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Abandoned fishing nets kill and injure more than 100,000 whales, dolphins, seals and turtles annually, according to UK-based charity World Animal Protection
World
08.08.2024
Far out in the South Atlantic Ocean, invisible to the South African coastline, diver Pascal Van Erp surfaced with an abandoned lobster cage covered in algae and other marine organisms.
US soldiers participating in a drill with South Korean troops near Pocheon in 2017
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08.08.2024
North Korea on Wednesday slammed Washington for plans to conduct a joint military exercise with Seoul next month, as negotiations over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal remain deadlocked.
Macron says there has been a sharp increase in asylum claims since 2017
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08.08.2024
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed Wednesday to "take back control" of the country's migration flows by imposing quotas on certain categories of skilled migrants and cutting back benefits available to asylum seekers.
Anastacio Matavele, seen here in a portrait held by a family representative, was killed in the run-up to Mozambique's October election
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08.08.2024
Mozambican police have detained the head of an elite unit allegedly involved in the murder of a poll observer in the run-up to elections last month, the police said Wednesday.
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Visitors were still thronging the Taj Mahal despite smog conditions
World 08.08.2024
Even with pollution cloaking northern India, visitors are still thronging the Taj Mahal, the shining marble mausoleum south of Delhi.
Map of DR Congo locating Kokola where ten civilians were killed in a militia attack, a local official said
World 08.08.2024
Ten civilians were killed in an attack in eastern DR Congo blamed on an Islamist-rooted armed group based in Uganda, a local official said Wednesday.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese leader Xi Jinping put on a united front on the Paris climate accord after Washington pulled out
World 08.08.2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday that the Paris climate pact was "irreversible", showing a united front after Washington formally withdrew from the accord this week.
Dozens of grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked on the apron in Washington state
World 08.08.2024
A top Boeing Co. executive insisted Wednesday the aviation giant was confident that its controversial 737 Max jets could be flying again before the end of the year.
The ancient Roman city of Jerash is a major tourist attraction in Jordan
World 08.08.2024
Five people, including three tourists, were wounded in a knife attack in Jordan on Wednesday, a security spokesman said, adding that the assailant had been apprehended.
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the signing of a power sharing deal between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and southern separatists that observers say could pave the way for a wider peace deal
World 08.08.2024
Riyadh has an "open channel" with Yemen's Iran-backed rebels with the goal of ending the country's civil war, a Saudi official said Wednesday, weeks after the rebels offered to halt attacks on the kingdom.
Seventeen people were killed in attack on a border post in Tajikistan blamed on Islamic State jihadists
World 08.08.2024
Seventeen people were killed in Tajikistan on Wednesday in an attack on a border post that officials blamed on Islamic State group jihadists who had crossed over from Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) has compared his rival Jeremy Corbyn (R), leader of the Labour Party, to Stalin as Britain's election campaign formally gets underway
World 08.08.2024
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared the main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to Joseph Stalin in a strident launch Wednesday to a tough pre-Christmas election campaign.
The outgoing head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Pierre Krahenbuhl, is alleged to have been romantically involved with a colleague appointed in 2015 to a newly created role of senior adviser after an "extreme fast-track" process
World 08.08.2024
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has stepped aside temporarily as an internal probe into alleged mismanagement at the organisation proceeds, it said on Wednesday.
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