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Floods and landslides in Indian Kashmir kill 60, over 100 missing
Reuters, Published on 15/08/2025
» SRINAGAR — At least 60 people have died and more than 100 are missing, a day after sudden, heavy rain caused floods and landslides in Indian Kashmir, authorities and local media said on Friday, the second such disaster in the Himalayas in a little over a week.
Flood kills 37 in Indian Kashmir mountain village
AFP, Published on 14/08/2025
» SRINAGAR - Powerful torrents driven by intense rain smashed into a Himalayan mountain village in Indian-administered Kashmir and killed at least 37 people on Thursday, a top disaster management official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Sao Paulo's pumas under attack as 'stone jungle' threatens rainforest
AFP, Published on 15/06/2025
» JUNDIAí (BRAZIL) - Apartment blocks and shopping centers sprout like mushrooms around a wild cat sanctuary that shelters pumas recovering from injuries suffered at the hands of mankind in Brazil's Sao Paolo state.
At Barcelona rally, Spanish right lambasts amnesty plan
AFP, Published on 08/10/2023
» MADRID: Right-wing officials in Spain joined a mass rally in Barcelona on Sunday to protest plans to grant Catalan separatists an amnesty in exchange for their political support for a new left-wing government.
Getafe frustrate Barca as both sides see red in goalless draw
AFP, Published on 14/08/2023
» GETAFE (SPAIN) - Spanish champions Barcelona began their La Liga title defence with a frustrating 0-0 draw at Getafe on Sunday, with both sides reduced to 10 men in a bad-tempered clash.
Toxic foam blights river crucial to Brazil's biggest city
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» SALTO (BRAZIL) - Not far from Latin America's biggest city, Sao Paulo, a river is covered in a white layer that resembles fresh snow but is in fact a smelly, toxic foam.
Indonesia sex laws 'nail in coffin' for LGBTQ rights
AFP, Published on 08/12/2022
» JAKARTA - Indonesia's legislation banning sex outside marriage represents a major new threat to the LGBTQ community's rights in the conservative country, where same-sex unions are not recognised.
Samoa signs 'collaboration' pact with China
Published on 28/05/2022
» Samoa signed a bilateral agreement with China on Saturday, promising “greater collaboration” as Beijing’s foreign minister continues a South Pacific tour that has sparked concern among Western allies.
Brazil revokes mangrove protections, triggering alarm
AFP, Published on 29/09/2020
» BRASíLIA: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's government on Monday revoked regulations protecting mangroves and other fragile coastal ecosystems, in a measure environmentalists condemned as a "crime" that would lead to their destruction.
'Green favela' fights to live sustainably in Brazil
AFP, Published on 10/03/2020
» SAO PAULO - At first glance, it looks like any other shantytown in Brazil: a precarious jumble of tin-roof shacks and shoddy streets.