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King Charles visits Bordeaux’s urban forest and winery

September 23, 2023

After pageantry and politics in Paris, Britain’s King Charles III heads south on Friday to Bordeaux to focus on a more personal passion: the environment. Charles will meet emergency workers and communities affected by wildfires in the Bordeaux region last year, and visit an experimental forest designed to monitor the...

Brazil firefighters combat late-winter wildfires

September 23, 2023

Firefighters were battling flames in Brazil’s northeastern Bahia state, fanned by strong winds and abnormally high temperatures for the season, authorities said. While it is still technically winter in Brazil, with spring due to start in a couple of days, a heat wave prompting record temperatures has swept across much...

Invasive aliens threaten Earth’s ecosystems severely

September 23, 2023

Climate change has profoundly impacted ecosystems globally, but invasive alien species are another dire threat. The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment Report ranked them among the top drivers of biodiversity loss, alongside climate change, land/seascape changes, species exploitation, and pollution. IPBES, established in 2012 with 144 member nations, aims to bridge...

Accountability Court reopens 80 corruption cases in Islamabad

September 23, 2023

At least 80 high-profile corruption cases, including those against former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif and ex-president Asif Ali Zardari, would be revived following a recent landmark ruling by the Supreme Court, according to a media report on Friday. These are among the hundreds of cases closed as...

Asian Games set stage for Syria-China strategic partnership announcement

September 23, 2023

China and Syria announced the formation of a strategic partnership on Friday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping kicked off a series of diplomatic meetings ahead of the upcoming Asian Games. Xi met Syrian President Bashar Assad in the southern Chinese city of Hangzhou, which is hosting the 15-day sports competition....

Ukraine strikes Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters with missiles

September 23, 2023

Ukraine carried out a missile strike on Friday on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, a Russian official said, and images on social media showed large plumes of smoke said to be coming from Sevastopol harbour in the annexed Crimea. The Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, didn’t offer...

Azerbaijani-Armenian talks initiated amid regional conflict

September 23, 2023

Azerbaijan regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive and held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian population on reintegrating the area into the mainly Muslim country, Azerbaijan’s top diplomat told the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov reaffirmed Azerbaijan’s determination...

G4 countries raise concerns about stagnation in UNSC reform process

September 23, 2023

The G4 countries of Brazil, Germany, Japan and India warned that the longer it takes to reform the UN Security Council, the more its effectiveness will be called into question and voiced strong concern over the persistent absence of meaningful progress in the matters in the Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN). Foreign...

Artist Sangeeta Singh honoured with Raja Ravi Varma Chitrakar Samman

September 23, 2023

In this Chitrakar Samman Sammaroh Sangeeta Singh was honoured with Chitranjali-2023 award for remarkable contribution in the field of Visual Art, for Paintings. Sangeeta Singh is recipient of several awards which include Senior Fellowship from Ministry of Culture, Government of India in 2017 and Junior Fellowship from Ministry of Culture,...

Sanjay Dutt and Tiger Shroff’s Collaboration in ‘Master Blaster

September 23, 2023

Actors Sanjay Dutt and Tiger Shroff are ready to work together in Firoz A. Nadiadwallah›s action-comedy film «Master Blaster.» The movie is currently in the advanced pre-production stage and will start filming soon. «Master Blaster» will be filmed in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China, with the action and technical...

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