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Developing world faces multi-billion climate adaptation cash gap, U.N. report says
LONDON - The amount of finance provided to developing countries to help them adapt to the impacts of climate change is far short of the...
Nov 8, 20242 min read
Trump win worries international partners ahead of COP29 climate summit
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election has darkened the outlook for a strong deal at the COP29 climate...
Nov 8, 20243 min read
Mozambique police fire tear gas at biggest protest yet against ruling party
MAPUTO - Mozambican police fired tear gas at thousands of protesters in the capital Maputo on Thursday during the biggest demonstration...
Nov 8, 20242 min read
2024 will be world's hottest year on record, EU scientists say
BRUSSELS - This year is "virtually certain" to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began, the European Union's Copernicus...
Nov 8, 20242 min read
Sudan's RSF chases civilians out of villages in violent raids
NEW HALFA, Sudan - Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the...
Nov 5, 20243 min read
UK's Prince William begins climate-focused trip to South Africa
CAPE TOWN - Britain's Prince William began a four-day trip to South Africa on Monday by meeting young environmentalists and playing rugby...
Nov 5, 20242 min read
Botswana voters kick out ruling party of nearly six decades
GABORONE - Botswana's voters delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades, registering their anger...
Nov 3, 20243 min read
Mozambique counts votes amid allegations of irregularities
MAPUTO - Votes were being counted by Mozambique's national election authorities on Thursday as civil society monitors were compiling a...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Mozambique vote counting starts as ruling party eyes another win
MAPUTO, Mozambique - Vote counting started in Mozambique on Wednesday evening for an election that is widely expected to deliver another...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
78 drown after boat capsizes in Congo's Lake Kivu, provincial governor says
GOMA - At least 78 people drowned when a boat carrying 278 passengers capsized in Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on...
Oct 5, 20242 min read
WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
The World Health Organization authorized Abbott Laboratories' mpox diagnostic test for emergency use on Thursday, the first such approval...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase
LONDON/PORT LOUIS - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the...
Oct 4, 20243 min read
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