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Tuvalu Minister Simon Kofe gives a COP26 statement while standing in the ocean in Funafuti, Tuvalu.

Tuvalu minister stands in sea to film COP26 speech

Reuters :Tuvalu’s foreign minister has given a speech to the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to show how his low-lying Pacific island nation is on the front line of...

9 dead in Sri Lanka floods

AFP :Nine people are dead and two others missing after floods in Sri Lanka and parts of southern India caused by more than a week of pounding rains.Nearly half of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts...

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment carry a patient on a stretcher, as she arrives on an ambulance at the coronavirus ward of the Ippokrateio General Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Global Covid-19 cases hit 250 million

Reuters :Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 250 million on Monday as some countries in eastern Europe experience record outbreaks, even as the Delta variant surge eases and many countries resume trade and tourism.The daily average...

Tens of thousands of protesters braved rain and wind in Glasgow recently.

Protesters demand climate action in global rally

BSS :Tens of thousands of protesters braved rain and wind in Glasgow Saturday as part of worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a failure of crunch UN climate talks to act fast enough...

Libya FM suspended

BSS :Libya’s presidential council suspended Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush from her duties Saturday days before an international conference is to make a new push to restore stability to the war-battered nation.The council opened an...

8 killed after US music festival crush

AP :At least eight people died and several were injured in a crush at the Astroworld music festival in the southern US state of Texas on Friday night, authorities said. Houston fire chief Samuel...