Development

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid tribute to Colombia’s peace deal efforts on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the historic agreement that ended almost six decades of devastating conflict. Guterres, who landed in the South...

Once a desolate landscape, the Simiri plateau in Niger is now a small paradise for fauna and flora. Goats crunch acacia seeds, squirrel and partridge prints dot the ground, praying mantises to hang from trees and...

The United Nations (UN) has indicated an interest in collaborating with the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) to improve the industry’s working conditions. According to a news release, Tuomo Poutiainen, Country Director...

In nine separate operations, Tunisian authorities said they had detained more than 200 migrants attempting to reach the Italian coast. “Units from the northern, southern, and central areas managed to stop nine (sea crossing) attempts overnight...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today issued a directive to the appropriate officials to return development efforts to normalcy, as they were before the fatal Covid-19 outbreak. At a normal Cabinet meeting held at the Bangladesh Secretariat,...

As eye-stinging haze blanketed the Indian capital for the fifth day in a row, New Delhi promised “game-changing” actions to clean up its bad air, including intense water sprinkling and a crackdown on garbage burning. Every...

Leaders may be headed into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the life-or-death goal of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but scientists aren’t worried about exceeding that limit. The genuine doomsday scenario starts...

Former US President Barack Obama backed calls for increased aid from those on the front lines of global warming on Monday, as poor and developed countries engage in talks to break years of gridlock over funding...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Kingdom government and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) launched the Community Resilience Partnership Program today at COP26 (CRPP). By scaling up climate adaptation initiatives in Asia and the Pacific,...

President Joe Biden said Monday at a global climate meeting that “we only have a small window before us” to reduce emissions from the burning of oil, gas, and coal, which he described as a “existential...