With EU support, the GreenMED project is helping coastal communities and the maritime industry prepare for a cleaner, more sustainable future. In the busy ports and sea lanes of the Mediterranean, the impact of shipping on the environment is impossible to ignore. Ships burn
On 8 August, US President Donald Trump hosted a summit in Washington DC of Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilyam Aliev. The summit is the latest Trump endeavour to be viewed as a peace maker towards the goal of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Budget ‘flying visits’ come at a great cost, contributing to overtourism and the climate crisis.
A coalition of 83 leading international experts in public health, nicotine dependence, and tobacco control has sent an open letter to the President of the European Commission and European Commissioners, warning against a proposed plan to impose new taxes on less harmful
CHINIOT, Pakistan - Across the fertile plains of Pakistan's Punjab, families are struggling to rebuild their lives after the worst flooding in decades swept away homes, destroyed crops, and drowned livestock.
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KABUL (Reuters) -Hundreds were feared dead and injured in a earthquake of magnitude 6 that struck Afghanistan's rugged northeastern province of Kunar, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers combed the rubble of homes in a hunt for survivors. Early reports showed 30 dead in a
KABUL (Reuters) -Around 500 people have been killed and 1000 more injured in an earthquake that struck easternAfghanistan on Monday, the country's state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported. Taliban-led health authorities in Kabul, however, said they were
Two longtime friends will make for among Venice’s most-discussed red-carpet pairings. Sofia Coppola is the director of “Marc by Sofia,” a new A24 documentary premiering at Venice Sept. 2. Coppola was approached by producers R.J. Cutler and Jane Cha Cutler to make the film,
Paris-based Miam! Distribution has pounced on the international distribution rights to “Trash!” (“Ordures”), a live-action, stop-motion hybrid series told from the points of view of those pesky disposable items littering our planet, including used condoms, broken eyeglass
Kim Novak decided to walk away from Hollywood in 1966, at the height of her fame, because it felt like the right thing to do. The screen legend, now 92, also trusted her instincts last year when director Alexandre O. Philippe asked her to be the subject of a documentary. “I
WELLINGTON - New Zealand on Monday said it will open its housing market to wealthy foreigners who invest in local businesses, reversing a previous ban in expectation it will boost economic growth.
More than one million hectares burned in Europe in the summer of 2025. Despite the growing threat, unions warn that firefighter numbers remain 'woefully low', urging investment in staffing, prevention and civil protection.
Altered photos of women, including Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accompanied by sexist comments, have stirred outrage in the country. But it is not the first case to affect social platforms.
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Local officials warned the death toll was likely to rise after the quake struck the province on Kunar in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
Get ready for an onslaught of Italian movies on the post-Venice fall festival circuit. Seven Italian titles are set launch into North America from Toronto. Seven will be bowing into Asia from Busan. Four will screen at the New York Film festival, and six in London. The most
The day after their meeting at the 15th annual India-Japan Summit in Tokyo on August 29, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode the Shinkansen bullet train to visit Tokyo Electron’s state-of-the-art semiconductor production equipment
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Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s first European film ever, “Silent Friend,” is about to premiere in Venice. But he already wants to reunite with director Ildikó Enyedi. “I would like to work with Ildikó again, if we get a chance,” he tells Variety. Two years ago, he picked up the Golden
The researchers said their analysis is the most comprehensive yet to explore how intensive blood pressure control affects people’s health.
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The Chinese president addressed Eurasian leaders at the opening banquet of what Beijing is calling a pivotal meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, where he underlined the need for greater cooperation to address global crises and promote growth and development.
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In his keynote speech at a record-sized summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Chinese President Xi Jinping also renewed a call for multilateralism.
In 1972, US President Richard Nixon’s trip to China didn’t end the Vietnam War, but it helped offset the political fallout there and put a different turn on the ongoing Cold War. It ultimately worked, although it still took time to materialize into meaningful collaboration
By Laurie Chen and Mei Mei Chu TIANJIN (Reuters) -China will work with all parties in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to take the regional security forum to a new level, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday, unveiling his ambition for a new global security order
It is unclear if the SCO summit will pave the way for any breakthroughs in easing tensions, though Beijing has sought to cast itself as a global peacemaker.
On Sunday, President Prabowo Subianto ordered the military and police to take stern action against rioters and looters after homes of political party members and state buildings were ransacked or set ablaze.
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The Chinese leader also called on SCO’s partners to “oppose Cold War mentality and bloc confrontation”.
The Manhattan apartment building where The New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn lives was vandalized early Friday in what appeared to be a display of criticism against the paper’s coverage of the war in Gaza. “Joe Kahn Lies Gaza Dies,” read a message in blank paint
WELLINGTON - New Zealand will allow some wealthy overseas-based investors with an investor residence visa to buy or build a house as long as it is worth at least NZ$5 million ($2.94 million), Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Monday.
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The grand spectacle unfolding in Tianjin this week—with Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi flanking Xi Jinping at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit—appears to herald China’s ascendant global leadership. Western commentators are understandably alarmed, viewing
The impending ban is popular with many parents, but experts have raised concerns over privacy and age verification technology.
The digital ticketing trials will allow passengers to check in and out using a location-identifying app.
In the scorched courtyard of Sudan's National Museum in Khartoum, a towering black granite statue of Kush Pharaoh Taharqa now stands alone, surrounded by shards of broken glass and shattered stone. Since the museum was looted in the early days of Sudan's war between the army