Meeting world targets to limit climate change would avert hundreds of thousands of heat-related deaths in the Middle East and North Africa, scientists said on Tuesday, urging the region to adapt better.. "Many MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries also need to strengthen their existing health systems to better prepare for climate change impacts." rlp/gil
A group of civilians from Bakhmut emerged from an armed personnel carrier in east Ukraine's frontline town of Chasiv Yar on Monday with a few belongings, a dog and a cat.. Numerous tanks and armoured personnel carriers were rolling through the town, coming back and forth from the front.
Does an international post await Finland's outgoing Prime Minister Sanna Marin after her election loss?. Traditionally the largest party inherits the prime minister post.
Republican US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed he would meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, defying dire warnings from China that he would be "playing with fire.". McCarthy, the top Republican in Congress who as House speaker is second in line to the presidency after the vice president, had earlier vowed to follow Democrat Nancy Pelosi, whom he succeeded as speaker, by traveling to Taiwan.
A court in Bangladesh granted bail to a journalist on Monday after his detention under a controversial digital law prompted outcry. . Shams was freed from the Dhaka Central Prison just outside the capital at 6:30 pm (1230 GMT), Tipu Sultan from the Bengali-language daily told AFP. "He secured bail from the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court earlier in the day," he said.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused some $2.6 billion worth of damage to the country's heritage and cultural sites, a United Nations agency said on Monday.. Culture, tourism, sports and entertainment have lost a combined $15.1 billion in revenues since the Russian invasion in February 2022, the UN's educational, scientific and cultural organisation UNESCO also said.
Donald Trump prepared to fly Monday to New York for his historic arraignment on criminal charges, taking the United States and the office of the presidency into uncharted and potentially volatile territory.. Trump said on his social media platform that he will decamp from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida and fly at midday Monday to New York, the city where he was born and made his name.
A falling local currency, salary arrears payments and war spending have pushed up prices in impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving locals struggling to afford basics.. The economist, who declined to be named, said that government spending had gone on imports likely related to the conflict, as well as on salary arrears for public servants.
Russia's Wagner paramilitary group on Monday claimed it had "in a legal sense" captured the eastern Ukraine town of Bakhmut -- the site of the longest battle of Moscow's operation in the country -- with its units now in control of city hall. . On March 20, Prigozhin had claimed Wagner units controlled 70 percent of the town.
Major oil powers led by Saudi Arabia announced a surprise production cut of more than one million barrels per day on Sunday, calling it a "precautionary" move aimed at stabilising the market.. A Saudi energy ministry official "emphasised that this is a precautionary measure aimed at supporting the stability of the oil market", the official Saudi Press Agency said.
