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World makes new bid to avert climate disaster at COP26

31 Oct 2021

Gulf Today Report World leaders will start descending on the Scottish city of Glasgow on Sunday for the United Nations COP26 summit, billed as a make-or-break chance to save...

Concerted global effort needed to tackle climate change

18 Oct 2021

Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter Everyone is concerned and clamours for the curtailment of climate change and for this to happen, an environmentalist believes that everyone must first and foremost realise...

America’s culture wars over abortion laws

10 Oct 2021

When Republican-dominated Texas passed a law making abortion illegal, but introduced the provision that ordinary citizens can file a case against abortion clinics and others involved in the process, they...

US expulsion of Haitian asylum seekers a moral failure

06 Oct 2021

Jean Denis Saint-Félix and Joan Rosenhauer, Tribune News Service Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced last week that 13,000 Haitian asylum seekers have been conditionally permitted to enter the...

Iran’s hardline judiciary chief wins election

19 Jun 2021

Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Iran’s hardline judiciary chief won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory on Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in...

Vaccine hesitancy

07 May 2021

Fake news, conspiracy theories and unscientific warnings on COVD-19 vaccines have been flooding the internet even before scientists began working on finding a viable and potent remedy for the deadly...

Feeling lonely in lockdown? Try hugging a sheep

14 Mar 2021

A German farm is offering people who are feeling deprived of human contact due to coronavirus restrictions an unusual alternative: the opportunity to cuddle a sheep. "We have...

BP medication may improve COVID-19 survival rates, says study

24 Aug 2020

In a fight against the novel coronavirus, researchers have found that medication for high blood pressure could improve COVID-19 survival rates and reduce the severity of the infection. For...

UAE proposes new climate approach for UNSC

27 Jul 2020

The UAE has called on the UN Security Council to play its part in addressing climate change during an open meeting convened by Germany as this month’s president...

Fake flights for travel-starved tourists in Taiwan amid coronavirus

02 Jul 2020

Starved of the travel experience during the coronavirus lockdown? One Taiwanese airport has the solution - a fake itinerary where you check in, go through passport control and...

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