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Study shows spiders using fireflies as bait to draw preyWashington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025 Ecologists saw nocturnal spiders attracting prey with their web by using fireflies as bait, according to a new study. ... more  
Jihadists take control of strategic Mali townBamako (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda have taken over the strategic town of Farabougou in central Mali, a week after seizing the town's military camp, local sources told AFP Thursday. ... more  
Typhoon Kajiki toll rises to five in ThailandBangkok (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 The toll in northern Thailand from landslides and flooding triggered by Typhoon Kajiki rose to five dead and 15 injured, officials said Thursday, with heavy rain forecast to continue all week. ... more  
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai verdict to come 'in good time': judgeHong Kong (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 A Hong Kong court finished hearing closing arguments in the national security trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Thursday, though a judge declined to say when a verdict will be reached. ... more |
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Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress; Wildfires pile pressure on Spanish PMWashington (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progre ... more  
Can a giant seawall save Indonesia's disappearing coast?Pekalongan, Indonesia (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 The encroaching ocean laps against a road in Karminah's village, threatening her home on Indonesia's Java island, where the government says it has a plan to hold back the tide. It wants to b ... more 
'Perfect storm': UK fishermen reel from octopus invasionPlymouth, United Kingdom (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 When veteran fisherman Brian Tapper checked his 1,200 crab pots in waters off southwest England during this year's crabbing season, he got a series of unwelcome surprises. At first, in March ... more 
Rwanda, Mozambique sign 'peace and security' agreementKigali (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Rwanda and Mozambique have signed a "peace and security" agreement during a visit by the southern African leader to Kigali on Wednesday, as their forces battle a long-running insurgency in Mozam ... more |
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Conservationists call for more data to help protect pangolinsGeneva (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction due to over-exploitation and loss of habitat, conservationists warned Wednesday, warning knowledge gaps were hampering protecti ... more |
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Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland 'interference'Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Denmark summoned the US charge d'affaires on Wednesday after reports of attempted interference in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory that US President Donald Trump wants to take over. ... more 
Pakistan blows up dam embankment as it braces for flood surgeNarowal, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Pakistan authorities blew up an embankment next to a monsoon-engorged dam on Wednesday as flooding submerged one of the world's holiest Sikh sites. Three transboundary rivers in the east of ... more 
Record-breaking rain fuels deadly floods in India's Jammu regionSrinagar, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Floods and landslides triggered by record-breaking heavy rain have killed more than 30 people in India's Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Wednesday. A landslide on th ... more 
Nine dead as floods sweep northern Sudan: officialPort Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Flash floods have killed nine people in Sudan, a civil defence official told AFP on Wednesday, after heavy seasonal rains triggered flooding and flattened homes in the Nile Valley. The offic ... more |
 
'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-wasteBuenos Aires, Argentina (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera. These are just some of the creations of Argentina's Cyber Dumpst ... more  |
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China's rulers push party role before WWII anniversaryWuxiang, China (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 An elderly Chinese war veteran's shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II. Eighty years on, Li ... more  
California parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicideSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company's ChatGPT chatbot provided their son with detailed suicide instructions ... more  
Sci-fi skies: 'Haboob' plunges Phoenix into darknessWashington (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A massive wall of dust swept through Phoenix, plunging the southwest US city into near-total darkness, grounding flights, forcing motorists off the road and cutting power to thousands. The g ... more 
India to probe giant zoo run by son of Asia's richest personNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 India's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia's richest person. Vanta ... more |
1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UNGeneva (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere ne ... more  
Hidden order uncovered in geological epochs across Earth's deep historyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that geological epochs and periods, while seemingly random, actually follow a hidden hierarchical structure. The wo ... more  
China coal power surges even as renewables hit record highBeijing (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 China saw a surge in new coal power in the first half of the year even as the country added record levels of clean energy capacity, according to a report published Monday. Coal has been a pi ... more  
World's first commercial CO2 'graveyard' opens in NorwayOslo (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 The world's first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway's coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating th ... more |
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IBM and NASA launch Surya AI model to forecast solar storms and safeguard technologyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 IBM and NASA have introduced Surya, an open-source foundation model designed to interpret high resolution solar data and improve space weather forecasting. The system, trained on NASA's Solar Dynami ... more  
Healthy mouse offspring born from space preserved stem cellsKyoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 A Kyoto University team has demonstrated that cryopreserved mouse spermatogonial stem cells stored aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for six months can still produce healthy offspring aft ... more  
CO2 increase to reshape geomagnetic storm impacts on satellitesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Rising carbon dioxide levels in Earths upper atmosphere will alter how geomagnetic storms influence satellite operations, according to new research from the U.S. National Science Foundation National ... more  
Geespace expands GEESATCOM network with launch of 11 new satellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 18, 2025 On August 9, 2025, Chinese aerospace company Geespace completed its fourth GEESATCOM orbital deployment, launching 11 satellites from waters off Rizhao, Shandong Province, aboard a single rocket. Al ... more |
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Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defenseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying t ... more |
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Maldives revokes shark fishing ban after decadesMale, Maldives (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 The Maldives, a luxury holiday destination and top diving spot in the Indian Ocean, will lift a decades-old ban on shark fishing, the president's office said on Wednesday. Sharks were once t ... more  
Brazil court restores Amazon-protecting soy moratoriumRio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A Brazilian court has reinstated a pact between commodities traders not to buy soybeans grown in deforested areas of the Amazon, a week after it was struck out as anticompetitive. A federal ... more  
FEMA employees suspended over letter critical of Trump adminWashington (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly expressed outrage over the agency's leadership, according ... more 
Floods, landslides kill at least 30 in India's Jammu regionSrinagar, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials and local media said Wednesday. An intense monsoon r ... more |
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