The Kazakhstani government has pledged year-round access to locally grown vegetables at reasonable prices by the end of 2025. This commitment was made during an extensive meeting chaired by Vice Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin, as reported by Premierminister.kz....
Rising global temperatures are accelerating inflation and will likely push the cost of food, goods and services higher for years to come, researchers warned Thursday, the latest example of how the climate crisis is affecting human health and the economy as the costs of adapting to a warming world grow....
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned as head of the Caribbean nation, the leader of a regional body said on Monday, an unelected role the 74-year-old neurosurgeon has held since the 2021 assassination of the country's last president."We acknowledge his resignation upon the establishment of transitional presidential...
French authorities have announced a controversial plan to amend the constitution to revoke birthplace citizenship on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, claiming it would help stem an immigration crisis. The reform was announced by interior minister Gérald Darmanin on Sunday after he arrived on the island, the...
Separatist fighters who seized Phillip Mehrtens say he will be released to protect humanity and safeguard human rights, but did not say when. Rebels in Indonesia’s West Papua region have said they will release a New Zealand pilot who was taken hostage a year ago as a bargaining chip for their independence movement....
Indonesian defence minister and presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has extended a commanding lead in the polls ahead of February's election, with a series of recent surveys showing the former general now has a more than 20-point lead....
On the campaign trail in the troubled east of his country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, President Félix Tshisekedi on Friday compared his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame to Adolf Hitler and his "expansionist aims"....
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has opened a hearing on a petition filed by human rights groups to stop the deportations of Afghans who were born in Pakistan and those who would be at risk if they were returned to Afghanistan....
The Bermuda government says it is moving ahead with plans to join the regional integration movement, Caricom, after being given the green light from the United Kingdom....
Archaeologists in Mexico said Wednesday they have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were apparently decapitated as part of a ceremony to consecrate a temple....
Cypriot lawyer Andreas Pittadjis has been acquitted of all charges related to the Golden Passport Scheme from the Nicosia criminal court. Furthermore, he will now take on the role of a defence lawyer for one of the defendants, Antonis Antoniou, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports....
FOR OVER three decades the Pacific island country of Tuvalu has implored industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions. For over three decades global temperatures have ticked up. Tuvalu’s government warns that its territory could slip underwater by the end of the century. “It’s a matter of disappearing...
Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies, UN humanitarians warned on Thursday....
Deadly floods triggered by a powerful storm have left a trail of destruction in eastern Libya. Thousands of bodies were recovered in one city alone after dams collapsed and wiped out entire neighborhoods....
Malaysia is planning to ban the export of rare earth raw materials and support the development of the domestic rare earth industry, the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on September 11....
August was another month of relatively good news for the Amazon rainforest: The rate of deforestation has continued to decline significantly....
You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986....
Security forces in Saudi Arabia have opened fire on Ethiopians trying to enter the country via Yemen, Human Rights Watch says. The number of those killed could possibly be in the thousands, according to the rights group.
A group of 32 investors managing $7.3 trillion in assets have urged the G20 group of wealthier countries to align agricultural subsidies with their climate and nature goals by the end of the decade, a statement seen by Reuters showed....
Residents on island rush to buy warm clothing and heaters amid unusually cold winter weather for the Pacific nation....
The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation....
While this isn't cover news, in the spirit of the sub, I'd like submit the work of Douglas Dixon, who wrote several books, including the bestiary After Man in 1981, about how the animal world would evolve after the end of human civilization. The link above goes to the fandom version of his bestiary.
Turkey is grappling with forest fires as temperatures continue to soar. Agricultural lands and settlements were evacuated across several provinces at the weekend. Sixteen of Sunday’s fires have been brought under control. Efforts to contain three remaining blazes, located in south Turkey’s Mersin, earthquake-stricken Hatay,...
Several hundred "experienced" Wagner fighters have arrived in the Central African Republic to secure a referendum on 30 July, a Russian private security company said Sunday....
Mauritius: The technical assistance on enhancing institutional capacity on oil spill response provided by the JICA
