To guard Earth's ecosystems against the rising threat of climate change and a loss of natural resources, funds towards its protection need to double from current levels and reach $384 billion a year by 2025, said the UN's environment watchdog.

By 2025, funds for nature conservation must total $384 billion annually: UNEP

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said that China still has room to adjust its strict zero-Covid policy, pointing out that the nation's stringent policies have been especially hard on the people.

China can adjust its strict zero-Covid policy, it's been hard on people, says IMF

India's central bank RBI will launch the country's first pilot for a retail e-rupee on December 1st (Tuesday). The e-rupee will be the Reserve Bank of India's version of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) and will cover select locations and would be available to a closed user group to start with.

RBI to launch India's first pilot for retail digital currency, e-rupee, on December 1

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reportedly debating allowing gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships to donate blood without abstaining from sex, as required under the current guidelines.

US | FDA plans to change 'discriminatory and outdated' blood donation rules for gay men

Russia on Tuesday held the US' "toxicity and animosity" responsible for Moscow pulling out of key nuclear arms talks with Washington in Cairo this week. Just a day earlier on Monday, the nation announced that the talks scheduled to take place between November 29 and December 6 would now be held at "a later date".

Russia blames US 'toxicity and animosity' for cancellation of key nuclear talks

Plastic pollution is a real problem, it is everywhere in our waters, in the soil and even in our blood. On Monday, representatives of around 200 nations met in Uruguay, determined to address the issue and bring about much-needed change.

Hundreds of nations get together to begin negotiations on groundbreaking deal targeting plastic pollution

Somalian security forces successfully ended the hours-long siege of a key hotel in the country's capital Mogadishu on Monday (November 28th). The latest attack by al Shabaab militants claimed eight lives as per officials.

Eight civilians killed in al-Shabaab's latest attack on Mogadishu, hotel siege ends after 21 hours

On Tuesday, Singapore Airlines Lt (SIA) announced its plans to invest $250 million into India's national carrier, Air India. The deal is as part of a merger of its Vistara full-service airline joint venture with Tata Sons.

Singapore Airlines Ltd-owned Vistara announces merger with Air India

Former United States president Donald Trump who is under fire for removing sensitive government documents from the White House while vacating it has now bragged about how he "openly and transparently" moved the confidential records to his own residence.

As investigation over confidential govt documents drags on, Trump brags 'openly and transparently' took them

A self-declared white supremacist teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to a supermarket massacre that in the May of this claimed the lives of ten black people in New York, United States.

Payton Gendron, the teen responsible for May supermarket mass shooting pleads guilty, to spend life in prison

At least seven people, including a three-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, were killed after a landslide in Italy's Ischia island, caused by heavy rains devastated a small town, said an official, on Sunday.

At least seven killed, five missing after landslide on Italy's Ischia island

After their much-criticised dinner at Mar-a-Lago, former US president Donald Trump is now trying to distance himself from American rapper Ye a.k.a Kanye West. As per reports, the billionaire called Ye a "seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black".

Trump tries to distance himself from Kanye, calls him 'seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black'

We are living in an age of misinformation. The sources of information are many, but the trustworthy ones are few. In this day and age of "fake news", "conspiracy theories", "deepfakes" and "trolls", the Merriam-Webster word of the year 2022 is "gaslighting".

'Gaslighting' is Merriam-Webster dictionary's word of the year 2022. Here's what it means

Italy landslide devastation: Dramatic pictures of the 'waterfall of water and mud'

Next month, thousands of nursing staff across Britain will go on strike for the first time in the 106-year history of the UK's nurses union. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union said that staff in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will go on strike on December 15 and 20.

British nurses to go on strike for two days in December over pay dispute

Uganda's president has extended a six-week lockdown on two districts at the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the nation. Describing the situation as "still fragile", President Yoweri Museveni extended a lockdown on the two central districts of Mubende and Kassandra by 21 days.

Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni extends Ebola lockdown in Mubende and Kassandra by 21 days

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's public support have slipped to a new low. A Kyodo news poll found that support for Kishida's government has dropped to 33.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's public support slips to a new low

Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has come out in defence of the outgoing Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa. The agency said that the allegations surrounding the army chief and his family members making the rounds on social media were "misleading".

Pakistan military's media wing calls reports of General Bajwa's wealth 'blatant lies and malice'

On Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that early next year, his nation's parliament would ratify Finland and Sweden's NATO membership. As per AFP, after a meeting with regional counterparts in Slovakia, Orban told reporters "As we have already informed Sweden and Finland, Hungary supports the NATO membership of these two countries.

PM Victor Orban says Hungary will back Finland and Sweden's NATO bid next year

After the reported closure of Twitter's Brussels lobbying office, the European Union has expressed concern over the firm's increasingly falling staff numbers. Talking to reporters in Dublin, EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders said "We have concerns about the decisions to have less and less people working at the company.

As incidents of online hate speech go up, European Union expresses concern about Twitter layoffs

M23 the rebel military group has announced that the recently declared ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which was aimed in particular at stopping their attacks, "doesn't really concern" them.

African leaders' DRC ceasefire agreement 'doesn't really concern us', says rebel military group M23

Twitter has spoken and Elon Musk has announced that he will give people what they want. After a landslide of Twitter users voted yes to Musk's question regarding the reinstatement of suspended accounts, the billionaire has announced "amnesty" for the users in question.

'Vox Populi, Vox Dei': Elon Musk announces reinstatement of suspended Twitter accounts

Former US President Donald Trump has been sued for defamation a second time. On Thursday former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll accused him of lying by denying that he had raped her 27 years back.

E. Jean Carroll files second case against Donald Trump, accuses him of battery and defamation

A top US Republican senator has asked Twitter's new owner Elon Musk to conduct a threat assessment at the social media platform in order to better protect US user data.

Senior US senator asks Musk to do risk assessment of Twitter over privacy threats

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