KABUL, Afghanistan, September 4, 2025 (ENS) - Preliminary reports from the frontlines of the latest Afghanistan quake now indicate that the death toll from a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last Sunday has climbed to 2,205 and the number of injured stands at 3,640 as rescue workers finally access the remote mountainous area hit by the disaster. [...]

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MIAMI, Florida, August 23, 2025 (ENS) - A federal judge has ordered the State of Florida and the Trump administration to halt construction, stop bringing new detainees and begin winding down operations at the mass detention center in the Big Cypress National Preserve known as "Alligator Alcatraz." [...]

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GENEVA, Switzerland, August 20, 2025 (ENS) - "Ultimately, I have heard from every country here in this room that you want to end plastic pollution. You want a deal," Inger Andersen, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, told delegates Friday as the latest talks to forge an international legally binding plastics treaty to halt pollution broke down in frustration. [...]

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WASHINGTON, DC, August 20, 2025 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing and retiring thousands of workers as part of a "reduction in force" as the agency continues its "comprehensive restructuring efforts" by closing the EPA Office of Research and Development, commonly called ORD. [...]

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