANCISCO (UNITED STATES) - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday announced an "Atlas" search browser, leveraging its artificial intelligence prowess in a direct challenge to Google Chrome.
'Less and less sea ice': Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic
AFP, Published on 17/10/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) - Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage -- a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago.
Estimated 16,500 climate change deaths during Europe summer: study
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» PARIS - Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released.
Robert Redford, Hollywood’s golden boy with a Midas touch
AFP, Published on 16/09/2025
» With his all-American good looks, Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday at age 89, was the eternal “Sundance Kid”, a US screen legend both in front of and behind the camera.
Heat risks force marathons and race walks to start earlier
AFP, Published on 11/09/2025
» TOKYO - The marathons and 35km race walks at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo will start half an hour earlier because of health risks posed by unseasonably hot weather, organisers said Thursday.
At 81, DJ Gloria fills Sweden's dancefloors
AFP, Published on 04/09/2025
» STOCKHOLM - She drops the beat and gets her groove on, spinning discs like a pro as her head-to-toe sequins twinkle under the lights -- 81-year-old DJ Gloria is filling dancefloors across Sweden.