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AL-AGHAWAT, Iraq (AFP) – Younes Ajil turns on the tap in his home but nothing comes out: dozens of villages are without running water in drought-hit Iraq, surviving on sporadic tanker-truck deliveries and salty wells. For everything from drinking to bathing and washing dishes and clothes, Ajil and his eight children wait at their home in Al-Aghawat for trucked-in water from the Diwaniyah provincial authorities once or twice a week. In burning summer temperatures that […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – Germany on Wednesday will inaugurate a railway line powered entirely by hydrogen, a “world first” and a major step forward for green train transport despite nagging supply challenges. A fleet of 14 trains provided by French industrial giant Alstom to the German state Lower Saxony will replace the diesel locomotives on the 100 kilometres (60 miles) of track connecting the cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude near Hamburg. “Whatever the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s autumn harvest is under “severe threat” from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country’s hottest summer on record. The world’s second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer — phenomena that scientists have warned are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. Southern China in particular has recorded its longest sustained […]
by Joshua MELVIN Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Twitter misled users and US regulators about “extreme, egregious” gaps in its online protections, the platform’s ex-security chief claimed in whistleblower testimony that could impact the court fight over Elon Musk’s buyout bid. Peiter Zatko’s complaint, which was published Tuesday by US media, also accused Twitter of significantly underestimating the number of fake and spam accounts — a crucial point in Musk’s argument for trying […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Ukraine is on course to ship nearly as much grain this month as it did before the Russian invasion, in a triumph for international efforts to ease food shortages, a US official said Tuesday. Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil, shipping around five million metric tons of grain each month before the war. Its exports ground to a trickle after the […]
by Elias HUUHTANEN Agence France-Presse HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Porsches, Bentleys and other luxury cars with Russian license plates are filling up the parking garage at Helsinki’s airport as Finland becomes an important transit country for Russian tourists flying to Europe. The European Union shut its airspace to Russian planes after Moscow invaded Ukraine, forcing anyone who wants to travel to Europe to drive across the border or take a circuitous route using non-Western airlines. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert who became the face of America’s fight against Covid-19, announced Monday he will leave government service after more than 50 years in December, stepping down as advisor to President Joe Biden. In the chaotic early days of the pandemic, Fauci became the nation’s most trusted expert on Covid — but his clashes with former president Donald Trump over the virus response drew anger […]
MAKAYLAB, Sudan (AFP) — In the Sudanese village of Makaylab, Mohamed Tigani picked through the pile of rubble that was once his mud-brick home, after torrential rains sparked heavy floods that swept it away. “It was like doomsday,” said Tigani, 53, from Makaylab in Sudan’s River Nile state, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital Khartoum. “We have not seen rains and floods like that in this area for years,” he said, scouring […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A hiker swept away in flash floods and torrential rain was still missing Monday as a weekend of storms forced hundreds to evacuate in the latest weather disasters to hit national parks in the United States. Heavy rains were also causing havoc in parts of Texas on Monday as forecasters predicted more precipitation throughout the southern part of the country for the rest of the week. Jetal Agnihotri, who […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Dog owners know the pure joy of returning home from a long trip to be greeted by their tail-wagging, uncontrollably jumping, face-licking companion. But those ecstatic canines might be shedding more than just fur on your clothes — they might also be tearing-up, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Current Biology. “We had never heard of the discovery that animals shed tears in joyful situations, such […]
by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Swiss glaciers have shed half their volume since 1931, Swiss researchers said Monday, following the first reconstruction of the country’s ice loss in the 20th century. Rapid glacier melt in the Alps and elsewhere, which scientists say is driven by climate change, has been increasingly closely monitored since the early 2000s. However, until now there has been little insight into how glaciers changed prior […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) – US rangers have found a human foot floating in a hot pool in Yellowstone national park, the park service said Friday, warning visitors to stay away from thermal waters. The partial foot was inside a shoe in the Abyss Pool, one of the deepest hot springs in the park, whose temperature is around 140 Fahrenheit (60 Celsius). “An investigation by Yellowstone National Park law enforcement officers is ongoing,” the […]
