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JABALIA, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Living in one of the poorest parts of the Middle East and facing some of the region’s highest fuel costs, Palestinians in Gaza are burning plastic to make affordable diesel. It’s an economic and practical solution in a territory blockaded by Israel for 15 years, but one which poses serious environmental and health risks, experts say. Standing before rusty metal machinery and fuel containers, Mahmoud al-Kafarneh described how he and […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – Signs are growing that Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is in financial trouble, with just a modest following six months after launching. Fox Business Network reported Thursday that the platform has halted payments to the company that hosts it, RightForge, and owes $1.6 million. The platform’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, did not respond to a request for comment. A RightForge spokesman would not comment […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellites will connect directly to T-Mobile cellphones to provide service access even in the most remote places beyond the reach of cell towers from next year, the two companies announced Thursday. The new service, which will work on existing cellphones and utilize SpaceX’s network of thousands of Starlink satellites in Earth’s orbit, will begin offering text messaging services from late 2023, with voice calls and data […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon hit a nearly 15-year high this week, according to official figures that provided the latest warning on the advancing destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest. Satellite monitoring detected 3,358 fires on Monday, August 22, the highest number for any 24-hour period since September 2007, according to the Brazilian space agency, INPE. The number was nearly triple that recorded on the […]
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) by Huw GRIFFITH California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America’s most populous state must be zero emission from 2035, in what was billed as a nation-leading step to slash the pollutants that cause global warming. The widely touted move has been hailed by environmentalists, who hope it will prod other parts of the United States to quicken the adoption of electric vehicles. The rules demand an ever-increasing […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave has spread out across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau, according to official data released ahead of more searing temperatures on Thursday. The world’s second-largest economy has been hit by heatwaves, flash floods and droughts — phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Southern China has recorded its longest continuous […]
Ottawa, Canada (AFP) The heist of a famed portrait of a scowling Winston Churchill has gripped Canada’s capital since it was discovered the photograph hanging at an Ottawa hotel for decades had been swapped for a fake. Police were called in after staff at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa last Friday noticed the picture of the late British prime minister was askew and didn’t match those of other portraits gifted by the late […]
by Nick Perry Agence France-Presse EL MOLO BAY, Kenya (AFP) — At first light, children from one of Kenya’s smallest and most isolated tribes put on life jackets and board a fishing boat for the journey across the lake to school. Until recently, they could walk the distance. A road connected the El Molo with the world beyond their tiny village, a lifeline for a secluded community of fishers and craftspeople subsisting on the shores […]
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) A man who hid snakes and lizards in his trousers as he tried to sneak them into the United States as part of a $750,000 reptile smuggling enterprise faces decades in prison, officials said Wednesday. Jose Manuel Perez masterminded the six-year scheme from his home in southern California, which involved bringing 1,700 animals into the United States from Mexico and Hong Kong. In a plea deal with the Department of […]
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under plans set to be adopted by the state this week, as the biggest economy in the United States drives a nationwide fossil fuel evolution. Proposals to be debated by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) this week will formalize targets set by Governor Gavin Newsom — and will likely prod other US states in the […]
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AFP) – Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister Albert Ouedraogo Tuesday visited the country’s first own pharmaceuticals manufacturing facility, which will make low-cost generic versions of popular drugs such as paracetamol. Built with private funding on a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) site in Komsilga, on the outskirts of the capital, the Propharm plant will ensure the “permanent availability of the medicines most in demand”, officials said. It will begin by producing in the next few months […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA’s most powerful rocket ever. The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 — and eventually to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off […]
