21.11.2024 5:54 Large wildfires fueled by climate change have destroyed tens of millions of acres of forests in the Pacific Northwest in recent years. Jonathan Vigliotti explores a major effort underway to restore those forests.21.11.2024 6:07 Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for new reforestation projects.21.11.2024 6:10 Darius A. Paduch, a fertility specialist, assaulted men and boys for years at prominent New York hospitals, prosecutors said.21.11.2024 6:22 The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has granted emergency use of a Japanese mpox vaccine, its second approval of a product to inoculate against the infectious disease, to combat a recent outbreak mainly in Africa.
The approval of the vaccine, developed by KM Biologics Co., a group firm of food and pharmaceutical company Meiji Holdings Co., follows the acceptance of a vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic A/S of Denmark in September.
Read full story here21.11.2024 6:27 Thinktank’s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a ‘more competitive, politically targeted model’ of engagement in the regionChina has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after charting a “resurgence” in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.Over the past decade, China has lavished billions of dollars on Pacific island nations, part of ongoing efforts to build influence in competition with the US and its allies. Continue reading... ... 21.11.2024 6:29 There’s a concept called the “hedonic treadmill," which theorizes as people achieve success, their expectations rise. Nvidia seems a victim of this. 21.11.2024 6:30 Adani, a power player in the world’s most populous nation, allegedly sought to “obtain and finance massive state energy supply contracts through corruption and fraud at the expense of U.S. investors.”21.11.2024 6:37 Dans une interview au Parisien, le ministre de l’Économie rejette l’idée, pourtant portée par le premier ministre, d’annuler une partie des exonérations de charges des sociétés, qui permettrait à l’État de faire rentrer 4 milliards d’euros.21.11.2024 6:39 Bryan Kohberger is charged with four counts of first degree murder in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.21.11.2024 6:4421.11.2024 6:5221.11.2024 6:59 Trump allies say they will 'liberate individuals and businesses from illicit regulations never passed by Congress'.21.11.2024 7:21 Three giraffe subspecies should be added to the endangered species list, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as their populations continue a yearslong trend of decline.21.11.2024 7:22 Randy Boissonnault, who resigned as employment minister, had long described himself as the great-grandson of a Cree woman, but now acknowledges he was wrong about his family’s ancestry.21.11.2024 7:33 These were the key developments on the 1,001st day of the Russia-Ukraine war.21.11.2024 7:40 The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.21.11.2024 7:41 The legislation failed resoundingly but highlighted the Democratic divide over whether the United States should withhold some weapons to register its disapproval of Israel’s war tactics.21.11.2024 7:45 Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, 66, previously served as a minister on several occasions and ran three times as a presidential candidate. He was the civilian face of the junta's strategic pivot away from former colonial ruler France and toward closer political and military ties with Russia.21.11.2024 8:14 Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos's history, when the US waged a years-long 'Secret War'.21.11.2024 8:14 Traders in the region are watching tech stocks in the wake of Nvidia's stellar results, while stocks related to billionaire Gautam Adani will also be assessed.21.11.2024 8:20 Mr. Giuliani has not turned over his apartment and other items to two women he defamed. His new counsel, a Staten Island divorce lawyer, held a sidewalk news conference.21.11.2024 8:34 A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.21.11.2024 8:36 Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”21.11.2024 8:38 A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies wrongdoing.21.11.2024 9:0821.11.2024 9:21 About two inches were forecast to fall through Saturday. Officials say it won’t be enough to fully replenish the city’s reservoirs.21.11.2024 9:28 Gautam Adani and his associates were accused of paying more than $250 million in bribes to obtain lucrative solar energy contracts.21.11.2024 9:28 Shares of India's Adani Group companies plunged after its billionaire chair Gautam Adani was indicted in a New York federal court.21.11.2024 9:29 The American died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, the State Department confirmed.21.11.2024 9:33 In a landmark antitrust case, the government will ask a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser, people with knowledge of the matter said.21.11.2024 9:57 For eight months, Le Monde and nine international media partners, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, investigated the story of journalist Ephrem Ngonzo and the disinformation strategy implemented by Russia in the Central African Republic and later reproduced in West Africa.21.11.2024 10:21 Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said Thursday.
The suspect, who also faces a charge of desecration of a place of worship, has already left Japan for Hong Kong. He is accused of writing Chinese characters meaning "toilet" on a stone pillar of the Tokyo shrine using a black felt-tip pen shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18.
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Large wildfires fueled by climate change have destroyed tens of millions of acres of forests in the Pacific Northwest in recent years. Jonathan Vigliotti explores a major effort underway to restore those forests.
Conservationists are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service and logging companies to clear scorched land and make room for new reforestation projects.
Darius A. Paduch, a fertility specialist, assaulted men and boys for years at prominent New York hospitals, prosecutors said.
The World Health Organization said Tuesday it has granted emergency use of a Japanese mpox vaccine, its second approval of a product to inoculate against the infectious disease, to combat a recent outbreak mainly in Africa.
The approval of the vaccine, developed by KM Biologics Co., a group firm of food and pharmaceutical company Meiji Holdings Co., follows the acceptance of a vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic A/S of Denmark in September.
Read full story here
Thinktank’s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a ‘more competitive, politically targeted model’ of engagement in the regionChina has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after charting a “resurgence” in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.Over the past decade, China has lavished billions of dollars on Pacific island nations, part of ongoing efforts to build influence in competition with the US and its allies. Continue reading... ... 
Adani, a power player in the world’s most populous nation, allegedly sought to “obtain and finance massive state energy supply contracts through corruption and fraud at the expense of U.S. investors.”
Dans une interview au Parisien, le ministre de l’Économie rejette l’idée, pourtant portée par le premier ministre, d’annuler une partie des exonérations de charges des sociétés, qui permettrait à l’État de faire rentrer 4 milliards d’euros.
Bryan Kohberger is charged with four counts of first degree murder in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.
Three giraffe subspecies should be added to the endangered species list, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as their populations continue a yearslong trend of decline.
Randy Boissonnault, who resigned as employment minister, had long described himself as the great-grandson of a Cree woman, but now acknowledges he was wrong about his family’s ancestry.
The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.
The legislation failed resoundingly but highlighted the Democratic divide over whether the United States should withhold some weapons to register its disapproval of Israel’s war tactics.
Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga, 66, previously served as a minister on several occasions and ran three times as a presidential candidate. He was the civilian face of the junta's strategic pivot away from former colonial ruler France and toward closer political and military ties with Russia.
Mr. Giuliani has not turned over his apartment and other items to two women he defamed. His new counsel, a Staten Island divorce lawyer, held a sidewalk news conference.
A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.
Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”
A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies wrongdoing.
About two inches were forecast to fall through Saturday. Officials say it won’t be enough to fully replenish the city’s reservoirs.
Gautam Adani and his associates were accused of paying more than $250 million in bribes to obtain lucrative solar energy contracts.
The American died in the tourist town of Vang Vieng, Laos, the State Department confirmed.
In a landmark antitrust case, the government will ask a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser, people with knowledge of the matter said.
For eight months, Le Monde and nine international media partners, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, investigated the story of journalist Ephrem Ngonzo and the disinformation strategy implemented by Russia in the Central African Republic and later reproduced in West Africa.
Tokyo police have obtained an arrest warrant for a Chinese teenage boy for alleged property damage after graffiti was found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in August, investigative sources said Thursday.
The suspect, who also faces a charge of desecration of a place of worship, has already left Japan for Hong Kong. He is accused of writing Chinese characters meaning "toilet" on a stone pillar of the Tokyo shrine using a black felt-tip pen shortly after 10 p.m. on Aug. 18.
Read full story here