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UN agency warns of looming global water crisis
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialised agency of the United Nations (UN), has warned that climate change increases the global risk...
6.0-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Iwate
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on Wednesday struck off Japan's Iwate Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
Won't allow Sri Lanka to be used to inflict threat on India's...
The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, assured India on Tuesday that he will not allow Sri Lanka to be used to inflict any threat on India's...
Education must be treated as an essential
Disruptions to education resulting from COVID-19, violent conflict, and climate change are leaving crisis-affected girls and boys ever-further behind....
China brings business down to its knees
Chinese tech companies are reeling from regulation. Nervous creditors are hoping for a bailout for China’s largest developer.
Did death cheat Stephen Hawking of a Nobel Prize?
When the iconic physicist died March 14, 2018, data was already in hand that could confirm an ominous and far-reaching prediction he had made more...
FB blames faulty configuration change for outage
Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from...
Macron meets Blinken for first talks after submarine row
French President Emmanuel Macron held talks here with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, three weeks after an unprecedented...
