Published by Reuters By Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – New Delhi residents woke up on Friday under a blanket of smog darkening the city, the most dangerous air pollution of the year after Diwali revellers defied – as usual – a fireworks ban during India’s annual Hindu festival of lights. New […]
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Published by AFP Glasgow (AFP) – Queen Elizabeth II on Monday called on world leaders to act together to tackle climate change at the end of the first day of the COP26 summit in Glasgow. In a video message sent to the conference, she added her voice to a succession of world leaders stressing the
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Published by Reuters By Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Favourable weather conditions led to a rare drop in pollution in India’s capital New Delhi, with residents last month breathing the cleanest air in at least four years but the authorities are warning that air quality is set to drop sharply in
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Published by Reuters By Elizabeth Piper and William James GLASGOW (Reuters) – A crucial U.N. conference https://www.reuters.com/business/cop heard calls on its first day for the world’s major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Indonesia, hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, became the first country to approve the new vaccine for Covid-19 created by US-based Novavax, the company announced Monday. The approval will give Indonesia, which has strained to obtain adequate supplies of coronavirus vaccine for its 270 million people, first access to the
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – As Joe Biden sought to project US leadership on the world stage at a climate summit in Scotland on Monday, he was banking his legacy at home on crucial votes on his domestic agenda and a state election seen as an early referendum on his presidency. Biden met global
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Published by Al-Araby Late on Tuesday, Israeli forces raided two houses belonging to the family of Yaqoub Qadri, one of the six detainees who had escaped from the IsraeliGilboa prison early in September and have since been recaptured. Israeli forces poured into the West Bank town of Bir Al Basha, near the city of Jenin,
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Published by Reuters By Yimou Lee TAIPEI (Reuters) -The top U.S. representative in Taiwan, Sandra Oudkirk, said on Friday that the United States is committed to helping Taiwan defend itself amid heightened tensions between Taipei and Beijing. Speaking to reporters at her first news conference since assuming her post in July, she described U.S. relations
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Newscraving Desk: Srinagar, The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Srinagar is seeking to start joint courses with French educational institutions. A beginning was made towards that effort as a French delegation on Friday met with faculty members and officials of he NIFT Srinagar. The meeting explored possible cooperation between the NIFT Srinagar and the higher
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Angelina Jolie lets her kids raid her closet. The ‘Eternals’ actress says that her six children – Maddox, 20, Pax, 17, Sahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13 – can take whatever they want from her wardrobe. The 46-year-old star told E! News ‘Daily Pop’: “Oh my
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