After Melania Trump reportedly brokered a localized truce, residents of Ukraine's Oleshky managed to leave the occupied city. Meanwhile, Kyiv claimed a hit on a Russian rocket fuel plant.
Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have reached Ukraine under the most significant truce since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Police start arresting demonstrators with Met commander alleging they are ‘essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime’ Police have started making arrests at the first mass demonstration under Andy Burnham’s premiership opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. More than 100 people gathered outside the US embassy in Battersea, south London, holding signs that read: “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.”
Polling will be held for 804 corporation wards and 2,382 municipal wards, with 153 mayoral and 367 chairperson candidates in the fray; chairpersons and ward members elected unanimously in eight urban local bodies
Experts flag risks of declining crop yields, water shortages, increased animal diseases and reduced milk production. They also warn of forest fires, rising human-wildlife conflict, heat-related illnesses and a higher risk of dengue and Kyasanur forest disease.
Despite genocide, regional war and isolation, Israel's election revealed little appetite for political alternatives.
sanctions special funds for alternative drinking water supply amid El Nino concerns.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine reshapes this Arctic frontier, Sámi communities struggle to sustain cross-border traditions.
Hundreds of residents of the devastated Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have been evacuated, Russian and Ukrainian authorities have said, following a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump. Both Lubinets and Lantratova posted videos from Oleshky on their social media channels, saying people were given the chance to form two groups depending on whether they wanted to be taken to Russian-controlled territory or to Ukraine.
Four oil tankers, including a 'supertanker' carrying more than two million barrels of oil, have hit mines and caught fire while travelling through the Strait of Hormuz.
NAIROBI, Kenya Oct 31 – Kenyans will no longer be enlisted into the Russian military following an agreement reached between President William Ruto and his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday. “I informed President Putin that I have appointed a Defence Attaché at the Kenyan Embassy in Moscow, who will liaise with the Russian Ministry of Defence to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who had travelled to Russia for military purposes,” President Ruto said.
As growers face a year-round harvest cycle driven by warming temperatures, they mix up to five or six different products, including insecticides, fungicides, micronutrients, and growth promoters, into a single tank. Experts warn that such ‘tank cocktails’ can actually weaken cardamom plants, increase their disease risk, harms essential pollinators.
Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city have arrived in Belarus's Gomel.
Judicial Magistrate Rahul Jain issued the fresh warrants against Dhruv Rathee in a case filed by Vikas Sanskrityayan, who accused the YouTuber of defamation over a video uploaded on his channel
Cop17, focused on protecting nature and restoring ecosystems, concludes on Saturday with critics saying system allows ‘one idiot’ to stall progress Calls are growing for major reforms to UN biodiversity summits as countries fail to deliver on their promises to halt the destruction of the natural world, with governments likely on track to continue their record of never having met a target in the 34-year history of the convention. Two weeks of negotiations at biodiversity Cop17 in Yerevan, Armenia, concluded on Saturday morning with countries vowing to redouble their efforts to meeting this deca
UN Security Council rejected the competing proposals, leaving the peacekeeping mission without an approved extension.
Conflict devastates Black Sea marine life, killing more than 120,000 dolphins and causing ecological damage.
US intelligence officials believe a Chinese businesswoman was gathering information for Beijing on the US chip-making giant, The New York Times reports.
IISS study questions over-reliance on American support and ‘over-dependence on expensive, high-end systems’ Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles.
Amid the chaos, havoc and war caused by a capricious and amoral US president, countries are waking up to the dangers of being excluded and abused by America Never has there been a time when the world has been more interconnected than now. What happens in the secretive inner councils in Tehran, the mountains of south-west Yemen, the steppe of the Donbas, the still bloody wasteland that is Gaza and even the elegant boulevards of Paris and Milan have a common thread.
Rising fatalities in Yemen’s conflict deepen the burden on families of fighters, both emotionally and financially.
Government data shows that India’s oil sourcing remains highly concentrated, with just Russia and the UAE accounting for 60% of oil imports