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Women linked to IS fighters return to Australia from Middle East
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Shell profit jumps as Mideast war fuels oil prices
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Oil sinks, Tokyo leads Asia stock surge on growing Mideast peace hopes
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India vows to crush terror 'ecosystem', a year after Pakistan conflict
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Circus tackles jihadist nightmares of Burkina Faso's children
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Iran denies ship attack as Trump warns of renewed bombing, eyes deal
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Badminton looks to future with 'evolution and innovation'
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Troubled waters: Jakarta battles deadly, invasive suckerfish
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Senegal's children mourn in silence when migrant parents disappear
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EU weighs options as summer jet fuel threat looms
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Spurs thrash Timberwolves as Knicks edge Sixers in NBA playoffs
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Australia to force gas giants to reserve fuel for domestic use
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AirAsia signs $19bn deal for 150 Airbus A220 jets
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Japan fires missiles during drills, drawing China rebuke
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Toluca rout Son's LAFC to set up all-Mexican CONCACAF final
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Vingegaard begins bid for Giro-Tour double with Pellizzari boosting home hopes
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Roma's Champions League return back on as Milan, Juve wobble
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Tokyo leads Asia stock surge on growing Mideast peace hopes
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Australia cricket great Warner to 'accept' drink-drive charge: lawyer
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Brunson steers Knicks to 2-0 lead with tight win over Sixers
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Rubio seeks to ease tensions with US pope
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AI disinfo tests South Korean laws ahead of local elections
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Australian state overturns Melbourne ban on World Cup watch party
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Colombian ex-fisherman swaps trade for saving Caribbean coral
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Lobito Corridor: Africa's mega-project facing delivery test
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Africa's Lobito Corridor chief tells AFP business, not geopolitics, drives strategy
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Trump to host Lula in test of fitful relationship
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K-pop stars BTS draw 50,000-strong crowd in Mexico
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Britons set to punish Starmer's Labour in local polls
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Wars in Middle East, backyard loom over ASEAN summit
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US court releases purported Epstein suicide note
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Israeli court rejects flotilla activists' appeal challenging detention
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Victim's lawyer alleges Boeing was 'negligent' in 2019 Ethiopian crash
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Williamson named in New Zealand squad for Ireland, England Tests
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PSG add muscle to magic as another Champions League final beckons
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Tigers' pitcher Valdez suspended for hitting opponent
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Trump says Iran deal 'very possible' but threatens strikes if talks fail
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Musk's SpaceX strikes data center deal with Anthropic
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Bayern lament lack of 'killer' instinct after PSG elimination
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Virus-hit cruise ship heads for Spain as evacuees land in Europe
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Holders PSG edge Bayern Munich to reach Champions League final
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Russia warns diplomats in Kyiv to evacuate in case of strike
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Hantavirus ship passenger: 'They didn't take it seriously enough'
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First hantavirus infection could not have been during cruise: WHO expert
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Kentucky Derby-winner Golden Tempo to skip Preakness Stakes
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Trump says Iran deal 'very possible', but threatens strikes if not
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Lula heads to Washington to meet Trump in fraught election year
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No timeline for injury return for 'frustrated' Doncic
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Virus-hit cruise ship evacuees land in Europe
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At COP15, businesses urged to act for nature
Widely blamed for ravaging Earth's ecosystems, big businesses are nevertheless being turned to as key players in a deal to save nature at the COP15 biodiversity conference.
Nature at risk of 'cascading' species extinction: study
Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday.
New funding announcements at high-stakes UN nature summit
The world's environment ministers began the final phase of crunch talks at a UN summit in Montreal on Thursday aimed at sealing a historic "peace pact with nature."
Tiny meteorite may have caused leak from Soyuz capsule
Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.
Tiny meteorite may have caused coolant leak from Soyuz capsule
Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.
Swedish zoo shoots dead three chimps on the run
A Swedish zoo said Thursday it had to shoot dead three chimpanzees after they escaped from their enclosure, with the situation still not under control.
Israeli technology aims to curb male chick culling
Israeli scientists have created a species of egg-laying hens that only produce females, a breakthrough that could help end the annual culling of around seven billion male chicks globally.
UN nature talks teeter on brink as ministers arrive for home stretch
Hopes of sealing a historic "peace pact with nature" at a United Nations biodiversity summit will soon rest on the world's environment ministers, arriving in Montreal for the final phase of talks beginning Thursday.
EU meets facing subsidy race with US in trade spat
EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday will focus on a trade dispute with key ally the United States that threatens to trigger a subsidy race between the economic superpowers.
Red Cross fears 'enormous suffering' in 2023
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday "an enormous level of suffering" awaits the world in 2023 with famine spreading.
Study explains surprise surge in methane during pandemic lockdown
A mysterious surge in planet-heating atmospheric methane in 2020 despite Covid lockdowns that reduced many human-caused sources can be explained by a greater release from nature and, surprisingly, reduced air pollution, scientists said Wednesday.
HSBC bank says to stop funding new oil and gas fields
Banking giant HSBC on Wednesday said it would end financing for new oil and gas fields, a decision welcomed by environmentalists who nevertheless urged greater action from banks and government.
Snakes have clitorises, scientists say, slamming research 'taboo'
Female snakes have clitorises, according to the first detailed study on the subject Wednesday, in which the scientists lashed out at how little female sex organs have been researched compared to males across species.
DR Congo leader blames climate change for devastating floods
The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the United States on Tuesday in blaming climate change for major floods that have claimed around 100 lives in the capital Kinshasa.
Rich nations oppose new biodiversity fund
Creating a new global fund for biodiversity -- a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal -- "would take years" and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanisms, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday.
Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time
The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind swept over the top of NASA's Perseverance rover, a new study said Tuesday.
Hong Kong leader says Google has 'moral obligation' to remove wrong anthem
Google has a "moral obligation" to stop a democracy protest song appearing in search results, Hong Kong's leader said Tuesday, as row over China's national anthem widened to include the tech giant.
Nuclear fusion: harnessing the power of the stars
The US Department of Energy's nuclear fusion laboratory says there will be a "major scientific breakthrough" announced Tuesday, as media report that scientists have finally surpassed an important milestone for the technology: getting more energy out than was put in.
NASA capsule Orion splashes down after record-setting lunar voyage
NASA's Orion space capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific on Sunday, completing the Artemis 1 mission -- a more than 25-day journey around the Moon with an eye to returning humans there in just a few years.
Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips
Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together.
Lascar Volcano in Chile stirs, sending plume skyward
A volcano in the Andes in Chile's north rumbled to life early Saturday, triggering minor earth tremors and sending a plume of smoke and ash 6,000 meters (nearly 20,000 feet) into a clear sky.
Sea cows, abalone, pillar coral now threatened with extinction
Dugongs -- large herbivorous marine mammals commonly known as "sea cows" -- are now threatened with extinction, according to an official list updated Friday.
Sea cows threatened with extinction
Dugongs -- large herbivorous marine mammals commonly known as "sea cows" -- are now threatened with extinction, according to an official list updated Friday.
Japanese billionaire Maezawa announces crew of artists for lunar voyage
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced Thursday eight crew members who will join him for a journey around the Moon planned for 2023 on a SpaceX rocket that is still under development.
Webb telescope spies hidden stars in stellar graveyard
It was one of the first famous images revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope earlier this year: a stunning shroud of gas and dust illuminated by a dying star at its heart.
'Downton Shabby': US producer quits Hollywood to do up UK family pile
As a child, Hopwood DePree heard stories about the family owning an ancestral country home in England but always thought it was the stuff of legends.
Biodiversity talks open as UN chief calls for 'peace pact' with nature
High-stakes biodiversity talks opened in Montreal Wednesday, amid calls for a "peace pact with nature" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.
Meta sees itself as dwarfed by 'Giant Tech' Apple
Facebook parent Meta may be in the Big Tech club but it sees itself as being dwarfed by "Giant Tech" company -- and corporate foe -- Apple, a top executive, Nick Clegg, said Wednesday.
Webb telescope promises new age of the stars
The James Webb Space Telescope lit up 2022 with dazzling images of the early universe after the Big Bang, heralding a new era of astronomy and untold revelations about the cosmos in years to come.
UN biodiversity talks open, billed as 'last chance' for nature
High-stakes UN biodiversity talks open in Montreal Wednesday, in what is being billed as the "last best chance" to save the planet's species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction.
Energy crisis fuels renewables boom: IEA
The energy crisis is fuelling an acceleration of the rollout of renewable power, raising hopes for efforts to meet ambitious targets against global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
The end is nigh? Climate, nuclear crises spark fears of worst
For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have borne little fruit. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst?