Around 48 million birds have been culled across the UK and the EU in the last year as a result of the largest outbreak of avian flu on record.
In the UK, 161 cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were detected in poultry and captive (...)
JEDDAH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday received credentials of a number of ambassadors of friendly countries at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah.
Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, deputy prime minister and minister of defense, (...)
The calls are growing louder. Pakistan desperately needs help after its worst floods in years, and it needs it fast.
"This climate calamity couldn't have come at a worse time, when Pakistan's economy was already struggling with a balance of payments (...)
The Council of Parties of the International Dialogue Center (KAICIID) announced on Friday its new leadership for the next four years. Dr. Zuhair Fahd Al-Harthi has been appointed the Center's new Secretary-General, while Ambassador António Carlos (...)
Cristiano Ronaldo was included in the Portugal squad on Thursday for upcoming Nations League matches against the Czech Republic and Spain.
Portugal coach Fernando Santos said he is not worried with Ronaldo not playing much at Manchester United this (...)
Eleven people have been acquitted in a landmark trial into the devastating wildfires that hit central Portugal in 2017.
The suspects were all cleared of negligent homicide and "negligent offense to physical integrity" after months of (...)
As hundreds of heads of state and government prepare to fly into New York for the General Debate of the new General Assembly, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on them to bring hope to a fractured world, and increase efforts to fight (...)
Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday reiterated that the needs in flood-ravaged Pakistan are enormous and called for urgent financial support, as he wrapped up a two-day trip aimed at raising awareness of the climate-driven disaster with (...)
The European Union has decided to fully suspend a 2007 visa agreement with Russia and intensify scrutiny over the future applications submitted by Russian tourists.
The political decision, taken in response to the invasion of Ukraine, falls short of (...)
The worsening energy crisis besieging Europe has laid bare the "limitations" of the electricity market and requires an "emergency intervention" to bring down soaring prices, Ursula von der Leyen has said.
"The skyrocketing electricity prices are now (...)
A wildfire burning out of control in Spain's eastern province of Valencia has become one of the country's biggest fires this year, and 35 aircraft were deployed to fight it as the blaze entered its fifth day, authorities said Friday.
The wildfire (...)
At least 26 people have been killed and dozens more injured in forest fires that have devastated northern Algeria.
Kamel Beldjoud, the country's interior minister, said 24 died in El Tarf, near the border with Tunisia, as well as a mother and (...)
The intergovernmental conference to draft the first-ever treaty on the ocean's biological diversity opened its fifth and likely final session on Monday.
Amidst calls for flexibility, openness and the spirit of compromise that prevailed in 1982, when (...)
Italy's worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country's largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the (...)
Firefighters from across Europe have come to France's rescue on Friday to battle a massive wildfire, while fire also raged in Portugal and parts of England faced a severe drought, as successive heatwaves renewed the focus on climate change risks, (...)
Firefighters from across Europe came to France's rescue on Friday to battle a massive wildfire, while fire also raged in Portugal and parts of England faced a severe drought, as successive heatwaves renewed the focus on climate change risks, Reuters (...)
Amidst extreme heat, drought and wildfires, many parts of the world had just experienced one of three warmest Julys on record, the UN weather agency said on Tuesday.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), temperatures were close (...)
Hundreds of firefighters in Portugal are battling a huge forest fire that broke out 30 kilometers north of the capital Lisbon.
High temperatures and strong winds made work difficult for more than 400 firefighters trying to tackle the blaze which (...)
Portugal is experiencing the worst drought as 67.9 percent of its territory was in severe drought, 28.4 percent in extreme drought and the remaining 3.7 percent in moderate drought in June, said the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) (...)
Extreme heat in western Europe is causing devastating wildfires in France and Spain, unprecedented drought in Italy and Portugal, and the United Kingdom recorded its highest-ever temperature of just over 40 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, at London's (...)
Records have tumbled and firefighters faced new blazes as much of Western Europe baked in a gruelling heatwave.
The UK, normally used to milder climates, saw temperatures of more than 40C (104F) for the first time.
Germany saw its hottest day of the (...)
Western Europe faces more sweltering temperatures on Tuesday as a ferocious heatwave heads north.
In France and the UK extreme heat warnings were issued while northern Spain recorded temperatures of 43C (109F) on Monday.
Wildfires in France, (...)
The UK is set to see its hottest day on record, with temperatures on Tuesday expected to reach up to 42C (107.6F).
A high of 38.1C was reached in Suffolk on Monday, just short of the UK record of 38.7C set in 2019. Wales recorded its hottest day on (...)
RABAT/ MADRID/LISBON — Saudi Arabia's embassies in Morocco, Spain and Portugal have warned Saudi citizens residing there against forest fires.
The Saudi embassy in Rabat warned all citizens residing in Morocco to be careful and ensure their safety (...)
A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames in tinder-dry forests.
Two (...)
