The world has crossed a critical threshold. The record number of days with a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius

According to a BBC investigation, the world is rapidly approaching a critical warming barrier, which has scientists concerned.

On over one-third of the days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial levels.

Staying belo...

Anna Netrebko's local performance is opposed by the Prague government.

The local government of Prague stated on Monday that it opposes "unequivocally" a performance by Russian opera vocalist Anna Netrebko in the Czech capital while Russia is at war with Ukraine.

Jiri Pospisil, the city's deputy mayor in charge of culture, stated that all memb...

Vladimir Putin prepares Russia for 'Eternal War' as the West continues to be maligned.

The road to Lake Baikal in southern Siberia winds past cemeteries with bright plastic flowers marking the graves of Russians slain in Ukraine. The conflict is always visible far from the Potemkin paradise of Moscow.

On the eastern shore of the lake, where white-winged gulls dive into th...

Germany confronts a difficulty in achieving energy independence due to the remnants of past conflicts

As a result of the conflict in Ukraine, Wilhelmshaven has become a vital centre for German efforts to reduce the country's reliance on Russian energy. There, on the coast of the North Sea, the government would like to construct a massive new terminal to import liquefied natural gas from elsew...

Germany discusses siestas while Europe struggles with increasing temperatures.

Germany is debating the necessity of siestas as a European heatwave raises temperatures and generates dire health warnings.

As record-breaking temperatures are recorded across southern Europe, concerns of death and heart attacks are growing.

Bavaria recorded the country's ...

In April, Japan and South Korea will hold their first security discussions in five years.

According to a diplomatic source on Monday, preparations are being made for the first working-level security talks between Japan and South Korea in more than five years to take place next month, ahead of a planned visit by President Yoon Suk Yeol to the United States.

As Tokyo and Seoul...

Biden desires a $886 billion defence budget with a view toward Ukraine and future conflicts.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, March 13 (Reuters) Russia's war in Ukraine has prompted calls for increased spending on munitions, and President Joe Biden has requested $886 billion, the largest peacetime U.S. military budget. This proposal includes a 5.2% pay raise for troops and the largest alloc...

Warren has requested that the United States Patent and Trademark Office investigate Keytruda from Merck.

Senator Elizabeth Warren of the United States recently wrote to the head of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to express her concern that continued efforts to patent Merck & Co.'s (MRK.N) blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda may constitute an abuse of the patent system.

Brexit and trade wars: How are France's technological reforms faring

Macron's reform plan is gaining traction in France. His French Tech Visa is attracting international talent in the startup environment, and his goal of establishing male and female equality in France has increased the number of women-focused initiatives. Despite the fact that EY's recent ...

As a platform, Twitter has long been a hub for spreading false information on climate change.

As a platform, Twitter has long been a hub for spreading false information on climate change. A study of climate-related chats conducted under new owner Elon Musk and released exclusively with USA TODAY found that misinformation about the warming globe was spreading at a rapid pace. Similar findi...

The Korean government is pursuing third-party reparations for Japan's wartime atrocities.

Reparations for Koreans who were forced into war labour by Japanese colonial authorities between 1910 and 1945 have been all but abandoned by the Korean government. A representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday during an open forum on the issue at the National Assembly in S...

Companies in the oil and gas industry are taking Los Angeles to court over the city's ban on oil and gas drilling.

Legal action has been taken against the City of Los Angeles by an oil business with operations in the Wilmington area as a result of the City's statute prohibiting the construction of new wells and phasing out drilling altogether. Warren Resources, the company that runs the 10-acre oil-extrac...

A video game about a war contributes to a surge of false information

There is a combat going on in the midst of the flaming streets. Battle planes are destroyed by missile fire. Tanks are no match for a drone attack. Clips from video games are used to spread false information despite appearing to depict realistic battle scenes. Fake movies purporting to show the R...

Georgia goes to the polls again in a tiebreaker midterm election for a US Senate seat.

Georgians will return to the polls on Tuesday for a run-off vote, just four weeks after voting in this year's US midterm elections. This last vote may give Democrats a little more comfortable Senate majority. Two Black males are on the ballot for the first time as major party nominees: Hersch...

The fusion breakthrough is a game changer for global warming and renewable energy

On Tuesday, scientists announced that they had succeeded in creating more energy from a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, marking a major step forward in the decades-long effort to harness the engine that propels the sun.

The discovery, known as net energy gain, was achieved b...

The character for war () was chosen as the kanji for 2022

The kanji for sen (), which means conflict or fight, was chosen as the single most emblematic Chinese character related to the social atmosphere in Japan this year, according to a Kyoto-based group on Monday.

The decision for the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation's 28th annual...

Inside the nightmare of Russia's parallel world in occupied Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin exploited the bogus pretexts of "denazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine to legitimize his invasion. Russian official propaganda is based on the concept of a "Nazi-controlled" Ukraine, where Russians come to "liberate&q...

Why is this October especially warm?

With the recent exceptionally mild weather, it's difficult to think that winter is only around the horizon. The cold weather usually arrives in mid-November, but the country is experiencing its hottest November in a decade.

Tuesday was "Soseol," which means "little sn...

German chancellor says rebuilding Ukraine will be a "generational struggle."

The German chancellor stated at a conference on rebuilding the war-torn country of Ukraine that doing so will be a "challenge for generations" and that work on it must begin immediately.

As part of Germany's G7 leadership, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz co-hosted an expert m...

Blinken Warns Israeli Prime Minister and Palestinian President of West Bank Intensification

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, according to the official WAFA news agency, in a first contact after Israel's senior leader Benjamin Netanyahu led a far-right alliance to a general election win.

According to the WAFA re...