Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years, but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be but a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a "liveable" future at risk.. The good news, the IPCC stresses, is that the alternatives to planet-heating fuels have become significantly cheaper.
Armed with shovels or just their bare hands, residents of the southern Malawi township of Chilobwe dig through the mud, hoping to find survivors as the torrential rain unleashed by Cyclone Freddy pours on their backs.. Freddy, on track to become one of the longest-lasting cyclones on record, pummelled through southern Africa at the weekend for the second time within a few weeks, making a rare comeback for a cyclone after it first hit in late February.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Monday accused the country's largest drug trafficking group of breaking a ceasefire agreement by supporting attacks by illegal gold miners.. Criminal groups in Colombia make almost as much money from illegal mining as they do from trafficking cocaine, according to authorities.
Tunisia on Monday inaugurated a new parliament largely stripped of its powers, after a vote that saw a paltry turnout amid boycotts following President Kais Saied's July 2021 power grab.. "What is happening is dangerous and reflects the authorities' unjustified distrust of the media," Amira Mohamed, deputy head of the SNJT journalists' union, told AFP. The new parliament was elected after a new constitution was passed in a July 25 referendum last year granting Saied unchecked powers.
Ukrainian soldiers wrap up this week a four-week training course in Spain on how to operate the Leopard 2 tanks Western allies have agreed to deliver to help Kyiv fight Russian forces, the Spanish ministry said Monday.. Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez said during a visit to Kyiv in February that Spain would be sending six Leopard 2A4 tanks immediately and hoped to send four more later.
Britain on Monday detailed plans to bolster military and security spending to confront the "epoch-defining challenge" posed by China while also countering Russia, as London updated its strategic foreign and defence policy.. "China poses an epoch-defining challenge to the type of international order we want to see, both in terms of security and values -- and so our approach must evolve," Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wrote in the review's foreword.
The world failed to act quickly enough in getting life-saving aid to Syrians in desperate need following last month's devastating earthquake, UN investigators said Monday.. "Syrians felt abandoned and neglected by those supposed to protect them, in the most desperate of times," the independent three-member panel said in a statement, calling for a separate investigation into these failings.
Standing in the courtyard of his apartment block in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, Zurab Japaridze shows traces of injuries to his head, still visible five days after he was arrested at an anti-government rally.. "I swore, so he just hit me in the face really hard," Noniashvili said, pointing to the injury still visible on his nose.
Georgia's president was set to meet EU chief Charles Michel in Brussels Monday after the South Caucasus nation dropped a controversial "foreign agent" bill in the face of major pro-Western protests.. European Council president Michel has previously sought to negotiate between Georgia's feuding political factions.
A year of war between Kyiv and Moscow has handed eastern European populists a potent weapon: fear.. - 'Existential fear' in Baltics - Frightening citizens with war has become common in other parts of eastern Europe.
