Source: Agence France Presse
Security & Justice
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Opinion
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
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Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
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Monday, October 28, 2024
Wednesday 4 September 2024 12:56:53
UN Weather Agency Warns of Global ‘Red Alert’ After Record Heat
Rising temperatures should trigger a global “red alert,” the United Nations’ weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again smashed records in August.
The world saw record average temperatures in August for the second year running, preliminary data from the EU’s climate monitor seen by AFP showed.
And Australia, Japan, parts of China and Norway all experienced their hottest August on record, according to meteorological agencies.
The world saw record-high average temperatures in August for the second year running, according to preliminary EU climate data seen by AFP, with Australia, Japan, parts of China and Norway all experiencing their hottest August on record.
“It’s clear that the temperatures are rising... above what we would like,” said Celeste Saulo, head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
“And it is because the action is not enough.”
While the exact average global temperature for August 2024 is not yet known, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has established it will be above the record 16.82 degrees Celsius (62.28 Fahrenheit) measured in August last year.
“Thresholds are all the time being beaten,” Saulo said, speaking in Singapore at a regional climate forum of local meteorological services.
Saulo also called for better monitoring and support for meteorological agencies, adding that “we need more resources.”
The forum comes days after the WMO released its latest assessment on the impacts of climate change in Asia and the Pacific, warning that sea-level rise is above average in many areas.
And the record August continues a near-unbroken 15-month streak, where each month eclipsed its own temperature record for the time of year, according to the C3S.
The climate forum also announced the designation of Singapore as a regional hub for monitoring pollution caused by vegetation fire and smoke.
One of only two such centers in the world, the facility will offer better quality information on fires and pollution forecasts, plugging a gap in regional data, officials said.
