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Pace of climate change puzzles scientists

LONDON, Feb 06 (BBC): Last month was the world's warmest January on record raising further questions about the pace of climate change, scientists say. January 2025 had been expected to be slightly cooler than January 2024 because of a shift away from a natural weather pattern in the Pacific known...

Guterres warns Trump against Gaza ethnic cleansing

NEW YORK, Feb 06 (Reuters/BBC): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the US leader proposed that Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave."In the search for solutions, we must not make the problem...

Vow to crack down on scammers

BANGKOK, Feb 06 (AP): China's leader Xi Jinping and visiting Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra vowed to crack down on the scam networks that plague Southeast Asia as the two leaders met on Thursday in Beijing.Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, which are south of China and share borders with Thailand, have...

France delivers first Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine

PARIS, Feb 06 (AFP): France on Thursday delivered a first shipment of Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine to help Kyiv defend its airspace against Russia, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Thursday."The first of these aircraft have arrived in Ukraine today," Lecornu said on X, without saying how many...

Cocaine 'no worse than whisky'

BOGOTA, Feb 06 (AFP): Cocaine "is no worse than whisky" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro during a live broadcast of a government meeting.Colombia is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter, mainly to the United States and Europe, and has...

Panama denies US claims over free canal passages

PANAMA CITY, Feb 06 (BBC): Panama has denied making changes to allow US government vessels to transit the Panama Canal for free, following White House claims it had agreed to such a move.The State Department said in a statement on X that its government vessels "can now transit the Panama...