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The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst potential effects of climate change. The Nationally Determined Contribution targets of Asian and Pacific countries will result in a 16 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from the 2010 levels.

At least 130 people were killed in India after a colonial-era pedestrian bridge collapsed, sending scores of people tumbling into the river below, police said Monday.

At least 149 people have been killed and 76 others injured in a deadly stampede in Seoul's Itaewon district as huge crowds of partygoers, many in their late teens and 20s, converged in the entertainment district for late-night Halloween celebrations

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak on Monday won the battle for leader of Britain's Conservative party and will become the country's first prime minister of colour

Indonesian police said on Sunday that 127 people had died and 180 were injured after a stampede following crowd trouble at a football match in the province of East Java overnight.

Inside the village's conference hall on a Monday afternoon, Josh Tseng, a person with visual impairment, and his colleague Aaron Yeoh distributed special goggles to a group of Impact Media fellows on a visit to the facilities. 

The 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) started in the city of Samarkand on Thursday.

Charles III was formally proclaimed Britain's new king by the Accession Council on Saturday in a history-laden ceremony following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.

Britain's Charles III will officially be proclaimed king in a ceremony on Saturday, a day after he vowed in his first speech to mourning subjects that he would emulate his "darling mama", Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world, died on Thursday. She was 96.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and the last president of the Soviet Union, winning elections for the post in March 1990 and resigning on December 25, 1991.

Takeda Pharmaceutical said Tuesday that its vaccine for dengue fever has been approved in Indonesia. This will be the first global launch of a vaccine by a Japanese company.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the shooting as an “unimaginable tragedy” and promised that Merseyside Police would get “whatever they need to catch those responsible”.

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As the shock of UK PM Boris Johnson’s resignation reverberates and the dust settles after a few days of non-stop news, many leading figures in the Conservative party are already holed up with advisers, plotting their campaigns to take over as leader and Prime Minister.

As one of the architects of the campaign to bring the UK out of the European Union, Johnson remained the last man standing after the controversial issue ended the premierships of two former Conservative leaders, and left him in the unenviable position of delivering on grandiose promises made in the run-up to the 2016 referendum.