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India's flood-hit areas are forecast to receive heavy rain this week, with 532 people losing their lives so far across the nation during the monsoon season and hundreds of thousands staying in temporary relief camps.The north-eastern state of Assam has been among the worst-hit regions, with rain...
Negotiations between the US and Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal will restart in the "coming days", according to the European Union's chief diplomat."The coming days mean coming days", Josep Borrell said on Saturday (June 25) during a press conference in Teheran with his ...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who survived a confidence vote just two weeks ago, is facing fresh threats to his leadership after his Conservative Party lost two key parliamentary seats, according to reports.Tory rebels seeking his ouster want to scrap the party's rule that prevents another le...
Italy is in the depths of one of its worst droughts, with the country's largest river, the Po, hitting its lowest level in 70 years, threatening crops and raising the spectre of power outages.While much of Europe has had drier-than-average conditions this year, northern Italy's Po valley is ...
The European Commission plans to recommend that Ukraine and Moldova be granted candidate status in a symbolic step forward in the lengthy process to become members of the European Union.The EU's executive arm is set to issue its opinion on Friday (June 17) and will impose conditions that the cou...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) approved a politically important deal on Friday (June 17) to water down intellectual property restrictions for the manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines after an almost two-year effort involving scores of high-level meetings and much political arm twisting.During the ea...
It's time for financial institutions to "make good on their commitments" to eliminate carbon emissions from their portfolios, according to the finance industry's biggest climate coalition.The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which includes insurers, banks and asset ...
Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is facing a no-confidence vote in Parliament, with the opposition set to grill his government on a range of issues, including economic mismanagement, even as the ruling coalition grapples with internal divisions.The opposition parties submitted the no-...
The long-awaited post-lockdown travel boom is rapidly turning into a bust for holidaymakers as Europe's aviation industry struggles to overcome crippling staff shortages and labour strife, forcing airlines to cancel hundreds of flights ahead of the peak summer period.Deutsche Lufthansa AG joined...
Cracks appeared in a Turkish opposition alliance hoping to take on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in polls next year after members of the bloc had a public spat over who should be their candidate.Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a member of Turkey's Alevi religious minority and head of the secular CHP par...
French President Emmanuel Macron's party and its allies could lose their outright majority in this month's legislative elections as support for a rival left-wing grouping grows, according to fresh polls published days ahead of the first round of voting.A poll by Ifop-Fiducial for LCI TV rele...
The world needs US$3.3 trillion (S$4.5 trillion) a year in energy-related investments through the rest of the decade if it hopes to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the International Monetary Fund.The current financing effort "falls far short of what is needed", IMF Ma...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife should be investigated over allegations of another breach of lockdown laws that wasn't covered by last week's government report into the Partygate scandal, the main opposition Labour Party said.Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner called on th...
Sri Lanka needs a new elected government to provide policy stability as it faces its worst economic crisis in generations, according to the leader of the main opposition party."It's time for a mandate, a fresh mandate," said Mr Sajith Premadasa of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya party in a ...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is readying himself for another dressing-down over illegal parties in Downing Street, amid warnings that Britain's cost of living crisis is spinning dangerously out of control.Civil servant Sue Gray is expected to publish her internal investigation into the d...
Thailand will allow bars, pubs and karaoke clubs to reopen in some regions from next month, ending a more than a year-long shutdown, as the tourism-reliant nation targets more travellers to bolster an economic recovery amid an easing Covid-19 outbreak. Popular tourist destinations including Bangkok,...
The United Nations chief on Wednesday launched a five-point plan to jump-start broader use of renewable energies, hoping to revive world attention on climate change as the UN’s weather agency reported that greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, sea-level rise, and ocean acidification hit n...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol indicated his new government will take part in a regional economic group US President Joe Biden is expected to soon unveil, in a show of support for the US leader days before he arrives in Seoul for talks.Mr Yoon, who took office on May 10, told Parliament Monday...
Nato has long faced a complex military problem: how to best defend the Baltic states that border Russia and Belarus if ever Moscow chose to attack. President Vladimir Putin may have inadvertently forced a solution.While much of the focus of deteriorating east-west relations has been on Germany's...
Italy renewed its call on the European Union to provide more detailed guidance on how natural gas buyers can pay for Russian supply without breaching sanctions.Governments across Europe want clarity from the EU on what companies can and can't do under sanctions rules to address Russia's dema...
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