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Trump, Dems vow no surrender on US government shutdown
AFP, Published on 23/01/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump had a message on Tuesday for Democrats counting on him to relent in the Washington arm wrestle blocking funds to swaths of the government for a record 32 days: "No Cave!"
Romania votes for stray dog cull
AFP, Published on 10/09/2013
» BUCHAREST - Romanian lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly for a law allowing stray dogs to be put down after a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of strays last week.
Albania's 'wild river' granted national park status
AFP, Published on 15/03/2023
» TEPELENë (ALBANIA) - Environmental campaigners scored a rare victory in Albania on Wednesday after authorities announced the creation of a national park to protect the Vjosa River, one of Europe's largest undammed waterways.
Wildfire hits Brasilia National Park amid drought
AFP, Published on 07/09/2022
» BRASíLIA - Firefighters raced Tuesday to contain a massive blaze devastating a national park in the Brazilian capital, which is suffering from a heat wave and more than four months of drought.
Peru creates huge national park in Amazon basin
AFP, Published on 08/11/2015
» LIMA - Peru is creating a national park to protect a vast territory in the Amazon basin that is vulnerable to drug trafficking and illegal logging and mining, the country's environment minister said Saturday.
NGOs seek oil drilling ban in famed mountain gorilla national park
AFP, Published on 22/01/2016
» KINSHASA - International environment and rights groups on Thursday launched a joint plea to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ugandan governments not to allow oil drilling in or around the Virunga National Park, Africa's oldest wildlife reserve famed for its mountain gorillas.
Tourists replace rebels as Sri Lanka national park blooms
AFP, Published on 01/10/2015
» YALA, SRI LANKA - Lokaiya Peremadasa shudders as he recalls the havoc Tamil rebels used to wreak on his beloved wildlife park during Sri Lanka's brutal 37-year-long civil war.
Four rare mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda
AFP, Published on 09/02/2020
» KAMPALA: Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.
Scientists discover 30 new species in Galapagos depths
AFP, Published on 18/08/2020
» QUITO: An international team of marine scientists have discovered 30 new species of invertebrates in deep water surrounding the Galapagos, the Ecuadoran archipelago's national park authorities announced Monday.
Trump idea of 'National Garden of American Heroes' raises questions
AFP, Published on 06/07/2020
» WASHINGTON: A new national park populated with statues of "American heroes"?