Japan urged residents to take shelter early Tuesday morning after North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile over the north of the country in an escalation of Pyongyang’s missile tests that prompted immediate backlash from Tokyo.
Read MoreCountry: Mozambique Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees The number of displaced rose to 946,508 in the first half of 2022. As of September, the $36.7 million needed for UNHCR to deliver life-saving protection and assistance was only 60% funded.
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/Didgeman Bees are very useful for us and not just by making honey. They serve an even more important function as pollinators. Yet, like a myriad of other insects, they have fallen on hard times worldwide due to a range of stressors from climate change to habitat loss to […]
Read MoreChina, the world’s most populous country is expected to be overtaken by India in 2023. Moreover, by 2060 India’s population is projected to be nearly a half billion more than China’s. Picture: Mumbai, India. Credit: Sthitaprajna Jena (CC BY-SA 2.0). By Joseph ChamiePORTLAND, USA, Oct 3 2022 (IPS) While the […]
Read MoreCountry: Ukraine Source: People in Need With the escalation in fighting, older people and persons with disabilities are at high risk of losing their lives, having difficulty accessing safe evacuation, and lacking dignified shelter.
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/stevepb By Elijah Gullett Once again California finds itself at the forefront in the fight against climate-related natural disasters. You wouldn’t know it from the scary images of fires engulfing homes, but policymakers actually have all the tools they need to improve our environment. The recent Mosquito Wildfires are […]
Read MoreCountry: Nigeria Source: World Health Organization The World Health Organization is supporting three states in northeast Nigeria – Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, to strengthen their health workforce to respond to the humanitarian crisis affecting the region.
Read MoreFollowing a recent decision,1 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals breathed new life into Pennsylvania consumer claims that the practice of tracking a customer’s movements on a company’s website violates Pennsylvania’s Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA).2 WESCA makes it unlawful to intentionally intercept any wire, electronic, or oral communication.3 For […]
Read MoreSydney – Global law firm K&L Gates has advised Melbourne-based private investors on the $116 million purchase of all of the units in the unit trust that owns Reservoir on Crown, a major mixed-use property in Sydney’s inner suburbs, from a fund managed by LaSalle Investment Management. The three-storey, 4,700 […]
Read MoreConnect rural areas with digital innovations to unlock climate resilience for hundreds of millions of farmers (CIMMYT) Sep 30, 2022 Sep 27, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 09/30/2022 – 12:21 Connect rural areas with digital innovations to unlock climate resilience for hundreds of millions of farmers (CIMMYT) Connect rural areas with digital […]
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