Tory party’s Plan B to sway the electorate involves attacking Labour’s spending plans
The panel inspected the Kuruchikuppam drain and beach and collected water samples; the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee’s preliminary tests found that phenomenon was due to algal bloom
Switzerland’s capital is examining a pilot scheme to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use – a radical approach to the war on drugs that is not thought to have been tried elsewhere. Parliament in Bern has supported the idea, which still needs to overcome opposition from the city...
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Google Play Store for Android smartphones has been updated with a new feature that allows you to uninstall applications on one device from another smartphone. With the latest Play Store version, the...
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The drugs could've fetched the criminals up to $72 million if sold on the streets, the FSB has said
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the seizure of a major shipment of cocaine, with an estimated value of $72 million
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PHIL CLARKE is set to leave Sky Sports with immediate effect. The former Wigan Warriors forward has been a stalwart of Sky’s rugby league coverage...
Three thieves targeted an address in Harrow, northwest London, and drove off in the Mercedes GLC sedan after exploiting modern technology that pretends to be a car key
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Geneva (AFP) Dec 18, 2023
Researchers have for the first time simulated all stages of a runaway greenhouse effect, finding that it could turn our green planet into uninhabitable "hell" in coming centuries, they said on Monday.
The Earth would only have to heat up by a few dozen degrees to spur runaway warming, making it as inhospitable as Venus, a planet whose average surface temperature is around 464 degrees Celsius
Panama City (AFP) Dec 19, 2023
The Panama Canal delivered $2.5 billion to the national treasury for last year's operations, the government said Monday, despite record-low water levels that limited ship transits.
About six percent of global maritime trade passes through the canal each year, and the Panama Canal Authority earns money from tolls and services rendered to ships.
This year's contributions are the highest a
Lima (AFP) Dec 18, 2023
An indigenous leader fighting against deforestation of the Amazon was killed in the jungle in eastern Peru, advocacy groups said Monday.
The Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest said Benjamin Flores Rios, leader of the Kakataibo Indigenous community, was killed in the early hours of Monday at his home in the Ucayali region.
The group said that a week ago
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 19, 2023
A second-hand pop-up store in Tokyo by casual clothing giant Uniqlo was a first for the Japanese firm, but also a sign that a local aversion to used garments may finally be fading.
Uniqlo is a major player in an industry blamed for immense carbon emissions and other pollutants like microplastics.
It has ridden a wave of consumers buying, and throwing away, ever more clothes.
But in J
Rome (AFP) Dec 19, 2023
Italy is sending a frigate to the Red Sea as part of international efforts to help safeguard ships against Huthi missile and drone attacks, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
The Virgilio Fasan will head towards the region in the "next few hours", it said in a statement.
The United States on Monday announced a 10-nation coalition to quell the attacks, which have imperilled a transit rout
Paris (AFP) Dec 19, 2023
French start-up Aura Aero announced Tuesday that US regional airline JSX has signed a letter of intent to purchase 50 of its hybrid-electric planes.
The deal, which includes an option for a further 100 aircraft, takes to nearly 500 the number of the 19-seater Electric Regional Aircraft (ERA).
The aircraft, which sports eight propellors and can take off on battery power, aims to deliver a
Berlin (AFP) Dec 18, 2023
More than half the electricity consumed in Germany in 2023 will have been generated from renewables for the first time, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) said on Monday.
According to preliminary figures, Germans will consume a total of around 517 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity this year, compared with 540 billion kWh in 2022.
Some 52 percent of tha
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 17, 2023
Southeast Asian and Japanese leaders agreed on Sunday to boost maritime security cooperation in the face of Beijing's growing assertiveness, seen most recently in a spate of confrontations with Philippine vessels.
Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, a vital trade corridor, and its increased deployment of vessels and other methods to assert its claims in disputed areas have rile
Paris (AFP) Dec 15, 2023
Two weeks of relentless negotiating at COP28 failed to produce an agreement on carbon credit sales, relieving non-profits that had opposed the proposals on the table while stoking fears the regulatory void could escalate greenwashing.
Just after COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber announced on Wednesday the historic deal to transition away from fossil fuels, he revealed the talks had failed t
Brussels (AFP) Dec 19, 2023
France stood up for nuclear power as part of the EU's low-carbon energy mix on Tuesday, raising the hackles of anti-nuclear Germany.
"We rather believe that this is an expensive experiment," Germany's minister for economic affairs and climate action, Sven Giegold, said as he arrived for a Brussels meeting of EU energy and transport ministers.
On Tuesday, France signed a nuclear cooperati
