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Somalia Joins East Africa Trade Bloc In 'Milestone'

Conflict-weary Somalia on Friday became the eighth member of the East African Community (EAC) in a move hailed as a milestone for the troubled Horn of Africa country.

Wilders' Win Sets 'Textbook' Example For European Populist Right: Analysts

Italy's Meloni has tacked towards the centre on international affairs and European issues

Anti-EU, anti-immigration firebrand Geert Wilders' surprise victory in the Dutch general election this week shows right-wing populism's success in gobbling up support from traditional conservative parties and taking its pet themes mainstream, experts said.

India Tunnel Collapse 'Wake-up Call' For Modi's Infrastructure Drive

Arnold Dix, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, pointed out that the "environmental footprint of a tunnel is likely to be less than the environmental footprint of a much larger and more complex road"

India's aggressive infrastructure push into the ecologically fragile Himalayan mountains has been given a "wake-up call" by the collapse of a road tunnel that trapped 41 men, environmental experts say.

Greece's Next Hot Export Could Be Medical Tourism

To find out how a small country like Greece ends up competing in the medical service sector and how Americans take advantage of it, International Business Times spoke with Dr. George Patoulis, president of the Athens Medical Association and Elitour, the Greek Health Tourism Council.

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2023 is likely the hottest year in human history

Fossil Fuels In The Crosshairs At Pivotal COP28 Talks

World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity's failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for UN climate talks next week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in human history.

The World Health Organization has asked China for more data on a respiratory illness spreading in the north of the country, urging Chinese to take steps to reduce the risk of infection.

WHO Asks China For More Data On Respiratory Illness

The World Health Organization has asked China for more data on a respiratory illness spreading in the north of the country, urging people to take steps to reduce the risk of infection.

New Zealand sent 84 million tonnes of wool, worth US$232 million, overseas in the last financial year

Shear Bliss For New Zealand's Pampered Sheep

Classical music, soft mattresses and the gentlest touch of a wool clipper: welcome to the New Zealand farm indulging what may be the world's most pampered sheep.

Geert Wilders leads the far-right PVV Freedom Party

Wilders And The PVV: What Do They Stand For?

Geert Wilders and his far-right PVV Freedom Party have pulled off an extraordinary political bombshell, winning the Dutch election comfortably, according to initial results.

Garissa, like many other parts of Kenya and the Horn of Africa, have been hit by floods just as they are emerging from a devastating drought

From Drought To Deluge: Kenyan Villagers Reel From Floods

Days after floodwaters swallowed her home in eastern Kenya, Fatuma Hassan Gumo waded through thigh-deep murky water to collect her only remaining possessions -- floating utensils.

Wildfires that devasted Lahaina, Hawaii in August prompted conspiracy theories online

Climate Conspiracy Theories Flourish Ahead Of COP28

Climate conspiracy theories are flourishing with lifestyle influencers joining in the misinformation war and scientists hounded on social media, researchers say, as pressure rises on leaders at the COP28 summit.

A company in China is refining leftover hotpot oil so it can be transformed into sustainable jet fuel

Chinese Company Gives Leftover Hotpot Oil Second Life As Jet Fuel

At an upmarket restaurant in the hotpot-loving Chinese city of Chengdu, diners plunge sliced meat and vegetables into cauldrons of spicy, oily broth, largely unaware that their leftovers are set to take on a second life as jet fuel.

Tourism accounts for almost one-third of the economy, according to the World Bank

Maldives To Battle Rising Seas By Building Fortress Islands

Rising sea levels threaten to swamp the Maldives and the Indian Ocean archipelago is already out of drinking water, but the new president says he has scrapped plans to relocate citizens.

The World Meteorological Organization has said levels of the three main greenhouse gases all broke records last year

Earth To Warm Up To 2.9C Even With Current Climate Pledges: UN

Countries' greenhouse gas-cutting pledges put Earth on track for warming far beyond key limits, potentially up to a catastrophic 2.9 degrees Celsius this century, the UN said Monday, warning "we are out of road".

The 2023 United Nations COP28 conference will be held from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in the UAE

Global One-day Temperature Spikes Above 2C For First Time: EU Monitor

The global average temperature on Friday was more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels for the first time on record, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said Monday.

The US National Ignition Facility (NIF), the interior of which is seen here in July 2008, has reportedly achieved a fusion reaction that produces more energy than was put into it

Goodbye Fossil Fuels – Hello Fusion Energy

With adequate funding, most fusion companies expect to distribute power in the next 12 years, not 30, and some plan to plug into the network in this decade.

A Gulfstream G650 private jet takes off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as seen from El Segundo, California; Oxfam is calling for a progressive climate policy that taxes the wealthiest carbon emitters at a higher rate

World's Richest 1% Emit As Much Carbon As Bottom Two-thirds: Report

The richest one percent of the global population are responsible for the same amount of carbon emissions as the world's poorest two-thirds, or five billion people, according to an analysis published Sunday by the nonprofit Oxfam International.

A fox in a cage in July 2022 in Finland, Europe's leading fur farming nation

Activists Slam Conditions At Europe's Fur Farms, Seek Ban

Animal rights group on Friday decried conditions at 31 fur farms in Europe, following the emergence of videos showing dead mutilated foxes lying in cages and minks with severe eye infections.

Motorists drive along a street after a heavy downpour in the capital of the Maldives, Male. The nation is among the countries most threatened by rising sea levels linked to climate change

Maldives To Inaugurate New China-leaning Leader

The Maldives is set to inaugurate on Friday a president who has vowed to cultivate "strong ties" with China and to expel Indian troops deployed in the strategically placed Indian Ocean archipelago.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) and Philippines Secretary of Energy Raphael Lotilla sign a nuclear energy cooperation agreement in San Francisco, as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos looks on

US Opens Way For Nuclear Investment In Energy-hungry Philippines

The United States on Thursday signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with the Philippines, clearing a path for US investment to jumpstart atomic power in a country racing to expand its electricity supply.

This undated handout picture provided by the Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project shows bonobos grooming each other at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Good Neighbors: Bonobo Study Offers Clues Into Early Human Alliances

Human society is founded on our ability to cooperate with others beyond our immediate family and social groups.

Analysts say a devaluation of the strictly controlled peso is inevitable, with the value of black-market dollars almost three times higher than the official exchange

Argentina Faces Nail-biter Election As Economy Crumbles

Argentines head to the polls Sunday in a down-to-the-wire race between two wildly different presidential candidates, with many frozen by indecision over which choice will rescue them from triple-digit inflation.

Developing economies least to blame for the greenhouse gases that stoke global warming are among the most exposed to the destructive effects of climate change

Rich Nations 'Likely' Met $100 Bn Climate Finance Goal: OECD

Wealthy nations likely met their goal of providing $100 billion in annual climate finance to poorer nations last year -- two years later than promised and only a fraction of the "extensive needs", the OECD said Thursday.

The world's top 25 'carbon majors' caused climate damage at a cost of 20 trillion dollars from 1985-2018, but their financial gains were about 50 percent larger during those years

Oil, Gas Giants Could Pay Climate Damage And Still Profit: Research

Major oil and gas companies such as Aramco, ExxonMobil and Shell could have paid for their share of the damage caused by climate change and still earned trillions of dollars in profit, researchers said on Thursday.

Farmer Pieter Glas is among many who says he feels as remote from the Dutch government as his Eikemaheert farm is from the seat of power in The Hague

Quakes And Climate: How Dutch Farmers Lost Faith In Politics

Spade in hand, Dutch organic farmer Piet Glas strolls off with his Jack Russell terrier Ollie to hunt mice nesting in a nearby apple orchard.

The frozen samples at the Ice Core Archive are unique, made up of compressed snow and not frozen water

Frozen Library Of Ancient Ice Tells Tales Of Climate's Past

How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus?

Xi told Biden that China did not seek to 'surpass or unseat the United States'

Xi Warns Biden Not To Arm Taiwan, Agrees To Restart Military Talks

Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned US President Joe Biden at a summit to stop arming Taiwan, but agreed to restart high-level military-to-military talks, Beijing said Thursday.

A dead caiman killed in the fires ravaging the Pantanal

'Out Of Control' Fires Endanger Wildlife In Brazilian Wetlands

The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires reduce vast expanses to scorched earth.

Methane plumes several kilometres (miles) long are now being detected by the NASA space agency as greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high

Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High In 2022: UN

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit new record highs in 2022, with no end in sight to the rising trend, the United Nations warned Wednesday.

A SpaceX rocket carrying a NASA weather satellite blasts off in February 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida

NISAR: India-US Joint Mission Sees New Milestone, To Upgrade Bilateral Space Cooperation

This year, India signed the NASA-led Artemis Accords, which lays down a framework for space cooperation and lunar exploration plans among participating nations. Some experts believe this indicates New Delhi's inclination toward a Western alliance over one led by China-Russia.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg was mobbed outside court

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