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Oil, chemical industry lobbyists flood UN talks on cutting plastic pollution

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) -Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

Bangladesh to reopen schools despite heatwave

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will reopen schools from next week despite a brutal heatwave sweeping the country that has seen temperatures soar to 43 degrees Celsius (109°F), officials

Emperor penguins suffered mass breeding failures in 2023 amid record low sea ice

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Record low sea ice in late 2023 led to breeding failures in one-fifth of Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies, scientists with the British Antarctic Survey said on

Above-normal rainfall may ease inflation concerns, says Finance Ministry report

Last week, IMD said the country is likely to receive above average monsoon rainfall in 2024, a potential boost for its farm output which heavily depends on summer rains.

China evacuates entire town as record rains, winds lash its south

BEIJING (Reuters) - Relentless rains, hail and winds of near hurricane intensity battered southern China, forcing the evacuation of an entire town of more than 1,700 people in the province of

Oil, chemical industry lobbyists pile in to UN talks to curb plastics

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

Biden administration aims to clean up power sector with revamped rules

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has finalized rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut

Monsoon forecast bodes well, may ease inflation concerns, India economic report says

(Reuters) - The forecast of an above-normal monsoon in 2024 bodes well for a good harvest and may ease India's inflation concerns, a monthly economic review by the finance ministry said on Thursday.

Insurers’ climate alliance relaunches after member exodus

By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - A global insurance coalition intended to help curb the sector's greenhouse gas emissions has relaunched with a new name and weaker membership requirements in

More than 100 pilot whales stranded in Western Australia, experts say

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary south of the state of Western Australia. The

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Iran war has given India a blueprint for the next conflict

Pakistan would be itching to do an Iran on us and China would be planning to execute an air campaign without allowing us asymmetrical escalation. India has no choice but to transform.

India’s online gaming rules to take effect on 1 May; most games exempt from registration

The rules, which come into force on 1 May, establish an Online Gaming Authority which will determine whether a game is an online money game or online social game in only three situations.

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.