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Nasibe Samsaei, an Iranian woman living in Turkey, reacts after she cut her hair during a protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, September ...
Widespread flooding across Malaysia starting late last year shocked urban residents, with green groups urging a new approach as climate change impacts become more severe *Malaysian floods hit ...
"I usually get malaria twice or thrice per year, especially during the rainy season," he said, hoping that surveillance in the sky might do away with long treks on foot to his nearest hospital in ...
The Pacific nation of Palau is kicking off a digital residency scheme for anyone wishing to become a crypto-citizen ...
Farmer P. K. Madhavan stands by one of the mahogany trees he has mortgaged to the village ‘tree bank’ in Meenangadi, India on January 5, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/K. Rajendran ...
Bakong enables even users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank ...
Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon globally in 2021 - an equivalent to more than double Germany's annual CO2 emissions By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Wildfires produced a ...
From Afghanistan to Brazil, Facebook's platforms have become the main way people connect. For those in the developing world, the outage upended daily life ...
Globally, as many as 55 million people are internally displaced, more than twice the number of refugees or asylum seekers - but the issue gets little attention ...
Climate migration "hotspots" will emerge as soon as 2030 and intensify by 2050, hitting the poorest parts of the world hardest, says World Bank * Climate migration is 'human face' of climate ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Annette Coen went for a health check-up last summer in Washington state, she and her doctor discussed concerns around her weight and asthma ...
BRING BACK NATURE Started by Medellin's previous mayor in 2017 and now maintained by the current administration, 30 "green corridors" provide an interconnected 20-km (12.4-mile) network of shady ...