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London -Al-Yurae– The United Kingdom imposed new sanctions on Thursday on Russia's military intelligence agency GRU, and summoned Moscow's ambassador, after an official inquiry concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears "moral responsibility" for the killing of...
London (AFP) – Microsoft is facing a complaint in the European Union filed by a non-profit organisation alleging it illegally stored data on Palestinians used for Israeli military surveillance. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) confirmed Thursday it...

US medical agency will scale back testing on monkeys

Washington (AFP) – The United States will scale back certain drug-safety testing requirements on monkeys, federal regulators said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump's administration pushes...

Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers

Paris (AFP) – DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate for...

Southern white rhino calf has been born at a zoo in eastern Spain

Valencia (Spain) (AFP) – A southern white rhino calf has been born at a zoo in eastern Spain, in a success for a European programme...

Singapore seizes record rhino horn haul

Singapore (AFP) – Singapore has seized over $800,000 worth of illegal rhino horn and animal parts hidden in air cargo bound for Laos, authorities said...

‘It’s un-British’: lawmakers raise concerns about aquarium penguins

London (AFP) – Some 75 British MPs on Tuesday raised concerns about the welfare of 15 penguins being kept in a windowless space at the...

The Bright Side: Kenyan conservation areas adapt to help Maasai and wildlife coexist

Kenya’s Nashulai conservancy is pioneering a new approach to conservation, allowing Maasai communities to remain on their ancestral land alongside the wildlife that draws...

Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population

New Delhi (AFP) – India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found,...

First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece

Athens (AFP) – A prominent Greek wildlife group on Friday said it had confirmed the first case of a wolf-dog hybrid in the north of...

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet

Paris (AFP) – British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into...

Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers

Paris (AFP) – Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing...

Nearly 100 buffaloes die in Namibia stampede

Windhoek (AFP) – At least 90 buffaloes died while fleeing lions Tuesday after trampling on each other and falling off a cliff in Namibia's far...

Canada wildlife decline ‘most severe’ in decades: WWF

Montreal (AFP) – Biodiversity in Canada has plunged 10 percent over the last half century, with hundreds of species facing extinction, the World Wildlife Fund...

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