The destruction of global forests increased in 2023, and is higher than when 140 countries promised three years ago to halt deforestation by the end of the decade, an analysis shows.

The rising demolition of the forests puts ambitions to halt the climate crisis and stem the huge worldwide losses of wildlife even further from reach, the researchers warn.

Its military said the North would “permanently shut off and block the southern border” and fortify areas on its side.

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"Have you got Tourette's or something? You know, you just sit there, babble, babble, babble," he said, responding to the interruptions.

During a video address directed at the people of Lebanon, Netanyahu said: "You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.

A documentary about the Trump administration's family separation policy will not air before Election Day because MSNBC is concerned about offending the Republican presidential nominee, according to new reports.

Hassan Hamad, 19, whose work appeared on Al Jazeera and other outlets, was killed Sunday in an Israeli drone strike on his home in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, The Palestine Chroniclereported. The bombing followed multiple text messages warning Hamad to stop recording images of Israel's assault on Gaza, which has killed or injured nearly 150,000 Palestinians and for which the close U.S. ally is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice.

• Milton expected to grow in size before landfall, affecting hundreds of miles of coastline
• Evacuations ordered for over 1 million people in Florida's west-coast counties
• Unusual path and rapid intensification raise concerns for storm-surge impact
• Huge storm comes less than two weeks after devastating Helene-

President Michael D Higgins said it is "outrageous" that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has "threatened" UNIFIL peacekeepers and attempted to have them evacuated from the villages they are defending in Lebanon.

Arcos' death comes just three days after the new city government's secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot to death.

"They were young and honest officials who sought progress for their community," Senator Alejandro Moreno wrote on social media.

China is increasingly becoming the target of militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan who despise foreign efforts to undermine their influence in the region, security experts say

Part of Vladimir Putin's summer residence has been demolished with the Russian leader seemingly increasingly reluctant to visit the property on the Black Sea because of the dangers posed by Ukrainian drone attacks

The IDF is calling on Lebanese civilians in 25 villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate immediately and head north of the Awali River.

“An Israeli strike overnight targeted a local firefighting centre in Baraasheet where 10 civil defence members were present,” municipal official Reda Ashour said.

The German police raided a neo-Nazi martial arts event in Hachenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, on Saturday evening. Multiple Dutch people were found at the event, as were several minors, the police said.

The army’s recapture of Jebel Moya marks a significant victory in its efforts to regain control of territory lost to the RSF since the conflict erupted in mid-April 2023.

Oct. 7 marks one year since Hamas’ cross-border raid which killed 1,200 Israelis and triggered Israel’s invasion of Gaza, in which it has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians and left the besieged strip in ruins.

Online campaigns like these have helped radicalize a broad swath of Germany’s youth, making extreme-right ideas that were once relegated to the margins of German political discourse increasingly mainstream. The Young Alternative, the AfD youth organization that put out the dance video, has been classified by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency as an extremist group since last year.

Under NATO’s 1949 founding treaty, decisions on enlargement are made “by unanimous agreement,” meaning that Fico’s opposition to Ukraine joining the alliance could indeed block its membership at least until the end of the Slovak leader’s current term in power in 2027. Other Russia-friendly NATO members could also seek to frustrate Ukraine's membership aspirations.

The incumbent, Kais Saied, whose most prominent critics are behind bars, is expected to sail to an easy win after a campaign with few rallies and public debates, marking a significant step back for a country that long prided itself as the birthplace of the Arab spring uprisings of 2011.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the sweet trigger caused the simulation to send signals that would extend the proboscis, and the bitter one didn’t. Further study showed that the computer model was more than 90 percent accurate in predicting how a real fly’s brain would respond.

Acknowledging Israel blocked US aid to Palestinians would have triggered a ban on arms transfers to Israel.

It might still be a developmental aircraft. While it’s not uncommon for the Russian air force to deploy test planes to combat zones in order to collect data in a real-world context, it’s a huge setback to a development effort to lose a rare and expensive test plane during combat trials.

The plan has faced public criticism on concern over any related hazards, the Soviet nuclear testing legacy, and fears that Russia will be involved in the project.

former PhD student has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for arranging to send a young girl to Iraq for female genital mutilation (FGM), in the first conviction of its kind in England and Wales.

"Unfortunately, in spite of all our good will, the Israeli government does not take any notice, and they just go ahead and continue their atrocities in Gaza, now also in Lebanon and in Yemen, and also probably in Iran,"