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EU toughens safety rules for online retailer Shein
Apr 26, 2024 (AFP)
The company joins Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and others on a list of "very large online platforms" which have more than 45 million monthly active users in the...
Zelensky blasts Russian nuclear risks on Chernobyl anniversary
Apr 26, 2024 (AFP)
Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in southern Ukraine in the first days of its 2022 invasion. Both sides regularly accuse each o...
France's Macron blasts 'ineffective' UK Rwanda deportation law
Apr 25, 2024 (AFP)
"I don't believe in the model... which would involve finding third countries on the African continent or elsewhere where we'd send people who arrive on our soil...
Water release resumes after partial power outage at Fukushima plant
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a statement that the water release restarted at 5:16 pm "with no abnormalities detected", after an hours-long h...
Partial power outage at Fukushima plant, water release suspended
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said in a statement that the system to cool reactors remained operational and "no meaningful change" had been detected ...
UAE announces $544 mn for rain repairs, says lessons 'learned'
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
"We learned great lessons in dealing with severe rains," said Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum after a cabinet meeting, adding that minister...
Post-WWII order on 'brink of collapse': Amnesty head
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
"Everything we're witnessing over the last 12 months is indicating that the international global system is on the brink of collapse," Amnesty's secretary genera...
Asia hit hardest by climate, weather disasters in 2023:UN
Apr 23, 2024 (AFP)
Global temperatures hit record highs last year, and the UN's weather and climate agency said Asia was warming at a particularly rapid pace. The World Meteorolog...
Ecuador approves extradition, anti-gang measures
Apr 22, 2024 (AFP)
The "yes" vote in favor of extradition received 65 percent of valid ballots, while "no" received 25 percent, according to a quick count of results, the electora...
Putin calls to protect flood-hit areas from looting
Apr 17, 2024 (AFP)
Russia and neighbouring Kazakhstan have fought devastating floods for almost two weeks. Putin -- who unlike his Kazakh counterpart has not visited the flood zon...
Ukraine nuclear plant dangerously close to accident: IAEA
Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the attacks over the last week, but it is "impossible" at the moment to prove who is behind them, said Internation...
UK home insurance claims linked to weather hit record
Apr 15, 2024 (AFP)
Weather-related damage claims reached GBP 573 million ($716 million), up 36 percent on 2022, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). "This massi...
Gaza refugees traveling home 'turned back'
Apr 14, 2024 (UPI)
"I am going home. I have been displaced for six months. We live in a tent because our house was struck," a young boy named Omar Al-Dahdouh said, while traversin...
Argentina's Milei cuts short intl trip over Mideast crisis
Apr 13, 2024 (AFP)
"The President is returning to Argentina to form a Crisis Committee due to the latest events in Israel, to take charge of the situation and coordinate actions w...
Space Technology's Role in Disaster Management and Climate Monitoring
Apr 12, 2024 (SPX)
Satellite Technology in Disaster Forecasting Satellites equipped with Earth observation instruments play a pivotal role in forecasting natural disasters such as...
Flying Russian priests pray for floods to end
Apr 12, 2024 (AFP)
Rising rivers in Russia's southern Urals and western Siberia, as well as Kazakhstan, have flooded towns and cities and forced thousands to evacuate. In the Kurg...
Sweden to invest $36mn in bomb shelters, civil defence
Apr 11, 2024 (AFP)
Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said Sweden, which joined NATO last month, would use the funds to strengthen the ability of rescue services to function...
UN slams 'cruel' second-wave attacks in Ukraine
Apr 11, 2024 (AFP)
In these second wave strikes, those wounded in the first strike are killed and first responders are killed or injured, UN official Edem Wosornu told the Securit...
Russia says flood situation 'difficult' as more rivers burst
Apr 11, 2024 (AFP)
Fast-rising temperatures have caused snow and ice to melt rapidly, causing a number of major rivers that cross Russia and Kazakhstan to overflow. Three villages...
Who are Switzerland's victorious climate 'Elders'?
Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)
Here are some facts about the group of Swiss seniors who helped secure the European Court of Human Rights' first-ever condemnation of a country for failing to t...
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