North Korea on Monday fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast, Seoul’s military said, after weeks of mounting friction over a landmine explosion along their heavily fortified border. Since the blast that injured three South Korean soldiers in the Seoul-controlled area of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), both countries have touted the test-firing of upgraded […]
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An intensifying El Nino broke a temperature record in a key zone of the Pacific in September, the EU’s climate monitor said Monday, in another sign the weather pattern is gaining exceptional strength. Global forecasters have been warning for months that this El Nino would likely become the strongest ever observed and the latest record […]
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A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, a day after another deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced authorities to suspend operations there. Saturday’s attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, was a sharp escalation in the Yemen war, where […]
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New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail, long criticized for unsanitary and violent conditions, will miss a deadline for the vast complex to close down, prompting disappointment from activists. The jail, which opened in 1932 and has counted John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman, rapper Tupac Shakur, and Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious among its residents, […]
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NATO’s top military commander is expected to deliver a warning to Russia on Monday over the alliance’s ability to counter any attack, as worries grow over the threat from Moscow. NATO officials have said US General Alexus Grynkewich — the alliance’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe — will elaborate his “theory of victory” over any potential […]
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Nations are steeling for a disappointing report card at this month’s UN biodiversity summit, with governments falling short on their commitments to protect the plants, animals and ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. The so-called COP17 summit in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, will be a reckoning for the nearly 200 nations that joined the landmark […]
Read MoreWar, economic pressure, budget strain — United Nations biodiversity chief Astrid Schomaker is under no illusions that the upcoming UN nature summit (COP17) is taking place “in some kind of geopolitical vacuum”.”I don’t want to be naive,” said Schomaker of the headwinds surrounding the biennial negotiations on protecting the natural world that start on October […]
Read MoreEin Delfin ist nach seiner Verlegung aus einem geschlossenen Freizeitpark in Frankreich in einem Zoo in Spanien verendet. Der 29 Jahre alte Rocky sei am Samstagabend im Zoo Selwo Marina in der Nähe von Málaga gestorben, erklärte der Freizeitpark Marineland Antibes, in dem Rocky zuvor gehalten worden war. Zuvor waren in Spanien bereits ein Delfin […]
Read MoreBei einem Angriff am Sonntag auf den internationalen Flughafen der saudiarabischen Hauptstadt Riad ist ein Mensch getötet worden. Elf weitere Menschen seien verletzt worden, erklärte die saudiarabische Luftfahrtbehörde im Onlinedienst X. Bei dem Getöteten handele es sich um einen Pakistaner. Das Ausmaß der Sachschäden werde noch ermittelt. Die von Saudi-Arabien angeführte Militärkoalition gegen die jemenitische […]
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