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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has taken her disarmingly straightforward message -- "listen to the scientists" -- around the world
World
09.08.2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time' 2019 person of the year
Algerian protesters have marched weekly since February and say sweeping reforms must be made before a presidential election on Thursday they see as a regime ploy to cling to power
World
09.08.2024
Boycott rallies rock Algeria day before presidential poll
Sources say the US is seeking to continue to affect climate policy after it withdraws from the Paris agreement
World
09.08.2024
US accused of seeking climate funding waiver at UN talks
Greta Thunberg told delegates at the UN climate talks that their promises were still far short of what was needed
World
09.08.2024
Climate pledges 'misleading', Greta tells UN meet
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Last month the Constitutional Court stripped Future Forward's leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of his MP status
World 09.08.2024
Legal bid begins to dissolve Thailand's upstart anti-army party
Plastic is mixed with chemicals into a solution which can be broken down by artificial sunlight, with scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University hoping to replicate the process under real sunlight
World 09.08.2024
Scientists to harness the sun to break down plastic
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi defended Myanmar's treatment of the Rohingya at the International Court of Justice
World 09.08.2024
95 Rohingya in Myanmar face jail as Hague hears 'genocide' case
Malaysia's leader-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim spent almost a decade in jail after being convicted of sodomising a young male aide
World 09.08.2024
Malaysian police to quiz Anwar over sex assault claims
Paris has been hard hit by the transport strikes
World 09.08.2024
Unions tighten screws as French government to unveil pension plan
The volcanic eruption on White Island is believed to have killed 15 people, with 22 survivors being treated in hospital burns units
World 09.08.2024
Heartbreak and disbelief as volcano victims named
Slain Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura (portrait pictured at a vigil held in Kabul the day after he was killed) had devoted 35 years of his life to healing Afghans and Pakistanis
World 09.08.2024
Japan funeral for 'hero' doctor slain in Afghanistan
President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Bagram on November 28 where he met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (R)
World 09.08.2024
Blast damages hospital near biggest US base in Afghanistan
Aramco's initial public offering put the Saudi oil behemoth's value at $1.7 trillion, far ahead of other firms in the trillion-dollar club, including Apple and Microsoft
World 09.08.2024
Saudi Aramco shares rocket on debut after record IPO
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