Spain scraps wolves’ protected status in rural north
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain’s parliament voted to remove wolves’ protected status on Thursday, four years after their inclusion, opening the way for the predators to be hunted again in the country’s rural north. Farmers hailed the measure, while conservationists deplored it as “tragic” both for wolves and the country’s biodiversity. An Iberian wolf (Canis lupus […]
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Huge fire closes UK’s Heathrow Airport, global flight schedules disrupted
Reuters Britain’s Heathrow Airport said it would be closed all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power, disrupting flight schedules around the world. The London Fire Brigade said around 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze in the west of London, which caused a mass power outage at Heathrow, […]
At Mexico’s ‘ranch of horror’ families of the missing hope for answers
Teuchitlan, Mexico Reuters The gate, black and three metres tall, decorated with two rearing white horses, has become synonymous with death in Mexico. For dozens of families waiting outside on Thursday it also offered a tragic sense of hope in their search for missing loved ones. The families were granted access to what local media […]
World’s glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb, UN says
Reuters Glaciers around the globe are disappearing faster than ever, with the last three-year period seeing the largest glacial mass loss on record, according to a UNESCO report released on Friday. The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost from glaciers since 1975 are roughly equivalent to “an ice block the size of Germany with the thickness […]
Canada PM Carney to call for 28th April election on Sunday, Globe and Mail reports
Reuters New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to call a snap federal election on Sunday for 28th April, the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday, citing sources. Liberal Party sources had told Reuters Carney would call an election soon after he won the party race to replace Justin Trudeau on 9th March, seeking […]
US to finish $US671 million in foreign aid payments nearly two weeks after court deadline
Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration expects to finish paying about $US671 million owed for completed work to foreign aid organisations suing it over its sweeping shutdown of most US foreign aid work by Friday, nearly two weeks after a court-ordered deadline, according to a court filing. US District Judge Amir Ali in Washington had […]
American citizen Glezmann freed by Taliban, returning to US
Doha, Qatar/Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between US hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, a source briefed on the release told Reuters. George Glezmann, who was detained in 2022 while visiting Kabul as a tourist, left […]
“Who else will take care of them?”: In the remote Amazon, midwives care for women stranded by drought
PILAR OLIVARES and MANUELA ANDREONI, of Reuters, report on the work of traditional midwives delivering babies in remote regions as drought dries up rivers that connect communities…
Years of disasters, scandals, failures fuel Greece’s rail crash protests
Athens, Greece Reuters Evi Tsapari is slowly healing from the trauma of escaping bloodied through the window of a burning passenger train after a collision that left dozens dead in central Greece in 2023. But she says she is still waiting for justice. Despite investigators blaming safety failures and decades of neglect of Greece’s railways, […]