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Downgraded Hurricane Erin lashes Caribbean with rain
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Protests held across Israel calling for end to Gaza war, hostage deal
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Hopes for survivors wane as landslides, flooding bury Pakistan villages
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After deadly protests, Kenya's Ruto seeks football distraction
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Bolivian right eyes return in elections marked by economic crisis
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Drought, dams and diplomacy: Afghanistan's water crisis goes regional
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'Pickypockets!' vigilante pairs with social media on London streets
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From drought to floods, water extremes drive displacement in Afghanistan
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Air Canada flights grounded as government intervenes in strike
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Women bear brunt of Afghanistan's water scarcity
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Reserve Messi scores in Miami win while Son gets first MLS win
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Japan's Iwai grabs lead at LPGA Portland Classic
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Trump gives Putin 'peace letter' from wife Melania
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Alcaraz to face defending champ Sinner in Cincinnati ATP final
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Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker granted asylum in Australia
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All Blacks beat Argentina 41-24 to reclaim top world rank
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Monster birdie gives heckled MacIntyre four-stroke BMW lead
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Coffee-lover Atmane felt the buzz from Cincinnati breakthrough
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Coffe-lover Atmane felt the buzz from Cincinnati breakthrough
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Monster birdie gives MacIntyre four-stroke BMW lead
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Hurricane Erin intensifies offshore, lashes Caribbean with rain
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Kane lauds Diaz's 'perfect start' at Bayern
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Clashes erupt in several Serbian cities in fifth night of unrest
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US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts
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Defending champ Sinner subdues Atmane to reach Cincinnati ATP final
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Nigeria arrests leaders of terror group accused of 2022 jailbreak
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Kane and Diaz strike as Bayern beat Stuttgart in German Super Cup
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Australia coach Schmidt hails 'great bunch of young men'
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Brentford splash club-record fee on Ouattara
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Barcelona open Liga title defence strolling past nine-man Mallorca
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Pogba watches as Monaco start Ligue 1 season with a win
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Canada moves to halt strike as hundreds of flights grounded
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Forest seal swoop for Ipswich's Hutchinson
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Haaland fires Man City to opening win at Wolves
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Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves house arrest for medical exams
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Mikautadze gets Lyon off to winning start in Ligue 1 at Lens
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Fires keep burning in western Spain as army is deployed
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Captain Wilson scores twice as Australia stun South Africa
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Thompson eclipses Lyles and Hodgkinson makes stellar comeback
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Spurs get Frank off to flier, Sunderland win on Premier League return
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Europeans try to stay on the board after Ukraine summit
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Hurricane Erin intensifies to 'catastrophic' category 5 storm in Caribbean
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Thompson beats Lyles in first 100m head-to-head since Paris Olympics
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Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves house arrest for court-approved medical exams
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Hodgkinson in sparkling track return one year after Olympic 800m gold
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Air Canada grounds hundreds of flights over cabin crew strike
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With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb".

China's elders savour twilight years as the young toil
At the end of a back alley surrounded by dilapidated buildings, the pitter-patter of ping-pong balls echoes around a cavernous warehouse in a Chinese town north of Shanghai.

127 perish in Rwanda flooding, landslides
At least 127 people have died as floods and landslides engulfed several parts of Rwanda after torrential rains, destroying homes and cutting off roads, the presidency said Wednesday.

Charles the 'green king' harnesses love of nature for UK coronation
King Charles III, once mocked as a crank for admitting he talked to plants and championing organic farming, has steeped his coronation in symbols of nature and the environment.

World should prepare for El Nino, new record temperatures: UN
The United Nations warned Wednesday of a growing likelihood the weather phenomenon El Nino will develop in coming months, fuelling higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.

'Nightmare': Stinky seaweed smothers French Caribbean beaches
Jose Viator was hoping tourists would flock to his beachside bar on the French archipelago of Guadeloupe, but he has been forced to close because of stinky brown seaweed.

COP28 chair urges tripling of renewables capacity by 2030
The president of upcoming UN climate talks Sultan Al Jaber on Tuesday called on participants to drastically ramp up their use of renewable energy ahead of the key summit in the United Arab Emirates later this year.

Conservation groups sue US regulator over SpaceX launches
US conservation groups on Monday announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.

Solo rower launches Europe trek to expose river pollution
An intrepid French traveller embarked on Monday on a solo rowing expedition from Poland to France to shed light on the pollution of waterways of Europe.

Colombia urges evacuation near volcano
Authorities in Colombia on Saturday recommended that towns closest to a rumbling, notorious volcano be evacuated, ahead of a a possible eruption.

Sculpture of euthanised walrus Freya unveiled in Oslo fjord
A bronze sculpture was unveiled Saturday in Norway of the walrus Freya who gained global attention last summer after playfully basking in the Oslo fjord until officials euthanised her.

Brazil's Lula decrees six new Indigenous reserves
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday decreed six new Indigenous reserves, the first after a dearth of such expansion under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

Meltdown: 2023 looking grim for Swiss glaciers
This year is already shaping up to be another bad one for glaciers in the Swiss Alps, with the snowpack covering them around 30 percent below the 10-year average, according to the scientist tracking their decline.

US climate activists smear paint on Degas sculpture enclosure
Climate activists attacked a famous Degas sculpture in a Washington museum Thursday, smearing its Plexiglas enclosure with paint.

Spain hit by summer-strength heat in April
An unusually early heatwave in drought-hit Spain is set to peak on Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to break April records in the south of the country.

Global warming made Horn of Africa drought possible: report
A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists.

Pythons on your porch? Call Myanmar's 'Snake Princess'
At four in the morning outside a Yangon monastery, Shwe Lei and her team were wrestling 30 writhing pythons into old rice sacks and loading them into a van.

'Impossible to keep track': Spain's gamble on green hydrogen
Major green energy projects are sprouting up across Spain as it seeks to position itself as a future green energy leader -- but experts have urged caution over costs and demand uncertainty.

Drought threatens Panama Canal shipping traffic
Drought has forced Panama's authorities to reduce shipping traffic in the canal that links the Atlantic and Pacific as a water supply crisis threatens the future of this crucial waterway.

Climate activists block Berlin roads again
Climate activists sought on Tuesday to glue themselves onto the asphalt and block traffic in Berlin, a day after similar action caused heavy disruptions across the German capital.

From Eastwood to Kissinger: seniors blazing a trail for Biden
As US President Joe Biden launches a bid for a second term that would keep him at the White House well into his 80s, we look other people who remained top of their game into their twilight years:

European leaders vow to boost North Sea wind energy production
Nine European countries pledged at a summit Monday to massively scale up wind power generation in the North Sea to further climate goals and durably move further away from dependency on Russian fossil fuel supplies.

Drought-hit Spain braces for early heat wave
Drought-hit Spain was bracing Monday for an unusually early heat wave, prompting fears for wildfires in a nation already so dry that some farmers have opted not to plant crops.

Second cheetah brought from Africa dies in India
A cheetah brought from South Africa to India has died, wildlife officials said, the second such death within a month in a country where the big spotted cat was declared extinct seven decades ago.

South African rhino-lover seeks billionaire successor
He spent his vast fortune on a 30-year quest to save the rhinoceros.

South African rhino-lover seeks for billionaire successor
He spent his vast fortune on a 30-year quest to save the rhinoceros.

Air pollution kills 1,200 children a year: EU agency
Air pollution still causes more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18's across Europe and increases the risk of chronic disease later in life, the EU environmental agency said Monday.

Sudan lions reserve warns running low on food amid fighting
Heavy fighting in Sudan, which has plunged the nation into chaos and killed hundreds, has also raised fears about the fate of 25 lions and other animals in a wildlife reserve.

Climate protesters launch four-day mass action in London
Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion on Friday began four days of action in London, promising less disruption and more inclusion than the mass blockades that became its trademark.

EasyJet CEO 'confident' after last summer's travel chaos
The aviation sector has endured chaos at airports after the end of Covid restrictions, high inflation and strikes, but easyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren is upbeat about the British airline's future.

Biden urges climate forum to 'step up' against global warming
President Joe Biden announced another $1 billion in US climate funding Thursday at a virtual meeting with leaders from the world's biggest industrial nations to coordinate efforts to push back on global warming.

'Hotter and hotter': Swathes of Asia sweat in heatwave
Sweltering under a blistering sun, people across South and Southeast Asia have been taking cover beneath any shelter they can find as they pray for cooling rains with record temperatures hitting the region.