TOKYO, Japan - Japan experienced its warmest spring on record this year, the national weather agency said Thursday, as greenhouse gasses and El Nino send temperatures soaring worldwide. Temperatures across March, April and May were 1.59 degrees Celsius (34.9 Fahrenheit) higher than average,...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Meteorological Organization voted Thursday for Argentina's Celeste Saulo to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO's critical global role in tracking climate change. Saulo, a WMO vice-president who has headed Argentina's weather service since 2014, won...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan's prime minister unveiled a $25 billion plan on Thursday to expand support for young people and families in a bid to help raise the country's plummeting birthrate. Larger direct subsidies for those with children and more financial help for education and prenatal care are...
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's parliament approved a controversial law that ostensibly promotes patriotism but has been denounced by the opposition as a "draconian" attempt to stifle dissent ahead of national elections. The bill, passed by the lower house on Wednesday evening, criminalises...
GENEVA, Switzerland -Â The United Nations' weather agency announced Tuesday it was making the cryosphere a new top priority, saying the melting of sea ice, glaciers and permafrost posed a global threat. Member states at the UN's World Meteorological Organization are concerned about the impacts of...
PARIS, France - From tiny quadcopters buzzing over frontline trenches with cameras and grenades to flying bombs lugging warheads weighing dozens of kilograms (pounds) into Kyiv and Moscow, drones have marked the Ukraine war like none before it. In recent months, invading Russian troops have...
BEIJING, China - Elon Musk met Foreign Minister Qin Gang in Beijing on Tuesday, the ministry said, as the Tesla CEO embarks on his first trip to China in more than three years. China is the world's biggest electric vehicle market and Tesla announced in April it would build a second massive...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU ministers expressed "discomfort" on Tuesday at political outlier Hungary taking on the bloc's rotating presidency next year, but Budapest vowed nothing could prevent it filling the prominent role. The European Parliament is to vote on a non-binding resolution on...
JERUSALEM, Undefined - An Israeli civilian was shot dead Tuesday at the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, medics and military officials said. The 32-year-old was identified as Meir Tamari by the Shomron Regional Council, the Israeli body which administers settlements...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran on Monday held the first trial session for one of the two detained female journalists who reported on Mahsa Amini's death in custody last year, her lawyer said. Months of nationwide protests erupted after Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died on September 16 following her...
The Popular Party (PP) party's leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo gives a press conference at the party headquarters in Madrid on May 29, 2023 one day after local and regional elections. Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP MADRID, Spain -- In a surprise move, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap...
TOKYO, Japan -- North Korea has informed Japan that it is preparing to launch a satellite as early as this week, Tokyo announced Monday but warned it may actually be a sanctions-defying ballistic missile test. North Korea informed Japan that it will launch a rocket between May 31 and June 11,...
