Venezuela, Guyana tensions rise over disputed oil-rich region
Tensions rose between Venezuela and Guyana on Tuesday as Caracas proposed a bill to create a Venezuelan province in a...
Month: December 2023
Planet tipping points pose ‘unprecedented’ threat to humanity: report
Humanity faces an "unprecedented" risk from tipping points that could unleash a domino effect of irreversible catastrophes across the planet,...
‘Dictator’ Trump warnings spook America
Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about...
US facing growing Middle East crisis tied to Israel-Hamas war
Washington is facing an increasingly complex and dangerous crisis resulting from the Israel-Hamas war, which has sparked repeated militant attacks...
Three months after quake, Morocco villages face winter chill
Temporary camps set up following a deadly earthquake in southern Morocco three months ago are starting to look worryingly permanent...
UN slams COP28 ‘posturing’ as fossil fuel debate sizzles
UN climate chief Simon Stiell on Wednesday accused nations of "posturing" at the COP28 talks in Dubai, raising the temperature...
Ukraine’s Zelensky to join G7 leaders video summit Wednesday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will join a video summit later Wednesday with the leaders of the G7, chair Japan said,...
Indonesia rescuers find last missing hiker on volcano, toll rises to 23
The last hiker missing after a volcano eruption in Indonesia was found dead Wednesday, rescuers said, raising the death toll...
Turkey must soften tone to avoid isolation: European envoy
Turkey has become internationally isolated and must dial down its rhetoric if it wants to win key concessions from the...
NY activists rally to preserve historic residence of Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely
New Yorkers Against Injustice (NYAI) has announced a rally in a Landmark poignant display of solidarity and commitment to justice,...
Oscar-nominated Bhutan director turns lens on democracy ahead of vote
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the last country to introduce television, made waves last year with a film director who...
Record more than 2,000 fossil fuel lobbyists at COP28 talks: NGOs
A record almost 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists have been accredited for UN climate talks in Dubai, as negotiators wrestle with...
Saudi Arabia says ‘absolutely not’ to oil phase down at COP28
Saudi Arabia's energy minister has slammed the door shut to agreeing to phase down fossil fuels at the UN's COP28...
Wellington welcomes first wild-born kiwi chicks in a century
Conservationists in New Zealand celebrated on Tuesday after discovering that kiwi chicks had been born in the wilds around Wellington...
Eight dead as cyclone batters India’s southeast coast
Chest-high water surged down the streets of India's southern city Chennai on Tuesday, with eight people killed in intense floods...
Toxic air divides Delhi between poverty and privilege
Environmental change hits the poorest the hardest, experts say, and in India's toxic smog-filled capital that includes the air people...
UK interior minister in Rwanda to seal new asylum treaty
Britain's interior minister James Cleverly arrived in Rwanda on Tuesday to sign a new treaty that London hopes will revive...
New York City Mayor extols FDNY heroes on national public safety honor day
In a heartfelt tribute to the guardians of the five boroughs, New York City Mayor, Eric Adams, has saluted the...
US high court to hear challenge to $6bn Purdue opioid settlement
The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge on Monday to Purdue Pharma's $6 billion opioids settlement immunizing the...
‘Where is our future’: Uganda declares war on used clothing
For nearly three decades, the chaotic, overcrowded Owino secondhand market in Uganda's capital has been the cornerstone of Hadija Nakimuli's...
COP28: Trying to save the planet in ‘Disneyworld’ crowds
COP28 in Dubai is the biggest UN climate summit ever. But the victims of its success are the thousands of...
Turkey’s inflation ticks up to 62%
Turkey's annual inflation rate ticked up slightly in November, the state statistics agency said on Monday, showing further signs of...
Rights orgs sue Netherlands over F-35 parts to Israel
A group of human rights organizations took the Dutch government to court on Monday, arguing its supply of parts for...
COP28 host UAE choking from its own ‘toxic’ air pollution: HRW
The United Arab Emirates is choking under "alarmingly high" air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights...
‘Failure’ in psychiatric care of Paris attacker: minister
There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalized Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a...
Rains pound southern India ahead of cyclone
Rains lashed southern India's city of Chennai on Monday ahead of the landfall of a powerful cyclone, with a crocodile...
Hong Kong’s largest security trial closes, activists await subversion verdict
Hong Kong's largest national security case, in which 47 pro-democracy activists are accused of subversion, closed on Monday with a...
German tourist stabbed to death in Paris ‘terror’ attack
A person known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a German tourist to...
Venezuela holds referendum on oil-rich region in dispute with Guyana
Venezuelans began voting Sunday in a referendum that the government hopes will strengthen its century-old claim to the oil-rich Essequibo...
As Dubai hosts climate talks, its air pollution soars
Dubai's glitzy skyline was obscured by a blanket of smog rated as "unhealthy" on Sunday as thousands of delegates attended...
‘Terrorist plot’ probe after deadly Paris stabbing
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into a "terrorist plot" after a man known to the authorities as a radical...
ICC prosecutor vows to ‘further intensify’ Gaza probe
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court vowed Sunday to step up efforts to investigate alleged war crimes, as...
Need for Self- Evaluation
Greetings Destiny Friends, “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates One of the most valuable character traits one...
Olympic chief ‘very satisfied’ with Paris 2024 Village
Olympic chief Thomas Bach said he was "very satisfied" with the state of preparations for the Olympic Village of the...
Pro-Kremlin maestro Gergiev named head of Bolshoi Theater
Russia on Friday appointed notoriously pro-Kremlin maestro Valery Gergiev, a personal friend of President Vladimir Putin for decades, to lead...
Nazi survivor worries about anti-Semitism in her UK haven
Alexandra Greensted was one of around 10,000 Jewish children rescued from the Nazis' clutches and transported to London, but 84...
Russia voices indifference over OSCE’s future as summit concludes
The world's largest regional security organization concluded its annual summit on Friday with Russia expressing indifference over the body's future....
Ukraine says Polish trucker protest on border ‘catastrophic’
Ukraine on Friday said that the fallout from a weeks-long protest by Polish truckers on their countries' shared border was...
Spaniard accused of helping N.Korea evade US sanctions arrested
Spanish police on Friday said they had arrested a man wanted by Washington for allegedly conspiring with cryptocurrency experts to...
Over 110 countries support tripling renewables by 2030: EU chief
More than 110 countries want the COP28 climate negotiations to adopt a goal of tripling renewable energy and doubling energy...
Argentina’s Milei: From rabble-rouser to realist?
Libertarian Javier Milei stormed to election victory with wild promises of uprooting Argentina's political establishment and dramatically overhauling its ailing...
King Charles III’s tie raises eyebrows amid UK-Greek row
King Charles III got tongues wagging at COP28 on Friday by wearing a tie apparently patterned with the Greek flag,...
Venezuela will vote on Guyana border row despite UN court ruling
Venezuela said Friday it would press ahead with a weekend referendum over the fate of an oil-rich region claimed by...
South Korea confirms first spy satellite in orbit
South Korea confirmed Saturday its first military spy satellite had reached orbit after a successful SpaceX rocket launch and that...
Myanmar pro-democracy fighters battle to take state capital
Myanmar pro-democracy fighters in a battered pickup truck drive past abandoned and bombed-out houses in the eastern city of Loikaw,...
India battles ‘rogue’ label after assassination allegations
When Canada accused India of killing a citizen on its soil, New Delhi dismissed the allegations as "absurd". Relations plunged...
Nuclear power has role to play, atomic energy head tells AFP at COP28
It would be a mistake to reject nuclear power because of problems at a handful of projects, Rafael Grossi, head...
US leads call to triple nuclear power at COP28by Laurent Thomet and Nick Perry
More than 20 nations including the United States called for a tripling of nuclear energy to drive down emissions on...
Royals mull response after names revealed in Harry and Meghan ‘racism’ row
Buckingham Palace is considering its next move after a British TV host named two royals who allegedly raised concerns about...
Shane MacGowan, folk-punk Pogues frontman, dies aged 65
Shane MacGowan, songwriter and lead singer of Celtic folk-punk band The Pogues, died early on Thursday at the age of...
The young men and the sea: Gaza’s displaced take to the waves
With the rising of the sun, dozens of people flock to the Mediterranean beaches of the devastated Gaza Strip. Some...
Paraguay official sacked after dealings with fictitious country
A senior Paraguayan official was fired this week after signing a cooperation memorandum with a country he has since learned...
Kissinger transformed Middle East, where turmoil reigns again
It was the original shuttle diplomacy. Nearly 50 years ago, Henry Kissinger was flying across the Middle East, seeking a...
Biden meets Angolan leader as US aims to counter China in Africa
President Joe Biden and his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco met at the White House on Thursday to discuss infrastructure and...
COP28 puts spotlight on state oil giantsby Nathalie ALONSO
Western energy firms are the usual suspects when it comes to criticism about the sector's role in climate change, but...
Venezuela to vote on oil-rich region controlled by Guyana
"The Venezuelan sun rises in Essequibo," "Essequibo belongs to Guyana" -- the opposing camps' slogans say it all. A decades-old...
New Zealand to ban cellphones in schools
Cellphones will be banned in schools across New Zealand, conservative Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday, as his fledgling government...
King Charles says COP28 must be climate ‘turning point’
King Charles III told world leaders on Friday that the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai must be a "critical...
World leaders take COP28 stage as climate, Gaza share spotlight
World leaders descended on Dubai for UN climate talks on Friday, under pressure to step up efforts to limit global...
US judge halts pending TikTok ban in Montana
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a ban on TikTok set to come into effect next year in Montana,...
