Browsing Category
World
Australian teen reported alive, 18 months after being assumed dead in Syria
The family of an Australian teenager thought to have been killed in a Daesh attack 18 months ago in Syria was on Wednesday celebrating news reports that he was alive.
According to the Guardian, relatives of Yousef Zahab were “overwhelmed…
Read More...
Read More...
Halted Ukraine grain deal, funding shortages rattle UN food aid programs
A halted landmark grain deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to flow to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, along with donor’s fatigue, is rattling the operations of the United Nations food agency, its deputy executive director said…
Read More...
Read More...
11 dead and 27 missing in flooding around Beijing after days of rain
At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, state media said Tuesday, in downpours that have submerged roads and deluged neighborhoods with mud.
Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, had swept northwards…
Read More...
Read More...
Greek blazes mostly under control, fire fighters say
Wildfires that have scorched Greece for more than two weeks were on Saturday mostly under control, but firefighters remained in key hotspots with strong winds still a threat, officials said.
Three fires broke out on Saturday in the…
Read More...
Read More...
Blazing cargo ship off Netherlands to be towed
Preparations were underway to salvage a cargo ship packed with electric vehicles that caught fire off the Dutch coast, officials said, in an operation intended to avert an ecological disaster.
An electric car is suspected of having…
Read More...
Read More...
North Atlantic ocean temperature sets record high: US agency
On the heels of a new record high in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic reached its hottest-ever level this week, several weeks earlier than its usual annual peak, according to preliminary data released Friday by the US National Oceanic…
Read More...
Read More...
Greece races to tackle wildfires as winds set to resume
Greek fire crews on Thursday scrambled to put out wildfires raging for two weeks around the country that left five dead before strong winds forecast for the day rekindle blazes.
Hundreds of firefighters backed by European Union…
Read More...
Read More...
Ocean currents vital for distributing heat could collapse by midcentury, study says
A system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse by mid-century, according to a new study, and scientists have said before that such a collapse could cause catastrophic sea-level rise and…
Read More...
Read More...
UN stages food summit as more people around world go hungry
A three-day UN summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a “broken” global food system where millions are starving, billions are obese and the planet is suffering.
The food systems summit comes amid growing food insecurity around…
Read More...
Read More...
Thousands more evacuated as Greece ‘at war’ with forest fires
Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as the prime minister warned that the heat-battered nation was “at war” with several wildfires and spoke of three difficult days ahead.
Tens of thousands…
Read More...
Read More...