Glasgow (IANS) Members and partners of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) are enraged by the deliberate exclusion of feminists and grassroots women at the 26th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Glasgow (IANS) At the end of the pivotal UN climate change negotiations or COP26 week one on Friday, commitments, if delivered, would close ambition gap by 9 gigatonnes (Gt) CO2, leaving 13 Gt to go, says new analysis
To keep 1.5C alive, annual…
Canberra (IANS) Australia's Covid-19 vaccine rollout has hit a "magnificent milestone", with 80 per cent of the adult population fully inoculated against the virus, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Saturday.
"That's four out…
New Delhi (IANS) Pakistani officials have reached a tentative understanding with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to seek a broader peace agreement to end nearly two decades of militancy in the country, Dawn reported.
Sources said…
Seoul (IANS) North Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that its development of new weapons is an "inevitable choice" to prevent a war and protect its people, accusing the US of having "double standards" on self-defence against Pyongyang.
…Glasgow (IANS) At the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen and Bill Gates, the Founder of Breakthrough Energy, together with European Investment Bank President,…
Canberra (IANS) Australia on Wednesday announced that it has ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which will take effect next year as the world's largest free trade agreement (FTA).
Foreign Minister…
New Delhi (IANS) Terming the agreement between the Pakistan government and the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) a "surrender by the state", the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has asked the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)…
New Delhi (IANS) Pakistan is likely to decide this week about whether to send its National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf to New Delhi for a conference on the situation in Afghanistan, official sources familiar with the development said on Monday, according…
Yangon (IANS) Myanmar on Monday reopened all basic education schools, including private schools and Buddhist monastic schools, amid a decrease in daily Covid-19 infections in the country.
According to an announcement of Central Committee on…