Glasgow, November 1 (AP): It's time for more than 130 world leaders to feel the heat.
They will traipse to the podium Monday and Tuesday at crucial international climate talks in Scotland and talk about
Phnom Penh, October 31 (IANS): Cambodia's 'Stop Covid QR Code', a location and contact-tracing app designed to prevent the spread of the virus, has won the Global South Covid-19 Digital Innovation C
Kabul, October 31 (IANS): The Taliban have called on the US and other global powers not to waste time in recognising their government in Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would have major problems and
Rome, October 31 (AP): Leaders of the world's biggest economies made a compromise commitment Sunday to reach carbon neutrality by or around mid-century as they wrapped up a two-day summit that was laying th
Tokyo, October 31 (AP): Japanese voters are casting ballots in national elections Sunday, a first big test for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to determine if he has a large enough mandate to tackle a coronavirus-
Cairo, October 31 (IANS): An archaeological mission from the Cairo University has discovered the interior of a tomb at the Saqqara necropolis near Giza Pyramids, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Washington, October 30 (AP): Fires raged. Rivers flooded. Ice melted. Droughts baked. Storms brewed. Temperatures soared. And people died.
Climate change in 2021 reshaped life on planet Earth through extreme
Bangkok, October 29 (AP): A court in Myanmar found a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of treason and sentenced him on Friday to 20 years in prison, a member of their political party said
Vatican City, October 29 (AP): South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave Pope Francis a statue of a cross made with barbed wire from the demilitarised zone separating the Koreas and told him Friday that a papal v
Oakland (US), October 29 (AP): Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta in an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future what Zuckerberg calls the metav
United Nations, October 29 (IANS): At least 200 million school children live in 31 low- and middle-income countries that remain unprepared to deploy remote learning in future emergency school closures, accordin
Washington, October 29 (AP): More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb clima
Vatican City, October 29 (AP): Pope Francis issued an urgent appeal on Friday to world leaders ahead of the UN climate conference to take radical decisions to protect the environment and prioritise the common g
Nairobi, October 28 (AP): African health officials and the United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world as the su
Brussels, October 28 (AP): The European Union's chief executive called Thursday for a show of climate leadership ahead of two major international meetings focused on curbing global warming, warning that wor
Rome, October 28 (AP): The Vatican on Thursday abruptly cancelled the planned live broadcast of US President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See.
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London, October 28 (AP): British lawmakers are set to grill Facebook and other tech giants Thursday over how they handle online safety as European efforts to regulate social media companies gain momentum.
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Jakarta, October 28 (AP): The soldiers in rural Myanmar twisted the young man's skin with pliers and kicked him in the chest until he couldn't breathe. Then they taunted him about his family until his h
Denver, October 27 (AP): The United States has issued its first passport with an X gender designation a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don't identify as male or female and expects
London, October 27 (AP): The United States asked Britain's High Court on Wednesday to overturn a judge's decision that Julian Assange should not be sent to the United States to face espionage charges, p