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The foreign POWs stuck in Ukrainian prison limbo
AFP, Published on 30/01/2026
» UNDISCLOSED (UKRAINE) — "Assemble!" someone bellowed in the prison corridor, cutting through the silence.
New Zealand's rare flightless parrot breeds again
AFP, Published on 09/01/2026
» WELLINGTON - New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four years, the government conservation department said.
Mexican fishermen join fight to save extraordinary amphibian
AFP, Published on 10/07/2025
» SAN JERóNIMO PURENCHECUARO — After decades working as a fisherman on a high-altitude Mexican lake, Froylan Correa is now helping to save an endangered amphibian with gills resembling a lion's mane and a remarkable regenerative ability.
The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
AFP, Published on 09/07/2025
» HEGRA, Norway - Waist-deep in a rain-swollen river, Christer Kristoffersen cast his line, landed it gently on the water, and caught ... nothing. Norway's iconic wild salmon is in dramatic decline, a victim of fish farming and climate change.
Hong Kong jails Thai parrot egg smuggler as customs cracks case amid rising trend
South China Morning Post, Published on 19/05/2025
» A traveller from Thailand has been given a two-year jail sentence in Hong Kong for smuggling 187 parrot eggs valued at an estimated HK$1.4 million (6 million baht), with an expert saying the seizure is part of a global uptick of such cases involving endangered species.
Trump eyes summit with Xi-Putin, shaking up world order
AFP, Published on 14/02/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump unveiled an extraordinary vision of a shake-up to the world order Thursday, eyeing a three-way summit with the Russian and Chinese leaders just a day after saying he had agreed with Vladimir Putin to start Ukraine peace talks.
Russian state owner says cargo ship blast was 'terrorist attack'
AFP, Published on 26/12/2024
» MOSCOW - A "terrorist act" sank the cargo ship that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state-owned company that owns the vessel said Wednesday.
Subterranean ‘baby dragons’ found to sneak up to the surface
New York Times, Published on 13/03/2024
» NEW YORK - Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface. Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the salamanders appear to commute back and forth to the sunny surface using springs where water bubbles up from hundreds of feet deep.
'Time bomb': Tree-killing bugs threaten France's lush forests
AFP, Published on 26/10/2023
» LA TESTE-DE-BUCH (FRANCE) - Last year, ferocious wildfires destroyed thousands of hectares of one of France's most picturesque forests.
Tiny bundles of hope: critically endangered turtles hatch in Myanmar
The New York TImes, Published on 25/06/2023
» Small miracles are popping out of the mud around Myanmar’s largest lake: Burmese peacock softshell turtles, just hatched from their eggs. For what may be the first time, humans were there to witness the birth of these rare creatures.