UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP yesterday (19 September) that efforts to cap climate warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial level are failing, as the UN prepared to host a climate week event alongside its annual diplomatic gathering. The climate goals for 2035 of the countries that signed the Paris Agreement, also known as Nationally […]
Read MoreBy Jean Iau At first glance, Gita Sjahrir is often mistaken for just another secretary or typist. It’s only when her surname is mentioned that colleagues realise she is, in fact, a managing director of one of Indonesia’s leading power companies. Earlier this year, the 43-year-old assumed responsibility for investor relations at TBS Energi, which […]
Read MoreBRUSSELS: EU countries will seek Thursday to settle on an emissions-cutting plan to bring to a key UN conference in Brazil, as divisions on the bloc’s green agenda threaten its global leadership on climate. Environment ministers for the 27-nation bloc are gathering in Brussels with the clock ticking down on a United Nations deadline to […]
Read MoreDHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim government said Monday that political parties had largely agreed in principle on a sweeping reform charter, but remain divided over how it should be put into effect. The South Asian nation of 170 million people has been in political turmoil since Sheikh Hasina was ousted as prime minister by a student-led revolt […]
Read MorePhilippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said no one will be exempt from an independent investigation into alleged anomalies in infrastructure projects, as he vowed to rebuild public trust as protests over corruption loom. Marcos assured the graft-weary public that the probe would break from past efforts, calling it an “inflection point” in how the government […]
Read MoreSushila Karki, Nepal’s first female Prime Minister and a former Chief Justice, is married to politician Durga Prasad Subedi, who was involved in a 1973 plane hijacking. At the time a youth leader in the Nepali Congress, Subedi, along with Nagendra Dhungel and Basanta Bhattarai, hijacked a 19-seater plane from Biratnagar to Kathmandu, carrying Rs30 […]
Read MoreGENEVA: The UN human rights chief on Monday accused Israel of committing grave violations in Gaza, warning that mounting evidence could hold it accountable before the International Court of Justice. Volker Türk, speaking at the opening of the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said he was “horrified by the open […]
Read MoreKathmandu: At least 19 people, including a 12-year-old, were killed and more than 300 were injured in violent clashes in Nepal’s Kathmandu as Gen-Z protestors took to the streets to protest against corruption and the government’s ban on several media apps. The army was deployed in the Nepali capital after angry protesters broke curfew restrictions […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Friday said India and Russia seem to have been “lost” to China after their leaders met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, expressing his annoyance at New Delhi and Moscow as Beijing pushes a new world order. “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. […]
Read MoreJERUSALEM: Israel’s defense minister vowed Thursday to inflict the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt on Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they stepped up their missile attacks against Israel. “The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn — we will complete all 10 plagues,” Israel Katz posted on […]
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