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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?
Cook Islands wages war on 'plague' of hungry starfish
AFP, Published on 24/07/2025
» RAROTONGA (COOK ISLANDS) — Divers clutch wooden spears as they plunge beneath the waves, hunting hordes of hungry starfish destroying the coral reefs around the Cook Islands.
US envoy calls enrichment 'red line' ahead of new Iran talks
AFP, Published on 11/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - The United States and Iran will hold a new round of nuclear talks Sunday in Oman ahead of a visit to the region by Donald Trump, whose key negotiator staked out an increasingly hard line on the issue of uranium enrichment.
Asia to mourn tsunami dead with ceremonies 20 years on
AFP, Published on 26/12/2024
» BANDA ACEH (INDONESIA) - Emotional ceremonies were expected across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
Storm fears overshadow India coast decades after tsunami
AFP, Published on 19/12/2024
» AKKARAIPETTAI (INDIA) - The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ever more intense spark panic each time howling gales whip up waves.
Indian Ocean nations to mark 20 years since devastating tsunami
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» BANDA ACEH — Tsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean.
Best, worst and most surprising lines from US presidential debate
New York Times, Published on 11/09/2024
» In the 105-minute titanic showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Tuesday in Philadelphia, there were pointed barbs, missed opportunities and puzzling tangents — and a worrying number of animal mentions.
China jails Taiwanese activist for nine years
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/09/2024
» BEIJING - China handed a nine-year prison term to a Taiwanese political activist convicted of "separatism," a rare sentence that prompted Taiwan to warn its people about the dangers of travelling across the strait.
Record year for forest fires
AFP, Published on 27/12/2023
» PARIS - As the deadliest year this century for forest fires comes to a close, attention is turning to how to prevent such infernos happening again.
Thousands flee wildfires in Canada's far north
AFP, Published on 17/08/2023
» OTTAWA - Thousands ordered to flee wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada's far north crammed into a local airport on Thursday to board emergency evacuation flights, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway.