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India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officials
Aug 05, 2026 (AFP)
Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands forced...
Sri Lankan beauty pageant contestant fined with animal cruelty
Aug 05, 2026 (AFP)
A Sri Lankan court has fined a 19-year-old beauty pageant contestant with animal cruelty after she danced on stage with an endangered python, an official said W...
India monsoon floods, landslides kill more than 100 since July: officials
Aug 05, 2026 (AFP)
Floods and landslides triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than 100 people across India since July, official data showed Wednesday, with thousands forced...
South Korea pro baseball league cancels games over heatwave
Aug 05, 2026 (AFP)
South Korea's professional baseball league cancelled all games scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday amid a record-setting heatwave that has sent spectators to h...
Tiny light, big dream: Harvesting power from soil in Japan
Aug 05, 2026 (AFP)
Glinting in the night, halfway up a hill in Japan, the greenhouse-like "Ku-An" test lab is lit by electricity harnessed from 1,500 wooden boxes of soil and comp...
Iceland says to rule on anti-whaling activists' expulsion this week
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Icelandic authorities will likely decide this week whether to expel 21 anti-whaling activists held in Reykjavik since last week after their ship was seized whil...
Heatwave divides rich and poor of upmarket Seoul
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
A severe heatwave has changed the currency of cool in Seoul's affluent district of Gangnam: access to air conditioning now defines the line between the haves an...
Austria records all-time temperature high of 40.8C: weather service
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Austria set a new temperature record on Tuesday with 40.8C measured in Vienna, the national weather agency said.
Hundreds of Panamanians protest canal reservoir plans
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Around 300 people staged a protest in Panama City on Monday to oppose the construction of a new reservoir for the Panama Canal, which will require the resettlem...
Suspected heatstroke kills three lions at Japan zoo
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Three lions from a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment, a spokeswoman said Tuesday, with the big cats struggling with h...
Guatemala issues 'danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemalan authorities issued on Monday the country's second-highest emergency alert level after a major eruption of Central America's most active volcano.
Guatemala issues 'danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Guatemalan authorities issued the country's second-highest emergency alert level on Monday after a major eruption of Central America's most active volcano, prom...
Forest fire spreads in Dutch nature reserve for second day
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of Dutch firefighters were fighting Tuesday afternoon to contain a forest blaze in the southeast of the Netherlands that spread overnight to engulf 100...
Hundreds flee homes after Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala's Fuego volcano evacuated their homes Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash.
Hundreds flee homes after Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Hundreds of people living on the slopes of Guatemala's Fuego volcano evacuated their homes Tuesday after a huge eruption spewed lava and plumes of ash.
California utility blamed for deadly 2025 Los Angeles fire
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
One of the deadly 2025 fires that ravaged Los Angeles was caused when sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by a local power company ignited dry vegetati...
Britain's Royal Mint strikes gold in electronic waste
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
At the heart of Britain's coin factory, old Bank of England telephones are stripped down and dipped into giant vats to recover a hidden treasure: the gold in th...
Suspected heatstroke kills three lions at Japan zoo
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Three lions at a Tokyo zoo have died from suspected heatstroke and others are under treatment, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, with the big cats struggling with ...
Heatwave divides rich and poor of upmarket Seoul
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
In Seoul's affluent district of Gangnam, a severe heatwave has changed the currency of cool: access to air conditioning now defines the line between the haves a...
Greece arrests Italian boat crew for harvesting coral
Aug 04, 2026 (AFP)
Authorities in Greece have arrested the crew of an Italian leisure boat in possession of illegally harvested coral worth nearly a million euros, media and the g...
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