Countries with the poorest press freedom often face severe censorship, government control, and repression, with journalists frequently facing harassment, threats, or imprisonment.

Top 10 worst countries for press freedom in 2025: India’s rank revealed

Cyclone Chido devastated large parts of the archipelago off east Africa over the weekend with winds of more than 200 kph (124 mph), strewing homes over hillsides, and cutting phones, power and drinking water



Cyclone Chido: Thousands feared dead after worst cyclone in 90 years hits Mayotte

Emergency workers sought survivors on Monday and struggled to restore services in Mayotte, France's poorest overseas territory, where hundreds or even thousands are feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century.

European rivers run dry as the continent reels under its worst drought in 500 years. Almost 63% of European and British lands are now on drought alert. Palki Sharma Upadhyay gets a report on Europe's climate emergency.

Gravitas: Europe faces worst drought in 500 years

The megadrought in the American Southwest has become so severe that it’s now the driest two decades in the region in at least 1,200 years, scientists said Monday, and climate change is largely responsible.

How bad is the Western drought? Worst in 12 centuries, study finds

Log4Shell, a critical security flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software used in everything from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centres, has security teams all over the world scrambling to fix it.

What is Log4j, the biggest computer vulnerability in decades?

In what may be the worst computer vulnerability found in years, the flaw, which is dubbed “Log4Shell”, is risking several organisations around the world. The critical vulnerability, which is present in a widely used software tool, is emerging to be a major threat.

Software flaw 'Log4Shell' may be worst computer vulnerability in a decade

Australia was the worst climate performer among comparable developed countries since nations pledged in the 2015 Paris agreement to take action to limit global warming, a think tank said Thursday ahead of a key climate conference in Scotland later this month.

Australia branded worst climate performer ahead of UN summit

'The situation is unpredictable but we must prepare for the worst,' said the International Committee of the Red Cross chief

About one million may flee Iraq due to IS takeover: Red Cross

The city will also restrict traffic to combat air pollution, which is at its worst levels in a decade

Mexico City to plant 18 million trees in massive reforestation effort

Thousands of fires started to cheaply clear land for palm oil crops and for pulp and paper plantations disrupted flights and caused sickness

Land-clearing forest fires choking Southeast Asia in 2015 release record carbon

Journalists in India more likely to face abuse than those in Afghanistan: Reporters Without Borders

2015 worst year for press freedom in South Asia

Guinea has reached the end of active Ebola virus transmission, the World Health Organisation said, the second such declaration from the country at the global epicentre of the disease.

Guinea declared free of active Ebola transmission - WHO

An outbreak of Ebola virus in Guinea, which was earlier confined to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, was the first ever outbreak in a west African country. Since March 2014, West Africa has had the largest outbreak in history, with countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea being the worst affected.

Latest Ebola outbreak in Guinea is over: WHO

Because of the protracted conflict back home, the resultant malnutrition, and the near complete absence of medical care, displaced people from the African country are generally regarded as the ones most in need of help

Somali refugees in India: The worst of the worst off

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