Despite calls to halt humanity’s burning of the filthiest fossil fuel driving climate change, the energy watchdog expects global demand for coal to hit record highs for the third year in a row. Published on Wednesday, the IEA’s “Coal 2024” report does however predict the world will hit peak coal in 2027 after topping 8.77 […]
Assad fled Syria just over a week ago following a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), more than 13 years after his crackdown on democracy protests precipitated one of the deadliest wars of the century. However, the United Nations’ special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said on Tuesday “There have been […]
The former Portuguese colony was handed over to China on December 20, 1999, under the “One Country, Two Systems” framework that promised autonomy and wider civil liberties than the Chinese mainland. The city — the only place in China where casino gambling is permitted — has long surpassed Las Vegas to be the world’s top […]
“I have hundreds of motivations, but I think the biggest of them is really to restore international respect to Brazilian football,” he said in an interview on Monday with the Globoesporte website. Ronaldo said he wanted to be an “alternative for significant change” as a candidate for the job of running the Brazilian Football Confederation […]
Apple strongly disputes the allegations and says it has told its suppliers they must not use the minerals in question sourced from Congo or Rwanda. Congo is a major source of tin, tantalum, and tungsten, the so-called 3T minerals used in computers and mobile phones. But some artisanal mines are run by armed groups involved […]
Assad fled Syria just over a week ago, as his forces abandoned tanks and other equipment in the face of a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Rooted in Syria’s branch of Al-Qaeda, HTS is proscribed by several Western governments as a terrorist organization, though it has sought to moderate its […]
Disagreements over how to save Europe’s largest economy had been the main factor behind the collapse of Scholz’s fractious three-party coalition last month, and the economy is the top concern of German voters. Germany has gone from being Europe’s economic powerhouse to underperforming its major euro zone peers. The economy is expected to contract in […]
TikTok and ByteDance filed an emergency request to the justices for an injunction to halt the looming ban on the social media app used by about 170 million Americans while they appeal a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law. A group of US users of the app filed a similar request on Monday as […]
The 7.3-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 57 kilometers (35 miles), some 30 kilometers off the coast of Efate, Vanuatu’s main island, at 12:47 pm (0147 GMT), according to the US Geological Survey. The ground floor of a building housing the US and French embassies had been crushed under higher floors, resident Michael Thompson […]
His written statement was published on the Syrian presidency’s Telegram channel and dated Dec. 16 from Moscow, where he has been granted asylum. He was ousted after insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept through Syria in a lightning offensive, ending more than 50 years of iron-fisted rule by his family. “At […]
