Opening the Indonesia Net-Zero Summit (INZS) 2026 at Balai Kartini in Jakarta on Saturday (Aug 1), Dino Patti Djalal, Chairman and Founder of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), said that climate change has become "the greatest blind spot in world affairs" today.
A total of 225 people on the vessel were rescued, said the regional Surabaya Search and Rescue Agency, which provided the latest figures in an afternoon update.
The vessel with at least 250 people on board caught fire off Madura island.
He was killed, along with nine team members, in a powerful avalanche in northern Pakistan.
"The ground rescue team has reached Nims Dai (Purja) at approximately 5,700m on Broad Peak - a mountain he loved, and a mountain that has now taken him from us," said the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
COLOMBO, Aug 2 - Sri Lanka tightened security across its prisons on Sunday after a riot left one person dead and six injured, an official said, as the nation struggles to manage its overcrowded jails.
The vessel was sailing from Surabaya to Makassar in South Sulawesi when the fire was reported.
The group, which included ten foreigners, were arrested for allegedly operating a drug trafficking network that injected narcotic-laced e-liquid into e-cigarette pods and later sold them to customers.
Inmates destroyed multiple buildings inside Mahara Prison, just outside the capital Colombo, police said.
This latest death was what officials and experts had worried about amid high temperatures.
Her death could be the first disaster-related fatality following the magnitude 7.1 quake on July 28.
McDonald’s Korea also said it was investigating the source of the reported particles.
Barisan Nasional and Perikatan Nasional secured a majority of the seats in the Negri Sembilan state polls.
Four Singaporeans, four Malaysians and two Taiwanese were among the 65 people arrested.
Much of the country has been placed under heat warnings, with many cities seeing temperatures climb into the high 30s.
The temperature in Yangsan reached 42.5 deg C at 1.26pm.
The 67-year-old was sworn in before state ruler Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir at Istana Besar Seri Menanti on Sunday (Aug 2), Malaysian media reports said.
Flash floods in Gansu province in China's north-west last week killed 25 people.
Hotels and Airbnb hosts will face penalties for price gouging and unjustified cancellations.
The loss will have lasting consequences for the country’s adventure tourism sector.
One provider has seen its workforce roughly double over the past decade.
The city now accounts for more than a third of China’s total motorbike production.
Western anxiety over a potential breakthrough in Chinese chipmaking gear may be rising, but home-grown machines are not the greatest threat facing industry leader ASML, according to analysts.
The new shells incorporating water-soluble resin can dissolve in as little as one day.
The results highlight strong anti-nuclear sentiment as debate grows over revising the principles.
He visited sites linked to the deaths of two Russian siblings and three members of a Thai family.
As United States President Donald Trump seeks control of Greenland, the island’s growing Southeast Asian migrant community faces uncertainty. In part one of this series, CNA looks at how Filipino and Thai migrants are responding.
Digital credit may be reshaping how young Indians spend, save and borrow, even as rising costs, social media and financial illiteracy also push more of them into debt and leave the country facing a growing challenge, CNA’s Insight finds.
Beijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectors, says Gillian Tett for the Financial Times.
As Europe faces its worst wildfires in decades, Australia offers lessons in disaster preparedness.
Property price drops are happening in both large and small cities.
The feisty paediatrician campaigned against sugary drinks marketed as oral hydration solutions.
Aug 1 - The Justice Department has subpoenaed the records of a freelance journalist for the New York Times as part of a probe into the sourcing of a 2025 story about a botched U.S. military operation in North Korea, the newspaper said on Saturday.
Purja was killed alongside nine other climbers after they were caught in an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak.
It comes about a month after clashes at another overcrowded jail killed 10 guards and 21 inmates.
Pakatan Harapan heavyweights such as Transport Minister Anthony Loke and caretaker chief minister Aminuddin Harun both lost their state assembly seats.
The defeat hands momentum to a Malay unity pact between BN and PN.
Nirmal Purja set a record for the fastest ascent of the world's 14 highest mountains and became widely known after a Netflix documentary chronicling his journey was released.
The renowned climber was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
