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Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a global news wire service based in Paris, one of the world's oldest and largest news agencies.
Hurricane Simon, now a Category 3 storm, is forecast to pass about 15 km off Jalisco state in Mexico without making landfall. The U.S. National Hurricane Center still expects its eastern inner core to produce hurricane conditions.
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Government pledges would cover 27% of land and inland waters and 12% of oceans by 2030, Campaign for Nature calculates, against a 30% target. A draft UN review finds the world off track as COP17 talks open in Yerevan on Oct. 19.
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Ukraine's sanctions adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk criticized South Korean fuel shipments to Russia after the Guardian tracked over 176,000 tons in July and August. Any cost to the refiners shipping from Ulsan and Yeosu would come through Seoul's own export-control list, and the government's reply leaves open whether diesel is on it.
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Tokyo judge Aya Takahashi ruled that using a performer's voice without permission can infringe publicity rights, in Japan's first AI voice-clone case. Teams shipping synthetic narration there now have to judge whether a voice is being sold on who it sounds like.
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Between 2017 and 2020 a Greenland Institute of Natural Resources team let tagged narwhals profile East Greenland, and the whales found Atlantic-origin water reaching in beneath the glaciers of Scoresby Sound.
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A seizure count rises when smuggling rises and also when inspection does. In India it is the main published measure of the exotic-pet trade that delivered five orangutan infants to a zoo in Odisha.
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Glacier Loss Day fell on June 29 in Switzerland, three days later than the 2022 record, after one of the five thinnest central-Alpine snowpacks in three decades. The date fixes timing; the season's total ice loss is a separate measurement.
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CAMS is comparing this season to 2015 and 2019, both exceptional El Nino years. For anyone planning around regional haze, the more durable input is the drained peatland that turns a dry spell into weeks of smoke downwind.
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The R$153.7m penalty covers guest browsing, so the breach is the collection rather than the age check. Every remedy the agency ordered except the deletion applies only to accounts.
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