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A newly updated climate awareness initiative in Japan is drawing attention to what life could look like in 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue their current…
The UN desertification conference, running from 17 to 28 August in Mongolia, is has awarded three land rejuvenation programmes, which together aim to restore a total of…
As maritime tensions ripple across parts of the Middle East, security officials from Ethiopia, Yemen, Djibouti and Somalia gathered in Nairobi this week to tackle a…
Members of Indian Coast Guard check a lifeboat associated with the Panama-flagged ship MV Ocean Winner that sank off the coast of Odisha last week, during…
(FILES) This handout photo provided by the Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) on June 3, 2026 shows Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah (2R) inspecting the…
As the world faces the highest number of conflicts since 1945 and a rising death toll from war alongside peace operations increasingly deployed to contain violence…
(FILES) US President Donald Trump (R) and Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman walk down the Colonnade on…
Boys ride bicycles past a Palestinian flag along a street in Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, with the Israeli settlement of…
A video grab shows a military helicopter rescuing a young man stranded by massive floods and landslides along the Nepal-Tibet border. (AFP) Rescue teams rushed today to find hundreds of people missing on the Nepal-Tibet border in flash floods and landslides that killed at least 160.Many of the missing are foreign tourists, officials said of the disaster that wiped out entire villages. The death toll appeared likely to rise. One terrifying clip of surveillance video from the Chinese side of the frontier shows a raging wall of mud and debris crashing over a building several stories high last morning, engulfing it as dozens of people run for their lives below. The surge sweeps away buses and cars like they are toys. Chinese state media reported “major casualties” from a mudslide at a Tibet border hub, reporting three dead and another 265 people missing.Nepali police said they had recovered 157 bodies after “devastating floods”, with officers working to move families in flood-risk areas to safety. Tibet government officials mobilised nearly 800 emergency workers and 150 vehicles as well as sniffer dogs and speed boats to help the rescue efforts, China’s official Xinhua news agency said.In the area hit by the disaster, rescuers waded through mud and sludge to look for survivors after floodwaters buried the lower floors of multi-storey buildings. Some 403 tourists — 341 of them foreigners — were unaccounted for several hours after the disaster struck, according to Nepal’s tourism ministry.The missing foreigners included 142 Indians, and others from Australia, Britain, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea and the United States, the tourism board said. This frame grab…
Iran and Oman are still working on the details of a deal on the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source said, even as Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards said the two countries had agreed how to share the waterway and its revenues.”A final agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz has not been finalised,” the source told Reuters, adding that talks were continuing on the details of an accord.The Guards’ spokesman, Hossein Mohebbi, said in comments carried by Iranian state media: “The Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran and the country of Oman… We have been in negotiations with Oman for about a month, and we have reached results that are acceptable to both sides. Agreements have been reached regarding the share of each country in the waters of the Strait and the share of Iran and Oman in its revenues.”It was not immediately clear at what stage of the talks the agreements had been reached. Iran said earlier this month that a deal was close.Following talks between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Tehran on Tuesday, Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said he was “hopeful we will soon announce a temporary corridor for the Strait of Hormuz and practical arrangements to restore safe navigation”. The two sides discussed a framework for a temporary transit corridor and a mine-clearing project in the waterway.Mohebbi accused the United States of seeking to obstruct the negotiations and of delaying an accord. “If the United States stops obstructing and returns to the agreement, we can open the Strait of Hormuz within the framework of the agreement reached… If the United States does not accept our conditions, the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened under any circumstances,” he said.Tehran has insisted the strait will not fully reopen until Washington meets its demands, including lifting its naval blockade, removing oil sanctions and unfreezing assets abroad. A key point of contention is Tehran’s demand to charge ships for passage through Hormuz – a demand flatly rejected by Washington.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told allies the US did not expect to launch new strikes against Iran for now, Axios reported. Oil prices fell for a third day, dropping more than 1.5%, on signs of renewed efforts to mediate an end to the war.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, in a letter to the United Nations, denounced the new US sanctions as collective punishment denying Iranians food and medicine, accusing Washington of “the unilateralism and bullying of a rogue state.” Source link
