Delta up-side-down plane crash at Toronto airport marks North America’s 4th major aviation disaster in a month

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited the United Arab Emirates on Monday as part of a swing through the Arab Gulf states focused on energy and commerce. He met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the president of the UAE, which will be hosting the COP28 U.N. climate summit later this year. Kishida visited Saudi […]

Deforestation has surged in Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, by nearly 45% compared to 2022 levels, according to data released Friday by the government’s monitoring agency. The National Institute for Space Research reported that 3,000 square miles of vegetation had been torn down in the Cerrado biome between January and December 2023, especially […]

Some 15.3 million Syrians are currently in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations – nearly 70% of the country’s population. The crisis has made its impact on people in every corner of the country. “People are living in extreme poverty today in areas of Damascus,” Atlantic Council senior fellow Qutaiba Idlbi said. […]