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Earth’s average temperature for 2025-29 likely to exceed 1.5 deg C limit: WMO
The report also said there is a 70 per cent chance that the average...
Boeing’s agreement with US Justice Department to avoid criminal charges for 2 fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets
The tentative agreement would allow require Boeing to contribute...
Australia’s Suncorp Group sells ITS banking unit to ANZ
Australian banks are grappling with rapidly rising interest rates and falling house prices that’s spurred some investors to reevaluate lenders’ outlooks. The deal hands the lender control of one of the country’s largest retail banks that’s also based in the...
Record 40°C UK temperatures linked to climate change: WMO
The heatwave is also acting as a lid, trapping atmospheric pollutants, including particulate matter, resulting in a degradation of air quality and adverse health effects, particularly to vulnerable people, explained Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at WMO’s Global...
Rising seas are the next crisis for the world’s ports
In the coming years, sea level rise, more intense storm surge and jack-up tropical storms will visit many of the world’s nearly 3,800 ports. Most of those ports are coastal; About a third are located in tropical bands vulnerable to the most powerful effects of climate...
Foreign insurers in Malaysia given 2023 cutoff to reduce stakes in their local ventures
AIA Group Ltd., Prudential Plc, Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. and Zurich Insurance Group AG are among the international insurers with ventures in the Southeast Asian nation Overseas insurance companies were allowed to hold a maximum 70% in local firms, but it was mostly...
Britain on course for hottest day on record
Much of Europe is baking in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures into the mid-40s Celsius (over 110 Fahrenheit) in some regions, with wildfires raging across tinder-dry countryside in Portugal, Spain and France. Britain's government triggered a "national emergency"...
Ghana confirms its first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus
"(Ghanaian) health authorities have responded swiftly, getting a head start preparing for a possible outbreak. This is good because without immediate and decisive action, Marburg can easily get out of hand," said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa...
3 emergency landings of international airlines in India in last 48 hours
"We had two emergency landings of foreign operators on Saturday. Air Arabia at Cochin due to hydraulic issues and Ethiopian at Kolkata due to pressurisation issue," said an official In a third similar incident, on July 15, an aircraft of SriLankan airlines made an...
Pandemic, supply disruptions pose risk to food security; urgent actions needed says World Bank led joint statement
Citing World Food Programme data, the joint statement said the number of acute food insecure people increased to 345 million in 82 countries "Making matters worse, around 25 countries have reacted to higher food prices by adopting export restrictions affecting over 8...
Cargo plane with Serbian defence material crashes in northern Greece
Serbia's defence minister said the plane was carrying 11.5 tonnes of products made by its defense industry and the buyer was Bangladesh defense ministry. He said the crew members were killed. ATHENS: A Ukrainian cargo plane carrying munitions from Serbia to Bangladesh...
Emergence of new COVID variants a risk to global economic outlook: Moody’s
The study found the variant is four times more resistant to messenger RNA vaccines than earlier strains of Omicron, which include Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, Xinhua news agency reported Unvaccinated people have about a five times higher chance of contracting...