67 h. ago Indonesia’s cyclone tragedy exposes lethal cost of forest destruction

Indonesia is facing renewed calls to curb deforestation and tighten oversight of forest concessions after a rare tropical cyclone tore across Sumatra, unleashing floods and landslides that have killed more than 700 people and left hundreds missing. The disaster has prompted a nationwide debate over whether the tragedy was driven primarily by climate change-fuelled extreme weather or by decades of ecological destruction in a region that has been transformed by plantations, mining and large-scale...

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8 d. ago Hong Kong fire live: Blaze kills at least 65, hundreds still missing

Hong Kong fire live: Blaze kills at least 65, hundreds still missing  Al Jazeera

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8 d. ago Hong Kong fire live: Blaze kills at least 55, hundreds still missing

Hong Kong fire live: Blaze kills at least 55, hundreds still missing  Al Jazeera

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9 d. ago Hong Kong buildings blaze kills at least 36 people, hundreds missing

Hong Kong buildings blaze kills at least 36 people, hundreds missing  Reuters

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2 w. ago Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death over 2024 uprising

A Bangladesh court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan were tried in absentia for crimes against humanity for the killing of hundreds of people during a student-led uprising in July and August of 2024. The United Nations in a February report said up to 1,400 may have been killed in the violence,...

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2 w. ago Members of Syria’s security forces detained over sectarian violence in Sweida

Members of Syria’s security and military services have been detained as part of an investigation into sectarian violence in the southern province of Sweida in July that left hundreds of people dead, investigators said on Sunday. The head of a Syrian committee investigating the violence in Sweida held a news conference in the capital, Damascus, to talk about progress made but did not release a death toll, saying this will come in the final report that is expected by the end of the year. In...

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2 w. ago Syria detains security forces over sectarian violence that killed hundreds

Members of Syria’s security and military services have been detained as part of an investigation into sectarian violence in the southern province of Sweida in July that left hundreds of people dead, investigators said on Sunday. The head of a Syrian committee investigating the violence in Sweida held a news conference in the capital, Damascus, to talk about progress made but did not release a death toll, saying this will come in the final report that is expected by the end of the year. In...

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