A team of international scientists sets sail Thursday from Britain for Greenland to study its rapidly melting ice using drones, mini-submarines and autonomous swimming robots. Greenland’s ice sheet, made up of millions of cubic kilometres of freshwater, is melting rapidly due to global warming, and scientists believe it could disrupt key Atlantic currents that control […]
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Peru president-elect Fujimori calls for political ‘reconciliation’
Peru’s conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori called Wednesday for the “reconciliation” of political forces, after a decade of instability in the Andean nation that has seen it burn through eight leaders. Fujimori, 51, won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling leftist Roberto Sanchez. She will succeed interim leader Jose Maria Balcazar […]
Asian stocks mostly sink as AI worries hammer tech
Most Asian stocks sank on Thursday as tech firms came under renewed pressure from worries over the AI boom, with Seoul again taking the brunt of the selling. Regional investors were unable to build on a second day of gains on Wall Street, where more data showing inflation easing pushed back bets on a Federal […]
Messi magic sends Argentina into World Cup final as England fall short
Argentina will play Spain in the World Cup final on Sunday after Lionel Messi orchestrated a spectacular comeback against England in a semi-final with a dramatic ending. Messi proved that at 39 he can still drag his team from a goal behind to glory — and the 2-1 victory in Atlanta on Wednesday keeps the […]
‘Cruel, wasteful’: Dakar port a hotspot for illegal shark fins
In the high seas off west Africa, a fisherman on a Chinese longline tuna vessel cuts the fins off a live shark before throwing it back in the water to suffocate and drown. Its lucrative appendages will be landed at the port of Dakar before being shipped onward to Asia for use in shark fin […]
‘No rest’: Indonesians overworked and abused on foreign fishing vessels
Lured by promises of good money working aboard a foreign fishing vessel, Akhmad left Indonesia and headed out to sea, enduring months of abuse and exploitation while being cut off from the world. Indonesia is one of the top contributors of labour for the global fishing industry with several hundred thousand migrant workers, according to […]
Actor Sam Neill died of pneumonia, says agent
“Jurassic Park” star Sam Neill died of pneumonia, his agent said Thursday, in a message aimed at providing clarity to fans. Neill died in Australia on Monday at the age of 78, his family said in a statement. He was cancer-free at the time, his family added without elaborating on the cause of death. “I spoke […]
Saving Gaza’s past, one artefact at a time
Armed with paintbrushes and wearing surgical gloves, volunteers inside a large tent in Gaza delicately brushed dust from a stone mosaic before placing it into storage, part of an effort to preserve cultural heritage hit by war. More than 160 historic and cultural sites across the Palestinian territory have been damaged during the conflict between […]
US bid for Libya reunification a gamble, analysts say
US envoy Massad Boulos has spent the past year shuttling between Libya’s rival leaders to bridge their political divide. But some fear Washington’s bids would bolster power among entrenched elites at the expense of a long-awaited democratic process. Boulos, who oversees Arab and African affairs in the Trump administration, has met repeatedly with Libya’s leaders, […]