Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Group files climate complaint against US credit agency over fossil fuel loans
By Valerie Volcovici DUBAI (Reuters) - An environmental group on Tuesday filed a complaint with an international organization alleging the U.S. export credit agency still invests taxpayer dollars into...
Dec 05, 2023
Buildings evacuated as earthquake felt in Philippine capital
MANILA (Reuters) - People evacuated buildings in the Philippine capital Manila on Tuesday after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck off Luzon, according to the state seismology agency and images sha...
Dec 05, 2023
Swathes of Siberia freeze in temperatures below -58 Celsius
YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - Arctic weather enfolded swathes of Russia on Tuesday, with temperatures in the wilds of Siberia falling to minus 58 degrees Celsius (minus 72 degrees Fahrenheit). Yakutsk, ...
Dec 05, 2023
Greek olive growers brace themselves as thieves seek pricey crop
By Lefteris Papadimas FILIATRA, Greece (Reuters) - Greek olive grower Panagiotis Tsafaras has been forced to patrol his groves twice a day recently to fend off thieves trying to steal the crop as pric...
Dec 05, 2023
France puts country on high alert regarding bird flu
PARIS (Reuters) - France raised the risk level of bird flu to 'high' from 'moderate' after the detection of new cases of the disease, the farm ministry said on Tuesday, forcing poultry farms to keep b...
Dec 05, 2023
Experts say they warned of dangers of climbing Indonesia’s Mt. Marapi after 13 die in eruption
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's volcanology agency had warned since 2011 that it was unsafe to climb the country's active Marapi volcano, the organisation's chief said, days after the peak erupted and...
Dec 04, 2023
Foxconn cancels first shift on Tuesday at Indian iPhone facility after extreme weather – sources
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn has cancelled the first shift on Tuesday at its Indian facility that makes Apple iPhones following weather disruptions, two sources familiar with the matter said...
Dec 04, 2023
Exclusive-US joins dozens of countries in backing COP28 pledge to slash cooling emissions
By Gloria Dickie DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States is among at least 60 countries backing a pledge on Tuesday to cut cooling-related emissions by 2050, U.S. State Department officials said at the U....
Dec 04, 2023
Draft text at COP28 shows negotiators considering fossil fuel ‘phase out’
DUBAI (Reuters) -A second draft of what could be the final agreement from the COP28 U.N. climate summit shows negotiators are considering calling for an "orderly and just" phase out of fossil fuels. T...
Dec 04, 2023
Floods, five killed as southern India braces for Cyclone Michaung
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Heavy rains submerged roads and shut down a major airport in southern India on Tuesday, where at least five people, including a child, were killed in t...
Dec 04, 2023
