November2023

The government of Somalia announced on Thursday that about two million people had been affected by the disastrous floods that had claimed close to 100 lives. Like other nations in the Horn of Africa, Somalia is...

According to a government announcement on Thursday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will present a plan to boost Brazil’s accessible agricultural lands by 60% without causing deforestation at the UN’s upcoming COP28 climate summit. A...

According to official data released on Thursday, net migration to the UK reached a record high of 745,000 in 2022, increasing pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has pledged to cut back on immigration. One...

The Lebanese organization stated on Thursday that Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian had a meeting with Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, which has been exchanging lethal cross-border gunfire with Israel since the beginning of the...

The Israel-Hamas conflict entered a four-day ceasefire on Friday, marking the first significant lull in fighting that has resulted in thousands of deaths. Hostages are expected to be freed in return for prisoners. After Hamas launched...

The White House reported that US President Joe Biden held private discussions with the leaders of Egypt, Israel, and Qatar on Wednesday. These were the first to be made public since Israel and Hamas announced a...

Oscar-winning US actor Jamie Foxx has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2015, according to a New York court filing Wednesday. In the document the plaintiff, identified only as Jane Doe, alleges Foxx “intentionally...

In patriarchal 1960s Japan, Tomoko Horino’s neighbors teased her when she first started working, but at 100 years old, the world’s oldest beauty advisor is now laughing. “It was a time when married women stayed home...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a financial agreement recently with the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) to enhance locally appropriate and socio-economically beneficial adaptation and promote climate-resilient crop value...

On Wednesday, Icelandic authorities announced that if a volcanic explosion threatened the evacuated town of Grindavik, they were thinking of spraying water over any lava that erupted. On the southern Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland, there is...