Brazil's airlines fear tax rise impact as election nears
Brazil's airline industry fears that the implementation of an impending consumption tax reform could raise fares and curb passenger growth, as the
October 19, 2026Brazil's airline industry fears that the implementation of an impending consumption tax reform could raise fares and curb passenger growth, as the
October 19, 2026Ukraine and Russia should be focused on ending the war between them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on his visit to
October 19, 2026‘The world will be amazed:’ Iran’s commanders prepare for further war
October 19, 2026Mali's armed forces and their Russian backers utilized some "apparent indiscriminate" drone strikes and other abuses as part of an ramped-up offensive against insurgents in
October 19, 2026World leaders, diplomats and nature experts gather in Armenia this week to assess lagging efforts to halt biodiversity loss, with countries off track on
October 19, 2026Authorities in Kansas say a woman drove a truck through a soccer field during a youth game, killing two people and hospitalizing 11 others
October 17, 2026DC golf course at center of fight over tree clearing to start renovations next month, Trump says
October 18, 2026Facing a lost job and home, mother finds support from restaurant coworkers
October 18, 2026Republicans confront anger from their own red-state voters ahead of midterms
October 18, 2026Olympic canoeist at center of Reflecting Pool scandal becomes a Trump foil
October 18, 2026Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting a new pipeline can help revive the country’s oil industry, boost its production and
October 18, 2026China has proposed export controls on 12 technologies used to make solar equipment, citing national security concerns, as part of a broader revision that
October 18, 2026The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Trudy has strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moves toward Mexico’s southwestern and west-central Pacific coast
October 17, 2026New wildfire in Southern California explodes in size, burning multiple homes
October 16, 2026Brewing nor’easter to stir up days of trouble for the Outer Banks and Mid-Atlantic
October 17, 2026A fire has gutted a beach resort in southeastern Bangladesh, killing 10 people and injuring four
October 17, 2026During Maine's Senate debate Thursday night, a protester shouted at GOP Sen. Susan Collins about the impact of data centers, claiming they are “destroying” the climate. Collins immediately accused her Democratic opponent Troy Jackson of planting the protester, but Jackson said he did not know who the person was. The debate took a brief pause to remove the individual and then resumed.
October 16, 2026The longfin bigeye fish was spotted in California for the first time last month, and the first sea turtles of any kind
October 17, 2026US police were investigating on Friday why a 16-year-old boy shot dead three children and a teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and how he got hold of the long gun used
October 16, 2026Attorneys for Rep_ Ilhan Omar are asking the Justice Department to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an investigation into her citizenship status was “neither justified nor lawful.”
October 17, 2026Thousands of US air traffic controllers will get a 2.8% pay raise retroactive to January 1 under a deal announced by the
October 16, 2026Anthropic has signed a lease with EverWind for data center capacity at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, marking the Claude maker’s first data center agreement in Canada, a company
October 16, 2026Leaf-peeping season is underway, but some areas of the U.S. are seeing lots more color than others
October 16, 2026A draft environmental assessment finds that President Donald Trump's plan to paint a 19th-century landmark office building next to the White House could harm its historic character
October 16, 2026Tech giant Meta has denied accusations it has acted with political bias during Brazil’s presidential campaign
October 16, 2026A meeting of the members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was suspended without an agreement on a timeline to publish its next review of
October 16, 2026California said on Friday that nearly 12,000 residents bought electric vehicles since August using rebates under a new $270 million program funded by
October 16, 2026Hurricane Trudy has strengthened slightly as it moves towards southwestern and west-central areas of Mexico’s Pacific coast, and could keep growing through Saturday
October 16, 2026The United States is making an unprecedented attempt to revive three shuttered nuclear plants to meet growing demand, especially from data centers
October 16, 2026Brazil’s government announces that annual deforestation in the Amazon has fallen to its lowest level since 1988
October 16, 2026Hurricane Trudy weakened on Friday but could regain strength in the coming hours, meteorologists warned, as the storm approached
October 16, 2026A record-breaking $3.3 billion loan from the U.S.
October 16, 2026Millions of Ukrainians face another winter of
October 16, 2026The cost of shipping oil on the largest tankers fell this week from record highs as demand eased following a wave of attacks on vessels in the Middle East
October 16, 2026Promises by nations to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to finance nature and increase protections for oceans around the globe are falling short ahead of a key U.N. biodiversity conference
October 16, 2026An early clue came from storks found in Europe with African arrows in their bodies. Today, an atlas reveals hundreds of bird migration routes that are both complicated and remarkable.
October 16, 2026Sales reveal how many cars people actually bought, but not how many they actually wanted. Prices, on the other hand, show how demand is changing.
October 16, 2026Gains in tackling malnutrition in Gaza remain fragile and could be undermined by disruptions to supplies entering the Palestinian enclave, the UN
October 16, 2026AlertWildfire founder urges California homeowners to prepare as fall fire season intensifies
October 16, 2026Exactly how much of an environmental menace is AI? Here’s what we know
October 16, 2026Trump administration sued over accelerated immigration process for migrant kids
October 16, 2026There are now more Catholics in Africa than in Europe, the Vatican said on Friday, releasing the latest Catholic Church statistics compiled by its news agency Fides.
October 16, 2026A 78-year-old retired teacher whose California home was destroyed by a catastrophic wildfire faces losing her disaster case manager amid a funding standoff between the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency
October 16, 2026Canadian home sales extended their decline in September, after a drop in August, as higher mortgage rates and expectations of a Bank of Canada rate hike
October 16, 2026Body found in barrel in Lake Mead identified as Arkansas man after DNA testing, Las Vegas authorities say
October 15, 2026Las Vegas officials have identified a homicide victim whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought
October 15, 2026The Trump administration has sued California election officials
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy moved parallel to Mexico's western coast on Thursday, threatening further rain and strong winds in a region already battered in recent weeks by storms
October 15, 2026Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to accept assistance from neighbouring countries to tackle its worst forest fires in more than a decade, the country's
October 16, 2026Yemen's Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace complex in the southern city of Aden on Thursday,
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy has strengthened as it approaches the Pacific coast of Mexico
October 15, 2026Trump admin files ‘long shot’ lawsuit after California wouldn’t open a thumb drive of alleged non-citizens
October 16, 2026Several brush fires are burning in Southern California, stoked by hot, windy weather that caused utility companies to shut off electricity for tens of thousands of people around the state
October 15, 2026US conglomerate 3M plans to argue a landmark case brought by Australia over contamination from the company's use of PFAS "forever chemicals" in its
October 16, 2026FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
October 15, 2026Hyundai Motor America is recalling 94,622 vehicles in the US over a fire risk while parked or driving due to the possibility that some front power seat motors could overheat, the US
October 15, 2026Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park
October 15, 2026A potential Trump administration plan to ease sanctions on vessels that have transported sanctioned oil and fuel would likely have limited impact on
October 16, 2026The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the U.S. winter will likely be wetter and warmer, but not necessarily snowier, due to El Niño
October 15, 2026The skyrocketing price of diesel is plain for Americans to see anytime they fuel up their cars, SUVs and pickup trucks, though only a fraction of US drivers own a
October 16, 2026Officials say bird flu caused the death of a bald eagle named Jackie who had become an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California
October 15, 2026Factory championing women workers named world’s best new building
October 16, 2026The International Energy Agency agreed on Thursday to release over 20 million barrels of diesel to the
October 15, 2026Progress toward a US-Mexico tariff deal has stalled after opposition from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar
October 15, 2026In the jungles of Indonesian Borneo, a rehabilitation centre is taking in more orangutans as the country's worst
October 15, 2026A super El Niño winter is coming and the first official forecast is in
October 15, 2026The US government has delayed by 90 days implementation of new customs requirements for small international mail shipments, a move that should forestall higher
October 15, 2026A rotten smell hanging over a town in Mexico's southern Chiapas state drove residents into the streets on Thursday
October 15, 2026Global demand for electric vehicles fell 2% in September, ending six consecutive months of growth, as record sales in Europe were not enough to offset sharp declines
October 15, 2026Brent crude was little changed on Thursday as investors weighed possible US steps to ease restrictions on the world’s "shadow fleet" of tankers, while
October 15, 2026Brazilian authorities are investigating whether a recent surge in Amazon wildfires was orchestrated
October 15, 2026If the US imposed a ban on its diesel exports, as some lawmakers are calling for, it would roil the global market.
October 15, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war
October 15, 2026Months of sustained wildfires in Indonesia have caused a spike in respiratory illnesses and blanketed several Southeast Asian countries in hazardous haze, with Singapore
October 15, 2026When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2
October 15, 2026A heavy downpour has shut down Istanbul, flooded homes and roads and killed at least three people
October 15, 2026Scientists knew the Doomsday Glacier was melting. They didn’t realize how ‘aggressively’
October 15, 2026Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade after President
October 15, 2026Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto appointed Kristomei Sianturi as his new disaster mitigation agency chief on Thursday, his office said.
October 15, 2026Governments and state entities
October 15, 2026In 1899, the Mt Lyell mine in Tasmania produced some 9,500 metric tons of copper.
October 15, 2026(This story has been refiled to correct the type of duck subject to European anti-dumping probe in paragraph 6.)
October 15, 2026Both climate change and a strong El Niño combined to cause Hurricane Polo to explosively intensify from a tropical storm to a Category 5 monster in just 24 hours
October 15, 2026Clad in his khaki wildlife officer’s uniform, Dewagiri Mudiyanselage Thilakaratne Bandara rides his motorbike the
October 15, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was seen slightly ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heading into the October 25 presidential runoff, a Quaest poll showed on
October 15, 2026A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House
October 14, 2026Pollution readings in Singapore reached their highest level this year on Wednesday while East Timor shut its schools for three days in response to
October 14, 2026Chinese state buyers purchased 8-10 Panamax cargoes of US soybeans this week, the first such deals since the September summit between Presidents Donald
October 14, 2026Barbados is joining a group of countries calling for the establishment of an international panel to address inequality, at a time when heightened geopolitical
October 14, 2026Haidar Abu Middain, 60, lifts a desiccated bough of a fallen olive tree and tosses it aside in the barren dirt of what was once one
October 14, 2026Taiwan is planning to buy liquefied natural gas from a U.S. project once extraction starts and could invest up to $4.4 billion in it
October 14, 2026Vietnamese electric taxi operator Green and Smart Mobility (GSM), a partner of VinFast said on Wednesday it launched its all-electric ride-hailing and taxi service in Los
October 14, 2026China's exports of rare earths in September rose 6.7% from the prior year, customs data showed on Wednesday, as overseas buying improved after a summer lull.
October 14, 2026Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics
October 14, 2026Eight endangered orangutans rescued from areas of Indonesia’s Borneo ravaged by wildfires have been released into a protected forest
October 13, 2026Iran is deploying new tactics to target ships sailing through the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to keep oil
October 14, 2026Mohammed Saber and his family rely on a solar kit for electricity at the bamboo-and-tarpaulin shack they call home at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
October 14, 2026New York City’s iconic horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot
October 14, 2026The head of MI5 says Iran is trying to hit military sites in the U.K. and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is not unique
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Yemen's Houthi militants of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices ahead of the US midterm
October 13, 2026Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday as hopes the US-Russia diesel deal could free up more supplies from Moscow offset attacks in Saudi Arabia and Yemen that could
October 13, 2026CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve a Justice Department case alleging it unlawfully dispensed medically unnecessary prescriptions of highly addictive opioids
October 13, 2026Wyoming wildlife managers report no black-footed ferrets are being detected in the Absaroka Range foothills near Meeteetse, a key conservation area for the species
October 13, 2026Greta Thunberg has thrown her support behind high school protesters in France
October 13, 2026A big cooldown will drop temperatures to their lowest levels in months
October 13, 2026Argentina's government said on Tuesday it had filed a request for provisional measures with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea seeking to
October 13, 2026Iran is stepping up attempts to hit harder targets such as military sites in Britain and Russia is increasing its hybrid warfare against Ukraine's allies,
October 13, 2026Quality, rather than discounts or environmental benefits, is what’s needed to encourage shoppers to consider odd-shaped produce.
October 13, 2026European automakers urged policymakers on Tuesday to do more to help them cope with Chinese competition and the shift to electric
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump said on Monday he did not believe that China and Russia were helping Iran "at all," even as US
October 13, 2026Opposition to data centers is widespread across the US, uniting people despite other differences on political and environmental issues.
October 13, 2026Climate activists in South Africa have picketed outside the African Energy Week conference, demanding an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent
October 13, 2026The US auto market will eventually embrace electrification despite a slow uptake of electric vehicles so far, Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said on Tuesday, predicting the
October 13, 2026Hurricane Simon is still pounding Mexico's Pacific coast as it remains offshore
October 13, 2026Authorities have extended the closure of Riyadh's international airport until Saturday and airlines scrapped flights
October 12, 2026ASEAN foreign ministers will during a meeting next month seek to tackle the transboundary haze blanketing parts of the region, the bloc's chair, the Philippines, said on
October 13, 2026The International Monetary Fund trimmed its growth forecasts for Latin America and the Caribbean for this year and next and said most of the region was getting little lift
October 13, 2026El Niño and other factors have combined to turbocharge the central and eastern Pacific hurricane region to record activity
October 13, 2026A US judge said on Monday that she was "furious" with Justice Department lawyers for their conduct in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration’s
October 12, 2026Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila has launched a new political-military coalition to replace the AFC-M23 alliance fighting government forces in eastern Congo, taking a
October 13, 2026A new study compared the glaciers in the Lower 48 states today against historical data from the mid-20th century. The results show the region’s vulnerabilities as temperatures rise.
October 13, 2026Tropical storms rarely survive in the cool water off California, but waves from storms far to the south can still damaged coastal areas. And flooding rain can sweep in.
October 13, 2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday that a suspected plot targeting the RAF Fairford air base in Britain was "highly likely" to have been
October 12, 2026Black bear cub with head stuck in jar for days rescued by N.C. wildlife officials
October 13, 2026"Massive shellfish die-offs continue" along Maine coast due to red tide
October 12, 2026Storms big and small can produce a lot of rain. What matters most is how fast they’re moving, as an atmospheric scientist and educator explains.
October 12, 2026More than 100 foreign trekkers are stranded at different locations after the flooding of a river in central Nepal at the weekend swept away hiking trails
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October 12, 2026Several top energy executives were dropped from the schedule of the WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh, as Saudi authorities pressed ahead with
October 12, 2026Forest and land fires in Indonesia's Bangka Belitung province have spread into a densely populated residential area, the local disaster mitigation agency said on Monday,
October 12, 2026A brown bear bounds across the Siberian taiga before two hunters close in on their prey. Three shots ring out and the bear quickly drops dead in the long grass.
October 12, 2026TotalEnergies said on Monday it is expanding its joint venture with KKR in the United States with an additional renewables portfolio valued at $1.2 billion.
October 12, 2026South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations
October 12, 2026The European Union will use next month's COP31 climate summit to push for agreement on a "package" of efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions heating
October 12, 2026Hurricane Simon pounds Mexico’s Pacific coast as a Category 3 storm
October 11, 2026By Alberto Fajardo and Daniel Becerril MANZANILLO, Mexico Oct 11 - Hurricane Simon weakened to a Category 3 storm on Sunday as it moved parallel to Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing strong winds and
October 12, 2026Standing knee-deep in the Ken River, with mud smeared on her face to symbolize a connection to land her family has farmed for more
October 12, 2026By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY, Panama Oct 11 - Panama has recorded more than 200 aftershocks following Friday's 7.7-magnitude earthquake that damaged hundreds of homes and infrastructure across the
October 12, 2026At least 139 migrants, including 15 children, have died after a boat with 305 on board capsized off the coast of Djibouti in east Africa, the International Organization for Migration said
October 11, 2026Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say
October 11, 2026Residents in north central Nepal have evacuated after flash flooding on the Budhi Gandaki River
October 11, 2026Halloween spider web decorations can trap and kill bats, experts warn
October 11, 2026Post-tropical storm lashing southwest with coastal flooding, heavy rain and strong winds
October 11, 2026Indonesian authorities and conservation workers successfully moved eight orangutans to a safe location after the endangered primates' homes were destroyed by wildfires in
October 11, 2026Nepali authorities urged villagers on Sunday to move to safer places after a flood in a river in the central part of the country swept away several houses
October 11, 2026At least four people died after the first hurricane of the Atlantic season roared onto the Florida Panhandle and carved a path into the Southeast
October 10, 2026A South Korean container ship completed the country's first commercial round trip to Europe via the Arctic on Sunday, as authorities bank on the route helping
October 11, 2026At least 12 people were killed and more than 300 wounded in an attack on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, the deadliest in the
October 10, 2026Hurricane Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm as it barrels toward Mexico’s coast
October 10, 2026