Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high | Climate Crisis News

Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high | Climate Crisis News

Schools go online until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the Indian capital’s health crisis. Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. A…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 997 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 997 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here is the situation on Monday, November 18: Fighting Two children were among 10 people killed when a Russian missile hit a residential building in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said, while another missile strike left the region’s administrative centre without power. At least 55 people, including eight…

‘I will not be silent’: Australia censures senator for King Charles protest | Indigenous Rights News

‘I will not be silent’: Australia censures senator for King Charles protest | Indigenous Rights News

Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe says she has no regrets as Senate expresses disapproval of protest against the monarch. Australia’s Senate has voted to censure Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe after she heckled Britain’s King Charles III during his visit to parliament last month. The vote, led by Australia’s governing Labor Party,…

Australian veteran broadcaster arrested over alleged sexual offences | Sexual Assault News

Australian veteran broadcaster arrested over alleged sexual offences | Sexual Assault News

Radio host Alan Jones previously denied allegations of indecent assault aired by local media. Australia’s veteran broadcaster and former rugby coach Alan Jones has been arrested following an investigation into alleged sexual offences spanning two decades, local media outlets have reported. Jones, 83, had been a fixture of Australian broadcasting…

Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News

United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the incoming administration of President-elect…

Biden to allow Ukraine to use US weapons inside Russia: Reports | Russia-Ukraine war News

Biden to allow Ukraine to use US weapons inside Russia: Reports | Russia-Ukraine war News

The move comes as Joe Biden heads into his final months in US office, with successor Donald Trump believed to be more favourable towards Russia. Outgoing United States President Joe Biden will allow Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia, various news outlets, including Reuters, the Associated Press…

Pope Francis urges inquiry into Gaza genocide allegations | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Pope Francis urges inquiry into Gaza genocide allegations | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, tackling the issue for the first time in excerpts from an upcoming book. “According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said in excerpts published…

Bangladesh’s Yunus seeks time, says election roadmap after reforms | Protests News

Bangladesh’s Yunus seeks time, says election roadmap after reforms | Protests News

Bangladesh‘s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has appealed for the nation’s “patience”, pledging that general elections would be held after electoral and institutional reforms were completed in a televised address marking 100 days in office. “I promise that we will hold the much-anticipated election once the necessary and essential reforms are…

India police arrest 23 after violence erupts in northeast state of Manipur | Conflict News

India police arrest 23 after violence erupts in northeast state of Manipur | Conflict News

Protests erupted after six bodies, believed to have been kidnapped from the Meitei community were recovered on Friday. Police in the northeast Indian state of Manipur have arrested 23 people for ransacking and setting fires to the homes of lawmakers and ministers in the capital Imphal as protests erupted on…

Trump nominates climate change sceptic Chris Wright as energy secretary | Donald Trump News

Trump nominates climate change sceptic Chris Wright as energy secretary | Donald Trump News

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Chris Wright, a prominent fracking magnate and outspoken climate change sceptic, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming administration. “As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, cutting red tape, and ushering in a new ‘Golden Age of American Prosperity…