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Overuse and climate change kill off Iraq's Sawa Lake
Apr 26, 2022 (AFP)
Human activity and climate change have combined to turn the site into a barren wasteland with piles of salt. Abandoned hotels and tourist facilities here hark b...
Australia accuses China of paying bribes to win deals
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
Peter Dutton made the remarks as his conservative government faced questions in the run-up to May 21 general elections about how China apparently outmanoeuvred ...
US warns against China military presence in Solomon Islands
Apr 22, 2022 (AFP)
A White House delegation in the capital Honiara delivered the stern warning on the same day that China's ambassador attended an event with Prime Minister Manass...
Japan, New Zealand plan talks on expanded defence cooperation
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came after talks between Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern, who is in Tokyo as part of an Asi...
Parched Iraq's water resources 'down 50 percent'
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable to climate change and desertif...
After floods, S.Africans wait hours for water amid fear of disease
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
But four hours later, the vehicle has still not come back to Mariannhill suburb. Fears are mounting of waterborne illnesses from supplies people have been scave...
Taiwan pledges to protect migrant fishermen after abuse claims
Apr 21, 2022 (AFP)
The island operates the world's second-largest deep-sea fishing fleet, with boats spending months -- and sometimes years -- crossing remote oceans to supply the...
Taiwan charges nine in rare migrant fishing abuse prosecution
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
Prosecutors allege that crew beat migrant fishermen, forced them to work up to 20 hours a day, and made Muslim employees eat pork. Taiwan operates the world's s...
Solomons signed China security pact 'with our eyes wide open': PM
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said it was an "honour and privilege" to tell parliament the agreement had been signed by officials in Honiara and Beijing "a f...
Solomons signed China security pact 'with our eyes open': PM
Apr 20, 2022 (AFP)
The deal, announced by Beijing a day earlier, has faced sharp criticism from the United States and Australia, which fear the pact could lead to China gaining a ...
China says it has signed security pact with Solomon Islands
Apr 19, 2022 (AFP)
The confirmation came a day after Washington discouraged a security agreement between the countries, with top US diplomats headed to the South Pacific this week...
US warns on China pact as diplomats head to Solomon Islands
Apr 18, 2022 (AFP)
Kurt Campbell and Daniel Kritenbrink, the top officials on Asia at the National Security Council and State Department respectively, will lead the delegation tra...
Australia says China pact would not end its Solomons security treaty
Apr 17, 2022 (AFP)
Marise Payne told national broadcaster ABC that an existing bilateral security treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands would continue even if the natio...
Israel to top up shrinking Sea of Galilee with desalinated water
Apr 15, 2022 (AFP)
Irregular rainfall, rising temperatures and intensive pumping have overtaxed the world's lowest freshwater lake, which for decades has served as the Jewish stat...
Undersea detector proves it's swell
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
In the time it takes you to read this sentence, approximately 100,000 muon particles will have passed through your body. But don't worry, muons pass through ord...
Australia asks Solomon Islands to not sign China security pact
Apr 13, 2022 (AFP)
A leaked draft of the security agreement sent shockwaves across the region last month -- particularly measures that would allow Chinese security and naval deplo...
Dwindling water levels of Lake Powell seen from space
Apr 13, 2022 (ESA)
Straddling the border of southeast Utah and northeast Arizona, Lake Powell is an important reservoir in the Colorado River Basin. The Colorado River, which Lake...
Australia asks Solomon Islands to not sign China security pact
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
A leaked draft of the security agreement sent shockwaves across the region last month -- particularly measures that would allow Chinese security and naval deplo...
Climate change magnified extreme rain in hurricane season: study
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
At least 400 people were killed in the series of violent storms two years ago in Central America, the United States and the Caribbean, with torrential rain, fer...
'Silent pain' of Algerians banished by France to the Pacific
Apr 12, 2022 (AFP)
Between 1864 and 1897, as French colonial troops advanced through Algeria, 2,100 people were tried by special or military courts and deported. They were sent in...
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