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Trump establishes council to review federal disaster response agency

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued an executive order establishing a review council to evaluate the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), stopping short of

Azerbaijan is using AI for its sustainable energy transformation. Here’s how

Several pilot projects aim to advance Azerbaijan’s green energy transition and serve as scalable models that other countries can also learn from.

Fire-ravaged Los Angeles braces for toxic rain runoff

By Ann Saphir LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wearing a respirator, goggles, gloves and white protective booties, Shaun Kearney gazed at his house in Sunset Mesa, a coastal community next to Pacific Palisades

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to pause cases as it reconsiders policy

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to put on hold planned arguments in a bid by fuel producers to challenge California's

More snowdrops, less ice: Russia’s famed winter has lost its bite this year

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's legendary cold winters are not what they used to be. Early snowdrops, mild January temperatures and a lack of ice on rivers and lakes are all unwelcome signs of climate

With rain in forecast, weary Los Angeles hopeful of progress against wildfires

By Rich McKay (Reuters) - California firefighters could make more headway in containing three major wildfires burning in and around Los Angeles on Friday, as the latest round of blistering winds calm

Ireland, Northern Ireland battered by record winds from Storm Eowyn

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of

Coffee and snake – Taipei pet shop aims to break down prejudice against the animal

By Walid Berrazeg and Ann Wang TAIPEI (Reuters) - As the Year of the Snake approaches, a pet store in Taipei is offering adventurous customers an opportunity to enjoy the company of snakes while

Thousands flock to see rare, smelly corpse flower bloom in Sydney

By christine chen and Stefica Nicol Bikes SYDNEY (Reuters) - A rare plant known as the corpse flower bloomed in Sydney on Friday for the first time in more than a decade, emitting an odour likened to

COP30 in Brazil set to spotlight developing countries’ climate finance needs

By Lisandra Paraguassu As world leaders grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, Brazil, the host of this year’s COP30 global climate summit, sees an opportunity to amplify the

On Camera

Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar didn’t have a cabaret-classical split. It was about genre, style

Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.

Fuel shock hits Asia’s rice bowl as farmers cut planting

War-driven surge in fuel and fertilizer costs forces farmers across Southeast Asia to delay harvests, scale back sowing and risk lower output.

Iran’s Shahed vs US’s LUCAS—The drone arithmetic reshaping the West Asia war

From Kyiv to the Gulf, Iran’s Shahed rewrote the rules of aerial warfare. Now, the US has its own copy of the cheap drones, LUCAS.

The world’s in a flux. India must reform, consolidate & build a strong economy

We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.