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EU leaders push rival fixes to reverse bloc's 'decline'
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» ANTWERP (BELGIUM) - EU leaders told industry executives on Wednesday they were committed to transforming the bloc's lagging economy into a global powerhouse able to confront US and Chinese competition.
Japan builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/12/2025
» TOKYO — As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines.
China suspends ban on exports of gallium, germanium, antimony to US
Reuters, Published on 09/11/2025
» BEIJING: China has suspended a ban on approving exports of "dual-use items" related to gallium, germanium, antimony and super-hard materials to the US, the commerce ministry said on Sunday.
Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034
AFP, Published on 08/11/2025
» GENEVA - Countries agreed on Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change how dentistry is done around the world.
Downgraded Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba
AFP, Published on 29/10/2025
» HAVANA - A downgraded Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early on Wednesday after ripping a path of destruction across Jamaica, which authorities have designated a “disaster area”.
Japan PM to recommend Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Reuters, Published on 28/10/2025
» TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will nominate US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday.
Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris climate agreement working?
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» PARIS - Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.
'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN
AFP, Published on 24/09/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con job ever."
US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant
AFP, Published on 06/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - South Koreans suspected of working in the United States illegally were the majority of the 475 people arrested in a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia, a US official said Friday.
Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» ABIDJAN — Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.