05/10/2024 |
Brazil drought sinks Amazon rainforest port river level to 122-year lowThe river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region's lifeline.
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Zimbabwe compensates foreign and local farmers over land invasionsThe Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white and local Black farmers who lost land in farm invasions under former leader Robert Mugabe at the turn of the century, the finance minister said on Friday.
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Taiwan re-opens, mopping up after Typhoon KrathonSouthern Taiwan worked on Friday to clear up damage from flooding and high winds after Typhoon Krathon slammed into a major port city, while most of the rest of the island resumed work and financial markets re-opened.
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03/10/2024 |
Over 1.1 millionUS customers still without power from Hurricane HeleneOver 1.1 million homes and businesses were still without power in the U.S. Southeast and Midwest on Wednesday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
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Italy to offer more migrant work visas to caregivers for old peopleItaly will offer an extra 10,000 migrant work visas next year for people who look after old people and the disabled, the government said on Wednesday, as it adopted a new package of migration rules.
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Solar eclipse shines a 'ring of fire' over Easter Island and PatagoniaThe moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular "ring of fire" eclipse. |
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02/10/2024 |
Webb telescope reveals surprising details of Pluto's moon CharonObservations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto's moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar system's dwarf planets.
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Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first woman presidentClaudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico's first woman president in a ceremony on Tuesday in the nation's lower house of Congress.
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Japan's new PM Ishiba pledges reform, deeper ties with friendly nationsJapan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Tuesday promised political reform and help for households as prices rise, and said he would seek deeper ties with friendly nations to counter the gravest security threats his country has faced since World War Two.
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01/10/2024 |
Massive search and rescue operation in North Carolina after Hurricane HeleneNorth Carolina was a "post-apocalyptic" landscape on Monday in the wake of Helene, with hundreds of people still cut off from communications and unaccounted for amid flooded roads and a lack of basic services.
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