It’s becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years. A major study says by 2025 there’s a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level. That’s the lower of t...
Hong Kong has passed a controversial electoral reform law, aimed at keeping people China deems “unpatriotic” from positions of political power. The reform will allow a pro-China panel to vet and elect candidates, reducing democratic representation. ...
The president of Belarus has said his critics are "strangling" his country and waging "hybrid warfare". Alexander Lukashenko told parliament common sense had been abandoned and "many red lines" crossed as Western countries imposed sanctions on Belar...
US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to investigate the emergence of Covid-19, amid growing controversy about the virus's origins. In a statement, Mr Biden asked US intelligence groups to "redouble their efforts" and report to hi...
Joe Biden made a satement about Belarus situation: "Belarus’s forced diversion of a commercial Ryanair flight, traveling between two member states of the European Union, and subsequent removal and arrest of Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalis...
India has recorded 26 million Covid-19 cases – second only to the US. It is the new epicentre of the global pandemic. The second wave in recent weeks has overwhelmed the healthcare system, leaving hospitals struggling to cope and critical drugs and ...
More than a million people in India have been evacuated as a powerful cyclone has started making landfall on its eastern coast on Wednesday. Cyclone Yaas, which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm", hit the state of Orissa, also known...
A presidential election is taking place in government-held parts of Syria, with Bashar al-Assad seen as certain to win a fourth seven-year term. Mr Assad is facing two little-known challengers, Abdullah Salloum Abdullah and Mahmoud Ahmed Mari. The ...
A court in the Netherlands has ruled in a landmark case that the oil giant Shell must reduce its emissions. Dutch media reported that this was the first time an oil company had been held liable for climate change. Environmental group Friends of th...
Joe Biden said last month that he would be meeting face to face with Russian President Vladimir Putin at some point soon. Now we have a date – and a location. The first US-Russia summit of the Biden presidency will take place in Geneva, Switzerland,...
