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Climate crisis making world’s forests shorter and younger, study finds

Climate breakdown and the mass felling of trees has made the world’s forests significantly shorter and younger overall, an analysis shows. The trend is expected…

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EU must play global role in virus crisis, says Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday said the European Union should take more global responsibility in the coronavirus crisis, especially as ties with the United…

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Asian stocks gain on economic hopes, but Hong Kong risk clouds outlook

Asian shares and U.S. stock futures rose on Thursday as growing optimism about a global economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic trumped immediate concerns about…

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News Corp to stop printing more than 100 Australian papers

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian flagship media group News Corp announced Thursday it will stop printing more than 100 regional and local newspapers, blaming a collapse in…

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UN agencies and Italian Red Cross sign cooperation agreement to prevent COVID-19

Red Cross volunteers to further assist with temperature screenings at the premises of 26 UN agencies operating in Italy. On behalf of the 26 UN…

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Could Cycle Superhighways boost house prices?

New analysis suggests houses near London’s Cycle Superhighways enjoy valuations that are 80 per cent higher than average. Could the sudden surge in the number…

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EU, Japan strenthen ties to face COVID-19 crisis

EU and Japan leaders at a video conference Tuesday signalled close coordination in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, stressing the importance of global solidarity, cooperation…

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’Deeply troubling’: Covid-19 to spur record drop in global energy investment

A sobering report published today by the IEA predicts that global energy investment will plummet by $400bn in 2020, in a major turnaround from the…

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More peacekeeping operations, fewer troops in 2019: report

The number of international peacekeeping missions rose slightly in 2019, but the number of personnel deployed continued to decline, researchers said Wednesday. The number of…

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EU’s Von der Leyen to unveil trillion-euro recovery plan

European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen will on Wednesday propose a roughly one-trillion-euro post-virus recovery fund for Europe, but will have to win over…

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Global report: WHO says the Americas are centre of pandemic as cases surge

The Americas have emerged as the new centre of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, as a US study forecast deaths…

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Global healthcare groups join calls for green, healthy Covid-19 recovery

More than 40 million healthcare professionals from around the world have urged global leaders to build a healthy, climate-friendly economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis,…

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In land of big data, China sets individual privacy rights

China is poised to enshrine individuals’ rights to privacy and personal data for the first time, a symbolic first step as more of the country…

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COVID-19: Immunity to coronaviruses may only last just six months, says new study

Immunity to reinfection from human coronaviruses may last only last six months, according to a study from the University of Amsterdam. It casts doubt over…

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Scientists fight online virus misinformation war

With cat photos and sometimes scathing irony, Mathieu Rebeaud, a Swiss-based researcher in biochemistry, has nearly tripled his Twitter following since the coronavirus pandemic began….

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Climate change in deep oceans could be seven times faster by middle of century, report says

In the new research, scientists looked at a measure called climate velocity – the speed at which species would need to move to stay within…

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Hong Kong’s security chief warns of growing ’terrorism’ as govt backs Beijing’s planned security laws

Hong Kong’s security chief said “terrorism” was growing in the city, as government departments rallied on Monday behind Beijing’s plans to introduce national security laws…

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Experts warn of bioterrorism after pandemic

The Council of Europe has warned of a potential increase in the use of biological weapons, like viruses or bacterias, in a post-coronavirus world. Terrorists…

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Analysis: Can the aviation industry survive the coronavirus crisis?

It was yet again another bad week for the airline industry, with more relentlessly depressing news. The aero-engine maker Rolls Royce announced it is cutting…

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Australia begins wide-ranging enquiry into deadly bushfires

Australia on Monday began the first hearings of a powerful inquiry into the causes of catastrophic bushfires that swept across the country, killing 33 people,…

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