Evacuation order as Florence stalks East Coast
CHARLESTON, United States: Powerful Hurricane Florence headed toward the US East Coast Tuesday, prompting authorities to order more than a million…
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Climate extremes ‘key driver’ behind rising global hunger: UN
PARIS: Extreme weather events were a leading cause of global hunger rising last year, with women, babies, and old people…
Chinese companies flee overseas to avoid US tariffs
BEIJING: A growing number of Chinese companies are adopting a crafty way to evade US President Donald Trump’s tariffs: remove…
Greenhouse gases from rice paddies may be 2x higher than thought
TAMPA: The way some irrigated rice paddies are managed worldwide, with cycles of flooding followed by dry periods, may…
Russia prepares for biggest war games in its history
MOSCOW: Russia will launch the biggest military drills in its history involving 300,000 troops as well as Chinese soldiers, in a…
Cambodian opposition leader moved from jail to house arrest
PHNOM PENH: Hundreds of supporters of the leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party Kem Sokha gathered outside his house yesterday…
Putin ally re-elected Moscow mayor amid pension protests
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close ally has been overwhelmingly re-elected Moscow’s mayor, election officials said, following a poll overshadowed by…
SPD leader rejects any German role in war in Syria
BERLIN: The leader of Germany’s Social Democrats said her party would not approve any participation of Germany in the war in…