ISTANBUL (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the 79th UN General Assembly in New York to discuss bilateral relations and global issues. According to the US State Department, both diplomats stressed the importance of keeping communication channels open between the two nations amid o...
The United States has pledged $202 million to support Bangladesh. The grant aims to promote good governance, social and economic opportunities, and strengthen Bangladesh’s resilience against climate challenges. Led by Assistant Treasury Secretary Brent Neiman, a US team met with President Muhammad Yunus in the capital Dhaka. This marks the f...
Beijing, China — AFP United States climate envoy John Podesta on Friday said that plans were moving forward for another summit with China on reducing emissions of methane and other highly polluting non-CO2 gases. China is the world’s leading emitter of climate change-inducing greenhouse gases, including methane, followed by the Uni...
Apia, Samoa — AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from climate-induced cyclones, ocean heatwaves and rising sea levels. On a visit to Samoa, he said the fate of the Pacific islands depended on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Nea...
Feni, Bangladesh — AFP At least 13 people in Bangladesh have been killed and 4.5 million affected by floods triggered by heavy rains, the disaster management and relief ministry has said. The South Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers, has seen frequent floods in recent decades. It is among the countries...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has invited Armenia to the 29th UN climate change conference (COP29) to be held in Baku in November. “We have the infrastructure to host approximately 40,000 guests in one day. Invitations were sent to all the heads of states in the world. More than 50 heads of states and governments […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia remains one of the world’s most serious humanitarian crises with millions of people exposed to unimaginable suffering, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day. The suffering is due to recurring and intensifying climate s...
United Nations, United States AFP Nearly half a billion children are facing twice as many days of extreme heat each year — or more — than their grandparents did, says the UN, warning of deadly consequences. As climate change continues to push up temperatures globally, one in five children — some 466 million kids — [&hel...
Washington, United States — AFP The administration of US President Joe Biden has proposed new regulations aimed at protecting laborers working in extremely high temperatures, as heat waves intensified by climate change increasingly blanket the nation. The rule would be aimed at mail carriers, delivery people, construction workers, landsc...
Baba Island, Pakistan — AFP On a densely populated island off Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi, a group of pregnant women wait in punishing heat for a midwife to arrive from the mainland. Each week Neha Mankani, the only midwife available to these women, comes by boat ambulance to Baba, an old fishing settlement and reportedly [&hell...
