New Delhi’s homeless shiver through harsh cold snap
by Archana THIYAGARAJAN Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - India's capital New Delhi is shivering through an unusually harsh…
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Environment
Ecuador monitoring oil leak threatening river in Amazon
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - Ecuador said it was monitoring the progress of an operation to clean up an oil leak…
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Judge cancels major US oil and gas exploration sale
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) - A judge on Thursday canceled the sale of oil and gas exploration leases of…
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Australia pumps cash into Great Barrier Reef protection
SYDNEY, Austalia (AFP) - Australia unveiled a billion-dollar package to protect the climate-ravaged Great Barrier Reef on Friday, hoping to…
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Sweden approves plan to bury nuclear waste
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) - Sweden's government on Thursday announced it was approving a plan to provide a final storage place…
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Japan to help with Bill Gates’ next-gen nuclear power project
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Thursday it will work with Japan's atomic energy agency to provide technical…
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Greenpeace says abandoned Yemen oil tanker a ‘grave threat’
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) - A long-abandoned fuel tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen poses a "grave threat"…
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Glacier lakes accelerate disappearance of permanent ice: study
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Glaciers are retreating faster globally due to climate change but they melt more quickly when they…
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Indonesia jails poachers over killing of 5 Sumatran elephants
ACEH JAYA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Nearly a dozen poachers were jailed by an Indonesian court Thursday over the 2020 killing…
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More than 200 new species found in Mekong region: WWF
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) -- Scientists discovered more than 200 new species across the greater Mekong region in 2020, according to…
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