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  Blantyre, Malawi (AFP) March 16, 2023 The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February. Rescuers were unearthing more bodies as the chances of finding survivors faded after the cyclone followed a highly unusual course by returning to lash southern Africa's mainland a second time. "As of yesterday, the death toll from this disaster has risen from 225 to 326," Malawi's President Lazarus Chakw ... read more |
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Nobody crossed Lebanon-Israel border in recent days: UN peacekeepersBeirut (AFP) March 16, 2023 The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said Thursday it had not observed any border crossings after Israel said it killed a suspect wearing an explosive belt who may have entered from Lebanon. ... more  
'Revolutionary': Scientists create mice with two fathersParis (AFP) March 15, 2023 Scientists have created eggs using the cells of male mice for the first time, leading to the birth of seven mice with two fathers, according to research Wednesday hailed as "revolutionary". ... more  
Doctor who exposed China's 2003 SARS cover-up dies at 91Beijing (AFP) March 15, 2023 The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday. ... more  
Security Council renews UN S.Sudan mission for one yearUnited Nations, United States (AFP) March 16, 2023 The UN Security Council voted Wednesday to extend for another year its mission in South Sudan, the world's youngest state, which is undertaking a fragile peace process but remains plagued by post-civil-war violence. ... more |
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Quake rattles north Philippines city
Thousands stranded as record floods submerge Vietnam streets Vietnam records highest flood levels on three rivers since 1986 Wildlife flee as floods swamp Indian parks Record flooding hits Vietnam city, eight killed in north Year after northern Nigeria floods, survivors left high and dry Landslide kills at least 15 bus passengers in northern India Extreme rains hit India's premier Darjeeling tea estates Slovenia avalanche death toll rises to three Rescuers scramble to deliver aid after deadly Nepal, India floods |
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Guinea court postpones trial of three former ministersConakry (AFP) March 15, 2023 A court in Guinea on Wednesday postponed the trial of three former senior political figures accused of corruption after none of the defendants or their lawyers appeared at the hearing. ... more  
Quake restrictions muzzle Turkish media ahead of elections: monitorAnkara (AFP) March 16, 2023 A state of emergency imposed in Turkey's quake-hit southeast is shackling reporters, a top media rights campaigner told AFP, expressing fears they will be pressured in the run-up to May's crunch elections. ... more 
UK trophy hunting bill irks African conservationistsJohannesburg (AFP) March 16, 2023 A bid to ban the import of hunting trophies to Britain has upset conservationists in southern Africa, with some saying the bill is counterproductive and smacks of colonialism. ... more 
Mali influencer arrested after denouncing junta's 'failure'Bamako (AFP) March 15, 2023 A prominent social media influencer in Mali was detained Wednesday after lambasting the ruling military junta as a "failure" with regards to insecurity and inflation, prosecutors told AFP. ... more |
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Their time to slime: who will be 'Mollusc of the Year'?Paris (AFP) March 17, 2023 Will you choose beauty? The carnivorous Wavy Bubble Snail, perhaps, with its billowing skirts shimmering under UV light. Or will it be age? Like the venerable 500-year-old Methuselah oyster. ... more  
Majority of coral reefs examined suffer from low oxygen levels, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Mar 16, 2021 A vast majority of 32 coral reefs examined around the world are suffering from low oxygen levels because of global warming, and the threat to marine ecosystems is expected to get worse, according to a study published Thursday. ... more 
Half of bottled water sales enough to provide safe tap water to all: UN reportOttawa (AFP) March 16, 2023 Half of the money spent globally on bottled water - sales of which have exploded in recent decades - would be enough to provide universal access to clean drinking water from taps, according to a UN study released Thursday. ... more  
NOAA spring report says drought conditions will improve, thanks to recent floods, heavy snowWashington DC (UPI) Mar 16, 2021 A winter of extreme weather, including deadly flooding and historically heavy snow, will pull much of California out of drought for the first time in almost three years. ... more |
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'No longer safe' from quakes: fear of 'Big One' grips IstanbulIstanbul (AFP) March 17, 2023 The helmet-topped engineer drove his pointy instrument into the concrete to test whether Durmus Uygun's building will crumble when the feared big quake finally strikes Istanbul. ... more  
Greece shuts down popular beach over landslide fearsAthens (AFP) March 16, 2023 Greece's tourism ministry said Thursday that it was blocking access for safety reasons to one of the country's most popular beaches, where seven people were hurt in a landslide in 2018. ... more  
Sorrow in Peru as mudslides destroy homesChaclacayo, Peru (AFP) March 16, 2023 One mudslide after another finally destroyed the house of Elvis Palomino in Chaclacayo, east of Peru's capital Lima, where others are stacking sandbags they hope will save them from a similar fate. ... more 
Biochar offers new promise for climate-smart agricultureStorrs CT (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 UConn researcher Wei Ren sees the interconnections between the systems in nature and how each component impacts the others. In Connecticut, rich in forests and farmland, Ren sees the potential that ... more  
Warming makes droughts, extreme wet events more frequent, intenseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 Scientists have predicted that droughts and floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but detecting this on regional and continental scales has proven diff ... more |
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 Blantyre, Malawi (AFP) March 15, 2023  Malawi's president appealed Wednesday for global support to tackle "a national tragedy" after Cyclone Freddy pummelled the southeast African nation, causing flooding and mudslides that have killed hundreds.
The storm returned to the African coast at the weekend for a second time in less than three weeks, leaving a trail of death and destruction, but it had largely spared Malawi the first tim ... more |
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Antenova Ltd, the UK-based manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the IoT, is to reveal its latest compact high precision GNSS module at Embedded World. The new product, GNSSNova M20072, is a GNSS receiver with integrated GNSS antenna and greatly reduced power consumption.
M20072 uses a MediaTek 12nm low energy chip with 1.8V power supply which uses 70% less power than ... more |
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 Majuro (AFP) Marshall Islands (AFP) March 10, 2023 
Micronesia's president has accused China of bribery, harassment and "political warfare", in an explosive letter to his country's legislature obtained by AFP on Friday.
"Simply put, we are witnessing political warfare in our country," outgoing leader David Panuelo warned lawmakers, detailing allegations of Chinese espionage, coercion of government officials and "direct threats" against his pe ... more |
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 Tromso, Norway (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 
The arrival of the new year is a prime time for Antarctic birds like the south polar skua, Antarctic petrel, and snow petrel to build nests and lay their eggs. However, from December 2021 to January 2022, researchers did not find a single skua nest on Svarthamaren, one of the regions where the birds go to raise their young. Similarly, the number of Antarctic petrel and snow petrel nests dropped ... more |
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 Wawonii, Indonesia (AFP) March 13, 2023 
Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia's Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below.
"I pointed the machete at their faces. I told them: 'If you scratch this land, heads will fly, we will defend this land to the death'," said 42-year-old villager Royani, recounting a recent encounter with some of the ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) March 14, 2023 
Emergency workers scrambled Monday to stabilise a California levee after a breach forced thousands from their homes, as another major storm loomed, threatening more flooding.
Houses were inundated and vehicles submerged when the Pajaro River burst over a crumbling levee overnight Friday into Saturday, with firecrews going door-to-door to rouse sleeping residents.
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 Dubai, UAE (SPX) Mar 10, 2023 
EMURGO Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures has announced the establishment of a business joint venture EMURGO Kepple Ventures to further accelerate its strategic partnership investing in African Web3 businesses. EMURGO Africa and Kepple signed an MoU in September 2022 to jointly spearhead Web3 investment opportunities including token investments in Africa. Despite recent challenges such as the cry ... more |
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 Najaf, Iraq (AFP) March 1, 2023 
Tombstones stretch as far as the eye can see across Iraq's Wadi-al-Salam cemetery, often described as the world's biggest, which bears silent witness to life and death over 14 centuries.
Flowers, photographs and religious banners honour many of the millions buried in the ochre desert sands of the "Valley of Peace" - victims of war and disease, accidents and old age.
"Oh my father!" lame ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 13, 2021  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday that the world is at a crossroads on actions about global warning despite years of warnings and studies by the organization's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Guterres spoke in a video message at the opening of the IPCC's meeting to approve the final component of its sixth assessment report on the climate in Interla ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 14, 2023 
Japan announced the official start of Tokyo's cherry blossom season on Tuesday, 10 days earlier than usual and tied with a record early start seen only twice before.
In past years the country's meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in Tokyo have been unseasonably mild in recent days.
Tokyo's official cherry bloom records go back 70 y ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 
For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian palaeontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known ichthyosaur or 'fish-lizard' on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
Ichthyosaurs were an extinct group of marine reptiles whose fossils have been recovered worldwide. Th ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 15, 2023 
Global corporations are not adapting fast enough to safeguard the environment or their own businesses from global warming and looming climate regulations, according to a report released Wednesday.
Most companies are failing to provide a full picture of their carbon footprints and environmental impacts, slowing progress toward a net zero economy and exposing themselves to climate risk. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2023 
Anybody who has ever enjoyed fresh crab legs or lobster tails can attest to how difficult it is to get through their tough shells. But instead of just throwing them away, researchers are "upcycling" these shells into porous, carbon-filled materials with a wide variety of uses. Now, a team reporting in ACS Omega has used this "crab carbon" to create anode materials for sodium-ion batteries - an u ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 15, 2023 
Scientists have created eggs using the cells of male mice for the first time, leading to the birth of seven mice with two fathers, according to research Wednesday hailed as "revolutionary".
The technique pioneered in the proof-of-concept experiment is a long way from potentially being used in humans, with obstacles including a low success rate, adaptation concerns and wide-ranging ethical co ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 11, 2023  Li Qiang, one of Chinese President Xi Jinping's most trusted allies, was confirmed as premier on Saturday, as Xi cements his influence on the country's top leadership.
Li, the former Shanghai party chief who oversaw the city's gruelling two-month lockdown last spring, was named the successor of outgoing premier Li Keqiang at a meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament.
The 63-year ... more |
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 Basra, Iraq (AFP) March 12, 2023 
Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting five million palms and trees.
Oil-rich but war-battered Iraq suffers from extreme summer heat, frequent droughts, desertification and regular dust storms, problems that are all exacerbated by a heating planet.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shi ... more |
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