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Military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania participated in an international training exercise in Budapest, Hungary, working in flooded underground mines, lakes and caves and in the rushing Danube River

Soldiers from across Europe suited up in heavy diving equipment inside a cavernous flooded stone quarry deep beneath the Hungarian capital. Once their air tanks, flippers and waterproof diving suits were secured, they slipped beneath the cold water and, flashlights in hand, disappeared into the darkness. The military divers from Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Lithuania were participating in an international training exercise in Budapest to prepare them for a variety of scenarios: recovery opera...

Angola has struggled in past years to tackle the HIV/AIDS crisis partly due to high poverty rates. With support from local and international organizations though, there is hope that the situation is improving.

The Sri Lankan government has assured the IMF that it will deepen the assault on working people, further increasing taxation, privatisations and subsidy-slashing measures.

Cross-linked news, and information resources about Palestinians of Gaza

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to see the battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Climate change is now one of the main causes of global hunger. It is not hard to see why. If you are an African farmer who relies on rain to irrigate your crops, for example, you’re in good company since 95 percent of agricultural land in sub-Saharan Africa is rain-fed. If climate change affects your local weather patterns, then your crops may wither and die due to drought.  Alternatively, a warming planet may mean that next harvest season swarms of flying insects will appear—insects you’...

Pope Francis emphasizes the importance of water for all living beings on our planet on World Food Day

Almost half a billion euros of aid was promised at the International Donor's Conference on demining in Ukraine, held on Wednesday in Zagreb.

The second-ever Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week kicked off Sunday in Riyadh in cooperation with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat. Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman inaugurated the event in the presence of several global officials, policymakers, private sector firms, youth campaigners, and other key stakeholders in the climate change and sustainability sphere.