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Celeste Saulo, World Meteorological Organization secretary-general, speaks during a session at the COP29 UN Climate Summit, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan
World is already becoming dangerously overheated, warns WMO
BAKU — The world is already becoming dangerously overheated, and climate change is accelerating, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), as the COP29 UN Climate Summit kicked off in Azerbaijan's capital city Baku on Monday.The latest WMO Global State of the Climate report for 2024 shows that the last decade was the warmest on record.It's exactly what scientists had predicted, according to Secretary-General Celeste Saulo."It's not a surprise. And we have to recognise that scientists have been marking this for many years — more than 30 years in fact — and that what is a surprise is the slowness to react," said Saulo.The WMO report follows the latest data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which last week declared that 2024 will be the...
November 12, 2024

World is already becoming dangerously overheated, warns WMO

Injuries were reported after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in Kryvyi Rih on Monday
Six killed in strikes on Ukraine as Russia denies Trump call
KYIV — At least six people have been killed and 21 others injured in Ukraine following the latest series of air strikes by Russia.Five of the deaths happened in the southern city of Mykolaiv, while one person was killed in Zaporizhzhia, according to the authorities.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least seven people, including two children, were hurt when an apartment building was hit with a missile in his home city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.Russia, meanwhile, says it destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones near the western regions of Kursk and Belgorod. No deaths have been reported."Every day, every night, Russia unleashes the same terror," Ukrainian President Zelensky wrote on X following Monday's strike."More and more civilian sites are being...
November 11, 2024

Six killed in strikes on Ukraine as Russia denies Trump call

Olaf Scholz
Olaf Scholz willing to hold confidence vote this year after ruling coalition collapse
BERLIN — Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is willing to hold a confidence vote in parliament before Christmas after the ruling three-party coalition collapsed under a week ago.In an interview on Sunday night with public broadcaster ARD, Scholz said, "I am not glued to my post.""Think about what is best and where do the citizens and the parties that are competing with the parties now in government and the parties represented in the Bundestag have their rights? There are many things that need to be considered," he said."And I simply say that I am in favour of this happening because I also want it to happen quickly. I don't want a new mandate from everyone else, but only from the citizens through a strong vote in favour of the SPD."Scholz...
November 11, 2024

Olaf Scholz willing to hold confidence vote this year after ruling coalition collapse

Flames rise from a residential building in Russia after a drone attack from Ukraine
Moscow targeted as Ukraine and Russia barrage each other with drone attacks
KYIV — A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airports, officials reported. Meanwhile, a huge night-time wave of Russian drones targeted Ukraine.This came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a pact with North Korea on Saturday night, obliging the two countries to provide immediate military aid using “all means” if either is attacked. The agreement marks the strongest link between Moscow and Pyongyang since the end of the Cold War.Earlier this week, Ukraine reported that its troops engaged for the first time with North Korean units. US officials earlier confirmed the deployment of at least 3,000 North Korean troops to Russia, while Kyiv has...
November 11, 2024

Moscow targeted as Ukraine and Russia barrage each other with drone attacks

Emergency services remove cars in an area affected by floods in Catarroja, 3 November, 2024
Valencia government rules out resignations as anger grows over Spain flood response
VALENCIA — Authorities in Valencia have ruled out any imminent resignations from the regional government as anger continues to grow over the response to catastrophic flooding which left at least 222 people dead.Tens of thousands of people staged a protest in Valencia on Saturday night, accusing the regional government of sending out public alerts warning about the dangers of the flooding too slowly.A group of protestors, demanding the resignation of regional president Carlos Mazón, clashed with riot police in front of the city hall, where the rally started with police using batons to beat them back.The EFE news agency said at least 31 police officers were injured in the violence but gave no information about the number of civilians hurt.The region's vice-president, Susana Camarero,...
November 11, 2024

Valencia government rules out resignations as anger grows over Spain flood response

Detained pro-Palestinian demonstrators wait to be bused away following a pro-Israeli commemoration marking the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, in Amsterdam
Israel deploys rescue planes to Amsterdam after violent attacks on football fans
AMSTERDAM — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has deployed two planes to Amsterdam to rescue Israeli citizens after what he and Dutch officials described as "antisemitic" attacks broke out following a football game.Dutch police said that five people were hospitalized and 62 were arrested after rioters attacked Israeli football supporters both before and after the game.The fans were in Amsterdam to watch a Europa League match between Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch team Ajax.Antisemitic rioters “actively sought out Israeli supporters to attack and assault them” after a soccer match, Amsterdam authorities said.Fans were reportedly assaulted in different locations in the Dutch capital before the game started. Several additional attacks begun after Israli...
November 08, 2024

Israel deploys rescue planes to Amsterdam after violent attacks on football fans

Arseny Turbin is one of several children to face politically motivated criminal charges in Russia
Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal
MOSCOW — One of Russia's youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence.Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023.Authorities accused him of joining the Freedom of Russia Legion — a paramilitary unit composed of Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine against the Russian army.The Freedom of Russia Legion is designated as a terrorist organization by Russia, and Arseny was sentenced to five years in a juvenile colony. On Thursday, the court of appeal reduced his five-year term — but only by 24 days.Arseny is one of nine minors who have faced politically motivated criminal charges since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent crackdown on civil liberties, according to Russian human rights...
November 08, 2024

Russian anti-war teenager faces five years in jail after failed appeal

Moldova’s President Maia Sandu has been re-elected for a second term of office
Moldova cleans up its act to attract foreign businesses
CHISINAU — The Eastern European country of Moldova is continuing efforts to attract overseas firms, as it tries to move past political uncertainty."I went with a backpack, and set up a business," says Dutch entrepreneur Luc Vocks, recalling how he moved to Moldova in 2007.Vocks had first visited the former Soviet republic three years earlier, and recalls experiencing "the cliché that one would have of Eastern Europe at that time"."Everything was dirt cheap, and if you were a foreigner you'd get attention," he says.Today, Vocks is the owner of a Moldovan company called DevelopmentAid. Based in the capital Chisinau, it employs 180 people in the country, and runs a website that lists job vacancies in the international development community.Vocks is one of...
November 07, 2024

Moldova cleans up its act to attract foreign businesses

Finance Minister Christian Lindner (L) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz had reportedly been at loggerheads in recent weeks
German coalition collapses after Scholz fires key minister
BERLIN — Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who heads the pro-business Free Democrats and has been part of the coalition along with Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens.The crisis inside the coalition plunged Europe's largest economy into political chaos, hours after Donald Trump's US election victory triggered deep uncertainty about the future of the continent's economy and security.The so-called "traffic-light" coalition has governed Germany since 2021.The coalition collapse means Scholz's government no longer has a majority in parliament....
November 07, 2024

German coalition collapses after Scholz fires key minister

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky estimates that some 11,000 North Korean troops are in Russia's Kursk border region
Ukraine says it fought North Korean troops for first time
KYIV — North Korean soldiers have clashed with Ukrainian troops for the first time, Ukraine's top officials have revealed.In an interview with South Korean broadcaster KBS, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said a "small group" of North Korean soldiers were attacked.Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who had earlier condemned the West's lack of response to the North Korean troops, said these "first battles with North Korea open a new chapter of instability in the world".Seoul, however, said it "does not believe [troops on both sides] engaged in direct combat", but that there was an "incident" involving a small number of North Korean soldiers "near the frontline".Ukraine says an estimated 11,000 North Korean soldiers were in...
November 06, 2024

Ukraine says it fought North Korean troops for first time

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