After two days of back-to-back speeches by world leaders, the COP28 climate summit turns its attention on Sunday to the reality of climate change fuelling more sickness and disease. It will be the first time that the annual UN talks feature public health on the agenda. With malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress all on […]
Israel brushed off international calls to renew an expired truce Saturday and pushed on with its devastating bombing campaign against Hamas militants in densely-inhabited Gaza. Smoke again clouded the sky over the north of the Palestinian territory, whose Hamas government said 240 people had been killed since a pause in hostilities expired early Friday […]
Afghanistan’s Taliban administration has appointed a former spokesperson as ambassador to China, the foreign affairs ministry said on Friday, its first officially accredited envoy to any country since taking over in 2021. Former administration spokesman Bilal Karimi arrived in China late in November to take up the role, the Taliban-run foreign ministry said in a […]