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Death toll from devastating flash floods in Spain stands at 207
The death toll from flash floods in Spain's southern and eastern regions has risen slightly to 207, a minister said on Saturday.Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska updated the number of...
UN World Food Programme says it cannot replace UNRWA in Gaza
The World Food Programme (WFP) cannot serve as a replacement for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza...
Spain sends 500 more troops to Valencia amid anger over flood response
A further 500 soldiers are being deployed to the Valencia region amid criticism of local authorities over their response to the catastrophic flooding that has hit Spain in recent...
Moldovans are voting in a pivotal presidential runoff. But voter fraud threatens its democracy
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovan historian and politician Octavian Ticu remembers when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, a seismic event that enabled him to become one...
Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia
CALI, Colombia (AP) — Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in...
‘I lost my leg on the way home from school’
Warning: this story contains descriptions of injury detailBerhane Haile was walking home from school earlier this year through the mountainous countryside of Tigray in northern Ethiopia when an almighty...
Negotiations stall over some crucial issues on final day of UN biodiversity summit in Colombia
CALI, Colombia (AP) — At the United Nations biodiversity summit in Colombia, negotiators have struggled to find common ground on key issues.These include how to finance protections for 30%...
Israel claims it killed one of Hamas’s last high-ranking members
The Israeli military said Friday it had killed a senior Hamas official it described as one of the last surviving senior officials in the Gaza militant group.In a statement posted to...
Brazil’s federal police indict 20 in connection with salt mine catastrophe in country’s northeast
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police on Friday indicted 20 people for rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and...
29 Nigerian children may be sentenced to death for protesting against cost-of-living crisis
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living...
