The UN’s climate chief Simon Stiell urged countries at the COP28 meeting on Monday to lift “unnecessary tactical blockades”, with 24 hours before the official… Read More »UN calls for end of ‘tactical blockades’ to reach COP28 deal on fossil fuels
The United Nations said Monday that it needed $46.4 billion next year to bring life-saving help to around 180 million people in desperate circumstances around… Read More »The United Nations needs $46.4 billion for aid in ‘bleak’ 2024
Israel bombed southern Gaza’s main city on Monday after Hamas warned no Israeli hostages would leave the territory alive unless its demands for prisoner releases… Read More »🔴 Live: Israel bombs south Gaza after Hamas hostage threat
The BBC visits the Central African Republic to see why Russian Wagner forces are so popular there.
French artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI announced Sunday it had raised 385 million euros ($414 million), becoming one of Europe’s two AI leaders.
Donald Trump changed his mind about testifying in his own defense in his New York fraud case on Monday, he said, announcing that he will… Read More »Trump has ‘nothing more to say’ as he cancels plan to testify in NY fraud trial
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to Washington Tuesday to meet President Joe Biden and plead his case before Republicans balking at sending more money for… Read More »Ukraine’s Zelensky to meet Biden, Republicans as war funding dries up
Seven others including three charity staff were injured in what the Red Cross has called a “deliberate attack”.
West African leaders on Sunday kept sanctions imposed on Niger after a July military coup and said they would need to see progress towards a… Read More »West African leaders set conditions for lifting Niger sanctions imposed after July coup
The Kremlin appears to be preparing for a long, drawn-out war in Ukraine by boosting defence spending by 70 percent next year, a move that… Read More »War in Ukraine boosts depressed Russian regions amid defence sector boom
