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Keep or cull? Romania divided over its bear population
AFP, Published on 23/10/2023
» COVASNA (ROMANIA) - It was a sight that stopped traffic. A brown bear seemingly asleep, its head on its paws, on a winding forest road in central Romania, some paper napkins by its side.
Fires rage across southern Europe, hundreds evacuated
AFP, Published on 01/08/2021
» ANKARA: Dozens of villages were evacuated in tourist hotspots in southern Turkey on Sunday as wildfires that have claimed six lives raged for the fifth day, while Greece, Italy and Spain were also hit by blazes.
Heat tops 45C in France as deadly heatwave roasts Europe
AFP, Published on 28/06/2019
» CARPENTRAS (FRANCE) - The temperature in France surpassed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time on record on Friday as Europe sweltered in an early summer heatwave that has caused several deaths.
In drought-hit central Nicaragua, water 'is like looking for gold'
AFP, Published on 07/04/2016
» TEUSTEPE (NICARAGUA) - Nicaragua may boast a southern lake that is Central America's biggest body of freshwater, but in the center of the country years of drought have taken a severe toll.
SEA smog eases as rain douses fires
AFP, Published on 26/06/2013
» Fires in Indonesia that have blanketed Singapore and Malaysia, and lower Thailand, in thick smog eased on Wednesday after heavy rain, boosting hopes of an end to Southeast Asia's worst air pollution crisis for years.