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17:45 25/04/2019
17:24 25/04/2019
'Death by a thousand cuts': vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018

Millions of hectares of pristine tropical rainforest were destroyed in 2018, according to satellite analysis, with beef, chocolate and palm oil among the main causes.

17:00 25/04/2019
China's top feed producer New Hope builds three pig farms in Vietnam

The farms, located in Thanh Hoa, Binh Phuoc, and Binh Dinh provinces, will produce 930,000 pigs in total every year, with construction to be completed by 2021, according to New Hope Group.

16:38 25/04/2019
China seeks to allay fears over Belt and Road debt risks

Western governments have tended to view it as a means to spread Chinese influence abroad, saddling poor countries with unsustainable debt.

15:45 25/04/2019
Egypt Coptic monks sentenced to death for killing bishop

Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool of blood in July 2018 at a desert monastery north-west of Cairo.

15:27 25/04/2019
Charity 'Sunshine' Tillemann-Dick: Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies

Despite her illness Tillemann-Dick pursued a renowned career, performing her soprano work across the world.

15:01 25/04/2019
Aid groups sue France to stop boat donation to Libya's navy

Europe has relied heavily on the Libyan coast guard, which is part of the navy, to intercept migrants bound for Europe and return them to the detention centers, where disease is widespread and migrants say they face routine abuse.

14:26 25/04/2019
Egypt renews three-month nationwide state of emergency

Egypt has imposed a state of emergency to combat in recent years to combat Islamist militants. Before the 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt had long stretches of emergency rule.

14:02 25/04/2019
Nearly 170m under-10s unvaccinated against measles worldwide

Figure includes half a million in UK, as Unicef warns the disease could ‘'spread like wildfire'.

13:41 25/04/2019
Belt and Road forum: China's 'project of the century' hits tough times

Raft of countries including Turkey have refused to attend latest summit amid growing concern about debt diplomacy.

13:28 25/04/2019
South Korean electronics giant Samsung is developing its own blockchain network and eyeing the issuance of its own token further down the road

An exclusive CoinDesk Korea report on Tuesday, citing a person “familiar with Samsung’s internal situation,” said that the company’s blockchain task force – part of its wireless division – is building a blockchain mainnet based on ethereum.  The work, however, is still at the “internal experimental” stage.

13:00 25/04/2019
$13.6B record-breaking solar park rises from Dubai desert

In its eighth year of development, satellite images give a sense of scale already: miles of photovoltaics arranged along neat east-west lines, their uniformity at odds with the creases and crinkles of the sands surrounding the energy plant.

12:43 25/04/2019
100-year-old shipwreck remains wash up on North Carolina coast

The Town of Surf City shared photos of the wooden remains of the ship, known as the William H. Sumner, which washed up about 150 miles off of Barnacle Bill's Pier.

12:29 25/04/2019
Japanese woman is arrested after an airport X-ray uncovers 19 exotic animals including blue-tongued lizards hidden in luggage bound for Japan

The 27-year-old was arrested at Melbourne Airport after police allege an x-ray revealed the 17 shingleback lizards and two blue-tongued lizards in mesh packages within her luggage on Tuesday.

12:02 25/04/2019

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