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Warming climate threatens Greenland's ancestral way of life
AFP, Published on 10/02/2026
» SISIMIUT (DENMARK) - Standing in his boat with binoculars in hand, hunter Malik Kleist scans the horizon for seals. But this February, the sea ice in southwestern Greenland has yet to freeze, threatening traditional livelihoods like his.
Alaska: a source of Russian imperial nostalgia
AFP, Published on 14/08/2025
» MOSCOW - Alaska, the US state that will host the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Friday, is a source of imperial nostalgia and often less-than-serious territorial claims in Russia.
The Russian past of Alaska, where Trump and Putin will meet
AFP, Published on 11/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will hold a high-stakes meeting about the Ukraine war on Friday in Alaska, which the United States bought from Russia more than 150 years ago.
Landmark Nepal survey estimates nearly 400 elusive snow leopards
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepal's first nationwide survey of the threatened snow leopard estimated nearly 400 of the elusive big cats in the Himalayan nation, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
Nepal community efforts revive red panda population
AFP, Published on 14/03/2025
» TāPLEJUNG — Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.
'War has come': Russians shaken by Ukrainian drone barrage
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» RAMENSKOYE, Russia - As a drone smashed into the side of her apartment block early on Tuesday, Russia’s full-scale offensive on Ukraine literally came home to Svetlana in a suburb southeast of Moscow.
Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull to be 'dearly missed' after death at 78
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» LONDON - The British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull has died aged 78, her spokesperson announced Thursday, saying the Sixties icon would be "dearly missed" by her legions of fans the world over.
Animal rescuers care for LA fire evacuees - dogs, donkeys, horses
Reuters, Published on 12/01/2025
» PASADENA, California: The pitbull mix arrived at Pasadena Humane covered in ash, his paw pads ulcerated from walking on fire debris, his lungs choked with smoke. A good Samaritan found the dog lying in rubble in Altadena, wrapped him in a blanket and brought him to the shelter.
China's new 'giant panda college' to welcome first students in autumn
South China Morning Post, Published on 15/07/2024
» HONG KONG: China's only higher education institute to offer giant panda studies is set to enrol its first students this autumn, giving them the opportunity to observe the bears closely at nature reserves, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Navalny jokes about becoming Santa Claus in Arctic penal colony
AFP, Published on 26/12/2023
» MOSCOW - Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he was "fine" Tuesday after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer to a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle.