SINGAPORE: The world is losing almost 1 million square kilometres (386,000 square miles) of productive land a year to sand and dust storms made worse by human activities, the United Nations body in charge of fighting desertification warned on Wednesday. The United Nations Convention to Combat
GENEVA: A quarter of Somalia's population is forecast to face "crisis-level hunger or worse" this year due to drought and floods caused by climate change, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Floods that have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in the US on his first visit to the country in six years during which he will hold a high-stake meeting with Joe Biden at an undisclosed location in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday morning. After
NEW DELHI: India’s talent competitiveness ranking fell from 83rd place out of 103 countries in 2013 to 103rd place out of 134 countries, as per The Global Talent Competitiveness Index by business school INSEAD. India remained at the lowest position among the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,
BIRMINGHAM: King Charles elder son Prince William and his ‘beloved daughter-in-law' Kate Middleton have extended love and sweet wishes to the monarch on his 75th birthday today. Prince William and Kate turned to X, formerly Twitter and Instagram handles, to wish King Charles a very happy
GENEVA: Only a trickle of humanitarian aid is being allowed to enter besieged Gaza as Israel forces press on with their military campaign in response to Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. UN agencies and the Red Cross have warned of a "humanitarian disaster"
JAKARTA: About one hundred Rohingya landed in Indonesia's Aceh province on Tuesday, the chief of a local fishing community said, the latest batch of people to have fled Myanmar by boat this year. Many Rohingya have for years attempted in rickety wooden boats to reach neighbouring
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA: Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. Twenty people
AHMEDABAD: Nafis Ansari, a school principal who is Muslim, was enlisted this year by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a "Modi Mitr", or friend of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The resident of the central state of Madhya Pradesh promotes the party
GAZA: Israeli forces reached the gates of Gaza City's main hospital on Monday, the primary target in their battle to seize control of the northern half of the Gaza Strip, where medics said patients including newborn babies were dying for lack of fuel. There was also