The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is entering its final day, amid growing fears that the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is unlikely to be met. UN Secretary General António Guterres bluntly told the Associated Press news agency that goal was on “life support”. He said the summit would probably not see governments […]
Around 1,000 people crossed the Channel by boat to reach the UK on Thursday, a new record for migrant Channel crossings in a single day. Five lifeboats and four Border Force vessels escorted groups to Dover as a period of calm and mild weather made the journey less risky. A Whitehall source accused France of […]
The United States and European members of the U.N. Security Council condemned Belarus on Thursday for what they called the “cynical instrumentalization of migrants,” as tensions simmered along the Polish-Belarusian border. “We … condemn the orchestrated instrumentalization of human beings whose lives and well-being have been put in danger for political purposes by Belarus, with […]
FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85. Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation’s transition to democracy, had been diagnosed with cancer this year, a spokesman said. He was head of state […]
The United States and China surprised the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on Wednesday with a joint declaration to take action to limit global warming over the next decade. The declaration came as delegates entered the final hours of negotiations to agree on a final text at the conference that will outline how the world […]
The emotional and racially charged trial of three white men accused of killing an African American jogger focused on whether the tragic shooting was an act of murder or self-defense. Day Four of the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in Brunswick, Georgia, on Wednesday centered on accounts of police officers who responded to the scene, and […]
Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit. The document says vulnerable nations must get more help to cope with the deadly impacts of global warming. It also says countries should submit long-term strategies for reaching net-zero by […]
One of Germany’s top virologists has warned that a further 100,000 people will die from Covid if nothing’s done to halt an aggressive fourth wave. Case numbers have soared and Germany on Wednesday registered its highest rate of infection since the pandemic began, with almost 40,000 cases in a day. “We have to act right […]
Mauritius has closed all schools as the number of Covid cases continue to rise. Education Minister Leela Devi Dookhun-Lutchoomun made the announcement in a statement on national television on Tuesday. She said all classes would be held online from Thursday. The country has recorded 1,856 cases of Covid in learning institutions since 18 October. The […]
France has formally handed back 26 artefacts that it looted from what is now Benin in 1892, when it was governed under the French empire. French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed his Beninese counterpart, Patrice Talon, to Paris to formally sign over the artefacts. President Talon said he felt “overwhelming emotion” at the return of the […]
