KUALA LUMPUR: The rate of destruction of the world’s tropical forests is likely to have gathered pace last year, green groups warned, as the pandemic weakened environmental regulations, cut funding for protection work and forced city migrants back to rural areas. In 2019, tropical...
World Affairs
PHNOM PENH: For the past two weeks, Cambodian migrant Mony Sunret has been hanging around an electrical workshop in the Thai province of Rayong, hoping to pick...
LONDON, Feb 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When the River Seine that runs through Paris overflowed this month, officials at the Louvre Museum were...
LONDON: Sharing digitally altered “deepfake” pornographic images should be made a crime, a British government-backed review said on Friday after...
NEW YORK: LGBT+ Americans moved a step closer to winning legal protection from discrimination on Thursday as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a key...