Nepal is seeing its worst wildfires in more than a decade, according to experts. This year’s wildfire season has been worse than usual with more fires, burning longer. It has led to record levels of air pollution. Scientists think climate change may have made the forests ‘tinder dry’. One eyewitness […]
Month: April 2021
Jasmine Opperman, Africa analyst at the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (Acled), who has been following the insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province closely, showed that the videos and photos were not from Palma, but from Mocimboa da Praia, 65km to the south. Source link
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher reports from the front line between soldiers and separatists. Source link
The fear of increased Covid risk prompted Sachdanand Dabral, another resident, to petition the court last year, asking to know how the state was prepared in case of a Covid surge. Mr Dabral blamed the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat for the rise in cases, for allowing people in […]
Facebook’s Oversight Board announced it will instead announce its decision “in the coming weeks”. Source link
Let’s just step back for a moment and consider why Western forces went in in the first place and what they set out to do. For five years, from 1996-2001, a designated transnational terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, was able to establish itself in Afghanistan, led by its charismatic leader Osama Bin […]
Hungary has already bought and distributed considerable quantities of Sputnik V. France and Germany, among many others, are at least prepared to consider it, if and when the European Medicines Agency gives its approval. Hungary has used its right as an independent member state to grant emergency authorisation. Source link
SpaceX will build a lander that the US space agency will use to return humans to the Moon this decade. Source link
Infections in the largest province could increase sixfold without tougher measures, experts warn. Source link
Moscow expels 10 diplomats and blacklists eight US officials after the US imposed sanctions. Source link