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Devastating wildfire burns down part of western Canadian town

By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -A raging wildfire has devastated the western Canadian tourist town of Jasper and firefighters were working on Thursday to save as many buildings as possible, authorities

Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department declares emergency due to extreme weather

LA PAZ (Reuters) - The Bolivian department of Santa Cruz has declared a state of emergency due to extreme weather including wildfires through to the end of this year, the departmental government said

Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $160 million to resolve Seattle’s PCB contamination lawsuit

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Monsanto will pay $160 million to settle a lawsuit by the city of Seattle that accused the unit of Germany's Bayer of polluting the city's drainage system and the local

Pacific Northwest wildfires force evacuations, smoke chokes swaths of US

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Thousands of people were evacuated in Northern California overnight, as yet another rapidly growing wildfire raged, joining hundreds of blazes in the Pacific Northwest and

UK climate duo who threw soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ found guilty of criminal damage

LONDON (Reuters) - Two climate protesters from Just Stop Oil who threw tinned soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting in London's National Gallery in 2022 were on Thursday found guilty of

Canada wildfire reaches Jasper, firefighters work to protect Trans Mountain oil pipeline

(Reuters) -A wildfire reached the Canadian town of Jasper on Wednesday, one of hundreds ravaging the western provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, as firefighters battled to save key facilities

Freighter sinks off Taiwan during typhoon, nine crew missing

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's fire department said on Thursday that a Tanzania-flagged freighter with nine Myanmar nationals on board had sunk off the coast of the southern port city of Kaohsiung during

Typhoon Gaemi sweeps through northern Taiwan triggering floods, power cuts

Two people have been killed and half a million households affected. Gaemi is expected to enter China through the sea where it may cause torrential rain.

BASIC bloc slams ‘leadership void’ on climate change, finance

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Rich countries have left a "leadership void" in climate politics and must provide trillions of dollars to help developing nations cut their greenhouse gas

Sharks off Rio de Janeiro test positive for cocaine

By Dani Morera Trettin SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Sharks off the coast of Brazil's party city Rio de Janeiro have tested positive for cocaine. The predators were consuming the potent stimulant due to its

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.