The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Malawi reached 499 as of Monday evening, from 476 as reported Sunday evening, with the number of displaced people increasing from 490,098 to 508,244. Search and rescue [Read More]
The Metropolitan Police of the United Kingdom (UK) is expected to be heavily criticized for being racist, sexist and homophobic in a report, BBC said Friday. The findings of the draft report by Louise Casey, [Read More]
Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday the order of up to 121 Boeing 787 airliners for two national carriers, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The newly-formed Riyadh Air said it will buy 39 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, [Read More]
Representatives of Sweden, Finland and Türkiye held talks in Brussels on Thursday to discuss progress on fulfilling Türkiye’s conditions for agreeing to the Nordic countries’ accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the military [Read More]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on Wednesday, a UN spokesman said. “The secretary-general has just arrived in Poland on his way to Ukraine,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for [Read More]
Interior ministers of five European Union (EU) Mediterranean countries on Saturday called for more EU solidarity on migration and more efforts to prevent irregular migration. At the end of the so-called “Med 5” ministerial-level meeting [Read More]
Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, according to a recent study of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). On Feb. 21, Antarctic sea ice likely reached [Read More]
The largest nuclear reactor in Sweden will be taken off the grid for eight days due to a damaged fuel rod, Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper reported on Tuesday. Unit 3 at the Oskarshamn nuclear power [Read More]
Australia’s national science agency has warned urgent action is needed to prevent the spread of drug-resistant superbugs. In a report published on Tuesday, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Australian Academy of [Read More]
The United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) concluded on Monday a new post-Brexit trade arrangement for Northern Ireland. The agreement — dubbed the “Windsor Framework” — was struck over the Northern Ireland Protocol, [Read More]
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