In the six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015, Madagascar has had only one decent rainy season, leaving more than a million people severely hungry in the southeast African island nation.

Russia’s prison service yesterday said it had dismissed 18 officials after a whistleblower leaked videos of rape and torture inside its facilities.

When countries first signed up to the COP negotiations process more than 30 years ago, climate change was viewed as a future problem.

The UN’s food agency said yesterday the number of people on the edge of famine in 43 countries had risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world.

Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered yesterday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases.

The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released yesterday at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.

Poland accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation on Monday as video clips showed hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border and some trying to breach the fence using spades and other implements.

Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes on Saturday (Nov 6), a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.

Pompeii archaeologists yesterday said they have unearthed the remains of a “slave room” in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.

The US State Department announced Friday it would offer up to $5 million each for information that would help authorities capture and convict four Mexican drug cartel kingpins, including the brother of infamous trafficker “El Chapo.”

One of Spain’s busiest airports, Palma de Mallorca, was forced to close for nearly four hours after several passengers ran off when their plane made an emergency landing, according to airport authorities.

Ethiopia must be ready to make “sacrifices” to “salvage” the country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday, as fighting in the north intensifies between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to advance on the capital.

Several people were injured in a knife attack on an express train between the south German cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg on Saturday and a male suspect has been arrested, police said.

Portugal is in the midst of a political crisis over the proposed national budget for 2022, with early elections expected in January.

German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.

The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over abortion in one of Europe's most devoutly Catholic countries, with activists saying she could still be alive if it were not for a near total ban on terminating pregnancies.

World food prices rose for a third straight month in October to reach a fresh 10-year peak, led again by increases in cereals and vegetable oils, the UN food agency said on Thursday. 

Nine rebel groups battling Ethiopia’s government will “collaborate and join forces”, they said in a statement announcing the alliance, which comes as fears grow of Tigrayan fighters advancing on the capital. 

Hungary used the invasive Pegasus spy software, a senior ruling party official said Thursday, but insisted the government had not spied on citizens illegally. 

Coral bleaching has affected 98 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef since 1998, leaving just a fraction of the world’s largest reef system untouched, according to a study published yesterday.