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Winemakers despair after French wildfire ravages grapevines

After a wildfire blazed through a once-picturesque nature reserve near the French Riviera, winemakers who grow the region’s celebrated crop are taking stock of the damage. Rows of charred grapevines stand next to a vast expanse of steaming black vegetation devastated by the fire, which raged for a week in… Read More

Australian state advances ban on swastika display

Australia’s Victoria state is drafting legislation that would make it the first in the country to ban the public display of Nazi symbols as local neo-Nazi activity increases. The proposed ban on Nazi symbols such as the swastika, except for educational or historical purposes, will be presented to parliament early… Read More

German central bank inundated with money damaged by floodwater

Germany’s central bank says it has been inundated with more than 50 million euros’ ($59 million) worth of damaged bank notes after deadly floods that hit part of the country in July. The Bundesbank said Wednesday that individuals and banks have handed in notes that were soaked in the floods… Read More

Birds of prey face global decline from habitat loss, poisons

Despite a few high-profile conservation success stories – like the dramatic comeback of bald eagle populations in North America – birds of prey are in decline worldwide. A new analysis of data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and BirdLife International found that 30% of 557 raptor… Read More

Biden lied — and we have the truth

President Joe Biden promised to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until the last Americans are out. He failed. Then, during his speech on Tuesday, he omitted any mention of his broken promise. Instead, he offered the mealy-mouthed assurance that it’s never too late for U.S. citizens to leave Afghanistan —… Read More

Biden stranded own 2008 Afghan interpreter

In 2008 President Joe Biden was still serving as a senator and was running for president for the second time. On a visit to Afghanistan, he became stranded in a remote part of the country during a snowstorm, The Wall Street Journal reported. He relied on an interpreter named Mohammed… Read More

UK vets euthanize alpaca with bovine TB after public battle

British government veterinarians on Tuesday killed Geronimo, an alpaca whose sentence of death for carrying bovine tuberculosis made international headlines and pitted animal activists against the state. Veterinary staff in blue overalls, masks and goggles, backed by police officers, arrived at the western England farm where the animal lives, and… Read More

Germany’s leader: I’d never govern with the ex-communist Left Party

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she would never govern with support from Germany’s hard-left opposition Left Party, an option that two of her would-be successors have refused to rule out ahead of the country’s national election in September. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Merkel welcomed positive comments… Read More

Biden abandoned U.S. working dogs in Afghanistan

Just when you thought the Afghanistan withdrawal couldn’t get any more upsetting! The Biden administration said it plans to rescue the military working dogs that were abandoned in Afghanistan. However, the contract working dogs will be left behind because they are classified differently. Is This Little Deadly Pill in Your… Read More

Poisonous leaded gas discontinued worldwide, UN celebrates

Leaded gasoline has finally reached the end of the road, the U.N. environment office said Monday, after the last country in the world halted the sale of the highly toxic fuel. Algeria stopped providing leaded gas last month, prompting the U.N. Environment Agency to declare the “official end” of its… Read More