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Reports that China obstructed discussions on tackling climate change at Group of 20 (G20) meetings last week in India are “completely inconsistent with the facts”, China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday (Aug 2). After three days of discussions on issues like cutting emissions and fossil…

TOKYO: High winds hit power lines in Japan’s Okinawa and knocked out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday (Aug 2) morning, as powerful and slow-moving Typhoon Khanun neared the country’s southwestern islands threatening torrential rains. Hundreds of thousands of people in the tropical…

“Every year the disaster happens in the same area but this year it is more extreme, causing some people to die of starvation and several thousand to evacuate,” BNPB head Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told a virtual briefing on Monday.…

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