Lagos (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 Nigeria's police service said Sunday it had extradited a Chinese gang leader wanted in his home country for organised violent crime, in an operation conducted with Interpol. A police statement said "high-profile fugitive", Dai Qisheng was sent to China on August 15 as part of Interpol-led "police-to-police cooperation". Dai "a notorious gang leader wanted in Guizhou province, China| Africa News
Port 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 official said the deaths occurred when a torrential downpour struck the northern city of al-Dammer, the capital of River Nile State, on Tuesday, with the floodwaters surrounding five neighbourhoods and imp| Africa News
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 - New research from Aston University could transform how Uganda manages its biomass resources by providing community-level data instead of national averages. Scientists at the Energy and Bioprod| Terra Daily
Chung, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 31, 2025 - In a former classroom, now a makeshift relief camp, pregnant women take refuge from the floods that have ravaged eastern Pakistan, their bodies aching, eyes heavy with exhaustion and silent despair.| Terra Daily
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 According to the latest State of the Climate report, 2024 marked record highs for greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels and ocean heat content. The report also recorded the largest annual ice loss from glaciers. Long-term datasets produced by ESA's Climate Change Initiative were central to confirming these findings. Published annually since 2011 as a| Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
Beijing (AFP) Aug 28, 2025 A top Chinese official will lead a delegation to Washington for trade talks this week, Beijing said on Thursday, as the two countries navigate a truce after months of friction. Li Chenggang, China's International Trade Representative and vice minister of commerce, "will travel to Washington to meet with relevant US officials", commerce ministry spokeswoman He Yongqian said. Tensions betw| Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Stock markets diverged Wednesday following broad losses in the previous session, as attention turned to a key earnings update from AI giant Nvidia. Chinese stocks slid following modest gains Tuesday on Wall Street as investors sought to look beyond President Donald Trump's move to oust a US Federal Reserve governor. The Paris stock market rebounded slightly after Tuesday's tumble cau| Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 29, 2025 Eric Trump, son of the US president, urged a crowd in Hong Kong on Friday to buy bitcoin during a trip to Asia where his crypto company is reportedly seeking acquisitions. US cryptocurrency investors were major supporters of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, contributing millions of dollars toward his victory in hopes of reversing the government's scepticism toward the sector under his D| Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
New Haven CT (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a sto| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2025 - Japanese technicians at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have sent in remote-controlled robots to one of the damaged reactor buildings as part of preparations to remove radioactive debris.| Terra Daily
Sydney (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Australian mining giant BHP on Tuesday reported a bump in yearly profits, as China's appetite for copper helped to counter slumping prices for iron ore and coal. Chief executive Mike Henry| Terra Daily
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - The discovery of a previously unknown Australopithecus species, found alongside the earliest known Homo fossils, is reshaping understanding of human evolution, according to new UNLV-led research in| Terra Daily
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 15, 2025 A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in Antarctica. The work, led by the University of Chile and the Chilean Antarctic Institute, was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a milestone in pathogen research on the frozen continent| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Stockholm (AFP) Aug 15, 2025 - /> Swedish authorities on Friday urged businesses and 1.5 million residents in greater Stockholm to cut back on tap water for the next few weeks as unusually warm freshwater temperatures have led t| Terra Daily
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - Cases of chikungunya fever are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread.| Terra Daily
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Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2025 - Hundreds of National Guard troops might be stationed in two states and serve as a quick reaction force that could respond to riots and other civil unrest in U.S. cities.| Terra Daily
Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2025 - When US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on almost all trading partners in April, Ben Knepler contacted the factory in Cambodia producing his company's outdoor furniture. Stop production, he ordered.| Terra Daily
Lisbon (AFP) Aug 9, 2025 - Portugal's Navy said Saturday it has increased patrols along the country's southern coast following the arrival of a migrant boat, a rare destination among migrant routes from North Africa to Europe.| Terra Daily
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025 Researchers investigating the Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to 4.0 billion years ago, have uncovered signs that plate tectonics began far earlier than widely assumed. The era started with Earth's formation and a colossal Mars-sized impact that created the Moon, melting the planet's interior. Crust solidification occurred about 4.5 billion years ago, but subsequent tectonic activity has been| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
New York Aug 9, 2025 New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, leaving some residents afraid to let their children walk on sidewalks. Faced with an overwhelming and ever-growing problem, officials have moved beyond gassing burrows to suffocate rodents and are now using high-tech mapping tools to try and sterilize the population. A| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Palaia Fokaia, Greece (AFP) Aug 9, 2025 - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour's drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.| Terra Daily
Gevgelija, Macedonia (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - Deep in the rugged forests of North Macedonia, small-hydropower developers are facing off with activists who warn that a thirst for lucrative green energy contracts is threatening the country's rivers.| Terra Daily
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Stock markets rose Tuesday as investors grow increasingly confident the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month, despite concerns about the US economy and Donald Trump's tariffs.| Terra Daily
Hanover NH (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 - As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue| Terra Daily
Miyun, China (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Beijing lifted a severe weather alert on Tuesday but warned residents to stay vigilant against natural disasters after authorities evacuated more than 82,000 people over fears of deadly floods in the Chinese capital.| Terra Daily
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 1, 2025 - Stock markets fell Friday as Donald Trump announced tariffs on dozens of trading partners ahead of a self-imposed deadline, offsetting strong earnings from tech giants.| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A massive operation to remove hundreds of tonnes of radioactive debris from Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed until at least 2037, the operator said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
Tacugama, Sierra Leone (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of fate.| Terra Daily
Belgrade (AFP) July 30, 2025 - As blistering summer heat sweeps across the Balkans, poorly managed and illegal dumpsites are bursting into flames, sparking wildfires and smothering towns and cities with toxic smoke.| Terra Daily
Kafr Malik, Palestinian Territories (AFP) July 20, 2025 - From his monitoring station on a remote hill in the occupied West Bank, water operator Subhil Olayan keeps watch over a lifeline for Palestinians, the Ein Samiyah spring.| Terra Daily
Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2025 - China's commerce minister welcomed US investment during talks with an American business delegation on Wednesday, a day after the latest round of trade talks between Beijing and Washington ended without a deal.| Terra Daily
Stockholm (AFP) July 28, 2025 - Chinese and US officials wrapped the first day in a fresh round of talks in Stockholm on Monday, with the world's top two economies looking to extend a fragile trade truce in the face of President Donald Trump's global tariff war.| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2025 - Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.| Terra Daily
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 29, 2025 - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year to their highest level since Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
Paris (AFP) July 25, 2025 - The world's top court may not be able to compel polluting states to halt planet-warming emissions, but experts say its momentous climate decision gives potent legal and political firepower to countries and campaigners on the frontlines.| Terra Daily
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Athens (AFP) July 24, 2025 - As temperatures inched towards 40C in Athens, a vegetable seller spontaneously handed a bottle of water to street musician Anna Gardere Nikolaki, a regular at this Athens food market.| Terra Daily
Bissau (AFP) July 13, 2025 - The Bijagos Archipelago off the coast of west Africa was declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural agency on Sunday, in recognition of its exceptional biodiversity and rich local traditions.| Terra Daily
Washington (AFP) July 22, 2025 - Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
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Paris (AFP) July 5, 2025 - The Seine, which played a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics, again takes centre stage in the capital this summer with the opening of three bathing sites.| Terra Daily
Beijing (AFP) July 8, 2025 Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into the former mayor of the central city of Wuhan, Beijing's top anti-graft bodies said Tuesday. Zhou Xianwang served as the top Communist Party official in the Chinese metropolis from 2018 until early 2021, playing a major role in the handling of the first known outbreak of Covid-19. Beijing's two key anti-corruption watchdogs said Zho| Hospital and Medical News
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2025 - All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld.| Terra Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2025 - Climate scientists at Syracuse University have uncovered new evidence linking ancient atmospheric changes to modern drought patterns, shedding light on how future climate change could intensify glob| Terra Daily
Geneva (AFP) May 12, 2025 - The amount of snow covering Swiss glaciers at the end of the winter this year was 13 percent below the 2010-2020 average, said a group of glacier monitoring experts on Monday.| Terra Daily
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Santiago (AFP) June 26, 2025 - Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow.| Terra Daily
Dhaka (AFP) June 24, 2025 - Mosquito-borne dengue fever was rarely a major problem in Bangladesh's coastal districts, but some hospitals are so full of those with the potentially deadly virus that patients are treated on the floor.| Terra Daily
Hamm, Germany (AFP) May 28, 2025 - A German court on Wednesday rejected a climate case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE, but set a potentially important precedent on polluters' liability for their carbon emissions.| Terra Daily
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Washington (AFP) April 18, 2025 - The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic's true origins.| Terra Daily
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 11, 2025 - A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago.| Terra Daily
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Wuhan, China (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 - Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.| Terra Daily
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