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
Leonardo DiCaprio was in Washington Monday -- not to press lawmakers on his environmental causes or to film another blockbuster hit, but rather to testify in a political corruption trial featuring a 90s hip-hop star and a disgraced Malaysian financier.. - 'That's a lot of money' - When Low eventually expressed interest in financing DiCaprio's 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," the actor's lawyers and a private detective looked into the Malaysian financier, who is also known as Jho Low.
They spent nearly a month crammed in the basement of a local school, forced out of their homes by invading Russian troops and held in conditions described as "worse than prison". . It was worse than in prison," he added.
Russia defended itself Monday against a barrage of criticism over its presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of April, insisting it will not abuse the position to defend its invasion of Ukraine.. "As you know, Russia is assuming its seat as president of the Security Council.
A provincial government official in Argentina was beaten, kicked and pelted with stones Monday by a group of bus drivers protesting the death of a colleague. . The protest was sparked by the death of bus driver Daniel Barrientos, 65, who was shot by two delinquents who boarded to rob passengers in the early hours of Monday.
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.
The rocky road running past dilapidated homes ends abruptly at a thick, five-metre-high metal barrier -- the end of the European Union, and Greece's border with Turkey.. "It is about time for the European Union to seriously consider providing European funds for these types of projects, because after all, we are contributing towards European security," Mitsotakis said Friday.
Palestinian and Israeli forces battled in the air and on the ground Monday, with a drone downed and missiles fired over Gaza, and two militants shot dead in the West Bank, officials in the Palestinian territories said, as the army reported a raid targeting gun attack suspects.. Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip said they fired missiles at an Israeli warplane after it shot their drone down.
Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country's space programme, the government said on Monday.. The satellite launch will add to a push by African nations for scientific innovation and the development of space programmes.
France could be the next European country to legalise euthanasia for the terminally ill after President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for a law on a "French model on the end of life" within months.. So far in France, a 2005 law has legalised passive euthanasia, such as withholding artificial life support, as a "right to die".
