Tag: Crisis

Prince Charles, speaking via a recorded message from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, said that "swift and immediate action" needs to take place.The royal, a keen environmentalist, said the Covid-19 pandemic is a "window of opportunity" to reset the economy for a more "sustainable and inclusive" future.The message, ...

The desperate refugees crammed into a number of boats moored on the shores of southern Kent, Britain, looked like invaders. Anti-immigrant protesters were seizing on such concerns at the end of last week, when they blockaded the main external road to the port of Dover "to protect Britain's borders". ...

Labour kicks off its first virtual conference on Saturday with a promise to offer the country “the leadership it needs at this time of national crisis”.Deputy leader Angela Rayner said the party understood it had “a mountain to climb” to regain power at the next election, but said it ...

With schools in Kashmir valley preparing for students to return to classrooms next week, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Thursday said reopening schools at a time when Covid-19 cases are surging could worsen the crisis. “Reopening schools while Covid is still circulating widely could accelerate virus transmission in the ...

#Pakistan News Turkey Tuesday reiterated its call to the Indian government to ease current restrictions in the Jammu and Kashmir regions. "We sincerely desire that the Kashmir issue be resolved through peaceful means between India and Pakistan on the basis of the relevant U.N. resolutions," read a statement by ...

ISLAMABAD - Millions of children in Pakistan returned to learning in schools and universities Tuesday after a six-month-long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The largest return to school in the world comes as daily infections and deaths from the outbreak in the country of 220 million have steadily ...

Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as they blockaded the main highway into Dover Port in order “to protect Britain’s borders”. Meanwhile, the home secretary, Priti ...

Greta Thunberg has called for the climate crisis to “dominate the news” adding that simply “connecting the dots” between current extreme events and global heating  doesn’t go far enough.The 17-year-old activist on Thursday posted a composite image of recent disasters - including the glowing orange sky over San Francisco ...

More than a billion people could be displaced around the world by 2050 due to the climate crisis, according to a new study.The first ever Ecological Threat Register, published on Wednesday, found that 1.2 billion people could be forced to leave their homes in the next 30 years as ...

More than 1 billion people face being displaced within 30 years as the climate crisis and rapid population growth drive an increase in migration with “huge impacts” for both the developing and developed worlds, according to an analysis.The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a thinktank that produces annual ...