UN chief says ‘never seen climate carnage’ like Pakistan floods

UN chief says 'never seen climate carnage' like Pakistan floods

Issued on: 10/09/2022 – 18:09 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he has “never seen climate carnage” on such a scale as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods, blaming wealthier countries for the devastation. Nearly 1,400 people have died in flooding that covers an area the size of the United Kingdom

China quake toll tops 80 as rain, flash floods hamper rescue efforts

China quake toll tops 80 as rain, flash floods hamper rescue efforts

Issued on: 08/09/2022 – 10:51Modified: 08/09/2022 – 10:54 Rain, flash floods and mudslides threatened the search for dozens of people still missing on Thursday, days after a strong earthquake rocked mountainous southwest China, killing at least 82. The magnitude 6.6 quake hit about 43 kilometres (26 miles) southeast of the city of Kangding in Sichuan

Water rising ‘a few feet per day’: Survivors recount Pakistan floods

Water rising 'a few feet per day’: Survivors recount Pakistan floods

Issued on: 05/09/2022 – 09:56 More than 1,300 people have been killed in the devastating floods that have already submerged a third of Pakistan, razing villages and displacing millions of people. The worst may be yet to come as the country’s largest freshwater lake, Manchar, threatens to overflow. FRANCE 24’s Shahzaib Wahla and Sonia Ghezali met some

Sri Lanka’s deposed leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from exile

Sri Lanka's deposed leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from exile

Issued on: 02/09/2022 – 22:53 Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to the country Friday, an airport official said, seven weeks after he fled amid the island’s worst-ever economic crisis. Rajapaksa was festooned with flowers by a welcoming party of ministers and politicians as he disembarked at the main international airport, the official

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi jailed for three more years for ‘election fraud’

Myanmar's Suu Kyi jailed for three more years for 'election fraud'

Issued on: 02/09/2022 – 19:11 A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail “with hard labour” on Friday, for electoral fraud in the 2020 polls that her party won in a landslide, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The latest sentence, handed down by the closed

Deadly blast in Afghan mosque kills prominent pro-Taliban cleric

Deadly blast in Afghan mosque kills prominent pro-Taliban cleric

Issued on: 02/09/2022 – 13:44 An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including a prominent cleric, Taliban officials and a local medic said. At least 21 people were hurt.  The blast went off in the Guzargah Mosque in the western city of Herat during Friday

Pakistan flood victims struggle to access emergency relief

Pakistan flood victims struggle to access emergency relief

Issued on: 01/09/2022 – 10:58 While international aid has begun arriving in flood-devastated Pakistan, residents of the badly affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north are struggling to access the aid. A FRANCE 24 team reporting from the Hassanabad district found women and children unable to elbow out the young and strong desperate to reach

China warns of ‘severe’ threat to harvest after hottest summer on record

China warns of 'severe' threat to harvest after hottest summer on record

Issued on: 24/08/2022 – 11:46 China’s autumn harvest is under “severe threat” from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country’s hottest summer on record. The world’s second-largest economy has been hit by record temperatures, flash floods and droughts this summer — phenomena that scientists

Lights out for Shanghai’s Bund as China heatwave sparks power cuts

Lights out for Shanghai's Bund as China heatwave sparks power cuts

Issued on: 22/08/2022 – 13:40 Shanghai will switch off decorative lights along its famed Bund riverfront for two days from Monday, city authorities said, in response to a nationwide heatwave that has sent power demands soaring. Multiple provinces have announced power cuts to cope with a surge in demand, driven partly by people cranking up

Singapore to end colonial-era ban on gay sex after years of debate

Singapore to end colonial-era ban on gay sex after years of debate

Issued on: 21/08/2022 – 15:39 Singapore will decriminalise sex between men, the prime minister said on Sunday, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the government would repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, adding that society was becoming more accepting of gay people. “I

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