Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday that an independent committee will investigate the cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades, after authorities found substandard building materials had accelerated the blaze, which killed 151 people last week. The fire engulfed seven residential towers under construction on the northern fringes of Hong Kong, displacing thousands of people […]
Read MoreThe deadly flooding that has killed hundreds in Indonesia was largely the result of monsoon rains and a rare tropical storm. But something else may have played a role: deforestation. Environmentalists, experts and even Indonesia’s government have pointed to the role forest loss played in flash flooding and landslides that washed torrents of mud into […]
Read MoreTrotz des Widerstands junger Unionsabgeordneter hat sich der CDU-Politiker Steffen Bilger optimistisch gezeigt, dass das Rentenpaket der Bundesregierung in dieser Woche vom Bundestag verabschiedet wird. “Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass wir am Ende die Mehrheit hinbekommen werden”, sagte der Unions-Parlamentsgeschäftsführer am Dienstag im ARD-“Morgenmagazin”. Die Abstimmung finde “voraussichtlich am Freitag im Bundestag” statt. Bilger betonte, dass […]
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Der Sondergesandte von US-Präsident Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, trifft am Dienstag in Moskau den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin zu Gesprächen über den Vorschlag der US-Regierung zur Beendigung des Krieges in der Ukraine. Trumps Regierung zeigte sich nach Angaben von Sprecherin Karoline Leavitt im Vorfeld “sehr optimistisch”. Russland erklärte derweil, die strategisch wichtige Stadt Pokrowsk im […]
Read MoreThousands of Lebanese faithful were making their way to Beirut’s waterfront ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s mass on Tuesday morning, the highlight of the Catholic leader’s visit to the capital expected to draw huge crowds. Before the service the pope was to pray at the site of a catastrophic port explosion on the final day […]
Read MoreGovernments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed over 1,200 people in four countries. Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week dumped heavy rain across Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern […]
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India has ordered smartphone makers to pre-install a government-run cyber security app that cannot be removed, a move that has raised concerns about users’ privacy. The country has a massive 1.16 billion mobile phone users, according to government data from 2024, and authorities say the app will better protect them from fraud. Late on Monday, […]
Read MoreWhen Jacky Lee first heard about a raging fire at the Hong Kong housing estate where she lived, she rushed back to save Jason, her 15-year-old grey poodle still at home, fearing she would never see him again. Lee arrived to find Wang Fuk Court complex engulfed in what would become the Chinese city’s deadliest […]
Read MoreA US election once written off as a routine Republican win has turned into an unexpected test of president Donald Trump’s political strength — and a warning flare for a party already nervous about its paper-thin majority in Congress. Trump isn’t on Tuesday’s ballot for the House of Representatives seat in Tennessee’s 7th District — […]
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