Global leaders offered competing visions on how to tackle climate change at UN-led talks yesterday as a new report warned that the world must reach carbon neutrality much sooner than planned.

The Israeli military yesterday struck the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut for a second consecutive day yesterday, after pounding the area with airstrikes on Tuesday. Smoke rose over Beirut.

Blasts boomed across Kyiv yesterday morning after officials said Russia launched its first missile attack on the Ukrainian capital since August, forcing elderly women and small children to take shelter in an underground metro station.

Air pollution in India’s national capital increased to ‘severe’ on an official index yesterday for the first time this season as temperatures and wind speeds dropped, reducing visibility and affecting some flights.

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan yesterday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the sixth public execution since their return to power.

British news publisher the Guardian said yesterday it will no longer post to X, citing “disturbing content” on the social media platform, including racism and conspiracy theories.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that atomic power should also be allowed to tap into climate change funds.

India’s Supreme Court (SC) yesterday strongly criticised states which were demolishing properties of suspected criminals, a practise critics say targets mostly minority Muslims, and issued guidelines to authorities.

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Planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas and coal rose to a new record high this year, according to preliminary research from an international network of scientists at the Global Carbon Project.

Biden and Trump have sharply criticized each other for years, and their respective teams hold vastly different positions on policies from climate change to Russia to trade

A group of lenders, including the World Bank, announced a joint goal on Tuesday of increasing this finance to $120 billion by 2030, a roughly 60% increase on the amount in 2023.

Landing a new accord to boost money for climate action in developing countries is the top priority of negotiators at the UN COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.

"There were 25 people on the bus and so far 14 dead bodies have been recovered while 10 are still missing," said Wazir Asad Ali, a rescue official in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Australia's Jetstar, Qantas and Virgin Australia all grounded flights after Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores island spewed a nine-kilometre (5.6-mile) tower a day earlier.

Ratcliffe served as the nation's top spy from late May 2020 until Trump left office in January 2021.

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It is the 49-year-old Harvey's fifth novel, winning 15 years after her debut book "The Wilderness" was longlisted for the prize.

His case illustrates the severity of the crackdown on dissent -- both real and imagined -- in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.

The Global Carbon Budget report, published during the U.N.'s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, said global CO2 emissions are set to total 41.6 billion metric tons in 2024, up from 40.6 billion tons last year.