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Rice sacks to runway: India’s battle to rebrand jute

by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA Agence France-Presse JAGATDAL, India (AFP) - From the boutiques of Christian Dior to royal wedding favours, jute…

Climate demonstrators invade Louis Vuitton catwalk show

PARIS, France (AFP) - Extinction Rebellion climate activists burst onto the catwalk at Louis Vuitton's Tuesday Paris Fashion Week show…

COP26 president denies UK rift over climate

by Jitendra JOSHI Agence France-Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pointman for the COP26 climate…

Two stranded humpback whales rescued in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) -- Rescue teams saved two stranded whales along the Atlantic coast of Argentina Tuesday, the World…

Severe droughts dry up dreams of Turkish farmers

by Raziye Akkoc Agence France-Presse AKKUZULU, Turkey (AFP) - Turkish farmer Hava Keles stares inconsolably at withered vines of rotting…

Dry year leaves Syria wheat farmers facing crop failure

by Delil Souleiman with Maher al-Mounes in Damascus Agence France-Presse TAL SHAEER, Syria (AFP) - After Syrian farmer Abdelbaqi Souleiman…

Climate change threatens the Everglades, Florida’s gem

by Gerard MARTINEZ Agence France-Presse MIAMI, Florida (AFP) - Umberto Gimenez loves alligators. He gives them nicknames such as "Smile"…

Global warming kills 14 percent of world’s corals in a decade

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Dynamite fishing and pollution -- but mostly global warming -- wiped…

Facebook blames major outage on router work

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) -- Facebook late Monday blamed a major outage across its platforms on configuration changes it…

Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations

  by Joshua Melvin with Thomas Urbain in New York Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Facebook battled…

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