At Peace, Relief, and Recovery Day at the 2024 UN Climate Conference (COP29), the Presidency on Friday announced that 132 countries, comprising India, have joined the COP Truce Appeal
A new United Nations Special Committee report described Israel's conduct in Gaza as "consistent with the characteristics of genocide," including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon
Mount Ibu, located in Indonesia's North Maluku province, erupted on Thursday, sending a column of ash up to 3 km high and prompting the second-highest aviation alert
US President-elect Donald Trump is replacing the federal prosecutor who filed the case against a former Indian Intelligence officer charged in an alleged "murder-for-hire" plot against a Khalistani leader.
At least 12 paramedics from civil defence teams were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their centre in Duris, a village in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, media reported.
Several donors announced top-ups for 2021, bringing overall funding this year to CERF to $610 million.
The eastern states' prolonged thundery conditions, exacerbated by the La Nina weather phenomenon, have already led to the wettest November.
However, he said the new measures were "not a lockdown" and people "should not" cancel Christmas parties or Nativity plays, and nightclubs will remain open.
Since the start of the year, over 634,000 people have been displaced by conflict and drought.
The overall state of relations between the two countries is another major factor, compelling Islamabad to stay away from the summit.
