By Gloria Dickie DUBAI(Reuters) – Heat stress. Lung damage from wildfire smoke. The spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes into new regions as temperatures rise. These are just a few of the ways that public health has been impacted and compounded by climate change – a focus for the first time ever at the annual U.N. climate …
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a bus near the town of Chilas in northern Pakistan on Saturday, killing eight passengers and injuring at least 15, district and regional officials said. Muhammad Ali Johar, a spokesman for the regional government, said militants had opened fire on the bus on Saturday evening and the wounded had …
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By Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) -Evacuations were under way in the Philippines after a quake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck the southern region of Mindanao on Saturday night, triggering tsunami warnings in the country and in Japan, though a U.S. agency said the risk of large waves had passed. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System, …
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By Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Saturday it would consider any interference with its satellite operations a declaration of war and would mobilise its war deterrence if any attack against its strategic assets were imminent. Pyongyang would respond to any U.S. interference in space by eliminating the viability of U.S. spy satellites, …
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TOKYO(Reuters) – A tsunami alert has been issued for western Japan’s Pacific coast following a major earthquake in the Philippines, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Saturday. The tsunami, which is estimated to be 1 metre high, will likely reach Japan as early as 1:30 a.m. on Sunday (1630 GMT on Saturday), public broadcaster NHK …
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(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near Kepulauan Babar region in Indonesia on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 138 km (85.75 miles), EMSC said. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru)
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – One of ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyers was elected on Saturday as chairman of his party, allowing it to take part in a national vote scheduled for February as the former cricketer is in jail and barred from taking part. Barrister Gohar Ali Khan had been nominated by Khan …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – World leaders addressed the COP28 summit on Saturday, where their countries’ delegations are assessing progress towards meeting global climate goals. Here are the latest comments: GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ “For us it is important that this fund benefits the most vulnerable countries and that as many of us support this fund as …
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -China’s surge in respiratory illness is caused by known pathogens and there is no sign of new infectious diseases, a health official said on Saturday as the country faces its first full winter since lifting strict COVID-19 restrictions. The spike in illness in the country where COVID emerged in late 2019 attracted …
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MANILLE, 2 décembre (Reuters) -Les Philippines et la France vont renforcer leur coopération en matière de défense, a déclaré samedi le ministre philippin de la Défense, Gilberto Teodoro, après une rencontre à Manille avec son homologue français, Sébastien Lecornu. “Nous avons l’intention de prendre des mesures concrètes pour améliorer et rendre plus complète notre coopération …
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